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Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 05:00pm, ET
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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, ET
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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, ET
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, ET
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 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
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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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Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 09:15am, ET
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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Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 05:00pm, ET
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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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Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 06:30pm, ET
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S153, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
Join us for a conversation with Sanjeev Vidyarthi, a professor of city design in the department of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. He will discuss interim findings from an ongoing, long-term project studying who is building cities in contemporary India and how. Employing a pragmatist approach, the talk will share broad outlines of a sub-project that seeks to explore the nature and scope of practices leading architects and urban designers are innovating to engage with the rapidly growing ranks of India’s city-builders such as state institutions, public agencies, emergent entrepreneurs, real-estate developers, place-based communities, moneyed individuals, and religious movements.
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Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 09:00am, ET
Emergent Practices in South Asia #9 | Coalesce, Pakistan & Paraa, Bangladesh 9:00 am EST I 7:00 pm PKT | 7:30 pm IST | 8:00 pm BST 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 […]
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