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Book Launch: “The 1947 Partition of British India: Forced Migration and Its Reverberations”

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Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 05:00pm

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

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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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Emergent Practices in South Asia #5

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Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 08:00am

Register to attend via Zoom Nov 12, 2022 8.00 AM EST // 6.30 PM IST // 7.00 PM BDT   “Emergent Practices in South Asia” will convene young practitioners that have displayed rigorous engagement in the making of architecture, landscape, and interventions in the public realm in response to the spectrum of issues that societies […]

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Fiction in Afghanistan with Homeira Qaderi

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Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 05:00pm

VENUE
Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room)

Date & Time: Friday, November 11, 2022 | 5 PM EST Venue: Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton Room) Note: This talk will be predominantly in Persian with synopsis translation.   Homeira Qaderi will talk about her own fiction in the context of literature in Afghanistan. The talk will be predominantly in Persian, with a synopsis in English […]

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Vineeta Yadav — How Elite Risk Preferences Shape Democracy: Evidence from India and Pakistan

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Fri, Nov 4, 2022 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm

VENUE
Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St

Professor Yadav is an associate professor of political science at Penn State University. She recieved her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2007. Yadav’s research and teaching interests lie in comparative politics, political economy, economic development, and survey research.

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In The Name Of Housing: Sameep Padora

WHEN
Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 06:30pm

VENUE
Gund Hall 112 (Stubbins Room)

In The Name of Housing  Date & Time: Monday 31st October 2022 | 6.30 PM EST Venue: Gund 112 (Stubbins) | Open to all | In-person event The talk will focus on the almost decade long housing research conducted by Sameep Padora’s housing design practice on the history, evolution and design of housing types in […]

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