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The World Of Color: What Pigment Analysis Reveals

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Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 09:30am

9.30am ET/ 7pm IST Register via Zoom A CoSTAR Public Talk The identification of pigments in artworks sheds light on the long history of color. From detailed analysis, we investigate where the trade of raw materials and finished products occurred and influenced art making. We discover when new pigments were introduced and how they were […]

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Exploring Asia-Africa Partnerships: Nuances of India’s Approaches and Situating the China Factor

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Mon, Apr 18, 2022 from 09:00am — 10:30am

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Webinar

India’s contemporary relationships with countries in Africa are being reimagined at a time when China’s multi-dimensional engagement with the region has deepened significantly. There is a need to examine these developments from diverse, cross-sectoral perspectives and go beyond the linear narratives.

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Women in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

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Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:30am

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Webinar

Register for this talk Global engagement in Afghanistan had long focused on promoting women’s rights and participation that led to major achievements in the two decades since 2001. Women are considered central to a country’s peace, stability, growth, and development. All those gains are being erased by the Taliban regime, considered to be the worst […]

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Book Talk: “Violent Modernities – Cultural Lives of Law in the New India”

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Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 09:30am

Register for this talk via zoom   Speaker Oishik Sircar, Professor, Jindal Global Law School Discussants Faizan Jawed Siddiqi, Lecturer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT Mini Saxena, Lawyer; Harvard Law School LLM Candidate, ’22 Chair Durba Mitra, Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University; Carol K. Pforzheimer Assistant Professor, […]

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Heads and Tales: A Fragment from Hadda, and the Stories It Tells Us

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Tue, Apr 12, 2022

Register for this webinar here Time:  7 pm – 8:30 pm IST / 9:30 am -11 am EST    Even objects that have been part of the Harvard Art Museums collections for decades can pose new puzzles. In 1941, Grenville L. Winthrop purchased from Yamanaka & Company a 14-inch-tall painted “stucco” head, which he later left to the […]

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Global Political Thought Annual Conference

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Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 09:00am —
Sat, Apr 9, 2022

Register to attend online or in person Below is a selection of presentations that includes the keynote and LMSAI’s affiliated faculty. View the full conference schedule here. Friday, April 8: Lunch: 12:00-1:15 PM (Brazilian cuisine) | Boylston Hall 110 (Fong Auditorium) AGPT Spring 2022 seminar, Prof. Durba Mitra: “Third World Women and the Rise of the […]

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‘Inbetween’ India and China: Bhutan’s International Relations

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Thu, Apr 7, 2022 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm

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CGIS South, S250 (2nd Floor)

Join us in CGIS South, Room S250 (1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor) for this upcoming discussion on Bhutan’s relationship with India and China. The antagonistic relationship between India and China is marked by a high mutual threat perception, frequent hostilities along their shared border across the Himalayas, and a demonstrable ineffectiveness of big power diplomacy […]

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Book Talk: Micro-Institutional Foundations of Capitalism– Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia

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Thu, Apr 7, 2022 from 12:00pm — 01:00pm

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Webinar

Register 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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Health Promotion for Well-being, Equity, and Sustainable Development

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Thu, Apr 7, 2022

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webinar

Date: April 7, 2022, 6:00 to 7:30 pm IST/ 8:30 to 10:00 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 Health Systems Transformation Platform and is being held to mark World Health Day. This year, the theme for World Health […]

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Shivshankar Menon: Leadership Lessons in Global Diplomacy

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Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 06:00pm

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Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South Concourse (1730 Cambridge Street)

Please Register to Attend (NOTE: Only Harvard ID holders will be admitted) The Mittal Institute presents a unique opportunity for Harvard students and affiliates to learn from a renowned figure in India’s international relations, Shivshankar Menon. In this closed-door session, Menon will discuss his decades-long career in the Indian Foreign Service, lessons and experiences in […]

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