Co-Sponsored Lectures
Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAcross 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 StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: U.S.-China Relations: Past, Present and Future
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Susan Shirk, Research Professor and Chair, the 21st Century China Center, School of Global Strategy and Policy, University of California, San Diego Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]
Free Thinkers: Islamic Reform and Ahmadi Thought in China During the Republican Period
Speaker: Dr. Z. Hale Eroglu Sager, IAAS '16 - Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
The People’s Liberation Army: Perspectives from the United States and Japan
Speaker: Gen. Yoshikazu Watanabe, Asia Center Fellow; Researcher, Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories, LTD.; Eastern Army Commanding General (Ret.), Japan Ground Self Defense Force Chair: Dr. Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of […]
Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United StatesSpeaker: 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.
Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Room 102, Pound Hall 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China Reshapes the Balance of Power: Seeking Peace and Security
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science at Boston College; Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Leninism Upgraded – Restoration and Innovation Under Xi Jinping
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sebastian Heilmann, President, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin; former Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; former research fellow, Harvard-Yenching Institute Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese […]