Co-Sponsored Lectures
Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China’s Vision and Strategy
Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Shirley Yu, Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center Fellow Moderator: Anthony Saich, Ash Center Director, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the signature foreign policy by Xi Jinping has served as China’s grand strategy since 2013, when the idea first arose, and it will remain relevant until around 2050, when China is predicted to reach […]
Gao Xiaofei – Making a Coastal Revolution: Farmers, Fisherman, and Socialism in Northeast China, 1946-1976
Speaker: Gao Xiaofei, Victor and William Fung Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Center Discussant: Christian Hess, Associate Professor, East Asian History, Sophia University, Tokyo Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series
Film Screening – The Stormy Night by Zhu Shouju
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDiscussant: Shi Chuan, professor, The Shanghai Theater Academy, Vice President of the Shanghai Film Association, and Chief Curator, Shanghai Film Museum. More than 650 films were reportedly made in China between 1921 and 1931, yet no more than twenty have survived the wars that followed. The serendipitous rediscovery of Zhu Shouju’s 1925 film The Stormy Night gives us a rare […]
Fred Hu and Graham Allison – Belfer Center Student and Fellow Session
Belfer Center Library Room 369, Littauer Center 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Student and Fellow Session with Fred Hu, Chairman of Primavera Capital Group, and Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of the Belfer Center. Dr. Hu is Chairman and founder of Primavera Capital Group, a China-based global investment firm. He was […]
Yiu Yuk-man Carine – Reconstructing the history of Chinese dialects through foreigners’ eyes
Speaker: YIU Yuk-man Carine, Associate Professor of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/reconstructing-history-chinese-dialects-through-foreigners-eyes
Data and/in the Humanities
Speaker: Carol Chiodo, Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship, Widener Library, Harvard University
China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS; former Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Peter Huybers, Department of […]
Panel Discussion – Revisiting the Wilsonian Moment in Asia, 1919
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History; Interim Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Erez Manela, Professor of History, Harvard University Heather Streets-Salter, Chair and Professor of History, Northeastern University Chair: Karen L. Thornber, Professor […]
Susan Greenhalgh – Coca-Cola in China: the Role of Foreign Industry Funding in China’s Health Science and Policy
Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSusan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University. She is an author, anthropologist, and specialist on contemporary China. Greenhalgh’s work […]
Lyu Peng – Animal transition and subsistence strategy on an ancient Chinese island: A zooarchaeological study of the Xiaozhushan Site
Speaker: Lyu Peng, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Richard Meadow, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/animal-transition-and-subsistence-strategy-ancient-chinese-island-zooarchaeological-study
Zhang Ying – Maimonides’s Conception of Nature and Zhu Xi’s Doctrine of Principle/Coherence (Li理) and Material Force (Qi氣)
Speaker: Zhang Ying, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature […]
Richard Weitz: Russia, China, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Richard Weitz, Senior Research Fellow, Hudson Institute