The South Asia Inititiative offers weekly seminars, in addition to occasional cultural events and an annual symposium showcasing the University-wide research on South Asia. All events are free and open to the general academic community. No RSVPs are required unless noted on the event announcement.
A full listing of confirmed events is below. Please note that events will be added throughout the year, and it is not uncommon for changes to be made to event details. All seminars are subject to change. Please check here for updates before attending an event. You may also sign up for the South Asia Initiative e-mail list to receive details of events throughout the year. Please do so by e-mailing sainit@fas.harvard.edu, using the subject line "subscribe".
A list of seminars from the 2008-9 academic year and previous years is available here. DVDs and/or audio recordings of many of the seminars are available. If you would like to watch or listen to a seminar, please e-mail sainit@fas.harvard.edu with the name and date of the seminar in which you are interested.
Please contact Megan Rajbanshi at the South Asia Initiative with any questions: (617) 496-4862; sainit@fas.harvard.edu.
Monday, November 23, 6:15 pm
SAI co-sponsored event
Silent Waters
directed by Sabiha Sumar
Venue:
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Click Here to view poster
December 2009 events:
Wednesday, December 2, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
"Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy”
Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Panelists:
Suzanne Berger, Raphael Dorman and Helen Starbuck Professor of Political Science, MIT
Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration.
Moderated by:
Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School
This event is organized by the Program on Science, Technology, and Society, at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Graduate School of Design, the South Asia Initiative at Harvard, and the Harvard University Center for the Environment.
For more information on Science, Technology, and Society events at Harvard University, please visit: www.ksg.harvard.edu/sts/
Science and Democracy, a lecture series aimed at exploring both the promised benefits or our era's most salient scientific and technological breakthroughs and the potentially harmful consequences of developments that are inadequately understood, debated, or managed by politicians, lay publics, and policy institutions.
Venue:
Gund Hall, GSD, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Harvard University
Thursday, December 3
South Asia sponsored event
Graduate Student Research Workshop: South Asia Across Disciplines
"Little Women: Realizing the Feminine Face of Smallpox"
Anouska Bhattacharyya
Click here to visit the workshop's website
Venue:
CGIS Knafel Bldg., Room K105, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Friday, December 4, 4:00 pm
South Asia without Borders
"The Long March from Ayodhya: Violence and Democracy in India"
Amrita Basu, Paino Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History
and
Homi Bhabha,Rothenberg Professor of English
Venue:
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, December, 10, 4:00 pm
UN History Lecture
Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor History, Harvard University and Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University
Venue:
Robinson lower Library, Robinson Hall
Friday, December 11, 4:00 pm
“Moving Targets? The Interface between Late Vedic and Early Buddhist Texts”
Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit, Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University
Venue:
One Bow Street, Room 317
February 2010 events:
Tuesday, February 23, 4:30-6:30 pm
The Kashmir Initiative Speaker Series
Human Rights Policy for "The World’s Most Militarized Dispute"
“The Two Kashmirs: Present Realities in Indian & Pakistani Administered Kashmirs”
Ahmad Faruqui, Parvez Imroz, Robert Nickelsberg
Moderated by: Suvir Kaul
Venue:
Malkin Penthouse, HKS (4th floor Littauer)
For More Information See: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/sbhrap/projects/kashmir/index.php
Co-sponsored by the Carr Center for Human Rights policy, the South Asia Initiative at Harvard and the Harvard Pakistan Student Group (HPSG)
April 2010 events:
Friday, April 10, 4:00-5:30 pm
An Afternoon of South Indian Classical Music
Richard Wolf playing the vina
Umayalpuram Mali playing the mridangam
Venue:
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Click Here to visit the website
Friday, April 16, 4:00 pm
South Asia without Borders
Title TBA
Seema Alavi, Professor of History, Jamia Millia University
Chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs
and
Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English
Venue:
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 23, 4:00 pm
South Asia without Borders
"Building Nations, Breaking Communities: the locality of caste violence on colonial north India"
Mridu Rai, Associate Professor of History, Yale University
Chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs
and
Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English
Venue:
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA
Friday, April 30, 2010
South Asia sponsored event
2nd Annual Why Teach India Conference: Teaching caste and it's controversies
Keynote speaker:Mridu Rai, Associate Professor of History, Yale University
Program TBA
May 2010 events:
May 3-4 (dates to be confirmed)
Third Annual South Asia Initiative conference
Participants and Program TBA
For a list of seminars and events from previous academic years, click here.
