Events of Interest
Ma Ying-jeou: From Harvard Law School to the Presidential Office
Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United StatesSpeaker: 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.
Lawyer Activism in Authoritarian Contexts: The Case of China
Room 102, Pound Hall 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
The Elastic Ceiling: Gender and Professional Career in Chinese Courts
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto; Faculty Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Introducing the Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org) is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. Founder Donald Sturgeon introduces the database.
Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui […]
Environmental Public Interest Litigation in China: Cases and Reform
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) On January 1, 2015, amendments to China’s Environmental Protection Law went into effect that would allow an estimated […]
Building Energy Efficiency Regulations in China: Policies and Trends
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Barbara Finamore, Senior Attorney and Asia Director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Abstract: Energy used in buildings is responsible for 30% of China’s CO2 emissions, a percentage that is expected to grow […]
Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United StatesFree admission Cosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza
Speaker: David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation Join David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior […]
Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer’s View
Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel, AIIB (retired) Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University […]
History in Images, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking
Boston University Photonics Center 8 St. Mary's Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Carma Hinton, Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Comments by: Gerald Peary, Suffolk University Sponsored by the BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the […]
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think tanks. Johnson has spent over half of the past thirty years in the Greater China region, first as a student in Beijing from 1984 to 1985, […]