 Friday, April 16, 2013
Finance Minister of India visits Harvard
The Finance Minister of India, P. Chidambaram visited the Harvard campus for a set of events sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. Finance Minister Chidambaram first attended a luncheon with members of the Harvard community and then spoke to a packed room about the opportunities and challenges facing India as the center of economic power shifts to the East. (Left) seen with Professors Sugata Bose, Homi Bhabha, and Tarun Khanna. Learn more here.
 Friday, April 26, 2013
The second day of the "South Asia Without Borders" Symposium will conclude with Harvard's study of the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage in India. Team leaders will share insights and outcomes that have come from this interdisciplinary project, and speak with the Hon'ble Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav and Hon'ble Urban Development Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Azam Khan. Learn more here.
The symposium will focus on the timely appeal of South Asia to the humanities-at the intersection of religion and civil society, ancient arts and cutting technologies. "South Asia Without Borders" will explore development, the juncture of caste and race, gender and human rights, social entrepreneurship and the arts, constitutionalism and development in South Asia, and will conclude with Harvard's study of the Kumbh Mela pilgrimage in India. Register today!
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UPCOMING EVENTS NEXT WEEK
Monday, April 22, 2013 at 5:30pm
Reflections on Serendipity
The Initiative for Sri Lankan Education (ISLE) presents the opening of its photo exhibit "Reflections on Serendipity." The exhibit will be on display the month of April at the Gutman Library at the Graduate School of Education.
The trip was coordinated by students in the International Education Policy program at HGSE and conducted to inform the work of the Educate Lanka Foundation by studying the economic barriers to secondary education for the children of tea plantation workers. The exhibit opening will also include a presentation of those findings and discussion of education in Sri Lanka. Learn more here.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Two opportunities to join the SAI team!
The South Asian community is rallying around Nalini Ambady, a Stanford professor who previously taught at Tufts and Harvard. She has leukemia, is in need of an urgent bone marrow transplant, and, almost certainly needs a South Asian to provide the appropriate genetic markers for bone marrow match. Learn more here.
Visit the SAI Facebook Page!
View SAI facebook photographs from this past Wednesday's event: "An Evening of Conversation and Music with Shehzad Roy."
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