Category : News
Sep 24, 2024 | Community, News, Students
Saturday, September 21, marked Harvard’s first-ever South Asian Convocation, co-hosted by the Mittal Institute and the South Asian Student Association (SAA). This unique celebration of the South Asian community at Harvard attracted over 300 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as affiliates and faculty members.
Sep 18, 2024 | Community, News, Students
On Saturday, September 21, Harvard University will be ripe with South Asian culture as it hosts the first-ever South Asian Convocation. All South Asian students, affiliates, and faculty are invited to attend the festivities, which are co-sponsored by the Mittal...
Sep 18, 2024 | Community, Fellows, India, News
This fall, the Mittal Institute welcomed a new Bajaj Visiting Fellow, Prof. Nilanjana Mukherjee, who is an English Literature professor from the University of Delhi, India. Nilanjana’s scholarship involves questions of space, place, landscape, and cartography in...
Sep 18, 2024 | India, News
This summer, the Mittal Institute’s New Delhi office hosted a series of impactful events and visits, fostering intellectual engagement, artistic exploration, and dialogue on critical issues across various fields.
Sep 5, 2024 | India, News
This summer, the Mittal Institute’s New Delhi office hosted a series of impactful events and visits, fostering intellectual engagement, artistic exploration, and dialogue on critical issues across various fields.
Sep 4, 2024 | Graduate Student Associates, News, Students
Rows left to right from top left: Abir Abdullah, Muhammad Ayaz, Saurav Ghimire, Parul Gupta, Masuma Halai Khwaja, Nilanjana Mukherjee, Arpit Shah, Sarah Umer, Sarthak Agarwal, Arnaaz Ameer, Shreya Raj Bhutani, Priyamvada Gannavarapu, Fatima Hamdani, Bhavya Jain,...
Sep 4, 2024 | Announcements, Climate, Faculty, News
The Mittal Institute is excited to announce a new funding opportunity for faculty research on climate change in South Asia in the academic year 2024-2025. Harvard faculty members from any Harvard School are invited to propose impactful climate research projects or interdisciplinary collaboration through workshops that address the critical challenges of climate change in the region.
Aug 8, 2024 | Announcements, Climate, Faculty, Fellows, In Region, News, Students
In our last summer special, we contemplate how rising temperatures, changing monsoon patterns, and rising sea levels will impact South Asia’s growing and diverse population. The Mittal Institute is at the forefront of scholarship and research on ways to...
Aug 1, 2024 | Climate, India, News
The Mittal Institute’s CommunityHATS project, funded by Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, was conceptualized as a way to address a major gap in the data related to heat impacts. Often macro-level data on temperature fails to capture the impacts on the most vulnerable, including informal workers who labor in exterior spaces without protection from extreme temperatures. This summer, two members of the CommunityHATS team traveled to Ahmedabad City in Gujarat, India, to work with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in deploying sensors to collect temperature data from poor working women and their environments. Their work occurred concurrently with one of the most extreme heatwaves India has ever faced.
Jul 12, 2024 | Announcements, Fellows, News, Students
This summer, we are reflecting on the people and programs that made headlines at Harvard over the past academic year. Our second highlights the work of our fellows and Harvard students. Through their research scholarship, internships, and initiatives, this...
Jul 11, 2024 | Blog, Fellows, News
Anu K. Antony, Mittal Institute Raghunathan Family Fellow 2023-2024, set off to Peru to understand why more and more Syrian Catholic nuns from Kerala travel to South America for mission work. Apart from the ethnographic fieldwork, there was also some downtime for sightseeing and friendly encounters with Peru’s four-legged national symbols. Read her travelogue!
Jun 25, 2024 | Announcements, Climate, India, News, South Asia in the News
In an op-ed in The Indian Express, members of the Mittal Institute’s climate team + partners working on climate change adaptation in South Asia write on heatwaves and the need for a detailed understanding of how different communities are impacted by and react to the heat.