Events

Hang Tu — 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤: 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘵

Presented via Zoom

Speaker: Hang Tu, Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of SingaporeModerator: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University How does emotion shape the landscape of public intellectual debate? In Sentimental Republic, Hang Tu proposes emotion as a new critical framework to approach a post-Mao cultural controversy. As […]

Li Miao — Retaining Desire for Social Mobility Within and Beyond Schooling: A Longitudinal Ethnography of Migrant Youth in China

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

Speaker: Li Miao, Professor, Department of Sociology, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25Chair/Discussant: Emily Hannum, Professor of Sociology and Education; Associate Dean, School of Arts & Sciences, University of Pennsylvania Based on the results of China’s seventh national population census in 2020, 71.09 million children of migrant-peasant workers have participated in rural-urban migration for family […]

Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and Manchuria

CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Joseph Seeley, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of VirginiaChair: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's […]

HYI Annual Roundtable — Authoritarianism in Hong Kong

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

Panelists:John P. Burns, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong KongMichael C. Davis, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University; Professor of Law and International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, IndiaVictoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor, Department of Political […]

Margarita Estévez-Abe — Citizenship and Multiculturalism in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Marriage Migration in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

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

Speaker: Margarita Estévez-Abe, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics; Senior Advisor, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpfuGqqDsjH9LgCaHUWTqRhSIkadozzBwd Venue

Asia’s Border Conflicts & Indigenous Approaches to Peace and Healing

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Panelists: Hana Shams Ahmed, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, York University, CanadaBinalakshmi Nepram, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Founder-Director, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network & Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and PeaceWai Wai Nu, Founder and Executive Director of the Women Peace Network in MyanmarEnghebatu Togochung, Director, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center  Moderator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor […]

Harvard College China Forum 2025 | April 4th – 6th

Founded in 1997, Harvard College China Forum (HCCF) is dedicated to a constructive dialogue on the challenges, trends, and issues affecting China. The Forum aims to engage leaders in business, academia, and politics in a discourse that offers insights and generates ideas. HCCF is North America’s leading and longest-running student-run conference on China. The annual […]

Chen Chunxiao — Chinese Migrants in the Middle East during the Mongol-Yuan Period: Settlements and Activities

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

Speaker: Chen Chunxiao, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Mark Elliott , Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University HYI Visiting Scholar Talk Venue

Economic Conjunctures: Planners, Residents, and Chinese-Led Urban Development in Nairobi

CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Elisa Tamburo, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology Department, Harvard University; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Moderator: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard College Professor; Director, Harvard University Asia Center Since the early 2000s, the rise of Chinese businesses in the construction sector of Nairobi has transformed […]

JFK Jr. Forum — The Long Game and What Comes Next: Where U.S.-China Competition Has Come From and Where It’s Going

JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Rush Doshi, Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs on National Security Council (2021-2024)Moderator: Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School The 2025 S.T. Lee Lecture will give attendees insight and guidance on how to view U.S.-China completion and how grand strategy may play a role here. The S.T. […]

Sigrid Schmalzer — The Connected Worlds of Dazhai and the Whole Earth Catalog: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Alternative Technology Movements

CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Sigrid Schmalzer is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China and also includes the history of science activism transnationally. She is the author of The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science […]