The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute Graduate Student Associate (GSA) Showcase is a chance for the diverse, prestigious and interdisciplinary Graduate Student Associates to share with the Mittal Institute Community their research, what they have been working on this semester, or highlighting past fieldwork they have done. GSAs will present with a separate […]
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Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 05:00pm
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CGIS South S250, 1730 Cambridge ST
India launched the Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) in 2018 to provide cashless healthcare coverage for hospitalization to the poorest 40 percent of the population. The scheme forms an important component of the country’s journey towards universal health coverage. In this presentation, the institutional structures associated with the organization of purchasing arrangements in the PMJAY will be examined, with a focus on comparing the performance of government trusts versus private insurance companies[…]
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Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 05:30pm
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Udaipur’s eighteenth-century painters, more so than their earlier counterparts, exponentially stretched the affective potential of pictorial moods. They circulated images and ideas about flourishing places beyond and between objects commissioned within courts and bazaars. In the wake of British colonial ambitions, their pictures suggest counterfactual realities within moods of plenty that work against narratives of scarcity and inadequacy.
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Mon, Mar 6, 2023 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
Tsherin Sherpa, artist John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Chaired and Moderated by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Tsherin Sherpa’s work is currently on […]
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Wed, Mar 8, 2023 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm
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S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Lobsang Sangay is a Senior Visiting Fellow at East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. He was a democratically elected Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration and served two terms (2011-21). Lobsang completed his BA and LLB from Delhi University. He did his LLM ’95 and SJD ‘04 from Harvard Law School and received Yong K. Kim’ 95 Memorial Prize for excellence in dissertation and contributions to the understanding of East Asia at the Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, akin to track III, he organized seven rounds of meetings/conferences between Tibetan, Western and Chinese scholars most notably, the first ever meeting between HH the Dalai Lama and 25 Chinese scholars and students.
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Mon, Dec 12, 2022 from 07:30am — 09:00am
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Webinar
Persuading (the low-spending) state governments to focus their limited resources on areas of maximum impact Date: December 12, 2022, 6:00 to 7:30 pm IST/ 7:30 to 9:00 am ET Register here to join the Talk. Live Stream the Talk on YouTube. The webinar is a joint Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System event with the Population Foundation of India (PFI) and […]
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Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 05:00pm
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Belfer Room (S020), CGIS South
This discussion will mark the in-region release of this book on Partition and provides an opportunity to reflect on how this massive event has shaped the subcontinent’s cultural, economic, political and social dimensions including architecture, art, demographics, language, and music.
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Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 06:00pm
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
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CGIS South, S020 Belfer
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA 02138
What is the role of art in deeply unequal societies? Are aesthetics political? Can artists challenge dominant orders? Please join us for a conversation between eminent Carnatic vocalist and activist T.M. Krishna
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Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:00pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tanu Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2020.
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Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 03:00pm
Register for the Decarbonizing India’s Energy Economy talk Speaker: Professor Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University and Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment India, the second most populous country on the planet, has enormous energy demands. It is investing billions in renewable power, with the goal of […]
More InfoRegister here to join the Talk. 12:00 pm – 1 pm ET Join us for a book talk with Roselyn Hsueh, Temple University Associate Professor of Political Science and author of the forthcoming “Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia” (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Hsueh will discuss how her book’s […]
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Fri, Oct 15, 2021 from 11:00am — 12:15pm
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Webinar
Register for the talk This Harvard University panel, co-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies’ Negotiation Task Force, will explore the lead up to the collapse of the Afghan government, as well as what the new Taliban regime means for the future of […]
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