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Modernizing Asia’s Countryside

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Fri, Apr 2, 2021 from 09:00am — 11:00am, ET

Register here to join the webinar. The Harvard-Yenching Institute’s Annual Roundtable Panelists Han Do-Hyun, Professor of Sociology, Academy of Korean Studies Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Director, Cultural Studies Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Nishikawa Kunio, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University Mini Sukumar, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Calicut Wen Tiejun, Professor and Director […]

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Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.

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Thu, Apr 1, 2021 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Register here to join the webinar. PANELISTS:  Han Lu, Senior Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Project christina ong, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh Elena Shih, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University   MODERATOR:  Vivian Shaw, College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Co-Principal Investigator, AAPI COVID-19 Project […]

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“Practically No Habitation”: The Yanadi Community and the Colonial Violence of Spaceflight

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Tue, Mar 30, 2021 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm, ET

Register here to join the webinar. SPEAKER: Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History, Fordham University The Indian state’s broken pacts with Indigenous communities, the so-called ‘scheduled tribes’ or Adivasi, resulted in massive displacements in the name of environmental, territorial, and infrastructural sovereignty, yet none have given rise to such troubling paradoxes as those implemented to build […]

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The Future of Green India: Energy and Climate Change

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Tue, Mar 30, 2021 from 10:00am — 11:15am, ET

Green India Poster

Register here to join the webinar. Stream via YouTube: https://youtu.be/K6XkLltYIAQ Speakers Mahua Acharya, CEO, Convergence Energy Services Ltd. India Abhishek Malhotra, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Narasimha Rao, Associate Professor of the Environment, Yale School of the Environment Chaired by Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment […]

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Capacity Beyond Coercion: Regulatory Pragmatism and Compliance Along the India-Nepal Border

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Fri, Mar 26, 2021 from 11:00am — 12:30pm, ET

Register here to join the webinar. Susan L. Ostermann is Assistant Professor of Global Affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She completed her Ph.D. in the Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a law degree from Stanford Law School […]

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B4 Webinar: Building Bharat Boston Biosciences

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Fri, Mar 26, 2021 from 09:00am — 11:00am, ET

SESSION I: NEUROSCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – AN ONGOING DIALOGUE 9:00 – 9:45 am EST // 6:30 – 7:15 pm IST OPENING REMARKS:  Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University KEYNOTE SPEAKER:  Venkatesh Murthy, Raymond Leo Erikson Life Sciences Professor of Molecular & Cellular […]

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A Strong Handoff in U.S.-India Relations

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Fri, Mar 19, 2021 from 10:30am — 11:45am, ET

Register here for the talk.  Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Kenneth I. Juster, former U.S. Ambassador to India and HKS alumnus, about the U.S.-India relationship. Ambassador Juster will discuss major achievements in the U.S.-India partnership in the areas of diplomacy, defense, economic relations, energy, and health over the past […]

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Identifying Core Values in Research and Leadership: An Open Conversation with Professor Kristin Fabbe and Dr. Rana el Kaliouby

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Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:00pm, ET

Register here to join the webinar. Professor Kristin Fabbe of the Harvard Business School, and Dr. Rana el Kaliouby, CEO and co-founder of Affectiva, will engage prospective Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program students in an open session on identifying core values as the foundation for effective leadership.  

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Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India

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Tue, Mar 2, 2021 from 04:00pm — 05:00pm, ET

Registration required for this event: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ANpdh_VUTvKvpvWk4AbGGA Speaker: Andrew B. Liu, Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. […]

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