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Mon, Mar 30, 2026 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm, ET
VENUE
CGIS South Concourse
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Join us for a low-key chai and book swap social at CGIS South!
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Fri, Mar 27, 2026 at 02:00pm, ET
VENUE
CGIS South, S153
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Join us for a talk with Dan Slater on “Mischief of the Franchise: The Grant of Universal Suffrage in British Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1927-28.” What prompted a white ruling elite to grant universal suffrage to a population of color for the very first time in modern history? This presentation discusses the surprising and puzzling decision by the colonial Donoughmore Commission to extend the franchise in British Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) in 1927-28, offering a novel account for both why and how suffrage expansion unfolds in the absence of either elite or popular pressures to expand voting rights.
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Wed, Feb 11, 2026 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, IST
VENUE
Online on Zoom
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute India Office
Join us for a webinar on “Rethinking Nutrition and Food Systems for Planetary Health in South Asia,” hosted jointly by the Mittal Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health–India Research Centre. This webinar brings together leading experts in nutrition, epidemiology, and food policy to examine the relevance, feasibility, and equity implications of planetary health diets in South Asia.
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Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 05:30pm, ET
VENUE
CGIS South, S250
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Join us for a talk with Seema Kohli, an internationally renowned visual artist from India, as she reflects on the circle as a generative, communal form that dissolves boundaries between body, spirit, stone, and goddess, and considers how this lineage continues in her own contemporary practice through painting, drawing, and sculpture.
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Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 06:00pm, ET
VENUE
CGIS South, S020 Belfer Case Study Room
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
This panel explores how heat is actually experienced in daily life – inside homes, workplaces, and cities. Drawing on perspectives from building science, urban design, and environmental health, Profs. Rajan Rawal and Gary Adamkiewicz will examine how everyday environments shape thermal exposure, behavior, and health. Moderated by Prof. Rahul Mehrotra, the discussion will highlight gaps between measured conditions and lived experience, and consider how design, infrastructure, and policy can better address the growing burden of heat where people live and work.
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Wed, Apr 8, 2026 at 05:30pm, ET
VENUE
CGIS South, S250
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
“Trajectories of Development” with Rahul Mehrotra, John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Sarah Page, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Fri, Feb 13, 2026 from 12:15pm — 01:15pm, ET
VENUE
WCC 1023 Classroom, Harvard Law School
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Join us for a discussion with Shashi Tharoor, Sugata Bose and Diana Eck on the chapter ‘Whither Secularism and Pluralism?’ of Dr Tharoor’s book Our Living Constitution: A Concise Introduction & Commentary.
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Fri, Apr 17, 2026 from 09:00am — 03:00pm, ET
VENUE
Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Please join us for the Mittal Institute Annual Symposium 2026. This event is free and open to the public.
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Thu, Feb 5, 2026 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
VENUE
Cambridge – CGIS South, S153
On February 12, Bangladesh will hold its first parliamentary elections since a student-led uprising ended the 15-year tenure of the Awami League (AL) and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August 2024. The election results will have a profound effect on the country’s democratic trajectory and geopolitical position.
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Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 05:30pm, ET
VENUE
CGIS South, S250
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Dr. Rose Sebastian’s postdoctoral project proposes to analyze the national science museums in independent India as sites of display and dissemination of a distinctively postcolonial policy and culture of science. This interdisciplinary project aspires to bring together the analytical approaches of Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). It extends the concepts of postcolonial hybridity and ambivalence to cultures of science, and analyzes the co-production of the technoscientific and the political in postcolonial India from an STS framework.
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Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 12:00pm, ET
VENUE
CGIS South, S250
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Speaker: Nita Kumar, Brown Family Professor of South Asian History, Claremont McKenna College. Moderator: Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Tue, Oct 28, 2025 from 02:00pm — 05:00pm, ET
VENUE
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge
ORGANIZER
Mittal Institute Cambridge Office
Violence against children is pervasive, but not inevitable. It is preventable. Like pervasive diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis, we can diagnose and document violence against children, treat it and ultimately eradicate it. This topic will be the focus of a wide-ranging discussion that marks the publication of an important new book, Protecting the World’s Children: Public Health, Human Rights, Capabilities, co-edited by FXB Senior Fellow Susan Bissell and A.K. Shiva Kumar. The book includes the work of leading experts on the multi-faceted threats and violations facing today’s children. Panelists will engage with several key child protection issues and discuss solutions that demand urgent attention and action.
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