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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

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

Events at this Venue

Seeing Like a Business: Privatized Service Delivery and Trust in Urban Pakistan

WHEN
Fri, Mar 10, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.

Erum Haider is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. She received her PhD from Georgetown University, Department of Government, and is the recipient of the USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar pre-doctoral fellowship for[…]

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The Tragedy and the Paradox: State Building in South Asia since 1526

WHEN
Fri, Feb 24, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St

Alexander Lee earned his PhD from Stanford and his BA from Yale. His research focuses on the factors governing the success or failure of political institutions. In particular, his work focuses on the historical evolution of state capacity, the political economy of South Asia, the causes and consequences of identity politics, and bureaucratic politics[…]

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Contemporary Practices in South Asia #3 | Sanjeev Vidyarthi

WHEN
Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 06:30pm

VENUE
S153, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

Join us for a conversation with Sanjeev Vidyarthi, a professor of city design in the department of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. He will discuss interim findings from an ongoing, long-term project studying who is building cities in contemporary India and how. Employing a pragmatist approach, the talk will share broad outlines of a sub-project that seeks to explore the nature and scope of practices leading architects and urban designers are innovating to engage with the rapidly growing ranks of India’s city-builders such as state institutions, public agencies, emergent entrepreneurs, real-estate developers, place-based communities, moneyed individuals, and religious movements.

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“To know or not to know”: Cleansing the dead

WHEN
Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 12:00pm

VENUE
CGIS South RmS153

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.

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