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Tue, Sep 8, 2026 from 04:15pm — 07:30pm, ET
Cultural/Social Events, Special Event, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka
Harvard Campus/Cambridge
Join us for a Welcome Back Mixer for South Asia @ Harvard. Celebrate the start of the school year with the Mittal Institute over a South Asian dinner! Meet Mittal Institute faculty and staff, connect with South Asian student organizations on campus, and learn about opportunities and upcoming programs.
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Wed, Oct 14, 2026 from 03:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
Cultural/Social Events, Special Event, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka
Harvard Campus/Cambridge
Please join us for a talk by Professor Mukulika Banerjee of the London School of Economics and Political Science, exploring the relationship between democracy, citizenship and everyday life in an Indian village.
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Mon, Apr 27, 2026 from 03:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
This talk explores the transregional journey of the marṡiyah (elegy) from Safavid Iran to Mughal India through the lens of Iranian émigré poets. It examines why, despite the reorientation of royal patronage under Shah Ṭahmāsp—which prioritized the composition of marṡiyah over qaṣīdah (panegyric) —the genre reached its fullest expression beyond Iran’s borders, specifically within the Shiʿi court of Awadh. Central to this discussion is the Persian dīwān of Mullah Ḳhat̤ā Shūshtarī, an eighteenth-century émigré who served as a formal roẓah-ḳhwān (reciter of Karbala elegies) at Nawāb Āṣif-ud-Dawlah’s court and imāmbāṛā in Lucknow. The talk argues that Ḳhat̤ā’s work represents both the final efflorescence of Persian marṡiyah in Lucknow and a crucial transitional moment in the vernacularization of the genre from Persian to Urdu. Ultimately, this identifies the Persianate foundations of a literary tradition in Lucknow that Mīr Anīs would later carry to its zenith in the nineteenth century
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Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 05:30pm, ET
Cultural/Social Events, Special Event, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka
Harvard Campus/Cambridge
Join us for a Welcome Back Mixer for South Asia @ Harvard. Celebrate the start of the school year with the Mittal Institute over a South Asian dinner! Meet Mittal Institute faculty and staff, connect with South Asian student organizations on campus, and learn about opportunities and upcoming programs.
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Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 12:00pm, ET
Join us for a seminar with Muhammad Ayaz, Mittal Institute Syed Babar Ali Fellow Spring 2025! He will present his research on global value chains with a focus on Pakistan’s garment industry
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Mon, Apr 14, 2025 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
Please join us for a public lecture by the Mittal Institute’s second Distinguished Artist Fellow, Naiza Khan, a highly acclaimed visual artist from Pakistan.
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Tue, Apr 1, 2025 from 05:30pm — 06:45pm, ET
Please join us for a panel discussion to launch our new exhibit featuring Mittal Institute Visiting Artist Fellows Parul Gupta, Masuma Halai Khwaja, and Abir Abdullah, moderated by Prof. Vishal Khandelwal, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
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Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 05:00pm, ET
VENUE
Cambridge – CGIS South, Room S050
Join us for a discussion with Taimur Jhagra, a former Partner at McKinsey turned politician who served as the Minister of Finance & Health for the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan between 2018-2022. This event is organized by the Pakistan Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Fri, Nov 15, 2024 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Join us for a Brown-Harvard Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics at Yale University.
More InfoThe webinar aims to focus on the global south conceptualisations of borderlands in the particular case of South Asia post the partition of 1947. The fragmented history of the South Asian borderlands is a complex yet intriguing space for exploration.
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Fri, Oct 20, 2023 from 11:00am — 12:00pm, ET
The Mittal Institute brings to you a book discussion on ‘Love, Exile, Redemption: The Saga of Kashmir’s Last Pandit Prime Minister and his English Wife’ with authors Lila Bhan and Siddharth Kak, and moderated by Natasha Warikoo, Lenore Stern Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Tufts University. CLICK TO WATCH THE EVENT! Date and […]
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