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Art and Science of the Forbes Pigment Collection | Color and Pigments in Indian Painting

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Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 06:00pm

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CSMVS Museum, Mumbai

ADDRESS
CSMVS Museum, Mumbai
159-161 Mahatma Gandhi Road
Fort, Mumbai - 400023, Maharashtra, India


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Visitors' Centre Auditorium

Please join us for this two-part lecture cosponsored by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) and supported by Jai & Sugandha Hiremath – Hikal Ltd. An invitation to this event may be found here.    Art and Science of the Forbes Pigment Collection by Narayan Khandekar Dr Narayan Khandekar tells us about the Forbes Pigment Collection. It […]

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South Asia Without Borders Seminar: Citizenship of the Outcastes

The panel will discuss conceptions of “citizenship” in India as related to caste and indigeneity. The discussion will be an opportunity to explore the ways that citizenship and belonging have been constructed through exclusion and marginalization based on social, political, and ethnic lines. Rajyashri Goody, Visiting Artist, The Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University Suraj […]

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B4 Valedictory Event in Bangalore

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Sat, Dec 23, 2017 from 02:00pm — 05:00pm

B4’s intensive two-week workshop on Genomic Applications in Healthcare & Translational Research will culminate in a valedictory event featuring a key note by Dr. VijayRaghavan (Secretary of Department of Biotechnology, India.)

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Kudiyattam Lecture

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Wed, Nov 8, 2017 from 03:00pm — 04:30pm

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CGIS South, S030
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S030
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138

Dean Shulman of Hebrew University will be discussing Kudiyattam, the last living performance tradition of Sanskrit theater in the world. Kudiyattam is recognized by Unesco as a “masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.”

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“Aadhaar, India’s Biometric, Unified Payment Interface and the India Stack: Technology at Scale for Development” with Nandan Nilekani

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Mon, Sep 25, 2017 from 05:30pm — 06:45pm

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Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard

ADDRESS
Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
Room 305
25 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA

A talk by Nandan Nilekani, former Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and founder of Infosys. Discussant: Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asian Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School

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Understanding India’s New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development

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Fri, Sep 8, 2017 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm

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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

A South Asia Institute Urbanization Seminar Series: “Understanding India’s New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development” Sanjeev Vidyarthi Author; Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, The University of Illinois at Chicago Moderated by Rahul Mehrotra Professor of Urban Planning and Design and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of […]

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Crossroads Summer Program

The Crossroads Summer Program is a fully-funded introduction to Harvard and American university culture for students from the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and Africa, who are the first in their families to attend college and may also be facing challenging financial and social circumstances. Leading Harvard faculty will teach an intensive, multidisciplinary four-day curriculum in Dubai, for up to 60 accomplished, motivated youth.

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The Importance of Religious and Cultural Literacy in a Cosmopolitan World

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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm

Special Event Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures; former Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University Our world is marked by difference. The inability to engage with and understand these differences has led to polarizations, tensions and conflict in many societies. In recent decades, these conflicts […]

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