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Make Mental Health & Well-Being for All a Global Priority

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Mon, Oct 10, 2022 from 08:00am — 09:30am

Date: October 10, 2022, 5:30 to 7:00 pm IST/ 8:00 to 9:30 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 Population Foundation of India (PFI), Sangath and Association for Socially Applicable Research (ASAR) and is being held to mark World Mental Health Day. This year, […]

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AI in South Asia – Social Impact

Register here for the event The rise of artificial intelligence technology and the modernization of the South Asia region have occurred in parallel over the past few decades – now, they are growing increasingly interconnected, with wide-ranging impacts and consequences. Join us for this miniseries as we explore how AI technology becomes an integral part […]

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Workshop and Lecture with Professor Chander Shekhar

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Mon, Oct 3, 2022 from 03:00pm — 07:00pm

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Barker Center 110 (Thompson Room)

Professor Chander Shekhar teaches in the Department of Persian at the University of Delhi. For a number of years he was the Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Indian Culture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Indo-Persian literature and codicology. He has edited many Persian texts on poetry, history, and the book arts.

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Art, Aesthetics, and Politics: A conversation with T.M. Krishna

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Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 06:00pm

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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

What is the role of art in deeply unequal societies? Are aesthetics political? Can artists challenge dominant orders? Please join us for a conversation between eminent Carnatic vocalist and activist T.M. Krishna

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Book Talk: “Making Meritocracy – Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present”

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Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 05:30pm

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Belfer Room (S020), CGIS South

What can India and China, the world’s most populous countries, teach us about meritocracy? In Making Meritocracy, Professors Tarun Khanna and Michael Szonyi have gathered over a dozen experts from a range of disciplines to discuss how these two societies have addressed the issue of building meritocracy historically, philosophically, and in practice. India and China […]

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Reflections on Interpretation and Serving in the Judiciary

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Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 04:30pm

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Milstein West AB at Wasserstein Hall (second floor), Harvard Law School

4:30-5:30 p.m. Please register for this event here by 2 p.m. on Monday, September 19. Seating will be limited though some overflow space will be available. Featuring Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan) and Stephen Breyer (Byrne Professor of Administrative Law and Process, Harvard Law School; former Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the […]

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The Architecture of Transition: Emergent Practices in South Asia

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Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 09:00am

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Webinar

Register here 9:00 am EST (virtual) This series will convene young practices that have displayed a rigorous engagement in the making of architecture in the public realm and in response to the spectrum of issues that societies in acute transition are experiencing. The first lecture will include Nripal Adhikary from Nepal and Rizvi Hassan from Bangladesh. This lecture series also marks […]

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Student Grant Application Open House

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Thu, Sep 15, 2022 from 05:00pm — 06:00pm

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CGIS South, Room S354

The Mittal Institute’s Winter Student Grant applications for 2022 are now open. If you’re a Harvard undergraduate or graduate student looking to fund your research, internship, or language study in South Asia this winter, the deadline to apply for a grant is October 14, 2022. Come hear about The Mittal Institute’s funding opportunities for Winter 2023.

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