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Emergent Practices in South Asia #11 | Bhumiputra & Dehsar Works

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Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 09:00am

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Webinar

Emergent Practices in South Asia #11 | Bhumiputra, India & Dehsar Works, Bangladesh 9:00 am EST I 18:30 pm IST I 19:00 pm IST Register to attend via Zoom “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 […]

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Harvard Mittal Institute Workshop on Climate Change

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Thu, Mar 30, 2023 - Fri, Mar 31, 2023

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New Delhi, India

Leading experts, policymakers, Harvard faculty and practitioners will convene in New Delhi as the Mittal Institute embarks on a major Climate Change Initiative focused on South Asia. More details to be announced in the coming weeks. Please register to receive more information about venue and speakers. Day 1 will be open to the public. Days 2 and 3 will be closed-door sessions.

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Transitional Justice: Lessons from Afghanistan on the Promotion, Protection of Human Rights and Access to Justice

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Wed, Mar 29, 2023 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm

A 4-Session Intensive under the CPL Public Leadership Co-curricular Program With Dr. Sima Samar, former Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) Spring 2023 CPL Hauser Leader and 2022 Carr Center Fellow Students are encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible, because each session builds on the last. Wednesday, February 22, 12-1:15pm: Role of […]

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Art, Affect, Archive: Udaipur’s Monumental Monsoon Moods, 1700-1900

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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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A Conversation with Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Sri Lanka

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Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:00am

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Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Harvard Yard

Please join the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Center for International Development at Boylston Hall on the Harvard campus for a conversation with President Ranil Wickremesinghe live from Sri Lanka, moderated by professors Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, and Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School. The one-hour discussion will conclude with questions from the Harvard community.

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A Conversation with Ranil Wickremesinghe, President of Sri Lanka

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Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:00am

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Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall
Harvard Yard

Please join the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Center for International Development at Boylston Hall on the Harvard campus for a conversation with President Ranil Wickremesinghe live from Sri Lanka, moderated by professors Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School, and Asim Khwaja, Harvard Kennedy School. The one-hour discussion will conclude with questions from the Harvard community.

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The Industrial Ephemeral: Labor and Love in Indian Architecture and Construction

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Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 06:30pm

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CGIS South S153, 1730 Cambridge St.

Namita Vijay Dharia is an associate professor at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is an architect and anthropologist who studies urban political economy and ecology in India. Her work combines ethnographic methodologies and anthropological theory with the scalar, spatial and material approaches of architecture and design. […]

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Wealth and Politics in Asia

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Wed, Mar 22, 2023 from 04:00pm — 06:00pm

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Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall

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Fong Auditorium
Boylston Hall
Harvard Yard
Cambridge, MA

Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable Reception to follow Co-sponsored with the Mittal South Asia Institute, the Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Panelists: Yuen Yuen Ang, Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Devesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor […]

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Transitional Justice: Lessons from Afghanistan on the Promotion, Protection of Human Rights

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Wed, Mar 22, 2023 from 12:00pm — 01:15pm

A 4-Session Intensive under the CPL Public Leadership Co-curricular Program With Dr. Sima Samar, former Chair, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) Spring 2023 CPL Hauser Leader and 2022 Carr Center Fellow Students are encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible, because each session builds on the last. Wednesday, February 22, 12-1:15pm: Role of […]

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