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Even as India has policies aimed at universal access to safe water, adequate infrastructure and achieving economies of scale in supply and delivery remain a challenge. This panel discussion aimed to understand the issue of water stress in urban India.
Shahzia Sikander, a leading contemporary artist from South Asia based in New York, engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about art, ideas and notions of global belonging with Dr. Vishakha Desai to reimagine and articulate the possibilities beyond narrow binaries of national/global or past/present during the current pandemic.
As the country’s financial capital and major center of cultural production, Mumbai sits at the confluence of economic activity, cinema and ideas of modernity. CGC | Mumbai organized a lecture and panel discussion with Professor Debashree Mukherjee, marking the launch of her new book, Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City.
“The relationship between income and health is a gradient; every step up the occupational ladder, improves life expectancy,” remarked Professor Gita Sen, Public Health Foundation of India, as she presented the Second Annual Yusuf Hamied Distinguished Lecture by a leading expert from India.
In October 2020, CGC | Mumbai launched an important new initiative entitled Screenings that Save: A Seminar Series on Cancer Diagnosis and Prevention in partnership with the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University, beginning with a webinar to mark Global Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Conversation with Lisa Anderson and Tarek Kahlaoui: Reflections on Tunisia's State Building History and Contemporary Democratization Experience
The launch of Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics course.
Applications for the M.A. in Global Thought are now being accepted. Deadline: April 1, 2021.
While women's rights are already suppressed across the world, the pandemic has exacerbated these situations in the region during lockdowns and in an absence of adequate response. From this stems a need to host a discussion on the measures to address the impact of the pandemic and the lockdown, which has put women and girls in more vulnerable positions and let them slide into poverty further. The main objectives of the webinar are to voice the experiences of women and girls during a pandemic, as well as to discuss strategies for smart, affordable, and urgent choices that public policy practitioners can make to reverse the impact of the pandemic on women and girls.
This first session in partnership with the Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations and the Center for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute in a two-part series that takes a hard look at Kenya’s Urban Transportation Infrastructure in an age of climate change. This session discussed the state of NMT infrastructure in Kenya.
‘Of Pawns and Players’ by Kinyanjui Kombani was the second book in our African book talk series. With this series, we hope to offer a platform where African writers can engage a global audience, offering not just their work, but exciting perspectives on how personal, political, and cultural experiences drive their storytelling.