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HBS Global Research Summer Internship Info Session

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Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 03:00pm

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Webinar

This event will highlight opportunities for all Harvard College students. For details, including RSVP and the virtual event link information, see event listing in Crimson Careers “Please join HBS staff and past HBS Global Research interns to hear more about this unique internship opportunity abroad for Summer 2023! Eligible Students (i.e. first-year, second-year, graduate school): […]

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Book Talk: Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India

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Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 11:00am

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Harvard Science and Engineering Complex, Room 1.402

A Center for Research and Computation on Society Seminar featuring Prof. Rajesh Veeraraghavan from Georgetown University  Abstract: How can development programs deliver benefits to marginalized citizens in ways that expand their rights and freedoms? Political will and good policy design are critical but often insufficient due to resistance from entrenched local power systems. The book is […]

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The Current State of Affairs in Afghanistan and the Region: A Year after the U.S. Withdrawal

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Wed, Nov 30, 2022 from 09:30am — 11:00am

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Webinar

The Current State of Affairs in Afghanistan and the Region: A Year after the U.S. Withdrawal Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Register to attend via Zoom  The withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan in 2021 had tremendous impact on Afghanistan and the region in general. On September 10, 2021, soon after the withdrawal, the […]

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Artist Talk: New Imaginaries

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Mon, Nov 21, 2022 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm

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Gund Hall, Room 124, Graduate School of Design

Join Visiting Artist Fellows Aamina Nizar and Sharbendu De as they explore impacts of urban design and climate change in Sri Lanka and India.   ‘An Elegy for Ecology’ by Sharbendu De imagines how humans can survive in the future in the wake of climate change.    ‘The Colombo Project’ by Aamina Nizar imagines an […]

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Emergent Practices in South Asia #6

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Sat, Nov 19, 2022 from 08:00am — 09:30am

Register to attend via zoom Nov 12, 2022 8.00 AM EST // 6.30 PM IST // 7.00 PM BDT   Noor Khan Design Studio (NKDS) was founded by architect Noor Khan in 2012, two years after completing his bachelor’s in architecture degree from Beaconhouse National University (BNU) Lahore, Pakistan. Based primarily in Lahore, NKDS is an […]

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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

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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

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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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