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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, ET

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

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

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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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What is different about Climate Justice in South Asia? Caste, the Adivasi Question, and Climate Change in India

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Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 05:00pm, ET

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CGIS South Rm S153, 1730 Cambridge, St

Globally, climate justice has emerged as a major framework acknowledging the disproportionate burden experienced by the countries and communities that are least responsible for anthropogenic climate change. However, climate justice within countries that are the most unequal societies in the world such as India has not yet gained enough attention in climate change scholarship and policy. This presentation looks at climate justice within India considering caste and the Adivasi identity

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Journey of an Exile Tibetan Leader: From Harvard to Dharamsala

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Wed, Mar 8, 2023 from 04:15pm — 06:00pm, ET

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S010, Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA

Lobsang Sangay is a Senior Visiting Fellow at East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School. He was a democratically elected Sikyong (President) of the Central Tibetan Administration and served two terms (2011-21). Lobsang completed his BA and LLB from Delhi University. He did his LLM ’95 and SJD ‘04 from Harvard Law School and received Yong K. Kim’ 95 Memorial Prize for excellence in dissertation and contributions to the understanding of East Asia at the Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, akin to track III, he organized seven rounds of meetings/conferences between Tibetan, Western and Chinese scholars most notably, the first ever meeting between HH the Dalai Lama and 25 Chinese scholars and students.

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Spirits of the Himalayas: A Conversation with the Artist and Curator

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Mon, Mar 6, 2023 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm, ET

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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

Tsherin Sherpa, artist John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Chaired and Moderated by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Tsherin Sherpa’s work is currently on […]

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Emergent Practices in South Asia #10 | Sonam Letho & Sadiq Daud

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Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 09:00am, ET

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Webinar

Emergent Practices in South Asia #10 | Sonam Letho, Bhutan Sadiq Daud, Afghanistan 9:00 am EST I 7:30 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 response to the […]

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Leading the Fight Against Bonded Labor: A conversation with Syeda Ghulam Fatima Gilani, General Secretary of Bonded Labour Liberation Front Pakistan

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Tue, Feb 28, 2023 from 09:00am — 10:00am, ET

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Webinar

Syeda Ghulam Fatima Gilani has helped free, protect, and financially support more than 85,000 bonded laborers in Pakistan, working toward BLLF’s goal of total eradication of bonded labor and child labor in South Asia. In December 2022, she was awarded the Gleitsman International Activist Award by the Center for Public Leadership.

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US-China-India Triple Entente in Bangladesh

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Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 09:15am, ET

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Webinar

Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar series co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University and Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University

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