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Winds of Change: The Silk Road to South Asia

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Wed, Nov 17, 2021 from 10:00am — 11:00am, ET

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Register for this talk   Over the past several years, Hasna Moudud has journeyed on and researched the Silk Road’s connections to South Asia. In this seminar, Hasna will present findings from years of excursions and studies on the Southern Silk Road and the need to preserve this important part of the region’s heritage. Speaker: […]

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The Past and Future of India-China Relations

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Fri, Oct 29, 2021 from 10:00am — 12:00pm, ET

Register for the talk Join Kanti Prasad Bajpai, Vijay Gokhal, and Shivshankar Menon, Tanvi Madan and Taylor Fravel to discuss relations between China and India. Speakers: Vijay Gokhale is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India.  Mr. Gokhale retired from the Indian Foreign Service in January 2020 after a diplomatic career that spanned thirty-nine years. […]

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Afghanistan’s Next Transition: How we got here, and what comes next

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Fri, Oct 15, 2021 from 11:00am — 12:15pm, ET

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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India at 75: The Global Roots of Independence

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Wed, Oct 6, 2021 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET

5:30 PM IST – 7:00 PM IST / 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET  Register for the talk Since independence in 1947, India has played a considerable role in shaping the world. But the world also played a considerable role in shaping Indian independence. As India approaches the 75th anniversary of its freedom, the Lakshmi Mittal […]

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Political Misinformation in India: Evidence from Experimental Solutions

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Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 12:00pm, ET

Register for the talk Dr. Sumitra Badrinathan is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford. In May 2021, she received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include studying misinformation, media effects and political behavior, with a regional focus on India. Sumitra’s dissertation evaluates the effectiveness of interventions […]

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ScienSpur: Information Session on Courses in Life Sciences

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Fri, Sep 24, 2021 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET

5:30pm-7:00pm IST // 8:00am-9:30am EST Register here ScienSpur and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University are hosting a virtual information session on the upcoming fall semester courses in Life Sciences on September 24, 2021, from 5.30 pm to 7 pm (IST). Kindly register and confirm your presence. Scienspur, co-founded by, Nagaraju Dhanyasi (Harvard […]

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Entangled Histories: The Bamiyan Buddhas—Past, Present, and Future

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Wed, Sep 22, 2021 from 07:00pm — 08:15pm, ET

Register for the talk Western scholarship has focused on the monumental sculptures in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley as Buddhas created in the late sixth and early seventh centuries. This lecture tells an alternative story based on Islamic sources from the tenth to the twentieth century, which saw these sculptures not as Buddhas but as legendary heroes […]

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Art Walk: Liminal Worlds by Sunanda Khajuria

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Sat, Sep 11, 2021 from 05:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

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Art Heritage, 205, Tansen Marg, Triveni Kala Sangam, Mandi House, New Delhi, Delhi 110001

5:00-7:00PM IST RSVP here by 4pm Friday, Sept 10 The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute in association with the Harvard Club of India is hosting an immersive art walk at the exhibition themed, Liminal Worlds, featuring the artwork of a former Visiting Artist Fellow at Harvard University, Sunanda Khajuria. Explore the transient, dream-like […]

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Implications: Regional Perspectives on the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan

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Fri, Sep 10, 2021 from 09:00am — 10:30am, ET

Register for the talk An Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series  Panelists:  Shirin Jaafari, Reporter, The World, USA   Shubhanga Pandey, Chief Editor, Himal Southasian, Sri Lanka  Nasim Zehra, Author/Columnist; National Security Expert; Senior Anchor/Analyst, Channel 24, Pakistan  Moderator:  James Robson, James C. Kralik, and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; […]

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Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.

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Thu, Apr 1, 2021 from 04:00pm — 05:30pm, ET

Register here to join the webinar. PANELISTS:  Han Lu, Senior Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Project christina ong, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh Elena Shih, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University   MODERATOR:  Vivian Shaw, College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Co-Principal Investigator, AAPI COVID-19 Project […]

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“Practically No Habitation”: The Yanadi Community and the Colonial Violence of Spaceflight

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Tue, Mar 30, 2021 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm, ET

Register here to join the webinar. SPEAKER: Asif Siddiqi, Professor of History, Fordham University The Indian state’s broken pacts with Indigenous communities, the so-called ‘scheduled tribes’ or Adivasi, resulted in massive displacements in the name of environmental, territorial, and infrastructural sovereignty, yet none have given rise to such troubling paradoxes as those implemented to build […]

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A Strong Handoff in U.S.-India Relations

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Fri, Mar 19, 2021 from 10:30am — 11:45am, ET

Register here for the talk.  Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Kenneth I. Juster, former U.S. Ambassador to India and HKS alumnus, about the U.S.-India relationship. Ambassador Juster will discuss major achievements in the U.S.-India partnership in the areas of diplomacy, defense, economic relations, energy, and health over the past […]

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