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SUMMARY:Antje Richter — Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Antje Richter\, Associate Professor of Chinese\, University of Colorado\, Boulder \n\n\n\nModerator: Xiaofei Tian\, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nRegistration appreciated for planning purposes.  \n\n\n\nHealth and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200–ca. 600). Surveying a range of literary sources—essays\, prefaces\, correspondence\, religious scriptures\, and poetry—it explores the spectrum of views on health and illness expressed in these texts. Part One\, centered on the essay “Nurturing the Vital Breath” in Liu Xie’s Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons\, reveals the deep concern of writers\, troubled by overwork and excessive mental exertion\, with the preservation and cultivation of their literary creativity. For them\, the ability to write was inextricably connected with their social roles as officials. Part Two turns to self-narratives of health and illness in authorial prefaces\, informal notes\, formal letters\, and official communications. Writers of these texts depicted their physical condition according to specific rhetorical purposes\, whether that was to legitimize authorship\, maintain intimate relationships\, or avoid office. Part Three describes the rise of sickbed poetry\, shaped by Xie Lingyun and the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra\, which established illness as a topic in the refined literature of the period. Drawing attention to the grounding of literature in the lived experience of their creators\, this book illuminates the conditions of literary production in early medieval China. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/book-talk-%f0%9d%98%8f%f0%9d%98%a6%f0%9d%98%a2%f0%9d%98%ad%f0%9d%98%b5%f0%9d%98%a9-%f0%9d%98%a2%f0%9d%98%af%f0%9d%98%a5-%f0%9d%98%b5%f0%9d%98%a9%f0%9d%98%a6-%f0%9d%98%88/
LOCATION:CGIS South S020\, Belfer Case Study Room\, 1730 Cambridge St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Ma Xinrong — Migration Pathway\, Precariousness and Migration Control: the Case of Irregular Migrants From the Philippines and Myanmar to China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: MA Xinrong\, Associate Professor\, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Meg Rithmire\, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School \n\n\n\nChina\, emerging as a new destination for international migration\, has been receiving an increasing number of labor migrants from neighboring countries. Except for limited pilot schemes in border areas\, Chinese authorities have not issued work visas to foreign migrant workers nationwide; thus\, international labor migrants in most non-border regions are classified as sanfei renyuan (people entering\, staying\, and working illegally). This research focuses on irregular migrant workers from Southeast Asia to China\, with particular attention to female migrant workers from the Philippines and Myanmar. Based on interviews and participant observation with both irregular migrants and immigration officials at the grassroots level\, this study examines how irregular migration pathways are shaped by geopolitics and migration policies over the past decade. It also investigates how migration control—particularly the deportation regime toward irregular migrants—is mutually constituted by the state\, the discretionary power of migration officials\, citizens\, and non-citizens. The research further demonstrates that\, in the face of tightened migration controls during and after the COVID-19 pandemic\, irregular migrant workers have exercised agency despite their marginalized and precarious conditions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ma-xinrong-migration-pathway-precariousness-and-migration-control-the-case-of-irregular-migrants-from-the-philippines-and-myanmar-to-china/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T160000
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SUMMARY:Asia and Asians at Harvard Conference
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarvard’s enduring engagement with Asia has shaped scholarly inquiry\, public policy\, and campus life—within the University and across the region. This two-day conference convenes faculty\, students\, alumni\, and institutional partners from across Schools and disciplines to examine the evolving relationship between Harvard and Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present and to consider paths forward. \n\n\n\nThrough a series of presentations\, the program revisits formative encounters\, collaborations\, and institutional linkages; recognizes the contributions of Asian students\, scholars\, and visitors who have transformed fields and enriched the University; and offers an assessment of Harvard’s roles in U.S. policy\, development\, and institution-building in Asia\, acknowledging both contributions and consequences. \n\n\n\nLooking ahead\, the conference asks how Harvard can advance more inclusive\, equitable\, and regionally balanced approaches to the study of Asia and to University engagement with the region—strengthening partnerships\, deepening interdisciplinary research and teaching\, and enhancing public impact. \n\n\n\nRegistration is not required but appreciated for planning purposes. \n\n\n\nDay 1: Thursday\, November 13\, 2025Belfer Case Study Room (S020)\,CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street\n\n\n\n4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Welcome and Opening ReflectionsMichael Puett\, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology\, FAS; Harvard College Professor \n\n\n\nOpening Panel “Harvard’s Japan Encounter”Susan J. Pharr\, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics\, FAS\, Harvard University“Harvard and Asia: Brief Encounters\, Abiding Relationships”Sugata Bose\, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs\, FAS\, Harvard University  \n\n\n\nTraditional Sumatran Dance Performance Presented by Harvard Indonesian Students Association  \n\n\n\nReceptionConcourse Area\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street  \n\n\n\nDay 2: Friday\, November 14\, 2025Belfer Case Study Room (S020)\,CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge Street\n\n\n\n8:15 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.                  Distinguished Visitors: Asian Intellectuals and Public Figures at Harvard  Moderator: Shigehisa Kuriyama\, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History; Director\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; Interim Chair in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, FAS; and Faculty Director for the Humanities\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced StudyPanelists:  “Imperfect Encounters: South Asians and Harvard in the Early 20th Century” Mou Banerjee\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Ph.D. in History\, Harvard University“Repurposing the ‘Civilizing Mission’: A Japanese Sinologist at Harvard\, 1915–1916”Yan Yu\, Associate Professor\, Shanghai Jiao Tong University\, and Visiting Scholar\, Harvard History Department\, FAS“Kissing Harvard Goodbye: The Cold War Considerations of Lee Kuan Yew’s American Visits”Eugene Chua\, Harvard College Student 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break  \n\n\n\n10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.                  Pioneers and Pathways: Asian Student Experiences at Harvard Moderator: Sun Joo Kim\, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History\, FAS\, Harvard University Panelists: “Shared Paths\, Unique Stories: Harvard’s Korean Alumni”Sujin Elisa Han\, Ph.D. candidate in History and East Asian Languages\, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard UniversityTitle ForthcomingMui Poopoksakul\, Independent Literary Translator\, Berlin; Harvard College Graduate “The Earliest Asian Women at Radcliffe College” Shayna Leng\, Harvard College Student “’Democratizing Monarch?’ Harvard in the Himalaya and King Birendra at Harvard”Kashish Bastola\, Harvard College Student   \n\n\n\n12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.          Harvard’s Engagement in U.S. Policy towards Asia Moderator: Sugata Bose\, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs\, FAS\, Harvard UniversityPanelists:   “Making Subjects of Subjects: Harvard and the Transnational Project of U.S. Colonial Education in the Philippine”Eleanor Wikstrom\, M.Sc. in Social Science of the Internet\, Oxford Internet Institute\, University  of Oxford; Harvard College Graduate  “Harvard Eugenicists and Immigration Restriction in the U.S.”Erika Lee\, Bae Family Professor of History\, FAS and the Faculty Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America\, Harvard University“A Cold War Redux in Asia: Harvard’s Legacy and Role” Thitinan Pongsudhirak\, Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies (ISIS) and Associate Professor of International Political Economy\, Faculty of Political Science\, Chulalongkorn University“Harvard and the Vietnam War: Contestation vs. Support”Nghia Nguyen\, Harvard College Student  \n\n\n\n2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Break 3:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.                     Harvard’s Asian Futures: Rethinking Institutional Legacies and Regional Engagement \n\n\n\nModerator: Jay Rosengard\, Lecturer in Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School Panelists:  “Studying China at Harvard in the 1960s”Joseph Esherick\, Emeritus Professor of Modern Chinese History\, University of California\, San Diego“Impact Taking Many Forms”Bill Alford\, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director\, East Asian Legal Studies Program; Chair\, Harvard Law School Project on Disability“Exporting Expertise: Institutionalizing Planning Education in Southeast Asia”Robin Albrecht\, MArch Candidate\, Department of Architecture\, Harvard  University Graduate School of Design  “Recovering Voices: Using Museum Collections to Address Institutional Histories”Ingrid Ahlgren\, Curator for Oceanic Collections\, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology\, FAS\, Harvard University; Research Associate\, Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History“Harvard and the Study of Southeast Asia”Michael Puett\, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director\, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and AnthropologyFAS; Harvard College Professor 4:50 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.            Closing AcknowledgementRachelle Walsh\, Executive Director\, Asia Center\, FAS\, Harvard University     \n\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Asia Center\, the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs\, the Korea Institute\, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute\, the Harvard-Yenching Institute\, and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/asia-and-asians-at-harvard-conference/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, CGIS South\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Conference and Workshops
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SUMMARY:Wang Junqi — The Evolution of Iconography Associated with the Great Compassion Mantra
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: WANG Junqi\, Research Fellow\, Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory; Associate Professor\, School of Philosophy\, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Parimal Patil\, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nThe Great Compassion Mantra (大悲呪) is one of the most widely recited mantras in Chinese Buddhism\, often accompanied by a set of eighty-four vibrant images. But where did these images come from? This talk traces the surprising origins of this popular illustrated tradition\, arguing that the canonical texts believed to be its source were not original translations\, but later compilations. By comparing the original Sanskrit with its Chinese transliteration\, we’ll see how new\, unofficial images were created and why they became so popular. We will then examine how later manuscripts helped build a sense of “canonical authority” around these illustrations. This study reveals a fascinating story of how a religious tradition evolved through a dynamic interplay between scripture\, visual art\, and the needs of its followers\, ultimately making the mantra more accessible to a wider audience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wang-junqi-the-evolution-of-iconography-associated-with-the-great-compassion-mantra/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T160000
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SUMMARY:Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling\, Heritage\, and Turning the Personal into the Universal
DESCRIPTION:Register for in-person attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Domee Shi\, Academy Award–Winning Director\, Writer\, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President\, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim\, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJoin the Academy Award–winning director\, animator\, and filmmaker Domee Shi for an engaging conversation about creative expression and empathetic storytelling. A self-described “film nerd\,” Shi will be joined by Ju Yon Kim\, the Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English at Harvard\, to discuss Shi’s life and career\, taking surprising creative risks\, and using animation to explore worlds different from our own while finding universality through the stories told.To attend in person\, each individual will need to register.To view this event online\, each individual will need to register via Zoom. \n\n\n\nDomee Shi is an Academy Award–winning director\, writer\, and storyteller with a 14-year career in the animation industry. She began as a story artist on Pixar’s Academy Award–winning Inside Out (2015) before contributing to The Good Dinosaur (2015)\, Incredibles 2 (2018)\, and Toy Story 4 (2019). In 2015\, she pitched the idea for Bao (2018)\, a deeply personal short film that went on to win the Academy Award for best animated short. \n\n\n\nShi made history with her feature directorial debut\, Turning Red (2022). Praised for its bold storytelling and exploration of adolescence and family\, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for best animated feature. Her latest film\, Elio (2025)\, a sci-fi adventure\, was released in theatres this past June. Alongside directing\, Shi is also a creative vice president at Pixar\, playing a key role in shaping the studio’s creative vision and consulting on projects in both development and production.  \n\n\n\nShi was born in Chongqing\, China\, and resided in Toronto\, Canada\, for most of her life. She currently lives in Oakland\, California\, and notes that her love of animation is only rivaled by her love of cats. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/domee-shi-drawing-from-life-storytelling-heritage-and-turning-the-personal-into-the-universal/
LOCATION:Radcliffe Knafel Center\, 10 Garden St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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