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In The Name Of Housing: Sameep Padora

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

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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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Digital Emerging Countries: Big nations, inward-looking strategy, and leapfrog in the Global South

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Fri, Oct 28, 2022 from 11:00am — 12:30pm, ET

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Common Room #136, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

In India, three-wheeled motorcycle drivers take orders from UBER, and in an inland Chinese village, telemedicine is becoming more prevalent. Meanwhile, in Cape Town, South Africa, female engineers are developing a business plan for a mobile application. Today, digitalization has increasingly surpassed emerging economies.

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Housing as welfare: How subsidized homeownership generates social mobility through wealth, voice, and dignity in India

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Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:00pm, ET

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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University

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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Tanu Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2020.

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Exhibit Launch: Capturing the Change, Imaging the Future

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Mon, Oct 24, 2022 from 06:00pm — 07:00pm, ET

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CGIS South, 4th Floor
1730 Cambridge St

Please join us for an opening reception for the Mittal Institute’s new exhibit featuring our Fall 2022 Visiting Artist Fellows: photographers Aamina Nizar of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Sharbendu De of New Delhi, India. Their exhibit, entitled, “Capturing the Change, Imaging the Future,” will be on display

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‘Do It Only If It Burns When You Dont’: Anand Patwardhan’s Film Activism

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Sat, Oct 22, 2022 - Mon, Nov 7, 2022, ET

The films are part of the Harvard Film Archive Series. Click to see the detailed film schedule  During the Cold War it was said that an iron curtain prevented information from getting in or out of the Communist Bloc. Today a velvet curtain of mindless infotainment envelops the globe enforcing a strict censorship of the vital stories […]

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Contemporary Architecture in Bangladesh: Sources and the Way Beyond

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Mon, Oct 17, 2022, ET

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CGIS South, S250
Harvard University

ADDRESS
CGIS South, S250
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge MA

Modern architecture in Bangladesh finds it roots in numerous influences, including the pioneering Bangladeshi architect Muzharul Islam, numerous western architects such as Paul Rudolph and Stanley Tigerman, and the iconic Louis Kahn-designed National Parliament House and its surroundings, among others. This coincided with development of the first school of architecture in Dhaka, which then saw […]

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Emergent Practices in South Asia #3 | Rohan Chavan and Vinu Daniel

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Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 09:00am, ET

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Webinar

9 am EST | 6:30 pm IST  Register Here “The Architecture of Transition: Emergent Practices in South Asia”series will convene young practitioners that have displayed a rigorous engagement in making architecture in the public realm and in response to the spectrum of issues that societies in acute transition are experiencing. The second lecture includes Rohan Chavan and Vinu Daniel, who will […]

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The First 1000 Days of Life in India: Evidence and Recommendations

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Fri, Oct 14, 2022 from 08:00am — 09:30am, ET

Friday, 14 October 2022 | 8 AM to 9.30 AM EST / 5.30 PM – 7 PM IST Register to attend via Zoom The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health India Research Center, Project SANCHAR and The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University are delighted to invite you to an upcoming symposium on The […]

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Book Talk: The 1947 Partition of British India: Forced Migration and its Reverberations

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Fri, Oct 14, 2022, ET

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Acad Block A-4, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

Friday, October 14, 2022, 4:30 – 6.00 pm PKT Location: Acad Block A-4, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Register here to attend the event   The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in the recorded human history. Over 75 years on, the partition continues to be central to modern identity in the Indian subcontinent. Etched […]

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