Vellai Mozhi: Frankly Speaking—An Indian Trans Woman’s Life Journey
Join us for Vellai Mozhi – Frankly Speaking, which is a powerful first-person account of a hijra-thirunangai-transfeminine experience in southern India.
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Crossing Many Seas: Virtual Exhibition Featuring Alumni of Visiting Artist Fellowship
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Fri, Mar 29, 2024 - Tue, Apr 30, 2024
The Mittal Institute presents a virtual exhibition titled Crossing Many Seas, featuring Sudipta Das and Ishita Chakraborty, two alumni of the Visiting Artist Fellowship (VAF) program.
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Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 05:30pm
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Carpenter Center Theater (24 Quincy Street)
Released in 2017 by Afghanistan’s Roya Sadat, one of the country’s leading female directors, “A Letter to the President” explores the difficulty Afghan women face when pursuing justice, and is a testament to the country’s once-flourishing cinema scene in the period between Taliban rule.
More InfoThe Jewel in the Crown : Interpreting an ancient Buddhist Site at Phanigiri, Telangana
Prof. Ahuja will take the audience through the astounding quality of the sculpture at Phanigiri and focus on one piece in particular: a stele that shows Siddhartha sacrificing his turban, the mark of his inheritance.
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Thu, Oct 19, 2023
COST Free - open to all.
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Please join us for a series of conversations with Atul Bhalla, Distinguished Climate Artist in Residence.
More Info27th Annual Harvard India Poetry Meeting
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Sun, May 21, 2023 at 02:00pm
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CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
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CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium S010
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute and the Department of South Asian Studies at Harvard University, in association with the South Asian Poets of New England invite you to join the: 27th Annual Harvard India Poetry Meeting 15th Anniversary Meeting of SAPNE Theme: My Rights With a tribute to the life and legacy […]
More InfoMadhur Jaffrey, Annual Harish C. Mahindra Lecture, in conversation with Prof. Abhijit Banerjee
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Thu, May 4, 2023 at 05:30pm
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Tsai Auditorium, Room S010
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge Street)
This year’s Mahindra Lecture will feature Madhur Jaffrey, in conversation with Prof. Abhijit Banerjee of MIT. Jaffrey is widely celebrated for having first introduced Indian food to the West, with over 15 cookbooks, including classics such as Madhur Jaffrey’s Ultimate Curry Bible and Madhur Jaffrey’s World Vegetarian. She will be in conversation with Abhijit Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, who has also written on the delights of Indian food in Cooking to Save Your Life.
More InfoArt, Affect, Archive: Udaipur’s Monumental Monsoon Moods, 1700-1900
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Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 05:30pm
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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
Udaipur’s eighteenth-century painters, more so than their earlier counterparts, exponentially stretched the affective potential of pictorial moods. They circulated images and ideas about flourishing places beyond and between objects commissioned within courts and bazaars. In the wake of British colonial ambitions, their pictures suggest counterfactual realities within moods of plenty that work against narratives of scarcity and inadequacy.
More InfoSpirits of the Himalayas: A Conversation with the Artist and Curator
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Mon, Mar 6, 2023 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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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
Tsherin Sherpa, artist John Henry Rice, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Chaired and Moderated by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Tsherin Sherpa’s work is currently on […]
More InfoNilima Sheikh, Distinguished Artist Fellow Series
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Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 12:30pm
The Mittal Institute’s inaugural Distinguished Artist Fellow, Nilima Sheikh, will be in residence at the Institute on the Harvard campus this April. Sheikh is one of South Asia’s most-renowned painters. Her work focuses on longing, loss, roots, displacement, violence, the perception of tradition and ideas of femininity.
More InfoArtist 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 […]
More InfoEmergent Practices in South Asia #3 | Rohan Chavan and Vinu Daniel
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Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 09:00am
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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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