Co-Sponsored Lectures
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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
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Antje Richter — Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Antje Richter, Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado, Boulder Moderator: Xiaofei Tian, Ford Foundation Professor of East Asian Studies, Harvard University Registration appreciated for planning purposes. Health and the Art of
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Ma Xinrong — Migration Pathway, Precariousness and Migration Control: the Case of Irregular Migrants From the Philippines and Myanmar to China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: MA Xinrong, Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School China, emerging as a new destination
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Asia and Asians at Harvard Conference
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHarvard’s enduring engagement with Asia has shaped scholarly inquiry, public policy, and campus life—within the University and across the region. This two-day conference convenes faculty, students, alumni, and institutional partners
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Wang Junqi — The Evolution of Iconography Associated with the Great Compassion Mantra
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: WANG Junqi, Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory; Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Parimal Patil, Professor
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Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal
Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Domee Shi, Academy Award–Winning Director, Writer, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard University Join the Academy Award–winning director, animator, and
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Zong-Rong Lee — Kinship, Business Elite and the Market in Contemporary Taiwan
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zong-Rong LEE, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Frank Dobbin, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University In the fields
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From Balancing to Coalition-Building: The US, Taiwan, & Asia’s Grand Reshuffling
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Steve Yates, Former Deputy National Security Advisor; Senior Fellow, Heritage FoundationTony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for AsiaEdward Cunningham, Director, Ash Center China
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Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate
Piper Auditorium Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThe Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically