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Tue, Dec 4, 2018 from 06:00pm — 08:30pm, ET
“Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World”, an event jointly organized by The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Harvard Global Health Institute and presented in New Delhi, examined the connections between human, animal and environmental health, and the response to disease outbreaks in India.
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How should societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their full potential and ensuring that competent and capable leaders are selected to govern are central challenges for any society. Failure to meet these challenges can have enormous costs, for individuals and for societies as a whole. The richness of China’s historical experience […]
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Mon, Nov 19, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Mrinalini Rajagopalan, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor, Department of History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, is a historian of India’s built environment and is particularly interested in the impact of colonialism and nationalism on the architectural, urban, and preservation cultures of modern South Asia. Her first monograph Building Histories: The Archival and Affective Lives […]
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Fri, Nov 16, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
AJAY SINHA, Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College Chair: JINAH KIM, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture and Faculty Director, Arts @ Mittal Institute In the Spring of 1938, an Indian dancer, Ram Gopal, posed in a variety of fantastical costumes for the American photographer, Carl Van Vechten, in New York City. Studying over […]
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Wed, Nov 7, 2018 - Thu, Nov 8, 2018, ET
While urbanisation brings unprecedented social and economic opportunity, it also increases the threat of disasters, with greater concentrations of people living in dangerous places, such as those living in coastal areas, on land that floods, or on marginalised land. Asia Pacific is one of the world’s fastest urbanising regions. It is also home to the […]
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Sat, Nov 3, 2018 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University hosted a special talk as part of its Artist Talk: India Seminar Series. The talk titled “Trauma and Memory: Healing through Art” by Kabi Raj Lama – a Nepal based artist and Visiting Artist Fellow at Harvard University retraced the artist’s personal life story involving […]
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Fri, Nov 2, 2018 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Join Vijayendra Rao in a seminar discussing his paper “Deliberative Inequality: A Text-As-Data Analysis of Indian Village Assemblies” (Co-authored with R. Parthasarathy and N. Palaniswamy). Vijayendra (Biju) Rao, a Lead Economist in the Research Department of the World Bank, integrates his training in economics with theories and methods from anthropology, sociology and political science to study the […]
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Wed, Oct 31, 2018 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
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Explore the globe this Halloween! Visit the international centers in CGIS South and CGIS Knafel (1730 and 1737 Cambridge Street) Learn more about programs and funding opportunities Enjoy some delicious holiday treats Participating centers: Asia Center, Center for African Studies, Committee on Regional Studies East Asia, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Davis […]
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Tue, Oct 30, 2018 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute’s Visiting Artist Fellowship (VAF) is an eight-week research fellowship at Harvard that connects artists from South Asia to Harvard’s intellectual resources. The Fellowship provides a platform for conducting independent research that explores critical issues in South Asia through the lens of art and design. The program welcomes […]
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Thu, Oct 25, 2018 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
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Indrani Chatterjee, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin Chair: Jinah Kim, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University
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