Special Event: Megacities Asia

Date: 

Thursday, March 24, 2016, 5:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Arthur M. Sackler Building, 485 Broadway Street, Auditorium

"Megacities Asia"

Introduction:

Tarun Khanna, South Asia Institute, Harvard Business School.

Speakers:

Al Miner, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Laura Weinstein, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

"Modern – Vernacular, City – Nature: Imaginations of the New India"

Speakers:

Anu Ramaswami, University of Minnesota.

Chitra Venkataramani, Harvard South Asia Institute.

Asim Waqif, Artist and Architect.

Chair:

Sai Balakrishnan, Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

"Inhabiting Asian Cities"

Speakers:

Theodore C. Bestor, Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology, Harvard University.

Martha Chen, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).

Hu Xiangchen, Artist.

Chair:

Laura Weinstein, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Co-sponsored by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Harvard University Asia Center; Department of History of Art and Architecture; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Korea Institute; and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University.

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