Events

Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion

CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

9:30 AM     Workshop Opens 9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China Speaker: Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan This paper describes the ritualization of death […]

The Rise of New Religions in Asia

Speakers:  Helen Hardacre, Harvard University Adam Lyons, Harvard University Frank Korom, Boston University Amanda Lucia, University of California Riverside Robert Hefner, Boston University Juliane Schober, Arizona State University Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University Chien-yu Julia Huang, City Colleges […]

Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Panelists: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Andrew Gordon, Harvard University Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego Sugata Bose, Harvard University Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Moderator: […]

Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Malcolm Thompson, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, UC–Santa Cruz Abstract: What kind of problem is "the population problem" in China? That it would be […]

May Fourth @ 100: China and the World

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

An international symposium to celebrate and reflect upon the monumental legacy of China’s May Fourth movement. Listen to the keynote speeches by Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg) and Chen Pingyuan […]

Workshop – Everything Digital: An Essential Guide to Digital Tools for East Asian Studies

Room 212, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

Registration Deadline:  By October 4, Friday to  http://bit.ly/DigitalEA Lunch will be provided Are you wondering what digital tools might be useful for your research?  Join us for an informal lunch session as we share recommendations and useful shortcuts to help you get off to a running start and make the most of your time at […]

Hsin-Hsin Pan – Foreign Visits and the Image of National Security Defender: An Analysis of Voter Attitudes in Taiwan

Speaker: Hsin-Hsin Pan, Post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Discussant: Chong Ja Ian, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore This paper looks into the effect of foreign visits to major powers on an image of national security defenders for politicians of minor […]