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SAI Event Region : South Asia


Emergent Practices #12 | Jubair Hasan & AT Architecture

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Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 09:00am

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Webinar

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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Emergent Practices in South Asia #10 | Sonam Letho & Sadiq Daud

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Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 09:00am

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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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Emergent Practices in South Asia #9 | Coalesce & Paraa

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Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 09:00am

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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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The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction

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Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 06:30pm

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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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Seeing Like a Business: Privatized Service Delivery and Trust in Urban Pakistan

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Fri, Mar 10, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

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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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The Tragedy and the Paradox: State Building in South Asia since 1526

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Fri, Feb 24, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

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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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Contemporary Practices in South Asia #3 | Sanjeev Vidyarthi

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Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 06:30pm

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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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Emergent Practices in South Asia #3 | Rohan Chavan and Vinu Daniel

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Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 09:00am

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Webinar

9 am EST | 6:30 pm IST  Register Here “The Architecture of Transition: Emergent Practices in South Asia”series will convene young practitioners that have displayed a rigorous engagement in making architecture in the public realm and in response to the spectrum of issues that societies in acute transition are experiencing. The second lecture includes Rohan Chavan and Vinu Daniel, who will […]

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Workshop and Lecture with Professor Chander Shekhar

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Mon, Oct 3, 2022 from 03:00pm — 07:00pm

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Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room)

Professor Chander Shekhar teaches in the Department of Persian at the University of Delhi. For a number of years he was the Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Indian Culture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Indo-Persian literature and codicology. He has edited many Persian texts on poetry, history, and the book arts.

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The Architecture of Transition: Emergent Practices in South Asia

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Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 09:00am

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Webinar

Register here 9:00 am EST (virtual) This series will convene young practices that have displayed a rigorous engagement in the making of architecture in the public realm and in response to the spectrum of issues that societies in acute transition are experiencing. The first lecture will include Nripal Adhikary from Nepal and Rizvi Hassan from Bangladesh. This lecture series also marks […]

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Student Grant Application Open House

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Thu, Sep 15, 2022 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm

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CGIS South, Room S354

The Mittal Institute’s Winter Student Grant applications for 2022 are now open. If you’re a Harvard undergraduate or graduate student looking to fund your research, internship, or language study in South Asia this winter, the deadline to apply for a grant is October 14, 2022. Come hear about The Mittal Institute’s funding opportunities for Winter 2023.

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