Architectures of Transition – Emergent Practices in South Asia: Exhibition with Opening Lecture in Chennai, India
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Mon, Aug 5, 2024 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, IST
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Alliance Française, Chennai, India
Events
Event Type : Lecture
“Teaching India in a Changing World” – Honorary Lecture by Prof. Diana L. Eck
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Thu, May 2, 2024 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
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Tsai Auditorium (Room S010), CGIS South
Please join us for an Honorary Lecture by Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
More InfoTrading F.S.I. for Privately Owned Public Space: Lessons from Practice Worldwide
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Wed, Feb 21, 2024 from 05:30pm — 07:30pm, ET
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Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS, Fort, Mumbai, India
This lecture will explore Jerold S. Kayden’s research and scholarship to address issues of land use and environmental law, public-private real estate development, public space, urban disasters, climate change, design competitions, and cultural space. Please join us for this event, taking place in Coomaraswamy Hall, CSMVS, Mumbai, India.
More InfoAtul Bhalla, Mittal Climate Initiative Visiting Artist
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023
COST Free - open to all.
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See details below.
Please join us for a series of conversations with Atul Bhalla, Distinguished Climate Artist in Residence.
More InfoThe Climate Crisis with Senator Sherry Rehman, Former Federal Minister of Climate Change, Pakistan
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Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 06:30pm, ET
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Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building, Harvard Kennedy School
Senator Sherry Rehman is Chair of the Climate and Environment Caucus of the Senate of Pakistan, former Federal Minister of Climate Change, first woman Opposition Leader in Senate of Pakistan, Vice President of Pakistan Peoples Pakistan.
More InfoStudent Event: Launch of Mittal Institute Platform for Climate Change in South Asia
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Wed, Sep 27, 2023 from 05:30pm — 07:00pm, ET
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CGIS South, S050
Come hear from our climate faculty and students about our newly launched research initiatives focused on climate adaptation in South Asia, and learn about how you can contribute!
More InfoNilima Sheikh, Distinguished Artist Fellow Series
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Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:30pm, ET
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.
More InfoSeeking Pictorial Justice: Do Pakistani English textbooks teach only English?
Liaquat Channa is an educational linguist and interested in areas such as language and education, hidden curriculum and language textbooks,and, English as a/the medium of instruction explored through qualitative and mixed methods approaches in postcolonial contexts in general and Pakistan in particular.
More Info“To know or not to know”: Cleansing the dead
Khyati Tripathi is a death scholar from India and, through her work, she tries to bring together events, emotions and practices related to death to explore the psychosocial significance and intricate connections between them. She is interested in exploring the ‘sacred’ in death and the pure and impure aspects of it. Her work is based at the intersection of social anthropology, psychology, and psychoanalysis.
More InfoDigital Emerging Countries: Big nations, inward-looking strategy, and leapfrog in the Global South
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Fri, Oct 28, 2022 from 11:00am — 12:30pm, ET
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Common Room #136, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
In India, three-wheeled motorcycle drivers take orders from UBER, and in an inland Chinese village, telemedicine is becoming more prevalent. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, South Africa, female engineers are developing a business plan for a mobile application. Today, digitalization has increasingly surpassed emerging economies.
More InfoContemporary Architecture in Bangladesh: Sources and the Way Beyond
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Mon, Oct 17, 2022
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 […]
More InfoBridging the Gulf: Experimental Evidence on Migration’s Impact on Tolerance and Internationalism
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Fri, May 6, 2022 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
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Webinar
Register to join the Bridging the Gulf talk As part of our South Asian Politics Series, organized with Brown University and MIT, Prof. Nikhar Gaikwad (Columbia University) will present on the social impact of migration in a globalized world. Prof. Pia Raffler (Harvard University) will serve as the moderator. Nikhar Gaikwad is an Assistant Professor […]
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