Poorna Swami received the 2023 Jawad Memorial Prize and a 2024 Emerging Translator’s Mentorship from the American Literary Translators Association for her translations of Urdu literature. She was also awarded summer research grants by the Mittal South Asia Institute and the Asia Center at Harvard. …
Apply for the Mittal Institute’s Graduate Student Associates (GSA) program 2024-25!
Are you a Harvard graduate student who conducts research on South Asia? The selected candidates will benefit from: GSAs are expected to be on campus for the entire academic year 2024-25 to participate in the program. Graduate degree candidates from all Harvard academic departments and professional schools are eligible to apply. Application deadline: July 5,…
Prof. Francis X. Clooney releasing memoir, “Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story”
Francis X. Clooney (Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School) has a new book Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story will be available in print and electronic form in June 2024, from T&T Clark/Bloomsbury. He also received two honorary degrees during the 2023-24 academic year: from the University of Scranton, Scranton…
Study Group: Authoritarian Playbooks: Lessons from the New India (A Study Group with Nitika Khaitan)
Wed, Mar 27 to Apr 10, 2:00pm – 3:15pm Belfer B-L-4 Conference Room Event Description: As India’s elections approach, there is renewed focus on the country’s swift turn towards authoritarianism in the last decade. The study group examines this through the watershed moment of 2019-2020, beginning with large nationwide protests against the government in 2019 and ending with anti-Muslim violence in the…
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) announces the mentees for ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program – including SAS’s very own Poorna Swami
Poorna will continue to study Urdu translation under this program. Many of the other mentees’ subject languages are also South Asian Languages….
Mittal Institute Summer Grants (deadline February 9th)
Don’t miss the chance to travel to South Asia this summer! Apply NOW for an internship grant, language study grant, or research grant from the Mittal Institute. Summer grants run approximately 8 weeks, and awards range from $500-$3,000, but typical funding amounts are between $1,500-$2,500. Deadline: February 9, 2024 at 11:59 PM EST All Harvard undergraduate…
SAS PhD student, Poorna Swami, awarded The 2023 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation
https://www.alijawadzaidi.com/award-winners The jury was unanimous in its decision to award the first prize to ‘Palestinian,’ Poorna Swami’s translation of ‘Falasteeni’ by Fehmida Riaz, and the runner-up prize to ‘Prohibition,’ Mohd Aqib’s translation of ‘Pabandi’ by Ahmed Nadim Qasmi. Jury comments: The jury considered the following aspects: the merit of the poem in the source language, the quality of translation…