Events

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 Peter Bol, examines these trends in a global perspective, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia, the UK and Europe, the […]

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 […]

Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office

Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States

Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.