Events

David Mervart – The Missing Colonial Empire: Reading European Histories from within the Sinosphere

Speaker: David Mervart, Associate Professor in Japanese History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain Moderator: David Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), Harvard University This talk proposes to take stock of the conceptual vocabulary which early Japanese observers and commentators […]

Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose

https://youtu.be/c3bi9N2NY6E Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 1 Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Odd Arne Westad, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs, Yale University Lecture […]

Qing Yang – A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels

Speaker: Qing Yang, Professor, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Qing Yang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is also an Alumna (Visiting Scholar) and […]

Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose

https://youtu.be/L4X4wUM-oeI   Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 2 Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Lecture 2 […]

Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Reading the transcript of the event here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1gK_MwpIZk&t=95s Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Northern Europe's Response to China's Belt and Road Initiative Read the transcript of the event here. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, New Silk Road Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Björn Jerdén, Director, Knowledge […]

Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose

https://youtu.be/NsS3JeQaEHQ Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 3 Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University […]

Panel Discussion – Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.

Moderator: Vivian Shaw, College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Co-Principal Investigator, AAPI COVID-19 Project Panelists: Han Lu, Senior Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Project christina ong, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh Elena Shih, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University Han Lu's work at the National Employment Law Project focuses […]

Winter Pasture: A Writer’s Journey to Altay, Northern Xinjiang — A Conversation with Li Juan

This event will be conducted in Mandarin. 冬牧場:一個作家的邊地之旅 與李娟對話 Panelists: Li Juan David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Mingwei Song, Wellesley College Kyle Shernuk, Yale University Bilingual reading from Winter Pasture: Li Juan, Talia O'Shea, Lily Sall Co-sponsored by the Wellesley College East Asian Studies Program, CCK Foundation for Sinology Studies, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies […]

Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside

Panelists: Han Do-Hyun, Professor of Sociology, Academy of Korean Studies Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Director, Cultural Studies Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Nishikawa Kunio, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University Mini Sukumar, Department of Women's Studies, University of Calicut, Kerala Wen Tiejun, Professor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction, Renmin University of China […]

Border Conflicts in the Himalayas: Bhutan, Nepal, India, and China

Panelists: Sudha Ramachandran, Independent Journalist; Adjunct Faculty, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai Bhaskar Koirala, Director, Nepal Institute of Strategic and International Studies Frank O’Donnell, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Rising Power Alliances Project, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Nonresident Fellow in the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center Xiaoyu Pu, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, […]

Lu Mai – The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People

Speaker: Lu Mai, Vice-Chairman, China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) Discussants: Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Acting Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Moderator: Anthony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democratic […]

Africa-Asia Roundtable – Pandemics: Surveillance, Preparedness, and Response

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a global focus on pandemic surveillance, preparedness, and response. As a result of the 2014 - 2016 Ebola outbreak, the World Bank invested in the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Program. Thirteen countries in West and Central Africa have received a $200 million funding commitment “to […]