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  • Ma Xinrong — Migration Pathway, Precariousness and Migration Control: the Case of Irregular Migrants From the Philippines and Myanmar to China

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    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 China, 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

  • Asia and Asians at Harvard Conference

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Harvard’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

  • Wang Junqi — The Evolution of Iconography Associated with the Great Compassion Mantra

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    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 The Great Compassion Mantra (大悲呪) is one of the most widely recited mantras in Chinese Buddhism, often accompanied

  • Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal

    Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Domee Shi, Academy Award–Winning Director, Writer, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard University Join 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

  • Zong-Rong Lee — Kinship, Business Elite and the Market in Contemporary Taiwan

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Zong-Rong LEE, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University In the fields of history and anthropology, kinship has long been regarded as a crucial factor in shaping the economic organization, political authority, and social mobility of East

  • From Balancing to Coalition-Building: The US, Taiwan, & Asia’s Grand Reshuffling

    Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers:Steve Yates, Former Deputy National Security Advisor; Senior Fellow, Heritage FoundationTony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for AsiaEdward Cunningham, Director, Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School As the Indo-Pacific enters a period of intensified strategic competition, alliances and partnerships across

  • Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate

    Piper Auditorium Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    The Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway, what

  • China and the Asymmetric Great Power Competition in the Middle East

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Gangzhen She, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Director, Center for Overseas Security and Associate Professor Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, China Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate Venue

  • China Energy Dialogue: Can China Remain an Advanced Technology Superpower?

    T-G50 Executive Education Classroom, Taubman Building 15 Eliot St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Business, Government, and International Economy Unit, Harvard Business SchoolModerator: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program; Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this China Energy Dialogue, Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business

  • HYI Annual Roundtable — Gender, Class, and Youth: The Formation of Civic Democracy in Asia in the Post-Developmental State Era

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Panelists:Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Harvard Divinity School Fellow, Publisher, and Democracy ActivistMing-sho Ho, Professor, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan UniversityEleana Kim, Professor, Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California, IrvineHyun Mee Kim, Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Yonsei UniversityAnthony J. Spires, Professor, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of MelbourneKiyoteru Tsutsui, Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research

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

    WCC 2004, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    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

  • 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, MA, United States

    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,