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Seeing Like a Business: Privatized Service Delivery and Trust in Urban Pakistan
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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[…]
More InfoWhat is different about Climate Justice in South Asia? Caste, the Adivasi Question, and Climate Change in India
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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.
More InfoSpirits of the Himalayas: A Conversation with the Artist and Curator
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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 […]
More InfoEmergent Practices in South Asia #10 | Sonam Letho & Sadiq Daud
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Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 09:00am, ET
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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 […]
More InfoLeading the Fight Against Bonded Labor: A conversation with Syeda Ghulam Fatima Gilani, General Secretary of Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan
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.
More InfoThe Tragedy and the Paradox: State Building in South Asia since 1526
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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[…]
More InfoUS-China-India Triple Entente in Bangladesh
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Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 09:15am, ET
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Webinar
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
More InfoFashioning Future: Autonomy, Agency and Historical Consciousness in Adivasi/Indigenous India
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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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