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The South Asia Initiative
1730 Cambridge Street
4th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel. 617-496-4862
Fax. 617-496-0854
Email. sainit@fas.harvard.edu
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Last chance to enter our
'Letter to Dr. Kalam' Student Contest
Write a 'Letter to Dr. Kalam' to win a seat at a private dinner for the 11th President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, on Tuesday, September 27, 2011.*
Applicants must be currently enrolled, full-time undergraduate or graduate students. Entries must be received by September 15, 2011, via email to sainit@fas.harvard.edu with the subject heading 'Letter to Kalam.' Entries may be no longer than 500 words to be considered. Winners will be notified by September 23, 2011.
* Note revised date.
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Apply now to be the next Babar Ali Fellow
The Babar Ali Fellowship, a program which began in 2010, places foreigners to work in Pakistan for a one-year period.
Applications are being accepted now for the 2012 Babar Ali Fellow, and will be announced in October, with a start date of January 2012.
More details about the Fellowship and application instructions can be found here.
The Babar Ali Fellow will work as a Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of LUMS (equivalent to the president of an American university). As a Special Assistant, the Fellow's portfolio will be diverse, ranging from fostering linkages with international universities to overseeing transformative initiatives in the university's administration.
Fellows will also work at the Babar Ali Foundation, a philanthropic organization that funds and runs projects in a variety of sectors, including education, culture preservation, nature conservation and women's issues.
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Community Event Tonight!
Join the Harvard Kennedy School Pakistan Caucus for their kick-off event this evening. Samosas will be served.
"Preserving National Securities:
US and Pakistan 10 years from 9/11"
Lt. Gen. (ret.) Tad Oelstrom, Director, National Security Program, HKS
Prof. Shahab Ahmed, Associate Professor of the Study of Religion, Harvard University and Expert of Islamic Studies
Date: TONIGHT, Thursday, September 15, 2011
Time: 6-8PM
Venue: Land Hall, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School |
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SAI Events Next week...
Urbanization Seminar Series
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 6:30 pm
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
"Are Indian Cities 'Global'? Assessing Recent Research on State, Space and Citizenship"
Gavin Shatkin, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan
Chaired by Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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South Asia without Borders Seminar Series
Friday, September 23, 2011 - 4 pm
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
"Early Roman Contacts with South Asia"
Dr. Suresh Sethuraman, State Convener, INTACH, Tamil Nadu, India and Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, National Trust for Historic
Preservation and University of Maryland
Chaired by Richard Meadow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University |
Community Event Next Week
Sponsored by the Governance Innovations for Sustainable Development Initiative of SSP and MDI
"Discussion on Emissions Trading in India"
Tuesday, September 20th, 11:30-1pm
Location: Cason Room (WAPPP Conference Room - Taubman T102)
Join us for an exciting dialogue between the researchers, ETS expert, and key government partners, as they share about the current state of the project and discuss challenges and opportunities going forward.
Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Nicholas Ryan, MIT
Brian McLean, Former Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, US Environmental Protection Agency
R.N Jindal, Additional Director, India's Ministry of Environment and Forests
R. Dhanasekaran, Deputy Manager, CARE Centre, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board
Ajay Deshpande, Regional Officer and I/C Zonal Officer for Pollution Assessment Monitoring and Surveillance (PAMS), Maharashtra Pollution Control Board
Prof. Pande is working with Michael Greenstone (MIT), Nick Ryan, Anant Sudarshan (HKS, JPAL South Asia) and Aparna Krishnan (JPAL South Asia) to design, implement and rigorously evaluate an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in India. This project will be the first ETS in a developing country and the first randomized controlled evaluation of an ETS anywhere in the world.
The intervention is being designed in partnership with the Government of India and advised by the Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Program for the US Environmental Protection Agency. |
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