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SUMMARY:Films from the Film Study Center: Screening and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Please join us\, in partnership with ArtsThursdays\, for a special screening of short films by Darol Olu Kae\, Kendra McLaughlin\, Tiff Rekem\, and Svetlana Romanova—current fellows at the Film Study Center at Harvard. Following the screening\, the filmmakers will participate in a conversation with Dennis Lim\, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. \n\n\n\nTiff Rekem
: Trilogy (working title)\, 2026\, work in progress\, 15 min. Ten years ago\, prominent director of Taiwan popular cinema Wei Te-sheng (魏德聖) set out to make three historical epics set during the little-known 17th-century Dutch colonial period in Taiwan — until the production fell apart\, unfinished\, in 2025. This project refashions the visual and sonic traces of the Taiwan Trilogy into an alternative historical period piece that\, during a time of rising nationalism in Taiwan\, observes the construction of cinema as the construction of a national identity. A work in progress. \n\n\n\nKendra McLaughlin
: Lo que las olas no rompen (What the Waves Don’t Break)\, 2026\, work in progress\, 12min 30s. Along Lima’s southern coast\, men fish\, camels eat\, and life cycles through death and back again. \n\n\n\nSvetlana Romanova: Hinkelten\, 2023\, Russia\, 15 min.
Filmed in the Yakutian Arctic and constructed out of personal poems and notes\, this visual essay poses questions about our perception of contemporaneity and image production’s intersection with the creation of narratives around the idea of love (romantic\, platonic\, intimate\, and maternal). \n\n\n\nDarol Olu Kae: Keeping Time\, 2023\, USA\, 32 min. Keeping Time is a kaleidoscopic audiovisual homage to musicians who pass on the magic and the communities that nourish them.
  \n\n\n\nThis event is co-presented by the Film Study Center at Harvard University and ArtsThursdays\, a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/films-from-the-film-study-center-screening-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Harvard Film Archive\, Carpenter Center\, 24 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest,Film Screening,Taiwan,Taiwan Studies
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SUMMARY:Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling\, Heritage\, and Turning the Personal into the Universal
DESCRIPTION:Register for in-person attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Domee Shi\, Academy Award–Winning Director\, Writer\, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President\, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim\, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nJoin the Academy Award–winning director\, animator\, and filmmaker Domee Shi for an engaging conversation about creative expression and empathetic storytelling. A self-described “film nerd\,” Shi will be joined by Ju Yon Kim\, the Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English at Harvard\, to discuss Shi’s life and career\, taking surprising creative risks\, and using animation to explore worlds different from our own while finding universality through the stories told.To attend in person\, each individual will need to register.To view this event online\, each individual will need to register via Zoom. \n\n\n\nDomee Shi is an Academy Award–winning director\, writer\, and storyteller with a 14-year career in the animation industry. She began as a story artist on Pixar’s Academy Award–winning Inside Out (2015) before contributing to The Good Dinosaur (2015)\, Incredibles 2 (2018)\, and Toy Story 4 (2019). In 2015\, she pitched the idea for Bao (2018)\, a deeply personal short film that went on to win the Academy Award for best animated short. \n\n\n\nShi made history with her feature directorial debut\, Turning Red (2022). Praised for its bold storytelling and exploration of adolescence and family\, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for best animated feature. Her latest film\, Elio (2025)\, a sci-fi adventure\, was released in theatres this past June. Alongside directing\, Shi is also a creative vice president at Pixar\, playing a key role in shaping the studio’s creative vision and consulting on projects in both development and production.  \n\n\n\nShi was born in Chongqing\, China\, and resided in Toronto\, Canada\, for most of her life. She currently lives in Oakland\, California\, and notes that her love of animation is only rivaled by her love of cats. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/domee-shi-drawing-from-life-storytelling-heritage-and-turning-the-personal-into-the-universal/
LOCATION:Radcliffe Knafel Center\, 10 Garden St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Aaron Halegua — Fighting Forced Labor on U.S. Soil: Litigation on Behalf of Chinese Workers
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Aaron Halegua\, Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs\, Wang v. Gold Mantis Construction and Liu v. Wellmade Industries \n\n\n\nAaron Halegua leads a boutique litigation firm in New York City focused on labor and employment litigation\, with particular experience representing human trafficking and forced labor victims. In 2021\, he won $6.9 million for seven Chinese construction workers trafficked to build a casino on the island of Saipan. As a result\, Aaron was named the Human Trafficking Legal Center’s “Litigator of the Year” in 2021 and received the “Grantee Hero Award” from the Impact Fund in 2023. Since then\, Aaron has represented dozens of Chinese\, Filipino\, and other immigrant workers in forced labor cases around the country\, including in New Mexico\, New York\, Georgia\, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Since 2024\, Aaron has been a Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Immigration and Human Trafficking. Aaron began his legal career as a Skadden Fellow and clerked at the Southern District of New York. He speaks\, reads\, and writes Mandarin Chinese. \n\n\n\nA light lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\nPlease 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/aaron-halegua-fighting-forced-labor-on-u-s-soil-litigation-on-behalf-of-chinese-workers/
LOCATION:WCC 3008\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Chuncheng Liu — Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chuncheng Liu\, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies\, Northeastern University \n\n\n\nNumbers have become the universal language of modern governance. What happens when an authoritarian state attempts to quantify the moral worth of its citizens? Drawing from my fieldwork inside China’s social credit system bureaucracy\, this talk reveals how a quantification system designed to enhance state legibility and control instead produces opacity\, distortion\, and disillusionment. I document the everyday politics of quantification governance through two tensions: first\, between ambitious data collection goals and limited bureaucratic capacity\, resulting in selective data production and widespread fabrication; second\, between the state’s efforts to impose authoritative meanings on merit scores and citizens’ persistent reinterpretation and resistance. Through ethnographic observation\, I show how grassroots bureaucrats and citizens collaborate in maintaining an elaborate performance of governance while privately acknowledging its futility. Yet the system persists\, not because it achieves its stated objectives\, but because it fulfills internal political functions—particularly advancing officials’ careers within China’s competitive bureaucratic hierarchy. By demonstrating how quantification systems demand constant social and organizational maintenance while generating institutional strain and symbolic contestation\, this ethnography offers crucial insights into algorithmic governance worldwide—revealing how numbers designed as instruments of control transform into performative ends that ultimately govern the state more than society itself.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chuncheng-liu-metricocracy-the-data-and-symbolic-politics-of-a-chinese-social-credit-system/
LOCATION:William James Hall\, Room 1550\, 33 kirkland st\, cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting link\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Weila Gong\, University of California-San Diego \n\n\n\nWhy are some Chinese cities more successful than others in initiating and implementing low-carbon policy actions? Despite being the world’s largest carbon emitter\, China has committed to peak carbon emissions before 2030 and to achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. Since the early 2010s\, Beijing has selected over one hundred low-carbon pilot regions—from townships to cities to provinces—to explore policy solutions for decoupling economic growth from fossil-fuel use. In her new book\, Implementing a Low-Carbon Future\, Weila Gong finds variation in levels of low-carbon policy institutionalization across the case studies. This includes varying successes of the standards\, regulations\, and laws put into place through these policy experiments. Based on original research including extensive expert interviews\, comparative case studies\, and process tracing of the low-carbon policy experimentation in these pilot cities\, Gong opens the black box of the subnational climate policy process in China’s centralized political system and identifies mid-level local bureaucrats as playing an essential “bridge leader” role in successful implementation despite changes in political leadership.Weila Gong is a nonresident scholar at UC San Diego’s 21st Century China Center and a visiting scholar at UC Davis’s Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior. She is the author of Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities (Oxford University Press\, 2025). With over ten years of experience working on the politics and policy of low-carbon energy transitions with a focus on China\, she holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Technical University of Munich and has held fellowships at Georgetown University\, Harvard Kennedy School\, and UC Berkeley School of Law. \n\n\n\nWe would like to thank the MIT Sustainable Urbanization Lab\, the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning\, and the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies for supporting this event.  Please subscribe to our mailing list if you’d like to receive e-mail notifications: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/urbanchinaseminar.Join 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/weila-gong-implementing-a-low-carbon-future-climate-leadership-in-chinese-cities/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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