Co-Sponsored Lectures
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
Ian Johnson – Sparks: China’s Underground Historians
Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave.,, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ian Johnson, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsDiscussant: Annie Jieping Zhang, Reporter, Columnist, and Entrepreneur Harvard Book Store welcomes Ian Johnson — journalist whose work has
Tamar Grozwald Ozery – Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law SchoolSpeaker: Tamar Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Panelists:William P. Alford (moderator), Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal