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NEWS FROM THE SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE
 FIRST EVER VIDEOCONFERENCE EVENT WITH 25 UNIVERSITY SITES IN PAKISTAN
Today - Spurring Entrepreneurship: A Case for Inclusive Innovation in Emerging Markets: This event will be videoconferenced and webcast from Cambridge to 25 universities in Pakistan. Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI & Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, HBS will address the contextual constraints to entrepreneurship in emerging economies, with important insights for fostering an entrepreneurship ecosystem in Pakistan. Dr. Shahid Qureshi, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Associate Director for the Center for Entrepreneurial Development at IBA, Karashi will moderate the event. Co-sponsored by the Aman Foundation. Learn more here.
SAI ANNOUNCES THE PAKISTAN INNOVATION NETWORK
The Pakistan Innovation Network (PIN) will create a comprehensive and responsive ecosystem of entrepreneurship in Pakistan, which entails capacity building of stakeholders and coordination amongst them. The network will include faculty, business mentors, investors and philanthropists, development agencies, public sector initiatives and legal experts. Learn more here.
HARVARD ASIA QUARTERLY PROFILES SOUTH ASIA
The latest Harvard Asia Quarterly profiles South Asia. Read the quarterly here!
SEMINARS THIS WEEK
We've been busy! SAI has sponsored six seminars over the past two weeks. Please check our website for post-event write ups and video coverage. On Thursday, SAI went on the road to New York City, for an event hosted by Chandni and Mukesh Prasad entitled South Asia, A World's Laboratory. Tarun Khanna, Director of SAI & Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, HBS introduced the evening's program, which featured talks by Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Shahab Ahmed, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning & Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, GSD. Hitesh Hathi, Producer of Here & Now, WBUR/NPR moderated the event. Photos and video coverage of the event will be up on SAI's website soon.
On Friday, SAI hosted a discussion by Ethan Casey, author of Overtaken By Events: A Pakistan Road Trip. On Monday, Nadeem Qureshi, Chairman of the new political party Mustaqbil Pakistan and HBS alum, discussed his foray into the turbulent and often violent world of Pakistani politics, as his party seeks to challenge the status quo in the Pakistani political world. On Tuesday, Liviu Giosan of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution discussed research showing that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the Harappan Civilization. On Wednesday, R.A. Mashelkar, one of the world's leading experts on inclusive innovation discussed how inclusive innovation can fuel the creation of not only an `inclusive society' but also `inclusive business'. Inclusive innovation can offer "more for less for many" - or higher quality goods/services for lower costs and resources to serve large populations. Dr. Mashelkar examined India's ability to deliver world class services and products at previously unheard of low costs.
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SPOTLIGHT ON UPCOMING SAI SEMINARS
 Tuesday, October 23, 2012: Prospects for Accelerating Progress in Health and Nutrition in India
Join us on 4 PM at 677 Huntington Ave for a joint program with the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health as part of its GHP@50 celebration of 50 years of global health work. Speakers include Asha George, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India and Bernard Lown Visiting Professor of Cardiovascular Health, HSPH; Meera Shekar, Lead Health and Nutrition Specialist with the Human Development Network, World Bank; and Peter Berman, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Systems and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population. Learn more here.
Friday, October 26, 2012: Harlem, Black Bottom, Tremé: South Asian Muslims in US Communities of Color, 1890-1965
Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media is a scholar and filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of the South Asian diaspora. His current project traces the lives of South Asian Muslim silk peddlers and merchant seamen who settled within communities of color in the U.S. South, Northeast, and Midwest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy and Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies will chair the seminar. Read more here.
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