Register Here South Asia, home to two billion people, has experienced devastating extreme weather events in the past decade – even more so than it has historically. Heatwaves, floods, and cyclones across Bangladesh, India, Neha and Pakistan have resulted in mass and billions of dollars of damage. As the frequency and intensity of these events […]
More InfoThis event will highlight opportunities for all Harvard College students. For details, including RSVP and the virtual event link information, see event listing in Crimson Careers “Please join HBS staff and past HBS Global Research interns to hear more about this unique internship opportunity abroad for Summer 2023! Eligible Students (i.e. first-year, second-year, graduate school): […]
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Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:00am, ET
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Harvard Science and Engineering Complex, Room 1.402
A Center for Research and Computation on Society Seminar featuring Prof. Rajesh Veeraraghavan from Georgetown University Abstract: How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient due to resistance from entrenched local power systems. The book is […]
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Mon, Dec 5, 2022 from 09:00am — 10:30am, ET
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Graduate Student Associate (GSA) Showcase is a chance for the diverse, prestigious and interdisciplinary Graduate Student Associates to share with the Mittal Institute Community their research, what they have been working on this semester, or highlighting past fieldwork they have done. GSAs will present with a separate […]
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Wed, Nov 30, 2022 from 09:30am — 11:00am, ET
The Current State of Affairs in Afghanistan and the Region: A Year after the U.S. Withdrawal Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Register to attend via Zoom The withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan in 2021 had tremendous impact on Afghanistan and the region in general. On September 10, 2021, soon after the withdrawal, the […]
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Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:00am, ET
COST The event is free and open to all.
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CGIS South Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
This conference aims to bring a focused, though not exclusionary, lens to the study of the country, where in a regional context, Pakistan is overshadowed by its much larger neighbor.
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Mon, Nov 21, 2022 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
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Gund Hall, Room 124, Graduate School of Design
Join Visiting Artist Fellows Aamina Nizar and Sharbendu De as they explore impacts of urban design and climate change in Sri Lanka and India. ‘An Elegy for Ecology’ by Sharbendu De imagines how humans can survive in the future in the wake of climate change. ‘The Colombo Project’ by Aamina Nizar imagines an […]
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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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