Latest Past Events

Film Screening and Discussion: Daughter of the Light with the Filmmaker

Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

Speaker: 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

Rethinking the Global Order: Latin America, China, and the U.S. Amid Transforming Economic and Political Paradigms

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge

Keynote: Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, President, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceModerator: Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Head of Latin America; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Panelists:Enrique Dussel Peters, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Mark Wu, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law,

From Copycat to Technology Innovator: China’s Use of IP as Strategic Governance 

WCC 2004, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge

Speaker: Haochen Sun, Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong What role have state-orchestrated intellectual property policies played in China’s emergence as a major technology innovator? This talk discusses two interrelated transformations that have taken place in China over the past two decades: the rise and fall of the shanzai (copycat) culture movement and China’s