Co-Sponsored Lectures
Nitasha Kaul – ‘Inbetween’ India and China: Bhutan’s International Relations
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesTopics: Speaker: Nitasha Kaul, University of WestminsterModerator: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University The antagonistic relationship between India and China is marked by a high mutual threat perception, frequent hostilities along their shared border across the Himalayas and a demonstrable ineffectiveness of big power diplomacy in bringing about conciliatory understandings in spite of increasing volumes of trade […]
Governing in an Interconnected World: Has the EU Joined China to shut out American Companies?
Wex-434ab Conference Room Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Camrbidge, Massachusetts, United StatesTopics: Speakers: Mark Scott, Chief Technology Correspondent, Politico (via Zoom)Tom Wheeler, former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission While the US government dawdled, the EU’s new Digital Markets Act has set new rules for internet services. What does this mean for American companies? What does this mean for the future of multilateral relations? Lunch will be served. Venue
Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:双雪涛 Shuang Xuetao, Writer程异 Jeremy Tiang, Translator张学昕 Zhang Xuexin, Critic罗鹏 Carlos Rojas, Scholar, Translator陶建 Eric Abrahamsen, TranslatorBrian Lax, Editor Organizers:王德威 David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University宋伟杰 Weijie Song, Rutgers University This event will be conducted in Mandarin and English. Co-Sponsors:哈佛大学费正清中国研究中心 Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies罗格斯大学亚洲语言文化系 Rutgers University, Asian Languages and Cultures罗格斯大学中国研究中心 Rutgers Center for Chinese […]
India’s Evolving Partnerships with Africa and the China Factor
Presented via ZoomTopics: Panelists: W. Gyude Moore, Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development; Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School for Public Policy; Former Minister of Public Works, LiberiaHannah Ryder, CEO, Development Reimagined; Senior Associate, Africa Program of the Center for Strategic International Studies Anthea Mulakala, Senior Director for International Development Cooperation, The Asia Foundation Philani […]
Adam P. Liff – The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Adam P. Liff, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations, Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies; Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative, Indiana University. Moderator: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. Venue
Victor Seow – Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard UniversityCommentator: Paul Sabin, Yale University Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia is a study of the deep links between energy extraction and technocratic politics through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. In delving into the origins […]
Panel Discussion – The Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo: Historical Reflections
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:Wayne Chiang 蔣萬安, Member of Legislative Yuan, TaiwanHsiao-ting Lin, Stanford UniversitySteven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center AssociateModerator:Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University Venue
Panel Discussion – How Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:Jinghan Zeng, Professor of China and International Studies, Lancaster University; Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, Asia Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Jeremy Garlick, Director, J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies; Associate Professor of International Relations […]
Liu Wenjin – Voice and Salvation: Listening to Ba Jin’s Random Thoughts (《随想录》）
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Liu Wenjin, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022Chair/Discussants: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard UniversityJie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor Of The Humanities, Harvard University Ba Jin (1904-2005), who called himself “the son of the May 4th movement,” is a giant […]
He Zhaohui – The Bookwheel: A Cross-Cultural Story
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: He Zhaohui, Professor, Institute for Advanced Confucian Studies, Shandong University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-2022 Chair/Discussant: Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard UniversityMore Info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-bookwheel-a-cross-cultural-story/ Venue
Chen Long and Yang Yuanchen – China’s Real Estate Sector: Bubble, Bail-Out, or Further Growth?
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:CHEN Long, Co-Founder and Partner, PlenumYANG Yuanchen, Economist, International Monetary Fund Moderators:Jinlin Li and Richard Yarrow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Chinese businesses employing tens of millions of people rely on property development— from steel to construction to banking. China’s property sector faced a crisis this past year, with talk […]
Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Institutional Changes and Governing Challenges
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Bojan Bugarič, Professor at the University of Sheffield and former Deputy Interior Minister of SloveniaLance Liangping Gore, Senior Research Fellow at the NUS East Asian InstituteJacques Rupnik, Professor at CERI-Sciences Po and former advisor to President Vaclav Havel and to the European Commission Moderated by: Richard Yarrow, Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and Visiting Fellow […]