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  • Asia and the Russia’s War on Ukraine

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

    In-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 and South Korea have sided with the West and supported Ukraine, China, and North Korea are deepening ties with Russia. China’s strategic alignment with Russia

  • 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: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies China has become a global leader in clean energy

  • Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village

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

    Speaker: 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 village in eastern Taiwan three years ago, she sought to comprehend the elements that comprise her life, including the journey of her daily water supply

  • Ian Johnson – Sparks: China’s Underground Historians

    Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave.,, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: 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 won numerous prizes for his coverage of China, including a Pulitzer Prize— for a discussion of his new book Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle

  • 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 School

    Speaker: 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 Studies, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law SchoolRui Guo, Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law SchoolNicholas C. Howson, Pao

  • Meg Rithmire – The Past, Present, and Future of State – Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons

    Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School. Over the last decade, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private sector participation to state crackdowns on business and slowing growth, if not economic stagnation or crisis. Prof. Rithmire will draw on her research on relationships

  • Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers:Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard UniversityUfrieda Ho, Journalist and AuthorGayatri Sethi, Educator and AuthorDuncan Yoon, New York UniversityGeoffrey Jones, Harvard Business SchoolAnnette Skovsted Hansen, Aarhus UniversityIsaac Odoom, Carleton UniversityMarlous van Waijenburg, Harvard Business SchoolSeifudein Adem, Doshisha UniversityLina Benabdallah, Wake Forest UniversityMaria Adele Carrai, New York University ShanghaiIdriss Fofana, Harvard UniversityKumiko Makino, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan

  • Seol Paehwan — Man is the Slave of Kindness: A Gift (Sauɤa)-giving Culture and Social, Economic, Political Network in the Mongol Empire

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

    Speaker: Seol Paehwan, Associate Professor, Department of History, Chonnam National University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Christopher P. Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier and Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar talkMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/man-is-the-slave-of-kindness-%e2%80%95-a-gift-sau%c9%a4a-giving-culture-and-social-economic-political-network-in-the-mongol-empire/ Venue

  • Yan Wenjie – Fake News as a Socio-political-psychological Phenomenon: Evidence from China

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

    Speaker: Yan Wenjie, Professor, Political Communication, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor Of Global Communications and Professor Of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Department of Government, Harvard University The spread of online falsity is one of the most pressing global challenges of the day. It is detrimental to the

  • Yangyang Cheng – Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States

    CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Yangyang Cheng, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law SchoolModerator: Victor Seow, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Dr. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where her work

  • Wei Ran – Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters

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

    Speaker: Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China,