Latest Past Events
Film Screening and Discussion: Daughter of the Light with the Filmmaker
Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., CambridgeSpeaker: Khashem Gyal, Filmmaker; Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of the Arts, and Asia in Action Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Daughter of the Light is a deeply moving feature documentary about thirteen-year-old Metok Karpo who lives in a Tibetan boarding school for orphans. The film follows Metok as she navigates the emotional complexities
How to Cultivate a Moral Human: A Conversation with Michael Puett and Amy Zhang
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., CambridgeSpeakers:Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History; Director, Harvard University Asia CenterAmy Zhang, Master's Student, Harvard Graduate School of EducationWhat can ancient Confucian philosophy offer for how we design education and live well in the AI age?Mencius argued that moral life begins not with rules but with cultivating the "four sprouts," the seeds
Electric Vehicle–Power System Interactions: Potential, Impacts, and Economics
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., CambridgeSpeaker: ZHAO Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences RSVP Required EV-grid integration (VGI) has the potential to manage the power demand from EVs and utilize EV batteries as distributed storage to support power-system balancing. Challenges remain in planning the long-term development of EV-grid integration, as the system value of VGI