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27th Annual Harvard India Poetry Meeting

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Sun, May 21, 2023 at 02:00pm

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CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University, in association with the South Asian Poets of New England invite you to join the: 27th Annual Harvard India Poetry Meeting 15th Anniversary Meeting of SAPNE Theme: My Rights With a tribute to the life and legacy […]

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Madhur Jaffrey, Annual Harish C. Mahindra Lecture, in conversation with Prof. Abhijit Banerjee

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Thu, May 4, 2023 at 05:30pm

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Tsai Auditorium, Room S010
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street)

This year’s Mahindra Lecture will feature Madhur Jaffrey, in conversation with Prof. Abhijit Banerjee of MIT. Jaffrey is widely celebrated for having first introduced Indian food to the West, with over 15 cookbooks, including classics such as Madhur Jaffrey’s Ultimate Curry Bible and Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian. She will be in conversation with Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, who has also written on the delights of Indian food in Cooking to Save Your Life.

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Art, Affect, Archive: Udaipur’s Monumental Monsoon Moods, 1700-1900

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Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 05:30pm

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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Udaipur’s eighteenth-century painters, more so than their earlier counterparts, exponentially stretched the affective potential of pictorial moods. They circulated images and ideas about flourishing places beyond and between objects commissioned within courts and bazaars. In the wake of British colonial ambitions, their pictures suggest counterfactual realities within moods of plenty that work against narratives of scarcity and inadequacy.

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Spirits of the Himalayas: A Conversation with the Artist and Curator

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Mon, Mar 6, 2023 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm

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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Tsherin Sherpa, artist John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Chaired and Moderated by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Tsherin Sherpa’s work is currently on […]

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Nilima Sheikh, Distinguished Artist Fellow Series

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Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:30pm

The Mittal Institute’s inaugural Distinguished Artist Fellow, Nilima Sheikh, will be in residence at the Institute on the Harvard campus this April. Sheikh is one of South Asia’s most-renowned painters. Her work focuses on longing, loss, roots, displacement, violence, the perception of tradition and ideas of femininity.

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Artist Talk: New Imaginaries

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Mon, Nov 21, 2022 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm

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Gund Hall, Room 124, Graduate School of Design

Join Visiting Artist Fellows Aamina Nizar and Sharbendu De as they explore impacts of urban design and climate change in Sri Lanka and India.   ‘An Elegy for Ecology’ by Sharbendu De imagines how humans can survive in the future in the wake of climate change.    ‘The Colombo Project’ by Aamina Nizar imagines an […]

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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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Art, Aesthetics, and Politics: A conversation with T.M. Krishna

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Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 06:00pm

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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

What is the role of art in deeply unequal societies? Are aesthetics political? Can artists challenge dominant orders? Please join us for a conversation between eminent Carnatic vocalist and activist T.M. Krishna

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Exhibit Launch: Capturing the Change, Imaging the Future

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Mon, Oct 24, 2022 from 06:00pm — 07:00pm

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CGIS South, 4th Floor
1730 Cambridge St

Please join us for an opening reception for the Mittal Institute’s new exhibit featuring our Fall 2022 Visiting Artist Fellows: photographers Aamina Nizar of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Sharbendu De of New Delhi, India. Their exhibit, entitled, “Capturing the Change, Imaging the Future,” will be on display

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Contemporary Architecture in Bangladesh: Sources and the Way Beyond

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Mon, Oct 17, 2022

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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Modern architecture in Bangladesh finds it roots in numerous influences, including the pioneering Bangladeshi architect Muzharul Islam, numerous western architects such as Paul Rudolph and Stanley Tigerman, and the iconic Louis Kahn-designed National Parliament House and its surroundings, among others. This coincided with development of the first school of architecture in Dhaka, which then saw […]

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