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SUMMARY:Chinese Immigrant Lawyers in the United States: Challenges and Adaptation
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:Ji Li\, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law\, UC Irvine School of Law William Lee\, Partner\, WilmerHaleEli Goldston\, Visiting Lecturer on Law\, Harvard Law School Tiezheng Li\, Assistant China Representative\, International Law Institute David B. Wilkins\, Lester Kissel Professor of Law\, Harvard Law SchoolJoin the Harvard Law and International Development Society (LIDS) and the China Law Association (CLA) for a panel discussion on Chinese Immigrant Lawyers in the US. Lunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-immigrant-lawyers-in-the-united-states-challenges-and-adaptation/
LOCATION:WCC 3009\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:International Security and What’s Next for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific: A Discussion with Dr. Ely Ratner
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Ely Ratner\, Principal\, The Marathon Initiative; Senior Advisor\, Clarion Strategies; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs\, 2021-2025 Respondent: Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesModerator: Edward Cunningham\, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative.  \n\n\n\nThe Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to a discussion focusing on the future of international security and what’s next for U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific with Dr. Ely Ratner. Mark Wu\, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, will serve as a respondent. This conversation will be moderated by Edward Cunningham\, Director of Ash Center China Programs and the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative. \n\n\n\nEly Ratner is a Principal at The Marathon Initiative and a Senior Advisor at Clarion Strategies. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs from 2021-2025 and as Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden from 2015-2017. He has also worked in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs at the State Department and in the U.S. Senate as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. \n\n\n\nOutside of government\, Dr. Ratner has worked as the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security\, a Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations\, and as an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. He received his B.A. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\n\n\nLunch will be served. This event will be recorded. \n\n\n\nThis event is open to Harvard ID holders only and registration is required. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/international-security-and-whats-next-for-u-s-strategy-in-the-indo-pacific-a-discussion-with-dr-ely-ratner/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse\, Littauer Building\, 79 JFK St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:How US Internet Optimism Turned to AI Alarm with China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Graham Webster\, Stanford University \n\n\n\nUS thinkers once looked to the future of Internet technology in China with dreams of liberalization. China and the US co-built and jointly profited from the 2000s digital economy and the smartphone revolution\, yet in the 2010s both countries’ governments became increasingly anxious about their vulnerability and interdependence in the digital sphere. By 2020\, anxieties combined with trade conflict\, Covid recriminations\, and AI futurism\, cementing a rivalry mindset that today shapes partial decoupling and conditions of continued interconnection. This talk traces how US officials and thinkers acted on their visions of the future\, and how reality intervened. \n\n\n\nGraham Webster is a lecturer and research scholar in the Program on Geopolitics\, Technology\, and Governance at Stanford University\, where he leads the DigiChina Project. He specializes in technology policy and development in China and US-China relations. His reporting and commentary has appeared in WIRED\, Foreign Affairs\, and the MIT Technology Review\, among others. Graham was previously a senior fellow and lecturer at Yale Law School\, where he was responsible for the Paul Tsai China Center’s Track 2 dialogues between the United States and China. In the past\, he wrote a CNET News blog on technology and society from Beijing\, worked at the Center for American Progress\, and taught East Asian politics at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. Graham holds a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international studies from Northwestern University. He is based in Oakland\, California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/how-us-internet-optimism-turned-to-ai-alarm-with-china/
LOCATION:WCC 3013\, Wasserstein Hall\, 1585 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:The Death of Strategic Ambiguity: Middle Power Survival in the New U.S.-China Cold War
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Seong-Hyon Lee\, Senior Fellow\, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations; Associate\, Harvard University Asia Center \n\n\n\nModerator: Andrew Erickson\, Visiting Scholar\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University; Professor of Strategy\, China Maritime Studies Institute\, U.S. Naval War College \n\n\n\nRegistration appreciated for planning purposes. \n\n\n\nFor decades\, East Asian middle powers like South Korea thrived by navigating a delicate geopolitical balance—relying on the United States for security architecture while depending on China for economic prosperity. However\, as the “New Cold War” intensifies\, this era of “riding two boats” has abruptly ended. Faced with shifting U.S. alliance postures\, escalating technology and trade frictions\, and the pressing realities of nuclear deterrence on the Korean Peninsula\, nations can no longer afford strategic ambiguity. This talk will explore how middle powers are being forced into strategic clarity\, recalibrating their foreign policies to survive a prolonged rivalry between Washington and Beijing. Drawing on recent developments in international security\, we will examine the difficult choices ahead for East Asia’s most critical geopolitical fault lines. \n\n\n\nDr. Seong-Hyon Lee is a Senior Fellow at the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center. He is the author of The New Cold War: U.S.-China Rivalry and the Future of Global Power (2025). He specializes in U.S.-China strategic competition\, East Asian security\, and North Korea and Korean Peninsula geopolitics. \n\n\n\nhttps://asiacenter.harvard.edu/events/death-strategic-ambiguity-middle-power-survival-new-us-china-cold-war \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-death-of-strategic-ambiguity-middle-power-survival-in-the-new-u-s-china-cold-war/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Against Erasure: Uyghur Poems\, Imprisoned Souls\, and the Act of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Aziz Isa Elkun\, University of London \n\n\n\nIn the face of the Chinese government1s systemic efforts to silence the Uyghur people\, the written word becomes a profound act of resistance. Against this backdrop of cultural erasure\, two recently pubIished English-language poetry anthologies – Uyghur Poems and Imprisoned Souls\, stand as vital testaments to love\, survival\, and defiance. These works serve as both a sanctuary for a threatened identity and a resonant cry for justice. Together\, they form more than a mere collection of verses; they are a living archive for both the present and the future. They prove that while bodies may be confined and traditions targeted for erasure\, the human pulse of love and collective memory remains indestructible. As enduring evidence of the Uyghur spirit\, these works carry a cultural legacy to the next generation and awaken the consciousness of humanity as a whole\, offering a glimmer of hope for the future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/against-erasure-uyghur-poems-imprisoned-souls-and-the-act-of-resistance/
LOCATION:CGIS South\, Room S050\, 1730 Cambridge St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Butchered Rooms: Precarity\, Resilience\, and the Politics of Informal Housing in Post-Handover Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ruby YS LAI\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Sociology and Social Policy\, Lingnan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Ya-Wen Lei\, Professor of Sociology\, Harvard University \n\n\n\nIn the past decades\, the growing housing crisis has destabilized individual housing tenure and exacerbated an everyday sense of insecurity\, especially among low-income renters in megacities\, where housing costs continuously soar under increased financialization and commodification. How do individuals and families build a home while facing heightened precariousness? This talk argues that housing precarity is an outcome of inequality resulting from the macro political-economic structure rather than a condition of poverty\, by focusing on one of the world’s most unaffordable housing markets\, Hong Kong\, and its infamous subdivided units\, also called ‘butchered rooms’—a form of informal housing unit subdivided from an entire compartment\, characterized by an extremely tiny size\, with a median as small as 11m?. Drawing on years of ethnographic and participatory fieldwork and policy analysis\, the talk first illustrates the homemaking strategies through which occupants of butchered rooms navigate the spatio-material constraints of their built environment and the processes of resilience building. The second part of the talk provides a critical analysis of the housing policy regime in Hong Kong during the post-1997 period and unravels the political-economic structures that necessitate the invisible labor of occupants that buffers the consequences of housing inequality resulting from the city’s neoliberal housing regime and developmental urban governance\, which resonate with housing crises in urban areas across the globe. \n\n\n\n\nButchered Rooms: Precarity\, Resilience\, and the Politics of Informal Housing in Post-Handover Hong Kong\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/butchered-rooms-precarity-resilience-and-the-politics-of-informal-housing-in-post-handover-hong-kong/
LOCATION:Common Room\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, 2 Divinity Ave.\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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