Co-Sponsored Lectures
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 Reception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South Asia Center Seminar Series
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 Asia Center
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 Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui (Professor of Literature and History, Tsinghua University; Coordinate Research Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute and Visiting Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Spring 2017), Harvard University)) […]