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 […]

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 […]

Speaker: Lan Yan, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Lazard; Chairman and CEO, Lazard of Greater China

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Watch 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 […]

Please click here to watch/listen to our recent panel discussion on COVID-19 (Coronavirus).  Panel Discussants: Gabriel Leung, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health, University of Hong Kong; Member of the World Health Organization expert team on COVID19; and Harvard Chan MPH Alumnus Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. […]

Speaker: Lin Sheng-chih, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University This talk examines religious elements in the tombs of early medieval China (220–589), in an effort to gain new […]

Watch live on YouTube. Speakers:  Alexander Cooley, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University; Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College Jonathan E. Hillman, Senior Fellow, Simon Chair in Political Economy, […]

Speakers: Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute, NUS Selina Ho, Assistant Professor and Program Chair, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Shen Dingli, Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University Tarun Khanna, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School; Faculty Director, Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University Kanti Bajpai, Director, […]

Speaker: Audrey Tang, Taiwan Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation Moderator: Joan Donovan, Research Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Digital […]