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South Asia Initiative February 2012 Events
Friday, February 3
58 East 68th Street, New York City, NY
SAI, in its inaugural collaboration with the Council on Foreign Relations, is pleased to present:
Innovation in India: Prospects for the Future and Opportunities for America
This event is a the first of the Council on Foreign Relations' “Technology, Innovation, and American Primacy” roundtable series, developed with the South Asia Initiative.
Guest speaker: Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Moderated by: Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia Initiative and Jorge Paolo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School
By invitation only.
Friday, February 3 - 2:30-6:00pm and
Saturday, February 4 - 10:00am-4:00pm
Stubbins Room, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Urban Design Conference: Conditions and Projections
Sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Co-sponsored by the South Asia Initiative, The Andes Initiative at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, Swissnex Boston, Switzerland's science and technology outpost in Boston, and the Loeb Fellowship Program, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Event Description
The contemporary conditions that are shaping the built environment globally are of an unprecedented scale and complexity creating the need for a critical evaluation of the methods, tools, and the broader design culture that surrounds the practice of Urban Design. 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. Furthermore, the conference hopes to propel a discussion about the unfulfilled potential of the practice of urban design and the role it can play in mediating the different disciplines and forces that eventually mold the built environment in our cities, suburbs and peri-urban conditions - the larger landscape that comprises the objects of human interventions of various kinds. It is the objective of the conference to both calibrate the nature of these shifts as well as to speculate about the potential trajectories the practice of urban design could take in the future.
Please click here for the speaker list and conference schedule.
Monday, February 6, 4:00pm
CGIS Knafel, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
SAI Internship Open House
Join SAI to discuss internship openings still available, as well as to answer your questions about the application process, CARAT form and more.
Friday, February 24 - 4:00pm
CGIS Knafel, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
South Asia without Borders Seminar Series
Talk Title to be Announced
Chaired by Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
Tuesday, February 28 - 5:00pm
CGIS Knafel, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Pakistan Seminar Series
Talk Title to be Announced
Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
Vazira Zamindar, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
Chaired by Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
South Asia Initiative March 2012 Events
Thursday, March 8 - 6:30pm
Urbanization Seminar Series
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Design
A Tale of Three Capitals & Postcolonial Urban India.
Ravi Kalia, Professor of Asian Studies, Division of Humanities and the Arts, City College of New York, CUNY
Chaired by Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of
Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Stubbins Room, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Monday, March 19 - 4:00pm
CGIS Knafel, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Pakistan Seminar Series
Co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
Talk Title to be Announced
Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Chaired by Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Friday, March 23 - 6:00pm
CGIS Knafel Concourse, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored with LearnQuest and the Government of Orissa, India
Parallel Connections: Music and Dance in South Asian Art
Welcome remarks: Parimal Patil, Professor, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
Moderated by: Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Panelists and exhibitors:
Visual Arts: Pragati Sharma, Jyoti Joshi, Don Perrault, and Sunanda Sahay
Music: Warren Senders
Dance: Ranjani Saigal
Reception and exhibition viewing from 6:00-7:00pm in the CGIS Knafel Concourse with a live demonstration of Folk art of Orissa State of India-Patchitra by visiting artists.
Seminar to follow with Laura Weinstein, moderating in CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA at 7:00pm.
South Asia Initiative April 2012 Events
Wednesday, April 4 - 6:00pm
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room S020, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Co-sponsored with LearnQuest and the Government of Orissa, India
Parallel Connections: The Healing Touch of South Asian Visual Art
Moderated by: Dr. Bruce Chabner, Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Clinical Research, MGH Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
Panelists: Dr. Elizabeth Gaufberg, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Joel Katz, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Exhibiting artists and panelists include: Kyle Lindholm, Vandana Sharma, Dr. George Taylor, and Rachna Tiwari.
Wednesday, April 18 - 6:30pm
Piper Auditorium, Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Urbanization Seminar Series
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Mega-cities, the Urban Poor and the Place of Planning: The Case of Slum Upgrading in Indian Cities
Janice Perlman, Founder & President of the Mega-Cities Project
Chaired by Rahul Mehrotra, Professor and Chair, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27
Annual SAI Symposium
Save the Date! Additional details coming soon.
Friday, April 27, 9:00am-3:00pm
Co-sponsored event with Educators for Teaching India (EFTI)
Holy India: Religion in the Modern Subcontinent
Keynote Speaker: Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies and Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard University
Register at TeachingIndia.org
