#  Special Event: Megacities Asia 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **March 24, 2016** 

 05:30PM - 08:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop 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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