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Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 06:00pm
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CGIS South, S354 (3rd Floor)
Featuring a presentation and exhibit opening by the Mittal Institute’s spring semester Visiting Artist Fellows, Manjot Kaur, a visual artist from India and Dhara Mehrotra, a visual artist based out of Bangalore.
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm
A 4-Session Intensive under the CPL Public Leadership Co-curricular Program With Dr. Sima Samar, former Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) Spring 2023 CPL Hauser Leader and 2022 Carr Center Fellow Students are encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible, because each session builds on the last. Wednesday, February 22, 12-1:15pm: Role of […]
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 06:30pm
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CGIS South S153, 1730 Cambridge St.
Namita Vijay Dharia is an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an architect and anthropologist who studies urban political economy and ecology in India. Her work combines ethnographic methodologies and anthropological theory with the scalar, spatial and material approaches of architecture and design. […]
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:00am
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Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Harvard Yard
Please join the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Center for International Development at Boylston Hall on the Harvard campus for a conversation with President Ranil Wickremesinghe live from Sri Lanka, moderated by professors Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, and Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School. The one-hour discussion will conclude with questions from the Harvard community.
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Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:00am
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Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Harvard Yard
Please join the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Center for International Development at Boylston Hall on the Harvard campus for a conversation with President Ranil Wickremesinghe live from Sri Lanka, moderated by professors Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, and Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School. The one-hour discussion will conclude with questions from the Harvard community.
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Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 05:30pm
Udaipur’s eighteenth-century painters, more so than their earlier counterparts, exponentially stretched the affective potential of pictorial moods. They circulated images and ideas about flourishing places beyond and between objects commissioned within courts and bazaars. In the wake of British colonial ambitions, their pictures suggest counterfactual realities within moods of plenty that work against narratives of scarcity and inadequacy.
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Wed, Mar 29, 2023 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm
A 4-Session Intensive under the CPL Public Leadership Co-curricular Program With Dr. Sima Samar, former Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) Spring 2023 CPL Hauser Leader and 2022 Carr Center Fellow Students are encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible, because each session builds on the last. Wednesday, February 22, 12-1:15pm: Role of […]
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Thu, Mar 30, 2023 - Fri, Mar 31, 2023
Leading experts, policymakers, Harvard faculty and practitioners will convene in New Delhi as the Mittal Institute embarks on a major Climate Change Initiative focused on South Asia. More details to be announced in the coming weeks. Please register to receive more information about venue and speakers. Day 1 will be open to the public. Days 2 and 3 will be closed-door sessions.
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Wed, Apr 12, 2023 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm
A 4-Session Intensive under the CPL Public Leadership Co-curricular Program With Dr. Sima Samar, former Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) Spring 2023 CPL Hauser Leader and 2022 Carr Center Fellow Students are encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible, because each session builds on the last. Wednesday, February 22, 12-1:15pm: Role of […]
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Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 07:30am
Attend Via Zoom 6:00 pm IST – 7 pm IST / 8:30 am EST – 9:30 am EST Presenter: Mayanka Ambade, India Fellow, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Discussant: Nachiket Mor, Visiting Scientist, The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health Description: Quality of healthcare is an essential component of Universal Health Coverage, […]
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Fri, Mar 10, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm
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S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
Erum Haider is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. She received her PhD from Georgetown University, Department of Government, and is the recipient of the USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar pre-doctoral fellowship for[…]
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Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 05:00pm
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CGIS South Rm S153, 1730 Cambridge, St
Globally, climate justice has emerged as a major framework acknowledging the disproportionate burden experienced by the countries and communities that are least responsible for anthropogenic climate change. However, climate justice within countries that are the most unequal societies in the world such as India has not yet gained enough attention in climate change scholarship and policy. This presentation looks at climate justice within India considering caste and the Adivasi identity
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Wed, Mar 8, 2023 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm
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S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Lobsang Sangay is a Senior Visiting Fellow at East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. He was a democratically elected Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration and served two terms (2011-21). Lobsang completed his BA and LLB from Delhi University. He did his LLM ’95 and SJD ‘04 from Harvard Law School and received Yong K. Kim’ 95 Memorial Prize for excellence in dissertation and contributions to the understanding of East Asia at the Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, akin to track III, he organized seven rounds of meetings/conferences between Tibetan, Western and Chinese scholars most notably, the first ever meeting between HH the Dalai Lama and 25 Chinese scholars and students.
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Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 09:00am
Emergent Practices in South Asia #10 | Sonam Letho, Bhutan Sadiq Daud, Afghanistan 9:00 am EST I 7:30 pm IST Register to attend via Zoom “Emergent Practices in South Asia” will convene young practitioners that have displayed rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and interventions in the public realm in response to the […]
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Tue, Feb 28, 2023 from 09:00am — 10:00am
Syeda Ghulam Fatima Gilani has helped free, protect, and financially support more than 85,000 bonded laborers in Pakistan, working toward BLLF’s goal of total eradication of bonded labor and child labor in South Asia. In December 2022, she was awarded the Gleitsman International Activist Award by the Center for Public Leadership.
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Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 09:15am
Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar series co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University and Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University
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Fri, Feb 24, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm
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Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St
Alexander Lee earned his PhD from Stanford and his BA from Yale. His research focuses on the factors governing the success or failure of political institutions. In particular, his work focuses on the historical evolution of state capacity, the political economy of South Asia, the causes and consequences of identity politics, and bureaucratic politics[…]
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Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 05:00pm
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S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
The concept of autonomy is the foundation of the Adivasi/indigenous societies across the globe. In one sense, that marked the indigenous society from the normative society and also the primary source for the unending tension between the two. In India, Adivasi autonomy is now folklore, but it has remained a source of Adivasi agency that helped them to contest and negotiate with the modern state.
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