Co-Sponsored Lectures
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 […]
Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle, Second Time as Digital Ornament
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Asia and the Russia’s War on Ukraine
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn-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 […]
Emily Baum – From Cold War to COVID-19: Acupuncture as Soft Power in the PRC
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Emily Baum Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia Venue
China’s Clean Energy Engagement in Central Asia
Speakers:Yipeng Zhou, Coordinator, Imperiia Project / A.M. in Regional Studies–REECAChristoph Nedopil, Director, Green Finance and Development Center, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan UniversityAlmas Chukin, Managing Partner, Visor Kazakhstan Moderator: […]
Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lung Yingtai, Writer, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University Since Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous […]
Ian Johnson – Sparks: China’s Underground Historians
Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave.,, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ian Johnson, Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsDiscussant: Annie Jieping Zhang, Reporter, Columnist, and Entrepreneur Harvard Book Store welcomes Ian Johnson — journalist whose work has […]
Tamar Grozwald Ozery – Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law SchoolSpeaker: Tamar Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Panelists:William P. Alford (moderator), Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal […]
Meg Rithmire – The Past, Present, and Future of State – Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School. Over the last decade, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private […]
Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard UniversityUfrieda Ho, Journalist and AuthorGayatri Sethi, Educator and AuthorDuncan Yoon, New York UniversityGeoffrey Jones, Harvard Business SchoolAnnette Skovsted Hansen, Aarhus UniversityIsaac Odoom, Carleton UniversityMarlous van Waijenburg, […]
Seol Paehwan — Man is the Slave of Kindness: A Gift (Sauɤa)-giving Culture and Social, Economic, Political Network in the Mongol Empire
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Seol Paehwan, Associate Professor, Department of History, Chonnam National University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Christopher P. Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier and Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting […]
Yan Wenjie – Fake News as a Socio-political-psychological Phenomenon: Evidence from China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yan Wenjie, Professor, Political Communication, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor Of Global Communications and Professor Of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Department […]