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April 5, 2012            
What next for Myanmar?  
 
(Left-right: Tom Vallely, Tyler Giannini, Jennifer Leaning, Dwight Perkins, David Steinberg, David Dapice, Tarun Khanna) 
SAI hosted a seminar Examining the Preservation and Sustainability of Myanmar's Resources on April 5 which ended with this question hanging over the audience and panelists alike. Read full article by SAI staff writer.                                             

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UPCOMING AT SAI...  

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SEMINAR SERIES

 

Monday April 9 at 5 pm to 6:30 pm

Diasporas, Investments, and Development in South Asia and Beyond

Peggy Levitt, Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College; Research Fellow, The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University  

Joel Trachtman, Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University 

Paul VaalerAssociate Professor, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota 
Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI & Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School 

 Room S030, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA

 
 
 
GLOBAL HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES

 

Wednesday  April 11 at 4:00 pm

Challenges of Newborn Hypothermia in South Asia

Luke C. Mullany, Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health  

Karsten Lunze, Senior Fellow, Primary Care Academic Fellowship Program, Boston University School of Medicine 
Naganand Murty, Co-Founder and President, Technologies, Embrace 
Chair: David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics, Harvard University
 
NEW LOCATION: FXB G11, Building Four, Harvard School of Public Health, 651 Huntington Ave., Boston MA

 

 

 

SOUTH ASIA WITHOUT BORDERS SEMINAR SERIES

 

Friday, April 13, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Centers of Law: Duties, Rights, and Jurisdictional Pluralism in Medieval India

Donald A. Davis, Jr., Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison  

Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University 
 

Room S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

 

 

  

 

 

SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE BOOK TALK

 

Friday, April 13, 2012 at 5:30 pm
India: A Sacred Geography
 

Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, FAS; Member of the Faculty of Divinity, HDS  

Chair: Hitesh Hathi, Producer, Here & Now, WBUR

Junior Common Room, Lowell House, 10 Holyoke Place, Cambridge MA 
Reception to Follow
 
 Community Events

 

Harvard Graduate School of Education Civic and Moral Education Initiative

Film Screening: Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden 

Wednesday, April 11 at 5:00 pm 

Carol Black, Director

Moderator: Matthew Jukes, Associate Professor of Education, HGSE

Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall, 13 Appian Way

Film Followed by Discussion

Co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative 

 

Announcements 

 

WorldTeach Volunteer Opportunity in Tamil Nadu, India

Deadline: April 10, 2012
 For this pilot year, the program is limited to 12 volunteers, who will be working at one of four sites around the region. This is a great chance for students who are interested in examining development in South Asia through the lens of education and observe firsthand issues often talked about in class. 
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