In the Spotlight

Health in South Asia

The SAI Symposium on April 26-27 brought together global experts with deep research, implementation and policy experience to learn and find new modes for global exchange. Follow up from the Conference is available here.

Global Submissions of Innovative Design Solutions for Health Care

The South Asia Initiative welcomed submissions of ideas, creations and inventions at the “Health in South Asia: Lessons for and from the World” Symposium. Click here to see the submission exhibit and read submitted abstracts.

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South Asia Initiative May 2012 Events

SOUTH ASIA WITHOUT BORDERS SEMINAR SERIES

POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2012

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not

Prasannan Parthasarathi, Associate Professor, History Department, Boston College
Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies

SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE STUDENT SEMINAR

Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 1-3:00 pm

Big Ideas: Conversations with the South Asia Initiative's Graduate Student Associates

RELIGION, MEANING AND BELIEF IN MEDIEVAL AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIAN SOCIETIES
“Social Justice in Islamicate South Asia: Ismat Chughtai’s Cosmopolitan Struggle”
Sadaf Jaffer, Doctoral Candidate in the Indo-Muslim Culture program at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
“Producing Islam - Belief, Practice, & Politics at an Islamic Seminary (Madrasa) in Pakistan”,
Bilal A. Malik , Ed.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education
“Muhibb Allah Ilahabadi: A Seventeenth Century Sufi, and Why Every South Asianist Should Care About Him”
Shankar Nair, PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion
“Rethinking the Role of Religion in Premodern South Asia”
Harpreet Singh, PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion

LAND, LAW, URBANIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN SOUTH ASIA
“Urbanization without cities: Land conflicts along inter-urban highways in India”
Sai Balakrishnan, PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Graduate School of Design
“A Socio-Legal History of the Right to Property in India”
Namita Wahi, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School

Belfer Case Study Room, S020, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA

Friday, May 4 at 4:00 p.m.

An Elusion Called Justice - Struggling with an Enigma

A Talk on the Struggles of the Tribal Peoples of Andhra Pradesh and the Story of Samata
Ravi Rebbapragada, Executive Director, Samata
CGIS K 262, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Presented by the Harvard India Student Group
Sponsored by the South Asia Initiative

CO-SPONSORED EVENT

Monday, May 7 at 1:30 - 5:45 pm

State Capacity and Local Governance: China and India Compared

A roundtable organized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and co-sponsored with the Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the South Asia Initiative
Lower Level Seminar Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Harvard University

This roundtable brings together a group of distinguished scholars of China and India (Prasenjit Duara, Mark Frazier, Huang Yasheng, Devesh Kapur, Tarun Khanna, Prerna Singh, Kellee Tsai, and Lily Tsai) to consider some of the major political problems and perils facing the Asian giants today. How do the world’s two biggest countries compare in terms of their ability to manage and mollify their often unruly citizens? How well does each of them cope on the ground with such enormous challenges as poverty and inequality, popular protest, ethnic conflict, and environmental degradation? How effectively do central and local governments coordinate, complement, or contradict one another in meeting these challenges? Can China and India’s relative successes and shortcomings shed light on prospects for democratic versus non-democratic governance in the twenty-first century?

South Asia Initiative June 2012 Events