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Tue, Oct 27, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Peter Scriver, Centre for Asian and Middle-Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), University of Adelaide Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Design In Jawaharlal Nehru’s strategic vision for India’s postcolonial modernization and development, the architecture and urbanism of Chandigarh, the new Punjab State Capital, was of ‘enormous importance’. ‘It hits […]
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Mon, Oct 19, 2015 from 05:00pm — 06:30pm, ET
GSA Seminar Rosanna Picascia, SAI Graduate Student Associate, PhD candidate in the Study of Religion Chair: Parimal G. Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy, Committee on the Study of Religion, FAS, Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies This talk will look at the debate among Sanskrit philosophers of religion over whether, and the […]
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Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 04:15pm, ET
Social Anthropology Seminar Series Tejaswini Ganti, Associate Professor of Anthropology, NYU Cosponsored with the Harvard Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series
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Fri, Oct 9, 2015 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm, ET
Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics Sandip Sukhtankar, Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College Sandip Sukhtankar is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. His research interests are development economics, political economy, and public economics, with a particular focus on corruption, governance, and the delivery of public benefits and services. He is […]
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Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:15pm, ET
Cosponsored Event Ajmal Qureshi, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center Discussant: Laila Bushra, Babar Ali Fellow, South Asia Institute Cosponsored with the Modern Asia and Fellows Seminar Series, Asia Center
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Thu, May 14, 2015 from 04:00pm — 07:30pm, ET
Special Event 4:00-5:30pm: Panel I, Public Health, Water and Sanitation and Rebuilding of Places and Heritage Sites Co Moderator: Xeno Acharya, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health; Students For Nepal Jarrod Goentzel, Director, MIT Humanitarian Response Lab; Lecturer, MIT Michael Hooper, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University Daniele Lantagne, Usen Family Career Development Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil […]
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Mon, May 4, 2015 from 12:00pm — 01:30pm, ET
SAI Special Event Prashant Jha, Associate Editor, Hindustan Times. Chair: Madhav Khosla, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Theory, Department of Government, Harvard University On April 25, Nepal was hit by a devastating earthquake. Almost 5000 people have died and the numbers are steadily increasing. The full scale of losses in terms of human casualties, homes destroyed and […]
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Mon, May 4, 2015 from 04:30pm — 06:00pm, ET
Special Event Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, Board of Governors, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Chair: Tarun Khanna, Director, South Asia Institute; Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School Dr Isher Judge Ahluwalia is a renowned Indian economist, with wide experience in the fields of economic growth, productivity, industrial and trade […]
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Fri, May 1, 2015 from 01:00pm — 02:30pm, ET
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of the Republic of India Chair: Rohini Pande, Mohammed Kamal Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Montek Singh Ahluwalia is the former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission for India. For his outstanding contribution to economic policy and public service, he was conferred the prestigious ‘Padma Vibhushan’ by the President […]
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Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 02:00pm, ET
A lecture by Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, Fisher Family Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India The South Asian Politics seminar series is co-sponsored by the Watson Institute at Brown University, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the MIT Center for International Studies Free and open to […]
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Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 06:00pm, ET
What is the role of the Ephemeral City in the broader discussion about urbanism globally? Professor Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of the Department of Urban Planing and Design (GSD), will moderate a conversation across disciplines about ephemerality in the landscapes of South Asian and Latin American cities. The panel will feature Harvard scholars Felipe Hernandez (GSD), Marianne […]
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Tue, Apr 21, 2015 from 06:30pm — 08:00pm, ET
Urbanization Seminar Brinda Somaya, Architect and Urban Conservationist. Chair: Rahul Mehrotra, Professor of Urban Design and Planning and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Whether it involves the restoration of a rural Indian village, the creation of a corporate campus, the rejuvenation of city monuments or the […]
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