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  • Journey of an Exile Tibetan Leader: From Harvard to Dharamsala

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

    Speaker: Dr. Lobsang Sangay, Former Sikyong (President), Central Tibetan Administration; Senior Visiting Fellow, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School Harvard University Asia Center's 17th Tsai Lecture, sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund at the Harvard University Asia Center, co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University and Lakshmi Mittal and Family South

  • Grey zones: Opium Trade, Migrations, and Empires in Central and Northeast Asia, 1900s-1930s

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Niccolò Pianciola, Associate Professor of History, University of PaduaModerator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies By comparing the border area between Turkestan and Xinjiang with the region in the Russian Far East bordering Manchuria, the talk will explore how the cross-border opium economy connected

  • Norifumi Sakai – Between the Canon and the Field: Daoist liturgical manuals in Qing China

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

    Speaker: Norifumi Sakai, Associate Professor, Keio University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Discussant: James Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk Seating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. Venue

  • 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 States

    Speaker: 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 of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Harvard University

  • Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China

    Wexner W-434 A.B 19 Eliot St, Cambridge, United States

    Speaker: 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, Working for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. "Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China"

  • Wealth and Politics in Asia: HYI Annual Roundtable

    Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Panelists: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 Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Pasuk Phongpaichit, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Chulalongkorn UniversityBridget Welsh, Honorary Research Associate, University of

  • Chu Xiaobai – Jesus and Modernity in Republican China

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

    Speaker: 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 Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar Talk Seating is limited. Masks are required for all in-person audience members. Venue

  • Robert Ross: ​Wedge Strategies and Alliance Politics: Chinese Coercion and the U.S.-Philippine Alliance

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: 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 Fung Director, Asia Center, Harvard University This talk examines China’s wedge strategy toward the U.S.-Philippine alliance during the presidency of Benigno Aquino III. Although the

  • 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 Jizhou Chen, Harvard UniversityAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NC-Rw5ksTZiNT9H9_73F7w Venue

  • Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle, Second Time as Digital Ornament

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: 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 mass human ornament. In 2022, a second Olympic opening ceremony took place amidst a global pandemic and rising geopolitical tension between China and the US. This time

  • 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