Co-Sponsored Lectures
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lessons for East Asia from Eastern Europe’s Economic Challenges and Transformation
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Lajos Bokros, Professor at Central European University and former Minister of Finance of HungaryMarcin Piatkowski, Professor at Kozminski University, author of Europe’s Growth Champion, and former visiting scholar at Harvard’s Center […]
In Search for a New Architecture for New China— Zhang Kaiji and Chinese Modern Architecture in the 1950s
Presented via ZoomTopics: Organizer:Harvard CAMLab Academic Convenor:Jeffrey W. CODYFormer Senior Project Specialist, Building & Sites Department, Getty Conservation Institute WU JiangFormer Vice-President of Tongji UniversityAcademician of the French Academy of Architecture Panelist:FAN […]
Jae-Jung Suh – Diatribes and Dialogues over the Past: “History Problems” and Regional Orders in Northeast Asia
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jae-Jung Suh, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23 Chair/Discussant: Paul Y. Chang, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard University In this talk, […]