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Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 05:30pm, ET
Dr. Rose Sebastian’s postdoctoral project proposes to analyze the national science museums in independent India as sites of display and dissemination of a distinctively postcolonial policy and culture of science. This interdisciplinary project aspires to bring together the analytical approaches of Cultural Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). It extends the concepts of postcolonial hybridity and ambivalence to cultures of science, and analyzes the co-production of the technoscientific and the political in postcolonial India from an STS framework.
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Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 12:00pm, ET
Speaker: Nita Kumar, Brown Family Professor of South Asian History, Claremont McKenna College. Moderator: Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 05:30pm, ET
Join Eugene Richardson, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a discussion on his Mittal Institute faculty climate grant project.
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Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 10:00am, ET
A Harvard Climate Action Week book talk with Prof. Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and Prem Shankar Jha, Former Visiting Fellow, Harvard-China Project; author and journalist. Join Prof. McElroy and Prem Shankar Jha as they discuss their new book, Sun, Wind, and Biomass: India’s Path to a Sustainable Future. The book examines the current state of the Indian economy, tracing its trajectory towards a fossil fuel-free energy future.
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Mon, Apr 14, 2025 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
Please join us for a public lecture by the Mittal Institute’s second Distinguished Artist Fellow, Naiza Khan, a highly acclaimed visual artist from Pakistan.
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Thu, Feb 27, 2025 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
Drawing on her recent publication, Priya Maholay-Jaradi will read the 1959 artifact donation from the government of India to Malaya beyond its apparent geo-political and diplomatic connotations, i.e., the culturally hegemonic proposition of the Indianization of Southeast Asia, and India’s diplomatic gesture in a new regional order.
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Tue, Feb 11, 2025 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
What can art from private archives held by the family of an overlooked Bengal School artist tell us today? Hear from Mittal Institute Bajaj Fellow Prof. Nilanjana Mukherjee on the life and art of her maternal grandfather, the late Ardhendu Prasad Banerjee.
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Tue, Nov 19, 2024 from 02:00pm — 03:30pm, ET
The India Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School and the Mittal Institute invite to you a fireside chat with Lakshmi Puri, Former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, to discuss her critically acclaimed and best-selling novel, Swallowing the Sun.
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Wed, Nov 6, 2024 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Join us for another session of the popular “The State of Architecture in South Asia” series. This session will feature A. Mridul, principal of A. Mridul, Architect, and alumnus of Chandigarh College of Architecture, India.
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Wed, Oct 30, 2024 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Join us for another session of the popular “The State of Architecture in South Asia” series. This session will feature Sai Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Mon, Oct 7, 2024 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
Join us for an illustrated lecture by Dr. George Michell on Hampi Vijayanagara, India’s Ancient Capital.
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