• Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery

    Center for the Study of World Religions, Common Room 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih), PhD (Dharma Drum Institute), Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School Lunch will be provided.

  • Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today

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

    Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel, organized and moderated by Professor […]

  • Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of […]

  • Embodied Memories of the “Nine Polemics”

    Speaker: Sun Peidong (Associate Professor, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute) Masterminded by Mao himself and drafted by […]

  • Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator

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

    Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University […]