Conference and Workshops
Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China
Gund Hall 42 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis discussion marks the opening of the exhibition Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China, in the main gallery of Gund Hall at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. With the aim of encouraging further conversation about the present and future state of China’s architecture culture, the exhibition highlights several buildings in five thematic categories—cultural, regeneration, […]
Contemporary Architecture in China: ChinaGSD Forum 论坛
Please join the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's ChinaGSD for a Public Forum in conjunction with the exhibition Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China. The Forum will be moderated Professor Li Xiangning (Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD Spring 2016, Deputy Dean and Professor in History, Theory and Criticism at Tongji University CAUP) with an opening address by Professor Wu […]
Workshop: China, East Asia and Global Value Chains
Participants: Gary G. Hamilton: Making Money: Taiwanese Industrialists and the Making of the New Global Economy (Co-authored with Kao Cheng-shu) Mark P. Dallas: Fragmented Development: China, East Asia and 'Emergent' Global Production Timothy Sturgeon: Compressed Development: The Shrinking of Time and Space in an Interconnected World (Co-authored with D. Hugh Whittaker, Tianbiao Zhu and Toshie Okita) […]
60th Anniversary Symposium
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center's world-leading research on China.
Sinophone Studies: New Directions
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesListen again: “Sinophone” is arguably one of the most provocative concepts of world literary studies since the turn of the new millennium. In 2007, we held the Yale-Harvard joint international conference “Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings,” examining an array of issues ranging from diaspora to multicultural articulations. Since then, waves of scholarship […]
Du Fu (712-770): China’s Greatest Poet: A Conference in Honor of the Library of Chinese Humanities
The symposium brings together over twenty scholars in premodern and modern Chinese literary studies from North America and East Asia. The discussions will focus on four aspects: Rethinking Du Fu in the context of the medieval world and poetics Dimensions of Du Fu’s works less explored in Du Fu studies, such as Buddhism, humor, self-exegesis, […]
Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration
Taiwan Studies Workshop 9:45am - Introductory Remarks: Hon. Stanley Kao, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States. 10:15am - Shelley Rigger, Davidson College 11:15am - Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies 1:00pm - Kuen-da (Dalton) Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology 2:00pm - Alan Romberg, Stimson Center
Taiwan Studies Workshop: Cross-Strait Relations in the Trump Era
The Taiwan Studies Workshop reports back from their recent trip to Taiwan, including a closed-door meeting with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen. Check back for more information soon!