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  • Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0

    Room 101, Boston University Kilachand Center For Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Ave,, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: S. Philip Tsu, National Taiwan UniversityThis talk will examine this following aspects of the US-Taiwan-China relations: 1. How Taiwan society views the US and China, and the main developments in Taiwan's party politics/democratic governance since President Lai was inaugurated in 2024; 2. The implications of US foreign policy under Trump 2.0 for the trilateral

  • Is Authoritarian Constitutionalism an Oxymoron?

    WCC 3007, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School; Co-editor, Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism Professor Tushnet, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies

  • Film Screening: “Made in Ethiopia” 

    Boston University Howard Thurman Center, First Floor 808 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Filmed 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

  • CLA x Lambda Panel on LGBTQIA+ Advocacy in China

    WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speakers: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. RSVP(https://forms.gle/JZNxYivSGfTVxmFL9). Questions: Zeqing Li

  • Ryan Martinez Mitchell — The Rise of Authoritarian Sustainability? China’s Transformative Engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    WCC 3018, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: 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 Since 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,

  • Lik Sam Chan — The Politics of Dating Apps in Urban China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: 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

  • Films from the Film Study Center: Screening and Conversation

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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. Tiff Rekem
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  • Domee Shi — Drawing from Life: Storytelling, Heritage, and Turning the Personal into the Universal

    Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Domee Shi, Academy Award–Winning Director, Writer, and Storyteller; Creative Vice President, PixarDiscussant: Ju Yon Kim, Patsy Takemoto Mink Professor of English, Harvard University Join 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

  • Aaron Halegua — Fighting Forced Labor on U.S. Soil: Litigation on Behalf of Chinese Workers

    WCC 3008, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Aaron Halegua, Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs, Wang v. Gold Mantis Construction and Liu v. Wellmade Industries Aaron 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

  • Chuncheng Liu — Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System

    William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Chuncheng Liu, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University Numbers 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

  • Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Weila Gong, University of California-San Diego Why 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

  • U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change and Clean Energy: A China Energy Dialogue with John Holdren

    Room 230, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Speaker: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this inaugural China Energy Dialogue, John Holdren will give a talk on the history of collaboration between scholars at the Belfer Center, Tsinghua University, and other Chinese institutions to identify pathways and challenges to China's goals to peak carbon emissions