Events

Shelley Rigger – Taiwan’s Tumultuous “normal election”

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College Shelley Rigger, is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi […]

Lucy Hornby – China’s Secret World of Shadow Banking

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Lucy Hornby, Nieman Fellow for Journalism, Harvard University Lucy Hornby, a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard, has lived in China for 20 years, most recently serving as deputy bureau chief in Beijing for the Financial Times. She has reported from every Chinese province and region for the FT and […]

Ya-Wen Lei – Coping With Growing Inequality

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Geremie R. Barmé – Tales from Two Chinese Cities: Resistance in the 2019 Year of Anniversaries

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

Read event summary here Speaker:  Geremie R. Barmé, Editor, China Heritage From late 2018, China has marked a series of major anniversaries and commemorations.  A century of political, cultural and social upheaval has been brought into sharp focus by tumultuous contemporary events. Today, the past is living in to the present in ways that are […]

Kent Calder – Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Kent Calder, Johns Hopkins University Kent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of […]

Jude Blanchette – What’s Communist about the Communist Party of China?

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Jude Blanchette - Center for Strategic and International Studies The speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the […]

Lenora Chu – Lessons from China: The World’s Largest Education System

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Lenora Chu - International Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor; Author, Little Soldiers Based on journalistic research as well as her own experiences as a parent navigating the Chinese education system, Lenora will illuminate the impact of culture on education and global competitiveness, discuss differences between Chinese and Western systems, and detail […]