Co-Sponsored Lectures
Northern Europe’s Response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Reading the transcript of the event here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1gK_MwpIZk&t=95s Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · Northern Europe's Response to China's Belt and Road Initiative Read the transcript of the event here. Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, New Silk Road Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Björn Jerdén, Director, Knowledge […]
Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” – Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty, Emotion and Purpose
https://youtu.be/NsS3JeQaEHQ Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter, Part 3 Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, St. Cross College, University of Oxford Discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University […]
Panel Discussion – Advancing Justice: Responses to Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.
Moderator: Vivian Shaw, College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Co-Principal Investigator, AAPI COVID-19 Project Panelists: Han Lu, Senior Policy Analyst, National Employment Law Project christina ong, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh Elena Shih, Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Brown University Han Lu's work at the National Employment Law Project focuses […]
Winter Pasture: A Writer’s Journey to Altay, Northern Xinjiang — A Conversation with Li Juan
This event will be conducted in Mandarin. 冬牧場：一個作家的邊地之旅 與李娟對話 Panelists: Li Juan David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Mingwei Song, Wellesley College Kyle Shernuk, Yale University Bilingual reading from Winter Pasture: Li Juan, Talia O'Shea, Lily Sall Co-sponsored by the Wellesley College East Asian Studies Program, CCK Foundation for Sinology Studies, and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies […]
Harvard-Yenching Institute Annual Roundtable: Modernizing Asia’s Countryside
Panelists: Han Do-Hyun, Professor of Sociology, Academy of Korean Studies Nguyen Thi Phuong Cham, Director, Cultural Studies Institute, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Nishikawa Kunio, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University Mini Sukumar, Department of Women's Studies, University of Calicut, Kerala Wen Tiejun, Professor and Director of the Centre of Rural Reconstruction, Renmin University of China […]
Border Conflicts in the Himalayas: Bhutan, Nepal, India, and China
Panelists: Sudha Ramachandran, Independent Journalist; Adjunct Faculty, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai Bhaskar Koirala, Director, Nepal Institute of Strategic and International Studies Frank O’Donnell, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Rising Power Alliances Project, Fletcher School, Tufts University; Nonresident Fellow in the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center Xiaoyu Pu, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, […]
Lu Mai – The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People
Speaker: Lu Mai, Vice-Chairman, China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) Discussants: Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Acting Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Moderator: Anthony Saich, Director, Ash Center for Democratic […]
Africa-Asia Roundtable – Pandemics: Surveillance, Preparedness, and Response
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a global focus on pandemic surveillance, preparedness, and response. As a result of the 2014 - 2016 Ebola outbreak, the World Bank invested in the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Program. Thirteen countries in West and Central Africa have received a $200 million funding commitment “to […]
Meaningful Ageing: Shaping a Better Future for China’s Elderly
Monday, June 21, 2021 - 8:30-10:30 PM EDT Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 8:30-10:30 AM EDT The challenges presented by the ageing of China’s population are vast and complex. Not only does ageing have major impacts on labor supply, savings, economic growth and social and family relationships, ageing also necessitates re-imagining social systems—such as healthcare, […]
Arjun Subramaniam – A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict
Speaker: Arjun Subramaniam, Retired Air Vice Marshal, IAF; President's Chair of Excellence in National Security, India’s National Defence College Discussant: M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Chair/Moderator: James Robson, James C. Kralik and YunliLou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Victor and William Fung […]
Pivoting to a New Research Topic
Speakers: Michael Collins, Yenching Academy (currently Council on Foreign Relations) Bill Figueroa, University of Pennsylvania Yi Ci Lo, UC Irvine Tullia Fraser, Durham University (currently University of Hong Kong) Emily Baum (University of California, Irvine) and Denise Y. Ho (Yale University) present the second annual webinar series, Doing Chinese History (in a New Era). Designed for—but not […]
Archives, Libraries, and Databases in Taiwan
Speakers: Feng-yuan Hsu, National Archives Administration Shiuon Chu, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History Hsi-yuan Chen, Academia Sinica, Institute of History and Philology and Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures Hsiao Ya-Hung, Academia Sinica, Institute of Modern History Archives Moderator: David Cheng Chang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Emily Baum (University of California, […]