Co-Sponsored Lectures
Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Seiji Shirane, Assistant Professor, Department of History; Affiliated Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, The City College of New York (CUNY) Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature; Professor […]
Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
Wexner W-434 A.B 19 Eliot St, Cambridge, United StatesSpeaker: Jérôme Doyon, Junior Professor at SciencesPo; author of Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao ChinaRespondent: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, […]
Wealth and Politics in Asia: HYI Annual Roundtable
Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists:Yuen Yuen Ang, Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins UniversityYasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDevesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South […]
Jacob Eyferth – Agrarian Taylorism: Reorganizing the Rural Labor Process in Collective-Era China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Jacob Eyferth Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Chu Xiaobai – Jesus and Modernity in Republican China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chu Xiaobai, Professor, Department of Chinese Literature and Culture, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Discussant: Chloë Starr, Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology, Yale Divinity School […]
Robert Ross: Wedge Strategies and Alliance Politics: Chinese Coercion and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston CollegeModerator: James Robson, James C. Kralik, and Yunli Lou Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Harvard College Professor; Victor and William […]
Sinophone Southeast Asian Crossings:
A Symposium on Nanyang Culture, History, and Memory
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.
2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Panel 1: 2:00 - 3:20pmSpeaker: Chan Cheow Thia, National University of Singapore, Author of Malaysian CrossingsRespondent: Mei Nan Mingxue, Harvard UniversityPanel 2: 3:40-5pmSpeaker: Li Zishu, Author of The Age of GoodbyesRespondent: Jannis […]
Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle, Second Time as Digital Ornament
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Cassandra Xin Guan, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was notable for its spectacular deployment of the […]
Asia and the Russia’s War on Ukraine
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn-person attendees, register at https://forms.gle/zntgppbURiWLKch87Remote attendees via Zoom, register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i1W35PQSRoGfeMlV-Maizg#/registration How does Asia respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine? And what are the implications for Asian security and stability? While Japan […]
Emily Baum – From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Emily Baum Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
China’s Clean Energy Engagement in Central Asia
Speakers:Yipeng Zhou, Coordinator, Imperiia Project / A.M. in Regional Studies–REECAChristoph Nedopil, Director, Green Finance and Development Center, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan UniversityAlmas Chukin, Managing Partner, Visor Kazakhstan Moderator: […]
Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lung Yingtai, Writer, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University Since Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous […]