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Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:00pm, ET
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CGIS South, S354, 1730 Cambridge St
A talk about Dastan-e Amir Hamza, a tale hailed as the Iliad and Odyssey of the Persianate world. Ostensibly based on the life and legendary exploits of Prophet Muhammad’s uncle, Hamza ibn Abd-al Muttalib (566-625 C.E.), here is a fantastical world of talismans and jinn, war and jihad, treachery and trickery, and the mightiest force of them all: Fate. Spanning over 46-volumes, this Indo-Persian epic rivals The Arabian Nights. Famed the world over through the Hamzanamaminiature paintings (1562-1577), it speaks to art history, fairy-tale and fantasy studies, literary and critical theory, and translation studies.
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Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 05:00pm, ET
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CGIS South S250, 1730 Cambridge ST
India launched the Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) in 2018 to provide cashless healthcare coverage for hospitalization to the poorest 40 percent of the population. The scheme forms an important component of the country’s journey towards universal health coverage. In this presentation, the institutional structures associated with the organization of purchasing arrangements in the PMJAY will be examined, with a focus on comparing the performance of government trusts versus private insurance companies[…]
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Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 09:00am, ET
atArchitecture is a Mumbai-based practice founded in 2014 by Neha Rane and Avneesh Tiwari encompassing architecture, landscape and urban design. The firm focuses on providing comprehensive solutions that strive for delight, sustainability and efficiency.
Each distinctive intervention seeks regional inspiration through careful study of the context and aspirations of the site. Complex creative processes of research, interpretations and experimentations are employed and developed through drawings, writings and scale models to achieve designs of simplicity and clarity[…]
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Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 09:00am, ET
Emergent Practices in South Asia #10 | Sonam Letho, Bhutan Sadiq Daud, Afghanistan 9:00 am EST I 7:30 pm IST Register to attend via Zoom “Emergent Practices in South Asia” will convene young practitioners that have displayed rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and interventions in the public realm in response to the […]
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Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 09:00am, ET
Emergent Practices in South Asia #9 | Coalesce, Pakistan & Paraa, Bangladesh 9:00 am EST I 7:00 pm PKT | 7:30 pm IST | 8:00 pm BST Register to attend via Zoom “Emergent Practices in South Asia” will convene young practitioners that have displayed rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and interventions in the […]
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Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 06:30pm, ET
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CGIS South S153, 1730 Cambridge St.
Namita Vijay Dharia is an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an architect and anthropologist who studies urban political economy and ecology in India. Her work combines ethnographic methodologies and anthropological theory with the scalar, spatial and material approaches of architecture and design. […]
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Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 06:00pm, ET
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CGIS South, S354 (3rd Floor)
Featuring a presentation and exhibit opening by the Mittal Institute’s spring semester Visiting Artist Fellows, Manjot Kaur, a visual artist from India and Dhara Mehrotra, a visual artist based out of Bangalore.
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Fri, Mar 10, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
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S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
Erum Haider is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. She received her PhD from Georgetown University, Department of Government, and is the recipient of the USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar pre-doctoral fellowship for[…]
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Fri, Feb 24, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
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Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St
Alexander Lee earned his PhD from Stanford and his BA from Yale. His research focuses on the factors governing the success or failure of political institutions. In particular, his work focuses on the historical evolution of state capacity, the political economy of South Asia, the causes and consequences of identity politics, and bureaucratic politics[…]
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 06:30pm, ET
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S153, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
Join us for a conversation with Sanjeev Vidyarthi, a professor of city design in the department of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. He will discuss interim findings from an ongoing, long-term project studying who is building cities in contemporary India and how. Employing a pragmatist approach, the talk will share broad outlines of a sub-project that seeks to explore the nature and scope of practices leading architects and urban designers are innovating to engage with the rapidly growing ranks of India’s city-builders such as state institutions, public agencies, emergent entrepreneurs, real-estate developers, place-based communities, moneyed individuals, and religious movements.
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