Co-Sponsored Lectures
Ma Ran – Un/bounding the Great Wall: Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Ma Ran, Associate Professor, Cultural Studies and Screen Studies, Nagoya University, Japan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair: Jie Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Spanning the late 1970s and early 1990s, a series of coproduced documentaries featuring Japanese entities in consistent partnership with China Central Television (CCTV), have emerged. Emblematic […]
Julie Tian Miao – State Inc. And Asian Diasporas in Knowledge Spaces
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Julie Tian Miao, Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center Moderator: Anthony J. Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute […]
Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Nicole Barnes, Associate Professor of History, Duke University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Liu Qing – How the Idea of Tianxia Can Help Us to Reimagine the Global Order
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Liu Qing, Zijiang Distinguished Professor, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University […]
Jedidiah Korncke – Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Professor Kroncke’s study recovers a lost era of Sino-American constitutional imagination surrounding the drafting of the 1946 Republic of China Constitution. It examines the transnational dynamics that led the Constitution’s initial drafter, Carsun Chang, to travel to the U.S. in 1945 to ostensibly study […]
The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A conversation with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the US
Nye Conference Center, Taubman Building 5th Floor 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan Representative to the United States Harvard-ID holders are invited to join us for a discussion with Alexander Tah-ray Yui, Taiwan’s Representative to the United States, to mark the 45th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act and discuss the future of US-Taiwan relations. Tony Saich, Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor […]
Wu Helin – From Serampore to Singapore: The Making of the Missionary Enterprise to China (1800-1840)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wu Helin, Associate Research Fellow, India Study Center, Central China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, Indian Studies In China Program, 2023-24 Discussant: Dana L. Robert, William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, […]
Generative AI for Chinese Studies – Advanced Workshop
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDigital China Initiative is organizing two workshops on how to apply generative AI for Chinese studies. The workshop on 5 April will cover how to use open-source large language models on local […]
Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines, 1927–1949
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Aaron William Moore, Professor of Asian Studies and Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations, University of Edinburgh More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs — Does the Sino-Tibetan Language Family Exist?: A Fresh Exploration of the Historical Relationship Between Tibetan, Chinese, and Surrounding Languages
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yeshes Vodgsal Atshogs, Professor, Linguistics, Nankai University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Discussant: Kevin Ryan, Professor, Linguistics, Harvard University Venue
Borders in Motion: New Paradigms of East Asian Comparative Literature – an online book launch forum
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Satoru Hashimoto, Johns Hopkins UniversityXiaolu Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyMiya Qiong Xie, Dartmouth College Hosts:Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityDavid Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue
Discovering Freshwater Jellyfish in Modern China: Arthur de Carle Soweby and Craspedacusta sowerbii, 1880–1941
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Christine Luk, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Tsinghua University More information: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue