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SAI Event Type : Conferences and Symposiums



Annual Cambridge Symposium: Science and Technology – The Future of South Asia

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Fri, May 3, 2024 from 09:00am — 05:00pm

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Belfer (S020), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge

Poster Cambridge Symposium 2024

Please join us for our Annual Cambridge Symposium, the Mittal Institute’s flagship event. The full-day convening brings together scholars, practitioners and audiences to discuss, debate and dissect major South Asian themes from an interlocking variety of perspectives. This year’s symposium will focus on “Science and Technology: The Future of South Asia.” The event is free and open to the public.

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Fragmented Borderlands: Co-existence, Belonging & Shared Histories

The webinar aims to focus on the global south conceptualisations of borderlands in the particular case of South Asia post the partition of 1947. The fragmented history of the South Asian borderlands is a complex yet intriguing space for exploration.

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Architectures of Transition: Frameworks and Practices in South Asia

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Thu, Dec 14, 2023 - Sat, Dec 16, 2023

VENUE
India International Centre
40, Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Gardens
Lodhi Estate New Delhi

The State of Architecture in South Asia project is hosting a conference in New Delhi from the 14 to 16 of December, 2023, titled Architectures of Transition – Frameworks and Practices in South Asia.

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South Asia in Translation: Geography, Memory, and Textuality

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Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 02:00pm —
Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 04:30pm

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Seminar Hall 1 & 2, India International Centre (Main Building), New Delhi, and on Zoom

Organized by the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University in collaboration with National Translation Mission, CIIL, Mysore, the conference aims to study South Asia through the themes of translation, geography, and memory and place translation within the framework of the geographical settings in which knowledge and power were transacted. The conversations during the two-day conference will unravel the intertwined narratives of land, conquest, memory, and translation as found in the textual traditions of the subcontinent. The conference will also contribute to an understanding of translation as a key tool in studying the evolving geographies and ecologies of South Asia.

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Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine

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Thu, Apr 27, 2023 from 12:00pm — 03:30pm

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S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Hybrid Event In-person attendees, register at https://forms.gle/zntgppbURiWLKch87 Remote attendees via Zoom, register at https://tinyurl.com/395bma7x How does Asia respond to Russia’s war on Ukraine? And what are the implications for Asian security and stability? While Japan and South Korea have sided with the West and supported Ukraine, China, and North Korea are deepening […]

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Annual Cambridge Symposium: Culture, Climate, and Health – A More Resilient South Asia

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Fri, May 5, 2023 from 09:00am — 05:00pm

VENUE
Gutman Conference Center (6 Appian Way)

Please join us for our Annual Cambridge Symposium, the Mittal Institute’s flagship event. The full-day convening bring together scholars, practitioners and audiences to discuss, debate and dissect major South Asian themes from an interlocking variety of perspectives. This year’s conference will focus on the theme of “resiliency” in the region through the lens of culture, climate and health. The event is free and open to the public, 

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India Conference at Harvard

Get Tickets Here Organized entirely by students at Harvard University, the 20th edition of the annual India Conference at Harvard is taking place on the weekend of February 11-12, 2023, at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. The conference will be in-person with some panels in a hybrid/ virtual format. As India completes […]

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2nd International Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi’a Islam

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Mon, May 9, 2022 - Fri, May 13, 2022

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webinar

SCHEDULE AND PANEL TOPICS Register via Zoom The Second International Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi’a Islam (May 9th – 13th, 2022) builds off a landmark symposium hosted at Harvard University in 2021 by the Weatherhead Center’s Project on Shi’ism & Global Affairs that focused on bringing together interdisciplinary voices from across various […]

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Global Political Thought Annual Conference

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Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 09:00am —
Sat, Apr 9, 2022

Register to attend online or in person Below is a selection of presentations that includes the keynote and LMSAI’s affiliated faculty. View the full conference schedule here. Friday, April 8: Lunch: 12:00-1:15 PM (Brazilian cuisine) | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium) AGPT Spring 2022 seminar, Prof. Durba Mitra: “Third World Women and the Rise of the […]

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