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Harvard Faculty, Fernando Reimers, and student, Imran Sarwar led a discussion on education with audience at academic sites in Pakistan.
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March 6, 2013
Innovation in Education: Lessons for Entrepreneurship in Pakistan
Professor Reimers said "we are in a new era in history when instead of top-down planning individuals and small groups of people are taking on big challenges - it's a time of great potential change....".
The Webinar attracted 120 people to virtually attend the event - our partner, Pakistan's Higher Education Commission provided a live web link for online streaming so that the discussion was available to anyone with an internet connection. Learn more here.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School's India & South Asia Program, the Future of Diplomacy Project, and South Asia Institute.
On the eve of the 2014 military drawdown and Afghanistan's presidential elections, leaders from South Asia, Europe, and the United States will convene to discuss important questions about the current state of affairs in Afghanistan and the prospects for security, stability, justice, and economic growth in a post-2014 world.
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Monday, March 11 at 4:30 pm
The Cost of Condemnation: Heresy and Takfir in a South Indian Community
Brian Didier, History Department Head at the Winsor School with Chair Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University will examine some of the disciplines available to religious authorities in Islam for promoting religious conformity and offer some explanation for why the process of promoting "true" versions of Islam sometime degenerates into active and violent persecution. Learn more here.
Monday, April 1, 2013 at 6:00 pm
Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral City
Diana Eck, Harvard Design School, Gregg Greenough, Harvard School of Public Health, Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, Satchit Balsari, Harvard School of Public Health, Rahul Mehrotra, Graduate School of Design, and the Graduate School of Design Urban India Project Team will speak on the biggest public gathering in the world at the Kumbh Mela. Learn more here.
Co-sponsored by the UPD interdisciplinary seminar series.
Breaking down disciplinary, geographical, and temporal borders in the study of South Asia.
Location: Inn at Harvard
201 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Momina Cheema, AM '08 Memorial Graduate Travel and Research Fellowship
Harvard graduate students are invited to apply for this summer grant which supports research and field-work in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh related to the study of Islamic law, philosophy, religion and/or culture.
 Peabody Essex Museum's Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence
On view February 2, 2013 to April 21, 2013
The museum offers a special student admission price of $11.
Learn more here.
"Land Acquisition, Development and the Constitution," by Namita Wahi, Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate
The paper was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Constitutional Creation (Topic) and Property, Citizenship, & Social Entrepreneurism eJournal. Learn more here.
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