Co-Sponsored Lectures
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, Harvard Business SchoolSeifudein Adem, Doshisha UniversityLina Benabdallah, Wake Forest UniversityMaria Adele Carrai, New York University ShanghaiIdriss Fofana, Harvard UniversityKumiko Makino, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan […]
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 […]
Yangyang Cheng – Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yangyang Cheng, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law SchoolModerator: Victor Seow, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Department of the History of […]
Wei Ran – Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, […]
Japan, China, and Global Economic Orders
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Tsuyoshi Kawase, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Professor, Sophia UniversityJi Miao, Visiting Scholar, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Associate Professor & Senior Research Fellow, China Foreign […]
Xiao Xiaoyan – Life Histories and Collective Memory of Deaf People in a Chinese Social Welfare Factory
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Xiao Xiaoyan, Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Kathryn Davidson, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University This study reports an on-going project attempting […]
He Wenkai – Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 In this book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, […]
Hou Zhe – Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Hou Zhe, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching […]
Yan Fei – Factions in Flux: Intergroup Collaboration and Conflict in the Red Guard Movement
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yan Fei, Associate Professor, Sociology, Tsinghua University; HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellow, 2023-24Discussant: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Students of social movements and collective action have traditionally concentrated […]
Chen Tuo – The Pope! A Utopian Model in Late Ming China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chen Tuo, Assistant Professor, Faculty of History, Nankai University; BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Visiting Researcher Fellowship Program, 2023-2024 Chair: M. Antoni J. Ucerler, Associate Professor, History, Boston College; Director, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History Discussant: Sophie Ling-chia Wei, Associate Professor, Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Venue
The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential Election
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Wenchi Yu, Nonresident Research Fellow and international affairs journalist with Taiwan-based TVBS televisionEric Huang, Former spokesperson for the opposition KMT party, Mid-Career Masters of Public Affairs student, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Anthony Saich, Rajawali Institute Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Join the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and the Fairbank Center for […]