Events of Interest
Events
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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
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Harvard East Asia Society Conference — Delineations: Temporality, Boundaries, and Imaginaries of East Asia
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Graduate Student Conference is an annual two-day event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on
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China and the Asymmetric Great Power Competition in the Middle East
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Gangzhen She, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Director, Center for Overseas Security and Associate Professor Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University, China Discussant: Robert Ross, Professor of Political
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Chinese Immigrant Lawyers in the United States: Challenges and Adaptation
WCC 3009, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeakers:Ji Li, John & Marilyn Long Professor of US-China Business and Law, UC Irvine School of Law William Lee, Partner, WilmerHaleEli Goldston, Visiting Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School Tiezheng
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International Security and What’s Next for U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific: A Discussion with Dr. Ely Ratner
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ely Ratner, Principal, The Marathon Initiative; Senior Advisor, Clarion Strategies; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs, 2021-2025 Respondent: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law