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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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Our SAI Internship Open House on Friday, October 14th was a great success. Thank you to our fantastic student panelists who were able to share their Summer 2011 experiences for the attendees.
Information on Summer 2012 funding deadlines is on our website. Site information coming November 1. Email sainit@fas.harvard.edu for details.
Student panelists from left: Leila Pirbay, Annemarie Ryu, Meredith Gloger (HKS), Aaron Roesch (HKS), Paolo Singer and Sophia Angelis |
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Community Event Next Week:
The Carr Center for Human Rights invites you to:
"The Pakistan Conundrum"
Monday, October 24, 2011
11:00 - 12:00 pm
Guest speaker: Ali Dayan Hasan of Human Rights Watch
Carr Center Conference Room (Rubenstein Building, Floor 2, Room 219) Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Further event details can be found here on their website. |
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Community Event in New York City
The Asia Society will be hosting Prof. Rahul Mehrotra on Thursday, October 27 as a distingushed guest of their Viewpoints lecture series.
If you miss the SAI event on the 21st, you will have an opportunity to see him at the Asia Society at 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York City at 6:30pm.
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Upcoming SAI Events:
Friday, October 21st at 6pm
Urbanization Seminar Series
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 6 pm
The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism
Join us tomorrow night for 'The Future of South Asia: A Landscape of Pluralism' a lecture by Prof. Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard GSD, relating to his new book and discussion led by Hiteshkumar Hathi, Producer of NPR's 'Here and Now.'
Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
This event is also part of TEDx's Boston Adventures, and we are looking forward to an exciting evening!
You can watch this event live tomorrow night on the GSD website. |
SAI Events Next Week:
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 5:30 pm
Book Talk Series
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 5:30 pm
Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, Sarmila Bose
Chair: Richard Cash, Senior Lecturer on Global Health, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
Comments by Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi, Visiting Associate
Professor, Women and Gender Studies Program,
Hunter College, CUNY
CGIS South, S354, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA |
Social Enterprise Seminar Series
Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 4 pm
Public Health Messaging
David Bloom chairs a panel of three experts discussing the issues surrounding how messages of public health are delivered to different audiences in South Asia.
Panelists: Marc Mitchell, Lecturer on Global Health, Harvard School of Public Health
The Use of Mobile Technology to improve Health Care in South Africa
Glorian Sorensen, Professor of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Tobacco Cessation of Indian School Teachers and Manufacturing Workers
Karl Hofmann, President and CEO, PSI, Washington DC, Former Ambassador to Togo
Social Marketing to Improve Health Outcomes
CGIS Knafel, Room K354, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA |
South Asia without Borders Seminar Series
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 4 pm
Co-sponsored with the Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
Dispersed Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern Science in India
Abha Sur, Lecturer, Program in Women's & Gender Studies, MIT
Chaired by Parimal Patil, Professor Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
Prof. Sur's book provides a 'socially informed history of physics in India in the first half of the 20th century.' She will discuss the findings in her book on 'the confluence of caste, nationalism, and gender in modern science in India,' as well as her current research on the topic.
CGIS Knafel, K262, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA |
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