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 In 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

Speaker: Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) Ambassador Katherine C. Tai served as the 19th United States Trade Representative. As a member of President Biden’s Cabinet, Ambassador Tai was the principal trade advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson on U.S. trade policy from March 2021 to January 2025. Prior to her unanimous Senate confirmation, Ambassador Tai spent

Speaker: Lihui Zhang, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School In this study group, led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Lihui Zhang, we will explore how Chinese society demonstrates a distinctive duality in its approach to emerging technologies like AI, combining both enthusiastic adoption and underlying anxiety. While American and European companies

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Speaker: Geri Jiebu, Associate Professor, School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Language and Literature, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School Venue