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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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Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 05:30pm
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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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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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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Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 09:00am
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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Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 06:00pm
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
More InfoModern 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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