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Sat, Nov 19, 2022 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET
Register to attend via zoom Nov 12, 2022 8.00 AM EST // 6.30 PM IST // 7.00 PM BDT Noor Khan Design Studio (NKDS) was founded by architect Noor Khan in 2012, two years after completing his bachelor’s in architecture degree from Beaconhouse National University (BNU) Lahore, Pakistan. Based primarily in Lahore, NKDS is an […]
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Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 05:00pm, ET
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Belfer Room (S020), CGIS South
This discussion will mark the in-region release of this book on Partition and provides an opportunity to reflect on how this massive event has shaped the subcontinent’s cultural, economic, political and social dimensions including architecture, art, demographics, language, and music.
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Liaquat Channa is an educational linguist and interested in areas such as language and education, hidden curriculum and language textbooks,and, English as a/the medium of instruction explored through qualitative and mixed methods approaches in postcolonial contexts in general and Pakistan in particular.
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Khyati Tripathi is a death scholar from India and, through her work, she tries to bring together events, emotions and practices related to death to explore the psychosocial significance and intricate connections between them. She is interested in exploring the ‘sacred’ in death and the pure and impure aspects of it. Her work is based at the intersection of social anthropology, psychology, and psychoanalysis.
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Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 08:00am, ET
Register to attend via Zoom Nov 12, 2022 8.00 AM EST // 6.30 PM IST // 7.00 PM BDT “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 spectrum of issues that societies […]
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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 05:00pm, ET
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Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room)
Date & Time: Friday, November 11, 2022 | 5 PM EST Venue: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room) Note: This talk will be predominantly in Persian with synopsis translation. Homeira Qaderi will talk about her own fiction in the context of literature in Afghanistan. The talk will be predominantly in Persian, with a synopsis in English […]
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Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 05:30pm, ET
Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. As the founder of BRAC, his work had a profound impact on the lives of millions.
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Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 09:00am, ET
Saturday, 5th November 2022, 9AM EST (6.30 PM IST) Click here to Register Pema has been working in the field of heritage conservation since her first appointment as an architect with the Department of Culture, Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs, Royal Government of Bhutan in 2009. She completed her undergraduate studies with a Bachelor […]
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Fri, Nov 4, 2022 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
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Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St
Professor Yadav is an associate professor of political science at Penn State University. She recieved her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2007. Yadav’s research and teaching interests lie in comparative politics, political economy, economic development, and survey research.
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Yamini Aiyar is the President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research. In 2008, she founded the Accountability Initiative at CPR, which is credited with pioneering one of India’s largest expenditure tracking surveys for elementary education.
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