Events

Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Institutional Changes and Governing Challenges

Presented via Zoom

Speakers:Bojan Bugarič, Professor at the University of Sheffield and former Deputy Interior Minister of SloveniaLance Liangping Gore, Senior Research Fellow at the NUS East Asian InstituteJacques Rupnik, Professor at CERI-Sciences Po and former advisor to President Vaclav Havel and to the European Commission Moderated by: Richard Yarrow, Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and Visiting Fellow […]

Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Economic Challenges and Transformation

Presented via Zoom

Speakers:Lajos Bokros, Professor at Central European University and former Minister of Finance of HungaryMarcin Piatkowski, Professor at Kozminski University, author of Europe’s Growth Champion, and former visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center for European StudiesDwight Perkins, Professor Emeritus in the Harvard Economics Department, former Director of the Fairbank Center and the Harvard Institute for International Development Moderated […]

In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s

Presented via Zoom

Topics: Organizer:Harvard CAMLab Academic Convenor:Jeffrey W. CODYFormer Senior Project Specialist, Building & Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute WU JiangFormer Vice-President of Tongji UniversityAcademician of the French Academy of Architecture Panelist:FAN SizhengTeaching Professor, College of Technology, Architecture and Applied Engineering, Bowling Green State University CHENG LizhenAssociate Professor, School of Architecture and Design, Beijing Jiaotong UniversityAuthor of […]

Zhang Changdong – Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Zhang Changdong, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2022-23Chair/discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Taxation is regarded as an important […]

Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

This conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship.  Day […]

LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges

Wasserstein Hall 1019 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Yanhui Peng, Former Director, LGBT Rights Advocacy ChinaZhijun Hu, Founder, China’s Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute If 5% of the population are members of the LGBTQ community, China’s LGBTQ population reaches at least 70 million. Over the past two […]

Jane Lim – Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Jane Lim | Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard College Professor; Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, […]