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SUMMARY:Film Screening: “Made in Ethiopia” 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFilmed over four years with singular access\, “Made in Ethiopia” lifts the curtain on China’s historic but misunderstood impact on Africa\, and explores contemporary Ethiopia at a moment of profound crisis. The film immerses viewers in two colliding worlds: a booming industrial powerhouse driven by profit and progress\, and a disappearing countryside where life is still guided by the rhythm of the seasons. Co-organized by the Boston University African Studies Center\, African Studies Library\, Center for the Study of Asia and Global Development Policy Center\, the event will feature a 90-minute film screening followed by a 30-minute Q&A with directors Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/film-screening-made-in-ethiopia/
LOCATION:Boston University Howard Thurman Center\, First Floor\, 808 Commonwealth Ave.\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:CLA x Lambda Panel on LGBTQIA+ Advocacy in China
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Yanhui Peng\, LGBTQIA+ rights litigation advocate in ChinaMingyue Gao\, Partner\, Guantao Law Firm\, ChinaYing Xin\, Program Manager\, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program\, HKS Carr-Ryan Center; Former Director\, Beijing LGBT CenterJoin CLA and Lambda for a panel discussion on LGBTQIA+ activism and advocacy in China! Lunch will be provided at the event.  \n\n\n\nRSVP(https://forms.gle/JZNxYivSGfTVxmFL9). Questions: Zeqing Li at zli@jd27.law.harvard.edu or Shengdong Guo at sguo@sjd.law.harvard.edu. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cla-x-lambda-panel-on-lgbtqia-advocacy-in-china/
LOCATION:WCC 1015\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ryan Martinez Mitchell — The Rise of Authoritarian Sustainability? China's Transformative Engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ryan Martinez Mitchell\,  Associate Professor of Law\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Author of Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law \n\n\n\nSince the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015\, this global development concept has been increasingly incorporated into the People’s Republic of China’s structures of state planning\, intra-Party governance\, and a comprehensive ideological narrative articulating both national and global objectives. Indeed\, China’s role in and advocacy for the SDGs\, beginning during the negotiations on their formation\, is now at the heart of its foreign policy and international law initiatives. There has also been an increasing permeation of SDG indicators into Beijing’s domestic formulation and evaluation of policies (including for audiences of elite policymakers). Significantly\, China has also come to be seen by many as a model of achievement with regard to the SDGs at a time of US withdrawal and generalized crisis in the arena of global development. \n\n\n\nThe emerging pattern could be seen as one example of “authoritarian sustainability”: a configuration in which the legitimacy of illiberal governance is extensively reinforced by the discourse and metrics of sustainable development. As a unique melding of China’s domestic politics with a global agenda\, the SDG targets now serve as guiding principles\, integrating social and environmental policy\, economic regulation\, and state legitimacy claims into a single project. At the same time\, viewed in connection with the international legal order\, Beijing’s approach may help spur a global transition away from civil and political conceptions of human rights\, in favor of the similarly universalist but “post-liberal” SDG framework. However\, while in many ways a success story\, China’s model of SDG engagement also includes several paradoxical features that may indicate its own replicability challenges\, latent drawbacks or contradictions\, and the need to contemplate alternative paths. Empirical and structural analysis of China’s legal and regulatory approaches indicate features–such as reliance on controlled disruption\, völkisch ecology\, and “saltationist” mobilization–that call into question the viability of authoritarian sustainability as a long-term model in China or as an example for developing states. \n\n\n\nRyan Martínez Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His work on international and comparative law\, legal history\, Chinese law\, and Asian legal systems has appeared in leading academic journals. His analysis of these issues has also featured in policy-related publications including Foreign Affairs\, The National Interest\, The Diplomat\, and others\, and his analysis has been cited in media including The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, Financial Times\, The National Interest\, NPR\, Bloomberg\, Nikkei Asia\, Al Jazeera\, Foreign Policy\, and other major media outlets. His first book\, Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law\, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. Mitchell holds a B.A. with honors from The New School\, a J.D. from Harvard Law School\, where he was also a Cravath International Fellow and an Irving R. Kaufman Public Interest Fellow\, and a Ph.D. in Law with distinction from Yale Law School\, where he was an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Fellow and obtained Yale’s Archaia qualification in the study of premodern societies. He is a member of the State Bar of California and has experience in international human rights litigation. In the current academic year\, he will be a visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights\, Global Faculty at the Freie Universität Berlin Department of Law\, and an International Affairs Fellow in Japan for the Council on Foreign Relations. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided at this event. Please register here. \n\n\n\n*Location note: In past years\, EALS talks were generally in Morgan Courtroom (Austin 308)\, but due to the construction project currently underway next to Austin Hall\, we will hold most EALS talks in Wasserstein Hall during the 2025-2026 academic year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/ryan-martinez-mitchell-the-rise-of-authoritarian-sustainability-chinas-transformative-engagement-with-the-un-sustainable-development-goals/
LOCATION:WCC 3018\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lik Sam Chan — The Politics of Dating Apps in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:zoom meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Lik Sam Chan\, Lecturer\, University of SydneyMomo\, Blued\, Aloha\, Rela\, Lesdo. These were\, once upon a time\, some of the most popular mobile dating apps in China. In this book talk\, Lik Sam Chan dissects how urban life and dating apps shape each other in the context of southern China. The narratives explored include straight women migrating from villages to metropolitan areas\, straight men navigating the pressure to showcase wealth in a highly capitalized environment\, queer men envisioning a more equitable future in urban politics\, and queer women seeking community despite their invisibility in the city. These dynamics are reflected in diverse interpretations and interactions on dating apps. My concept of “networked sexual publics” underscores that such publics are always regionally specific. Consequently\, the use of dating apps—or communication technology more broadly—must be understood through the lens of local contexts and cultural concepts. \n\n\n\nDr. Lik Sam Chan is a Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney’s Discipline of Media and Communications and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s School of Journalism and Communication. His research focuses on the intersections of digital platforms\, gender and sexuality\, and culture. His first book\, The Politics of Dating Apps (MIT Press\, 2021)\, explores dating app culture in China across diverse user demographics. His work has been cited by international media outlets\, including the BBC and Rest of World. \n\n\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting: https://mit.zoom.us/j/98722032936  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lik-sam-chan-the-politics-of-dating-apps-in-urban-china/
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