Co-Sponsored Lectures
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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,
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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
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Lin Chen — Contested Sociocultural Spaces of Aging in Rural China: From Older Adults’ Lived Experiences
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Lin Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University HYI Visiting Scholar
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Economic Conjunctures: Planners, Residents, and Chinese-Led Urban Development in Nairobi
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: 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;
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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.
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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.
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Kwan-Chi Wang — Food, Memories, and Agri-Science in Action: Reconsidering Food Regimes in Asia — 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 StatesSpeaker: Kuan-Chi Wang, Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences,
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Digital China Initiative GenAI Workshop
Room 202, 61 Kirkland St. 61 Kirkland St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop is designed for anyone interested in using generative artificial intelligence in Chinese Studies. The workshop will cover the following topics:1. Basic concepts of generative artificial intelligence;2. How to
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Wang Haiyan — Intellectuals, Influencers, and the Reshaping of Chinese Nationalism
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wang Haiyan, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Macau; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Wai-yee Li, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Intellectuals have historically played a central
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Nicholas Morrow Williams — Dialogues in the Dark: Interpreting “Heavenly Questions” Across Two Millennia
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Nicholas Morrow Williams, Professor of Chinese, Arizona State University Moderator: Michael Puett, Victor and William Fung Foundation Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology; Harvard