Events of Interest
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Film Screening: “Made in Ethiopia”
Boston University Howard Thurman Center, First Floor 808 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesFilmed 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
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CLA x Lambda Panel on LGBTQIA+ Advocacy in China
WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers: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
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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
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Lik Sam Chan — The Politics of Dating Apps in Urban China
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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
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Films from the Film Study Center: Screening and Conversation
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPlease 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
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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,
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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 StatesSpeaker: 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
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Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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
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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, MassachusettsSpeaker: 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
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From Balancing to Coalition-Building: The US, Taiwan, & Asia’s Grand Reshuffling
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Steve Yates, Former Deputy National Security Advisor; Senior Fellow, Heritage FoundationTony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, at the Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for AsiaEdward Cunningham, Director, Ash Center China
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Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate
Piper Auditorium Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThe Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically