Events of Interest
Tao Leigh Goffe – “My Mother Told Me I am Chinese”: Afro-Asian Aesthetics in the Caribbean
Speaker: Tao Leigh Goffe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cornell University In this talk, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss the aesthetic challenge 'Chinese' poses as a racial category in the Caribbean. The introduction of Chinese as a category of labor to the West Indian […]
Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala – Uyghur Poetry in Translation
Join us for the opportunity to hear from Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala, two of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur today. The event will feature opening remarks by Mark Elliott, Harvard’s Vice Provost of International Affairs, followed by presentations from both poets. We will also have the opportunity to hear from Dr […]
Cheng Yu-yu – Revolution in the Nation of Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives since 1919 (詩國革命的「漢語」脈絡)
Speaker: Cheng Yu-yu, National Taiwan University This talk will be given in Mandarin. Once Chinese poetry becomes “modern poetry,” its so-called modernity must be discussed in the context of the modernity of “Chinese language” itself. From the late Qing and early Republican periods on, when confronted with the invasion of such things as new lexicon, new academic […]
Meng Gao – The Essential Role of Vertical Profile Observations of Atmospheric Composition in China
**PLEASE NOTE THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM NOVEMBER 18 TO DECEMBER 2** Speaker: Meng Gao, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University; Associate, Harvard-China Project Monitoring […]
Michael Szonyi – Did Chinese Peasants Have a Revolution? Perspectives from the Long Twentieth-Century
Speaker: Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Professor of Chinese History; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Distinguished Professor of History, University of California - Santa Cruz […]
From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria- Eliminating Countries in Africa
On December 7–8, 2020, Harvard University will partner with National Institute for Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization to convene […]
Song Lihong – Trauma and Transcendence: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist
Speaker: Song Lihong, Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2020-21 Chair/discussant: David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical […]
Wei-chieh Tsai – Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires
Speaker: Wei-chieh Tsai, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shenzhen University Settler nativization is an important issue, yet insufficiently studied in colonial histories of early modern Eurasian empires. In the early […]
Philippe LeCorre – EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Did Beijing Steal the Show?
Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Presented via Zoom Register at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9rPP_9PsTgizqjl-rRhxrA
Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuqsqjkqHtAFzbIKdd4b6f9r-qxzNdrn
Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
Speakers: Takashi Shiraishi, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018) Saori Katada, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Nonresident […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu – The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
Speaker: Tina Lu, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University When it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production, our field is still largely dominated by Craig Clunas’ framework (itself largely adapted from Bourdieu). I am interested in considering the politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing […]