Category : Announcements
Mar 15, 2022 | Announcements, Arts Program, Community, In Region, India, News
Professor Doris Sommer, a Mittal Institute Steering Committee member, recently visited the Indian city of Pune to launch the Pre-Texts project, a pedagogy based on interpretation through the arts. She is partnering with Professor Yugank Goyal of FLAME University in Pune, where the project is being housed. Pre-Texts is an arts-based training program for teachers of literacy, critical thinking, and citizenship. While the number of readers has grown worldwide, reading comprehension stays alarmingly low because students need to use texts in order to understand them. With Pre-Texts, students master texts by using them to create visual and performative arts.
Mar 10, 2022 | Announcements, Community, Graduate Student Associates, In Region, India, News
Ronak Jain, a Mittal Institute Graduate Student Associate, is a 4th year Ph.D. student in Economics at Harvard University. Her research interests lie in the intersection of economic development and behavioral economics. Her work seeks to understand how beliefs and preferences shape economic and psychological outcomes of individuals and communities, with a regional focus on South Asia. She is a former Harvard Kennedy Scholar. She also serves as a Resident Advisor for Graduate Students in the GSAS Residence Halls at Harvard.
Mar 8, 2022 | Announcements, Arts Program, Community, News, Social Enterprise
The Mittal Institute welcomed a new VAF Artist, Mehwish Abid, to campus this week, for the start of her eight-week research fellowship at Harvard. The program connects artists from South Asia with Harvard’s intellectual resources, and allows a platform for mid-career artists to conduct independent research that explores critical issues in South Asia through the lens of art and design.
Mar 8, 2022 | Announcements, Community, Faculty, In Region, News, Social Enterprise, South Asia in the News
Milind Tambe, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University, has prioritized public health and wildlife conservation as two key areas of focus for his work with artificial intelligence.
Mar 1, 2022 | Announcements, Arts Program, Faculty, News
The Mittal Institute’s Conservation Science Research and Training Program (CoSTAR) program is an attempt to bridge the gap between art history, museology, art conservation, and conservation science, with the aim of strengthening the practice of conservation science in India. Module 1 of the CoSTAR program began in April 2021 and consisted of a nine-week lecture series. Module 2 of the program was launched in November 2021.
Mar 1, 2022 | Announcements, Faculty, News, Social Enterprise, South Asia in the News
Durba Mitra, Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute and Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality has been awarded the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies for her book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. This prize honors “outstanding and innovative scholarship across discipline and country of specialization for a first single-authored monograph on South Asia.” Indian Sex Life, which demonstrates how ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought, also received an honorable mention for the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize from the Law & Society Association.
Mar 1, 2022 | Afghanistan, Announcements, Community, Fellows, News, South Asia in the News
Fara Abbas, a Fellow with the Negotiation Task Force, based at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, is a specialist on Afghan affairs with over 10 years of in-country experience on security, peace, and development. She fled Afghanistan in August after the Taliban takeover, and a stipend by a number of Harvard entities – including the Mittal Institute – is supporting her year-long Fellowship at Harvard.
Feb 23, 2022 | Announcements, Associates, In Region, India, News, South Asia in the News
Host: Taamra Segal, Communications and Outreach Manager, The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. Harvard University Guest: Atanu Chakraborty, Former Economic Affairs Secretary, Government of India, Research Affiliate with Lakshmi Mittal & Family South...
Feb 23, 2022 | Announcements, Faculty, In Region, India, News
Adobe photo by Nico El Nino. Policy administrators in India confront complex issues concerning population, health and development and are continually looking for ways to address them. While data is available, a user-friendly resource that has the ability to...
Feb 23, 2022 | Announcements, In Region, India, News
Image courtesy Lancet Citizens’ Commission. The Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System is an ambitious, cross-sectoral endeavor to lay out the roadmap to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for the people of India. A guiding...
Feb 15, 2022 | Announcements, Associates, In Region, India, News
The Mittal Institute welcomes Rahul Gupta as a Research Affiliate. Rahul’s mission is a malaria-free India, and then the world, through the development of healthy housing strategies to complement the current core malaria interventions of insecticidal bed nets and indoor residual spraying. The Mittal Institute spoke with him about his past experience in the banking world, and current commitment to public health.
Feb 15, 2022 | Announcements, Community, Fellows, News
Tarun Khanna, Mittal Institute director and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School released the print edition of his new book, Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind. It is co-written by Geoffrey Jones and is out in India via Penguin Books. The Mittal Institute interviewed Professors Khanna and Jones about the new book.
