May 12, 2022 | Announcements, Arts at SAI, In Region, News
Iftikhar Dadi is the John H. Burris Professor in History of Art at Cornell University. He joins the Mittal Institute’s annual symposium for a discussion on Partition’s impact on the arts in a panel chaired by Jennifer Leaning, Professor of the Practice at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and faculty lead of the Mittal Institute’s Partition research, along with discussants Bhaskar Sarkar of UC Santa Barbara and Nadhra Khan of Lahore University of Management Sciences. LMSAI spoke with Professor Dadi about his work and art.
Apr 27, 2022 | Announcements, Fellows, In Region, News, Pakistan, South Asia in the News
Dr. Yaqoob Khan Bangash is a historian of Modern South Asia and a current Fulbright Fellow at the Mittal Institute. His current research interests lie in the emergence of Pakistan as a post-colonial state, with broader interests in decolonisation, modern state formation, formation of identities, and the emergence of ethnic and identity based conflicts. He also regularly writes for The News, Daily Times, The Express Tribune and other newsmedia. He spoke with the Mittal Institute about the current political crisis in Pakistan, and explored what implications it might have for the larger world.
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Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:30am
Register for this talk Global engagement in Afghanistan had long focused on promoting women’s rights and participation that led to major achievements in the two decades since 2001. Women are considered central to a country’s peace, stability, growth, and development. All those gains are being erased by the Taliban regime, considered to be the worst […]
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Thu, Apr 28, 2022 from 07:30am — 09:00am
5:00 – 6:30 pm IST / 7.30 – 9am EST Register via Zoom In January 2022, a government-run school in the state of Karnataka barred students wearing hijabs from entering classrooms on the grounds that hijabs were not a part of school uniform. Several other schools and colleges in the state followed suit and instituted […]
More InfoMar 29, 2022 | Announcements, In Region, India, News, Students
A winter student grant report by Nariman Aavani, Ph.D candidate in the Comparative Study of Religion at Harvard University, who studies Islamic and South Asian philosophical traditions
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Wed, Mar 23, 2022 - Tue, Mar 29, 2022
Wednesday, March 23, 2022, 5 p.m. EST (Run time: 2h 4 m) In-person Film Screening | Free and open to public Thursday, March 24-Tuesday, March 29, 2022 Online Film Screening To receive information to watch the film, sign up here: https://forms.gle/8SVCQtUFSDJYf7ke7. Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 12:00 p.m. EST Panel Discussion with the Filmmaker Respondents: […]
More InfoMar 8, 2022 | Announcements, Arts at SAI, Community, News, Social Enterprise
The Mittal Institute welcomed a new VAF Artist, Mehwish Abid, to campus this week, for the start of her eight-week research fellowship at Harvard. The program connects artists from South Asia with Harvard’s intellectual resources, and allows a platform for mid-career artists to conduct independent research that explores critical issues in South Asia through the lens of art and design.
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Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 05:30pm
Register for this event Each year, the Mittal Institute’s Visiting Artist Fellowship welcomes mid-career artists from South Asia to Harvard’s campus to engage with Harvard faculty and students, to participate in art exhibitions, and to perform research using Harvard’s intellectual resources to further their art practice. On Tuesday, March 29th, the Mittal Institute will host […]
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Lahore, Pakistan Visual Artist Mehwish Abid is a Lahore, Pakistan-based transdisciplinary architect-academic and visual artist. She completed the Visiting Artist Fellowship at the Mittal Institute in the Spring of 2022. Abid is the principal architect...
Oct 20, 2021 | Afghanistan, Announcements, In Region, News
This Harvard University panel, co-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies’ Negotiation Task Force, explored the lead up to the collapse of the Afghan government, as well as what the new Taliban regime means for the future of the country and its people.
Oct 13, 2021 | Afghanistan, Announcements, Faculty, In Region, News, South Asia in the News
On Friday, October 15, the Mittal Institute and the Negotiation Task Force present “Afghanistan’s Next Transition: How we got here, and what comes next,” a focus on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Discussants will explore the lead up to the collapse of the Afghan government, and what the new Taliban regime means for the future of the country and its people. Arvid Bell spoke with the Mittal Institute about his work, and what we can expect the panelists to cover at the October 15 event. Arvid is a scholar and entrepreneur who specializes in complex conflict analysis, negotiation strategy, and international security. He is lecturer on Government at Harvard University, Director of the Negotiation Task Force at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Partner at Negotiation Design & Strategy (NDS), a training, advisory, and research development group.
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Fri, Oct 15, 2021 from 11:00am — 12:15pm
Register for the talk This Harvard University panel, co-sponsored by the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies’ Negotiation Task Force, will explore the lead up to the collapse of the Afghan government, as well as what the new Taliban regime means for the future of […]
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