Co-Sponsored Lectures
Carla Nappi – How to Come Apart: Decomposing a History of Translation in China
Speaker: Carla Nappi, The University of Pittsburgh Check back soon for more information! Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfuyuqzstHNLcP21UNFfqiHHReSkx1_H7 Part of the Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series
Yang Lichao – Children’s Dimensions of Poverty: Qualitative Studies in Urban China
Speaker: Yang Lichao. Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Management/School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Nicole Newendorp, Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University Poverty is multidimensional but with disagreement as to the most important dimensions. This is especially true of child poverty partly because children are seldom asked systematically to describe […]
Tatsuya Nakanishi – Chinese-Speaking Muslims’ Responses to Islamic Intellectual Trends from West, South and Central Asia during the Nineteenth Century
Speaker: Tatsuya Nakanishi, Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2021-22 Chair/discussant: Ali Asani, Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University HYI Visiting Scholars Talk Presented via Zoom Registration link: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocuyrrDwiGdZ8o3s2RwLBWoSR8cKtEDE8 More information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/chinese-speaking-muslims-responses-to-islamic-intellectual-trends-from-west-south-and-central-asia-during-the-nineteenth-century/
Yves Tiberghien -Why Has the East Asian Covid Model Diverged over Delta and Omicron?
Speaker: Yves Tiberghien, Professor of Political Science; Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, University of British Columbia Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University This seminar is part of the Special Series on Policy Innovations in Crises, supported […]
China’s Role in the World: Is China Exporting Authoritarianism?
Speakers: Elizabeth Economy, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin Naima Green-Riley, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Maria Repnikova, Assistant Professor in Global Communication, Department of Communication, Georgia State University Chair: Alastair Iain Johnston, The Governor James […]
Yuen Yuen Ang – Does Corruption Really Disappear as Countries Grow Richer?
Speaker: Yuen Yuen Ang, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Discussant: Patrick O. Okigbo, founder of Nextier and M-RCBG senior fellow This webinar is part of M-RCBG's weekly Business & Government Series. Yuen Yuen Ang is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016) and China's Gilded Age: The […]
Nirupama Rao – The Fractured Himalaya
Speaker: Nirupama Rao, Former Foreign Secretary of India and Ambassador to the United States and China Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs Part of the Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute […]
Wendy Leutert – The Reform & Global Expansion of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Speaker: Wendy Leutert, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington. Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in Business, Government, and International Economy, Harvard Business School. Hosted by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School Presented via Zoom Register at: […]
Kazuyuki Motohashi – Japan’s High-Tech Competitiveness in an Era of U.S.-China Decoupling
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Kazuyuki Motohashi, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. Moderator: Christina L. Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Venue
The Legacy of Koxinga in South East Asia: Chia Joo-ming and Nanyang Narrative
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Chia Joo-ming, Writer, Sinagpore Ko Chia-cian, National Taiwan University Liu Hsiu-mei, National Dong-hwa University Organizer: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue
2022 Harvard Law School China Law Symposium: Charting a New Course through Uncertainties
Presented via ZoomTopics: The Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Charting a New Course through Uncertainties,” from Monday, March 28th to Thursday, March 31st. The Symposium brings together prominent legal scholars and practitioners to shed light on major developments in US-China relations. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear […]
Michael McElroy – Decarbonizing India’s Economy
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at Harvard University; Chair of the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment India, the second most populous country on the planet, has enormous energy demands. It is investing billions in renewable power, with the goal of generating 50 percent of its energy requirement […]