Events

China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: S.E. Kile, University of Michigan Studies of Li Yu’s theorization of playwriting and theatrical performance have generally focused on his creation of a new technical vocabulary for playwriting and performance, the relationship between his theory’s tenets and his own playwriting practice, and the impact of profit-seeking on his ideas. I propose that using technology […]

Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

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

Day Two Focus: Late 19th Century and 20th Century Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor […]

Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World

Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United States

This workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen Fellows at Harvard. The topic of the workshop, also related to a major concern of the Berggruen Institute, is “Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the […]

East Asian Media Studies Conference

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

The East Asian Media Studies Conference will present a snapshot of a young and still-forming field of inquiry. It will provide a space for discussing the question of field formation […]

Living on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan

Speaker: Jin Jungwon, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored with the Korea Institute Despite its wide practice, the sex trade and sex industry in Taiwan and Korea had never been put under governmental control before […]

Visiting Scholar Presentations

Join us to hear the Fairbank Center’s 2016-17 Visiting Scholars present on the projects that brought them to Harvard.

Democratic Equality and Confucian Hierarchy

Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Joseph Chan, University of Hong Kong Discussant: Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School of Government **Please register HERE no later than Friday, May 12.** NOTE: The paper will be circulated one week in […]

East Asian Legal Studies Open House

Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join East Asian Legal Studies for an opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2017-2018 Visiting Scholars. Light refreshments will be served.

Identity Politics and Organized Crime

Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

East Asian Legal Studies talk with Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard Law School Mark Ramseyer spent most of his childhood in provincial towns and cities in southern Japan, attending Japanese […]

What to Expect from the 19th Party Congress

Join us for a discussion about what's going to happen at the 19th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Xiang Bing, Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, will […]