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Event Region : India


Reviving Public-Private Partnerships in India: Highways Leading the Way

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Thu, Mar 22, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

Mr. Rohit Kumar Singh is a Board Member (Finance) of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which has a budget of USD 17 billion. He is also the CEO and Managing Director of the operations arm of the Indian Highway Management Company Ltd. Mr. Singh served as the Joint Secretary to the Government for 5 years and was responsible for the policy planning of PPPs in National Highways.

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The Lakshmi Mittal SAI India Office Official Opening

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Fri, Mar 16, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

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To launch the official opening, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute (SAI), Harvard University, India Office will be hosting a series of events in March and April. For the opening celebration, Mark Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs at Harvard, will perform a ribbon cutting at the new office space in New Delhi.

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1947 Partition of British India

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Thu, Mar 8, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

To launch the official opening, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute (SAI), Harvard University, India Office will be hosting a series of events in March and April. For the first event, feminist historian Uma Chakravarti and feminist publisher Urvashi Butalia will give a seminar on Partition.

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The Question of Tribes in North East India

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Fri, Mar 2, 2018 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET

SAI Fellow Raile Rocky Ziipao will discuss social dynamics and infrastructure development in India’s frontier and border region. His research on the frontier highways uses the philosophy of Indigenous methodology (perspective from within). Link to the event page at Brown. 

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Colossus: Delhi in Theory

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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

India’s National Capital Region now includes parts of four states and about 30 million people. It is in the vanguard of global urban change of a particular type—the rise of the colossal metropolis. What do we know and can say about its spatial structure (and change) and social structure (and change)? How well does existing “urban theory” prepare us for Delhi? To what extent does Delhi prepare us for a new “urban theory”? How much of it is global, how much Indian, and how much just Delhi itself?

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Non-Caste Societies, Epistemology, and Challenges in India: A Tribal Indian’s Perspective

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Wed, Jan 31, 2018 from 06:00pm — 08:00pm, ET

As part of the Ambedkar Lecture Series, Dr. Raile Rocky Ziipao (Raghunathan Family Fellow, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University; Member, Tribal Intellectual Collective India) will speak on the topic of “Non-Caste Societies, Epistemology, and Challenges in India: A Tribal Indians Perspective.”

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B4 Valedictory Event in Bangalore

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Sat, Dec 23, 2017 from 02:00pm — 05:00pm, ET

B4’s intensive two-week workshop on Genomic Applications in Healthcare & Translational Research will culminate in a valedictory event featuring a key note by Dr. VijayRaghavan (Secretary of Department of Biotechnology, India.)

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Crossroads Summer Program

The Crossroads Summer Program is a fully-funded introduction to Harvard and American university culture for students from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and Africa, who are the first in their families to attend college and may also be facing challenging financial and social circumstances. Leading Harvard faculty will teach an intensive, multidisciplinary four-day curriculum in Dubai, for up to 60 accomplished, motivated youth.

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