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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Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 06:30pm, ET
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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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Wed, Mar 22, 2023 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable Reception to follow Co-sponsored with the Mittal South Asia Institute, the Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Panelists: Yuen Yuen Ang, Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor […]
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Wed, Mar 22, 2023 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm, ET
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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Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 06:00pm, ET
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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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Fri, Mar 10, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
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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, 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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Mon, Mar 6, 2023 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Tsherin Sherpa, artist John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Chaired and Moderated by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Tsherin Sherpa’s work is currently on […]
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