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The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute @Harvard advances the understanding of critical issues in South Asia & its relationship with the world.
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What's happening in
#Kashmir
? Join us next week for a two-part series on the current events in Kashmir: a film screening with
@musasyeed
, followed by a seminar with a panel of experts, including
@SalilShetty
, Senior Fellow at Harvard's
@CarrCenter
.
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🎙️Last Fall,
@Shehla_Rashid
visited us to talk about the challenges for student activism in India. In our latest podcast, we hear an extract from her lecture, followed by the views of three
@Harvard
freshmen, all from India
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REGISTER NOW!
The Mittal Institute at Harvard University, in collaboration with the National Translation Mission, CIIL, Mysore, invites you to a conference on 'South Asia in Translation: Geography, Memory, and Textuality'.
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#Eventalert
: On March 24, President Ranil Wickremesinghe will join us live from Sri Lanka, moderated by
@TarunKhannaHBS
,
@HarvardHBS
, and
@aikhwaja
,
@Kennedy_School
@HarvardCID
. This in-person event is only open to Harvard University ID holders.
Register:
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🎙️New podcast: Three
@Harvard
College freshmen, all from India, discuss
@Shehla_Rashid
's fascinating talk about Indian campus activism, which is often labelled "anti-national" by opponents
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Our recent podcast features
@Shehla_Rashid
on the challenges of student political activism in India, alongside the perspectives of three Indian
@Harvard
College freshmen
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Harvard community held a vigil tonight in honor of
#PeshawarAttack
victims
http://t.co/gx0sZGYKx2
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📢🗓️Important discussion happening tomorrow May 5 on the political situation in
#Pakistan
and the way forward. With
@LodhiMaleeha
@najamsethi
@salmanAraja
@BangashYK
.
🔗Register here:
Crisis and Consequences in Pakistan
May 5 @ 11 EST / 8 pm PKT / 8:30 pm IST
Register: …
Panelists
@LodhiMaleeha
, Fmr Pakistani Amb to the UK, UN, and US
@najamsethi
, Editor, The Friday Times
@salmanAraja
, Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan
@BangashYK
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On November 1, we welcomed the new India Fellows, Rinan Shah and Robert Rahman Raman, to the Mittal Institute Delhi office!
We look forward to this year with them! 🌟
@rinan_shah
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Aug. 1: Launch of 'Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity' in Lucknow
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📢📢Hybrid Event in New Delhi this FRIDAY!
Featured Speakers:
➡️
@AiyarYamini
, CEO
@CPR_India
➡️
@PalshikarSuhas
, Co-Director, Lokniti
➡️
@NeelanjanSircar
,
@CPR_India
➡️
@GillesVerniers
,
@AshokaUniv
Moderated by
@ProfVarshney
@SouthAsiaBrown
RSVP:
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🚨
#EventAlert
Join us for an MIT-Brown-Harvard Seminar on South Asian Politics with
@MelaniCammett
and
@Poulomi_DC
Defensive Cooperation: Understanding Pro-Social Attitudes in Indian Muslims
Date: Dec 1 at 2pm; Rm 153, CGIS South, Harvard
Register:
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South Asian students from
@HarvardHBS
,
@Kennedy_School
& 25+ US universities are leading a relief effort to support 🇮🇳‘s response to the ongoing Covid-19 surge. Every $ and ₹ helps address the devastating medical shortages. Donate here
@GiveIndia
:
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.
@salim_merchant
and
@Sulaiman
reflect on a life inspired by music
http://t.co/BA7hLcyAP7
http://t.co/ZX121gzeus
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📢📢Calling all South Asian scholars! Join us at
#Harvard
and expand your research, intellectual network, and global experience. Apply to be a 2023-24 Mittal Institute fellow.
Deadline for applications: January 18.
Learn more:
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Nov 1:
@AiyarYamini
, President and CEO of
@CPR_India
, will be joining us
@Harvard
for a talk on Delhi's Education Reform.
⏰5:30 p.m.
📌CGIS South, Rm S354, Harvard
Register:
@SouthAsiaBrown
@WatsonInstitute
@HarvardWCFIA
@ProfVarshney
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Vocalist
@tmkrishna
to deliver Mahindra Lecture on Apr 4, inc music and conversation with
@vijayiyer
and Homi Bhabha
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📢Applications Open: Mittal Institute India
#Fellowship
@MittalInstitute
will host 2 postdoctoral
#scholars
in India who will have the opportunity to avail Harvard’s vast resources to contribute to self-driven, independent
#research
.
Apply:
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.
@TarunKhannaHBS
shares why the Partition of British India is one of the most important events in human history
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The Pakistan Conference: 75 Years of Independence
🔗Register to attend in person
🔉Keynote by Honorable Justice Qazi Faez Isa
📅29 & 30 Nov, 2022
📍CGIS South Concourse, 1730 Cambridge Street, MA
▶️Panel and speaker details in thread below
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Oct 28:
@tanu_kumar1
– Housing as welfare: How subsidized homeownership generates social mobility through wealth, voice, and dignity in India
⏰2:00 p.m.
📌CGIS South, S153, Harvard University
@SouthAsiaBrown
@HarvardWCFIA
@ProfVarshney
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💢Join us on 11/3!
Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness
Part the Seminar on South Asian Politics by Brown, MIT, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs & LMSAI, Harvard
@HarvardWCFIA
@ProfVarshney
@tariqthachil
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May 3, 9:00-9:45am: Perspectives on AI in South Asia
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💻 Read all about the work of Milind Tambe, the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard
📡 Dr. Tambe also works as the Director, AI for Social Good
@google
#MittalPioneers
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Why the Partition of British India is one of the most important events in human history
#SAIPartition
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Call for papers: The Pakistan Conference: 75 Years of Independence.
Themes include Partition; identity + Islam; minorities; development of politics; economic-social change; extremism; urban development; climate change; new tech + social media.
More:
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We are now the Lakshmi Mittal South Asia Institute at
@Harvard
, thanks to a $25m endowment from the Mittal family
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TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Join us for a memorable evening of Qawwali music as we commemorate "75 Years of Azadi." Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and Pakistan's former finance minister Syed Babar Ali will kick off the evening.
Buy tix here:
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We talked with
@_sen_sharmila
of
@Harvard_Press
about the Murty Classical Library of India and got a sneak peek at some beautiful new releases.
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SAI is excited to launch Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity on 4/16
http://t.co/gdUKjvjRM7
@anandmahindra
http://t.co/WWorlmFYGD
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This week India’s Supreme Court began hearing arguments for an historic same-sex marriage petition, and Utkarsh Saxena,
@Harvard_Law
’14 and
@Kennedy_School
’20 alumnus, is leading the challenge.
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This memorable start to the academic year for
#SouthAsia
@Harvard
continues with
@tmkrishna
in conversation with
@surajyengde
@vijayiyer
Shailaja Paik & moderated by Mittal Institute's Ajantha Subramanian. You won't want to miss this event!
Register:
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We are looking for ambassadors to collect stories for our Partition Project. Interested? See details below and email sainit
@fas
.harvard.edu
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In the first of a series of blog posts about our Partition Project,
@HarvardFxb
and SAI researcher Nabil Khan explains the immense value of old newspaper clippings
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PHOTO: Sir Fazle Hasan Abed of
@BRACworld
w/
@anandmahindra
and SAI Director
@TarunKhannaHBS
at our Mahindra Lecture
http://t.co/uA0uskOqLd
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📢Event alert
"Fashioning Future : Autonomy, Agency and Historical Consciousness in Adivasi/Indigenous India"
📅 23 February ⏰ 5 PM ET
🎙️ Bhangya Bhukya
#FullbrightNehru
Visiting Professor
@Penn
@HydUniv
&
@ajanthasub
Professor of Anthropology &
#SouthAsian
Studies
@Harvard
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📢📢The Mittal Institute is thrilled to be hosting
@TMKrishna
at
@Harvard
in conversation with Shailaja Paik,
@surajyengde
and
@vijayiyer
. Moderated by
@ajanthasub
.
🗓️Date: Monday, Oct 3 at 6:00 pm
🔗Register:
Concerts, workshops & talks this week.
@AkkaraiSisters
@PraveenSparsh
#usfalltour2022
#TMKrishna
#schedule
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📣📣Join us in New Delhi for an important and timely conversation with leading experts on the Emerging Political Scenarios.
RSVP:
@ProfVarshney
@SouthAsiaBrown
@AshokaUniv
@GillesVerniers
@NeelanjanSircar
@CPR_India
@PalshikarSuhas
@AiyarYamini
📢📢Hybrid Event in New Delhi this FRIDAY!
Featured Speakers:
➡️
@AiyarYamini
, CEO
@CPR_India
➡️
@PalshikarSuhas
, Co-Director, Lokniti
➡️
@NeelanjanSircar
,
@CPR_India
➡️
@GillesVerniers
,
@AshokaUniv
Moderated by
@ProfVarshney
@SouthAsiaBrown
RSVP:
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Crisis and Consequences in Pakistan
May 5 @ 11 EST / 8 pm PKT / 8:30 pm IST
Register: …
Panelists
@LodhiMaleeha
, Fmr Pakistani Amb to the UK, UN, and US
@najamsethi
, Editor, The Friday Times
@salmanAraja
, Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan
@BangashYK
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Join the
@HLS_CLP
and
@JindalLaw
for a lecture by Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi, an eminent jurist, politician, media personality, well-known columnist, author, thinker, and commentator. Co-sponsored by LMSAI.
RSVP:clp
@law
.harvard.edu
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This semester's Syed Babar Ali Fellow,
@liaquatchanna
, has been busy during his semester at
#Harvard
, advancing his research on English language education in Pakistan.
Are you a scholar from
#Pakistan
? Apply to be the next Babar Ali Fellow at Harvard!
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#EventAlert
Art, Affect, Archive: Udaipur’s Monumental Monsoon Moods, 1700-1900 w/ Dipti Khera
@nyuniversity
and Jinah Kim
@Harvard
⏰5:30 pm
🗓️Monday, March 27
📌CGIS South, S020 Belfer
🔗RSVP:
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Thursday! The HKS Student Pakistan Caucus & the Women and Public Policy Program at
@Kennedy_School
will be hosting a virtual talk w/ Mahira Khan
@TheMahiraKhan
, one of Pakistan’s most famous movie stars and a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR
@Refugees
.
Join:
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🔉Event Alert! | Interrogating the indigenous in Northeast India: Political movements, cultural poetics, and performative capital
📅 17 Jan 2023 (Tuesday)
📎 Register to attend
📍 Lecture Hall 2, India International Centre, New Delhi
⏰ 10 AM - 4 PM IST
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🚨Reminder to RSVP to this event!
@BoseSugata
will be discussing his new book, moderated by
@Jayati1609
!
📅Feb 21 @ 6-7:30pm IST/7:30-9am EST
Register -
@HarperCollinsIN
@Harvard_Press
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This Friday, Pakistani musical sensation
@alisethimusic
and Harvard Professor Ali Asani will take you into the lyrical world of ghazals through an emotional journey of Sufi music through performance and demonstration. Don't miss it!
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Monday, May 4: 'Building a new Nepal – After the Quake' with
@prashantktm
http://t.co/9YzmyJeXKi
@Harvard_Nepal
http://t.co/7JDy0sVFCv
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📢The Mittal Institute’s Annual Symposium: The Making of Modern South Asia
📆 18th & 19th May
📎Zoom Registration
Speakers include
@AmartyaSen_Econ
@kiranshaw
#SyedBabarAli
& more from across
@Harvard
@Yale
@Cornell
@UCSantaBarbara
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"The elasticity of demand for self-protection really rises as the COVID-19 epidemic grows... we will not quickly move back into life as we knew it before." - Dr. Shamika Ravi
#COVID19
#webinar
@ShamikaRavi
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In-person in New Delhi 3/30 + online: "Election Analysis and After"
Join this important discussion on the recent elections with
@ProfVarshney
@GillesVerniers
@AiyarYamini
@Sanjaycsds
@rahul_tverma
@CPR_India
@SouthAsiaBrown
@AshokaUniv
Register:
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Welcome to the Mittal Institute,
@rinan_shah
!
It's been 8 months since my PhD and I'm happy to share that I've joined
@MittalInstitute
as an India Fellow to expand on my work on all things water.
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We invite you to ‘Conjoint Experiments for Social Science Research’.
@FeyaadAllie
, postdoc fellow & incoming assistant professor of Government at Harvard will conduct the session.
🗓Tuesday, Jan 30
🕜2:30-4:30PM IST at IIC, Delhi
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🗓️ TODAY!
⏰ 11:00 AM EST
Tensions are high after recent conflicts along the India-China border. What does this mean for the future of their relationship? Find out today with
@NarangVipin
,
@ShivshankaMenon
,
@tanvi_madan
, &
@fravel
.
@MIT_CIS
@WatsonInstitute
@HarvardWCFIA
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Join the live stream of
@HutchinsCenter
's Colloquium on "Suraj Yengde, 'The Dalitality in Du Bois and Ambedkar: Color, Class, Caste'' staring at 12 pm EST / 9:30 pm IST:
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We're hiring! We're seeking a Communications Director in Delhi, India to coordinate the outreach, communications, & program management for the Lancet Citizens' Commission, which is developing a roadmap to achieve universal healthcare in India. Learn more:
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The Delhi event 'Book Talk: The 1947 Partition of British India: Forced Migration and its Reverberations' is now available to watch on our
@YouTube
channel.
📽️
Thank you to everyone who attended and made this a memorable evening!
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📢🗓️Thurs. 9/29 Harvard student groups have banded together to create this important event on the floods in Pakistan.
#Pakistanfloods2022
#PakistanFloods
@aikhwaja
@HarvardSALSA
@HarvardPakistan
@HarvardPakForum
@HCPSA
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✨️ Come join us on Nov 17!
Pradeep Chhibber, Director, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by Brown, MIT, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and LMSAI at Harvard
@SouthAsiaBrown
@WatsonInstitute
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@KanakManiDixit
at the Architectures of Transition conference talks on an elusive search for South Asian architecture.
" The history of South Asia is the search for social justice."
#architecturesoftransition
@Himalistan
@HarvardGSD
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📢9/20 Book Talk: “Making Meritocracy – Lessons from China and India, from Antiquity to the Present”
@TarunKhannaHBS
@MichaelSzonyi
@ajanthasub
@FairbankCenter
@HarvardAsia
⏰5:30 pm
📌Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South
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This Friday, join us for a conversation with
@salim_merchant
and
@Sulaiman
http://t.co/2hvHpkoLg5
@HarvardIslamic
http://t.co/4uJA6bL9bn
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Great event at Brown this Friday with
@FeyaadAllie
as commentator! Also check out the three events in this series on South Asian politics taking place at Harvard:
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#eventalert
Join us for the first session of our two-part series on CRISIS IN SRI LANKA!
🗓️ Monday, Feb 28, at 5:30 pm
📍 CGIS South, Belfer (S020), Cambridge
Please RSVP:
@MarioArul
@kcroninfurman
@HarvardWCFIA
@HarvardEthics
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Mark your calendars for the launch of a new multi-media exhibition curated by
@Satchit_Balsari
. HUM SAB EK (We Are One) captures the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poor working women and families.
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Friday, March 1 in
#Cambridge
from 2-4 pm: Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with Aidan Milliff (
@amilliff
) from
@FloridaState
University and commentator
@ProfVarshney
. Please RSVP here:
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Join us next Tuesday for a fascinating discussion on citizenship throughout South Asia in the post-Partition era, with
@itihaasnaama
,
@suchitrav
, Sana Aiyar,
@kalramnath
, and Sahana Ghosh:
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We are grateful to all who joined us in New Delhi for our
#ClimateChange
Workshop w/ rich panel discussions on heat, rainfall, floods & energy transition in South Asia. The final day mapped next steps as we embark on this major initiative.
@FollowCII
…
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HYBRID EVENT! This Friday, the Mittal Institute will host its Annual Cambridge Symposium with a full day of panels on
#Culture
,
#Climate
, and
#Health
: A More Resilient
#SouthAsia
.
▶️Join us in-person or online:
💻🔗Zoom link:
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🗓 TOMORROW, Saturday, September 12
⏰ 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM EST
Join us tomorrow! Learn about architecture & building traditions in Afghanistan in our first seminar of the Extreme Urbanism: A View on
#Afghanistan
series.
@HarvardGSD
@SasakiDesign
@akdn
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Thank you for coming and enlightening us!
@Sulaiman
and
@salim_merchant
In Boston for 4 hours. Visited Harvard to speak about music and spirituality. Thank you
@Harvard
for having invited
@salim_merchant
and me.
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Apply to be a Mittal Institute Fellow! Applications due on January 18, 2023.
Learn more:
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Just a week ahead of the start of India's 2024 elections, we're thrilled to invite you to a captivating discussion on how South Asians in America react to Indian politics.
📅 April 16, 5:30-7:00pm, followed by reception
📍 Belfer Room (S020), CGIS South
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In our latest podcast,
@alisethimusic
talks about sufi poetry, his own artistic journey and life as a perpetual student of the arts, and his days as a
@harvard
undergraduate, newly arrived from Lahore (with love)
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Author Homeira Qaderi on Using Her Pen to Change the Lives of Afghan Women | Read this Q&A before the 11 Nov event with
@QaderiHomeira
a writer, activist, educator and Radcliffe Fellow.
🔗
Tomorrow!
#EventAlert
Fiction in Afghanistan with
@QaderiHomeira
🗓️ 11th Nov 2022
⏰ 5 pm EST
📍Barker Center, Room 133 (Plimpton)
🖇️Details:
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How do the textbooks taught to primary students in Sindh province, Pakistan, influence the creation and construction of gender in society? Learn more on Tuesday, March 10 with Abdul Razaque Channa, and check out our interview with him here in the meantime:
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🗓️ Thursday, October 8
⏰ 7:30 AM EST
Mark your calendars for our webinar with
@alisethimusic
, Himanshu Bajpai, & Prof. Ali Asani during
@Harvard
Worldwide Week! The presentation will feature performances & commentary on Amir Khusrau’s work and legacy:
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Join us at
@Kennedy_School
on Saturday afternoon to celebrate and commemorate the life of Asma Jahangir. Confirmed speakers include Amartya Sen, Martha Chen, Sugata Bose, Homi Bhabha and Raza Rumi.
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The Mittal Institute is excited to announce a new
#funding
opportunity for scholars from
#SouthAsia
to come to
@Harvard
. Applications are now open for the Jamnalal Kaniram Bajaj Visiting Research Fellowship. Apply by November 1, 2021: .
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.
@amitabhk87
, CEO,
@NITIAayog
, "All the countries that have grown rapidly such as Japan and China, have done so through science & technology. If we want to grow as a country, we need to focus and create opportunities in science & technology."
#ScienceAndSocietySymposium
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📅 May 13 | 5:30pm IST | 8:00am EST.
In collaboration with
@CitizenhealthIN
, we are hosting a panel discussion about the devastating COVID-19 pandemic surge in India – focusing on the short and long-term actions that are needed to address the impact.
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SAI will live stream
@TarunKhannaHBS
's talk with discussant, Shri
@jayantsinha
, "Trust and Creativity: Fostering Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries" between 7-8.30 pm IST on April 5th.
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Ahmedabad University is currently hiring multiple tenure-track faculty across a wide range of disciplines. Harvard PhD students, alumni, and post-docs are invited to an info session today, March 25, at 4 pm at CGIS South.
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"India has shown the world that even with a shoe-string budget, creativity and drive deliver! Experimentation rules. Constraints drive creativity," says
@TarunKhannaHBS
@HarvardHBS
.
#MoonLanding
#Chandrayaan3
#Chandrayaan3Landing
#ISRO
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🗓️ March 3–4 | 50 years ago, Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan. This virtual 2-day conference will highlight the arc of Bangladesh’s history from the Language Movement to the present, and will explore what's next for the nation. Register:
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