In this issue:
- Harvard President Drew Faust and SAI in the news
- Upcoming SAI event - Urban Design Conference
Khelshala, Chandigarh - CES hosts thesis proposal workshop
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Undergraduate Writing Workshop
hosted by the Center for European Studies
Tuesday, January 31
from 4:00 - 5:30pmGoldman Room 27 Kirkland Street The Center for European Studies is hosting a workshop for undergraduates who will be writing their senior thesis proposals. Undergraduates in all concentrations are welcome. Full details can be found here.
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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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Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust in India
Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History, visited India in January for the first time. During her visit, she delivered welcome remarks to kick off the South Asia Initiative's"Higher Education in South Asia: Enhancing Quality and Access through Innovative Solutions" education symposium on January 23, 2012, which was attended by over 150 leaders in education from across South Asia.
 Panelists Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Howard Gardner, M. Omar Rahman and Meenakshi Gopinath at the January 23rd event.
President Faust's visit has garnered quite a bit of media attention. Here is a sampling of the excitement over her visit:
Visit our In-Region page for more.
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SAI Urbanization Seminar Series
is proud to co-sponsor Harvard Graduate School of Design's
Urban Design Conference:
Conditions and Projections
Friday, February 3 - 2:30pm - 6:00pm and
Saturday, February 4 - 10:00am - 4:00pm
The focus of the conference is to explore the state of urban design globally, and to critically appraise the discipline's legacy throughout the course of the twentieth century. Click here for more details, including co-sponsors, in the full size event poster.Speakers include:
Diane Davis, Eve Blau, Felipe Correa, Michael Manfredi, Mohsen Mostafavi, Neil Brenner, Rahul Mehrotra, Hashim Sarkis, Angelo Bucci, Michelle Provoost, Marc Angélil, Henk Ovink, Thords Arrhenius, Momoyo Kajima, Raúl Cárdenas, José Lluis Vallejo, Edgar Pieterse, Alejandro Echeverri, and Damon Rich
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Summer 2012 Internship Spotlight:Khelshala, Chandigarh, India
Khelshala is a sport-based youth development program that combines squash, academic tutoring, music and yoga to empower 25 underprivileged children in Village Attawa in Chandigarh, India. The program was founded in 2009 by the former Director of Squash at Harvard University (1999-2010) and is endorsed by the Squash Racquets Federation of India. The program is in the process of expanding to another site to include tennis instruction and coaching. 
Khelshala is looking for a two interns, one in development and one in academic tutoring.
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