• Zong-Rong Lee — Kinship, Business Elite and the Market in Contemporary Taiwan

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

    Speaker: Zong-Rong LEE, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University In the fields

  • From Balancing to Coalition-Building: The US, Taiwan, & Asia’s Grand Reshuffling

    Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers:Steve Yates, Former Deputy National Security Advisor; Senior Fellow, Heritage FoundationTony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for AsiaEdward Cunningham, Director, Ash Center China

  • Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate

    Piper Auditorium Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    The Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically