Co-Sponsored Lectures
Mobilities & Immobilities: Histories of Modern Migration to and in the Americas
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesFor complete information, visit www.migrantherstory.com.
JFK Jr Forum – Hong Kong: The Future of One Country, Two Systems
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Tony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation Jane Perlez, Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times Victoria Tin-bor, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre […]
Chong Ja Ian – How Hedging Made US-China Tensions Worse: Order, Strategic Competition, and Aggregated Security Dilemmas in Asia and the Pacific
Speaker: Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology […]
Panel Discussion – Vietnam: Party, State and Society in an Era of Great Power Rivalry
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesChair: Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University The nature and limits of the party-state: Borje Ljunggren, Associate, Harvard Asia Center; former Swedish Ambassador to […]
Carma Hinton – From Goddess to Demon? Musings on the Transformation of Female Imagery in Paintings of Central Asia and China from the Late Tang to the Song Dynasties
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Carma Hinton, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Chair: Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Asia Center Fellows Seminar
Qu Tongli – Emergence of Modern Humans in China: Behavioral Perspectives
Speaker: Qu Tongli, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Amy Clark, College Fellow - Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University China has been the focus of discussion on modern human origins. Human fossils found recently in South China show that modern humans emerged in China in the early Late Pleistocene […]
Wang Xiying – Intimacy, Desire, and Reproduction: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing
Speaker: Wang Xiying, Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University This talk focuses on understanding the daily lives of women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and their coping strategies of the illness within […]
Lan Yan – The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lan Yan, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Lazard; Chairman and CEO, Lazard of Greater China
Wen-Chin Wu – How does China’s Foreign Aid Undermine the Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy? —Evidence from UN General Assembly Voting Data
Speaker: Wen-Chin Wu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Christina Davis, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach […]
Dirk van der Kley – Less is More…The New BRI in Central Asia
Speaker: Dirk van der Kley, Program Director for Policy Research, China Matters Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative has changed significantly in Central Asia in the last few years. In […]
Zhai Shaodong – Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China
Speaker: Zhai Shaodong, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University In China, ground stone tools emerged during the transition period from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic time. However, they did not take the place […]
Panel Discussion – Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWatch again on YouTube: Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speakers: Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health, Harvard Chan School of Public Health Howard Markel, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine; Director, Center for the History of […]