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  • Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan’s Empire in Korea and Manchuria

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

    Speaker: Joseph Seeley, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of VirginiaChair: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's

  • HYI Annual Roundtable — Authoritarianism in Hong Kong

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

    Panelists:John P. Burns, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professor of Politics and Public Administration, the University of Hong KongMichael C. Davis, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University; Professor of Law and International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, IndiaVictoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor, Department of Political

  • Margarita Estévez-Abe — Citizenship and Multiculturalism in East Asia: A Comparative Study of Marriage Migration in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

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

    Speaker: Margarita Estévez-Abe, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Syracuse University Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Research Professor of Japanese Politics; Senior Advisor, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University Also via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpfuGqqDsjH9LgCaHUWTqRhSIkadozzBwd Venue

  • Asia’s Border Conflicts & Indigenous Approaches to Peace and Healing

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

    Panelists: Hana Shams Ahmed, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social Anthropology, York University, CanadaBinalakshmi Nepram, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Founder-Director, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network & Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and PeaceWai Wai Nu, Founder and Executive Director of the Women Peace Network in MyanmarEnghebatu Togochung, Director, Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center  Moderator: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor

  • Harvard College China Forum 2025 | April 4th – 6th

    Founded in 1997, Harvard College China Forum (HCCF) is dedicated to a constructive dialogue on the challenges, trends, and issues affecting China. The Forum aims to engage leaders in business, academia, and politics in a discourse that offers insights and generates ideas. HCCF is North America’s leading and longest-running student-run conference on China. The annual

  • Chen Chunxiao — Chinese Migrants in the Middle East during the Mongol-Yuan Period: Settlements and Activities

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

    Speaker: Chen Chunxiao, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Mark Elliott , Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History; Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University HYI Visiting Scholar Talk Venue

  • Economic Conjunctures: Planners, Residents, and Chinese-Led Urban Development in Nairobi

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Elisa Tamburo, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology Department, Harvard University; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford Moderator: Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard College Professor; Director, Harvard University Asia Center Since the early 2000s, the rise of Chinese businesses in the construction sector of Nairobi has transformed

  • JFK Jr. Forum — The Long Game and What Comes Next: Where U.S.-China Competition Has Come From and Where It’s Going

    JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Rush Doshi, Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs on National Security Council (2021-2024)Moderator: Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School The 2025 S.T. Lee Lecture will give attendees insight and guidance on how to view U.S.-China completion and how grand strategy may play a role here. The S.T.

  • Sigrid Schmalzer — The Connected Worlds of Dazhai and the Whole Earth Catalog: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Alternative Technology Movements

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Sigrid Schmalzer is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China and also includes the history of science activism transnationally. She is the author of The People’s Peking Man: Popular Science

  • The U.S. Cultural Relations Program towards China and the Emergence of Transpacific Intellectual Networks (1942-1947)

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

    Speaker: Ruiheng Wang, Associate Professor, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Between 1942 and 1947, the U.S. Department of State launched a cultural relations program to provide “cultural assistance” to wartime China and promote

  • Wanlin Li — Appropriation or Dialogue — and Why It Matters: The Poetics and Politics of Transcultural Adaptation

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

    Speaker: Wanlin Li, Associate Professor, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard College Adaptation studies has long occupied an uneasy position between literary, film,