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Representatives from MSF and SAF with VC, registrar, Director & faculty members from UMCSAWM and SAF- Sri Lanka Alumni

Representatives from MSF and SAF with VC, registrar, Director & faculty members from UMCSAWM and SAF- Sri Lanka Alumni

Innaguaration of UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Water Resources Management in South Asia at the University of Moratuwa (UMCSAWM)

The South Asia Foundation (SAF) is delighted to announce the establishment of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Water Resources Management in South Asia at the University of Moratuwa (UMCSAWM). This significant milestone marks a decade of dedicated efforts to foster regional cooperation through South Asian water education, gaining international recognition from UNESCO.

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Madanjeet Singh Inaugral Memorial Lecture organized by Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP, India

Malaviya Centre for Peace Research, UNESCO Chair for Peace, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi is organizing the UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Madanjeet Singh Memorial Lecture on 'United Nations and the Intellectual History of Human Rights,' . The memorial lecture will take place on November 20, 2023, at 11:30 AM in the Gandhi Lecture Theater, Faculty of Social Science, BHU.We are honored to have Dr. Christian O Christiansen from the School of Culture & Society at Aarhus University, Denmark, as the distinguished speaker for this event and Madam France Marquet, South Asia Foundation representative to UNESCO as a Chief Guest...

Mme France Marquet, SAF Representative to UNESCO, attended 42th UNESCO General Conference

Mr. Zakaria SAF-Bangladesh new Secretary visited UMCSAJ and met SAF scholars

Mr. Zakaria SAF-Bangladesh new Secretary visited UMSGET and met current SAF scholars

Mme. France Marquet Principal Trustee, MSF with Ms. Kubra Khademi, UMISAA, Alumna

Mme. France Marquet Principal Trustee, MSF with Ms. Kubra Khademi, Alumna, UMISAA at the Asia now exhibition in Paris...

Collection Presentation: Pablo Picasso Suite 156 with Ms. Kubra Khademi, UMISAA, Alumna

The pe­ri­od in which the cy­cle was cre­at­ed co­in­cid­ed with the so­cio­cul­tu­r­al pheno­menon of hu­man rights move­ments world­wide, which in Pi­cas­so’s adopt­ed coun­try, France, cul­mi­nat­ed in the events of May 1968 in Paris. In his last cy­cle of prints, Pi­cas­so ex­plores per­so­n­al me­m­ories, love, life, and mor­tal­i­ty, the his­to­ry of West­ern art and cul­ture, and the re­la­tion­ship be­tween artists, mod­els, and view­ers. Their uni­fy­ing el­e­ment is Eros, the Greek god of erot­ic de­sire who re­veals the li­bi­do and pas­sion of all sub­jects. When the se­ries was pre­sent­ed in Paris for the first time in ear­ly 1973, the re­ac­tions were mixed.

"Tie the Clouds" with Central Asia

MSF Trustees convened in London to discuss GC Meetings & forthcoming Birth Centenary of Amb Madanjeet Singh

Madam France Marquet, the Principal Trustee of the Madanjeet Singh Foundation (MSF), Prof. Salima Hashmi, Trustee-MSF and Chairperson of SAF-Pakistan , Mr. N. Ram, the President-MSF and Dr. Armin Dobler, Trustee-MSF, met in London to discuss the upcoming South Asia Foundation and Madanjeet Singh Foundation governing council meeting scheduled for November 24-25, 2023. Additionally, they discussed an alumni meeting in celebration of Amb Singh's birth centenary in 2024.