The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute
Director: Professor Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute (the Mittal Institute) at Harvard University engages with students, faculty, and the community through interdisciplinary research to advance and deepen the understanding of critical issues relevant to South Asia and its relationship with the world. The Institute holds regular events and webinars to discuss South Asia’s history, art, economy, social sciences, challenges, and more.
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Upcoming Webinars:
Saturday, October 24, 10:30 AM EST: Extreme Urbanism: A View on Afghanistan
Join via Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97722356429
This session in our Extreme Urbanism series will explore modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism in Afghanistan. Until recently, Afghanistan was omnipresent in global news for the past two decades for all of the wrong reasons. This lecture series gives an updated, informed view on the country, addressing primarily architectural, urban, and territorial aspects of Afghanistan.
Thursday, November 12, 10:00 AM EST: Arts of South Asia at the MFA: Through and Beyond Binary Thinking
Join via Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99365376325
Laura Weinstein, the Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the MFA, will present a new publication from the MFA that explores the South Asian collection while examining and critiquing binaries based in Western Enlightenment thought that have historically been applied to art from India and its neighbors.