Co-Sponsored Lectures
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, […]
Zhang Changdong – Taxation and State Building Contradiction: Grassroots State Reconfiguration under Tax State Transition in Rural China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Zhang Changdong, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2022-23Chair/discussant: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University; Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. Taxation is regarded as an important […]
Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship. Day […]
The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, […]
Debt and Financial Risk from China’s Real Estate Sector: Michael Pettis and Hui Shan
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Michael Pettis, Professor of Finance, Peking UniversityHui Shan, Managing Director and Chief China Economist, Goldman Sachs Concluding Remarks:William Overholt, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Moderators:Richard Yarrow […]
LGBTQ Rights Advocacy in China: Status and Challenges
Wasserstein Hall 1019 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Yanhui Peng, Former Director, LGBT Rights Advocacy ChinaZhijun Hu, Founder, China’s Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)Wei Wei, Professor of Sociology, East China Normal University; Visiting Scholar, […]
Lan Li – Sea Shells: Metaphor, Anatomy, and Epistemology of Brainlessness
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Lan Li Venue
Eva Nga Shan Ng – Trials Heard by a Foreign Ear: A Study of Chinese Jurors’ Comprehension of English Trials in Hong Kong
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Eva Nga Shan Ng, Assistant Professor, Translation Programme, School of Chinese, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Nicholas Harkness, Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of […]
Jane Lim – Faking Origins: Imitating China in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jane Lim | Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Seoul National University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard College Professor; Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, […]
The Chip War: China, The US, and Europe
Ellwood Democracy Lab - Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:John Haigh, Co-Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolChris Miller, Associate Professor of International History, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; author of The Chip War. Moderator: Edoardo Campanella, […]