Events

Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition

CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker/Photographer: Ian Teh Asia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building This event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. Ian Teh is an award-winning photographer based in UK and Malaysia.  He has published three monographs, Undercurrents (2008), Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent […]

Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery

Center for the Study of World Religions, Common Room 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih), PhD (Dharma Drum Institute), Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School Lunch will be provided.

Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel, organized and moderated by Professor Peter Bol, examines these trends in a global perspective, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia, the UK and Europe, the […]

Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of […]

Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University […]

Hidden Air: Urbanization, the Built Environment, and Indoor Air Quality in China

Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Gary Adamkiewicz, Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Exposure Disparities, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health China’s recent economic growth and rate of urbanization are unprecedented […]

Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office

Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States

Speaker: Ma Ying-jeou, S.J.D.‘81, Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies program at the Harvard Law School.