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  • Sinophone Southeast Asian Crossings:
    A Symposium on Nanyang Culture, History, and Memory

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Panel 1: 2:00 - 3:20pmSpeaker: Chan Cheow Thia, National University of Singapore, Author of Malaysian CrossingsRespondent: Mei Nan Mingxue, Harvard UniversityPanel 2: 3:40-5pmSpeaker: Li Zishu, Author of The Age of GoodbyesRespondent: Jannis Jizhou Chen, Harvard UniversityAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NC-Rw5ksTZiNT9H9_73F7w Venue

  • 2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Blockchain from a Chinese Perspective

    WCC 2004, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the

  • Beijing Olympiad: First Time as Mass Spectacle, Second Time as Digital Ornament

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

    Speaker: Cassandra Xin Guan, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was notable for its spectacular deployment of the mass human ornament. In 2022, a second Olympic opening ceremony took place amidst a global pandemic and rising geopolitical tension between China and the US. This time

  • Yu-Yueh Tsai – Indigenous DNA as A Metaphor: Scientific Debate on the Rediscovery of Taiwanese Ancestry and Nation-Building

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Yu-Yueh Tsai, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair: Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School The development of genealogical science in the twenty-first century has important implications for national and racial/ethnic construction. In Taiwan, genetic research on the origins of Taiwanese has involved

  • 2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Collaborating on Climate Change

    WCC 2009, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common InterestsThe Harvard Law School China Law Association (CLA) will host its annual China Law Symposium, “Reacquainting with China through Common Interests,” over the first two weeks of April. This year, we are highlighting topics of common interest to China and the United States, ranging across the

  • The Future of the U.S.-Philippines Alliance: A Conversation with Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines

    Wexner W-434 A.B 19 Eliot St, Cambridge, United States

    Speaker: Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the PhilippinesPlease join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and the Defense Project for a conversation with Martin Romualdez, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. The Speaker will deliver remarks on the future of the U.S.-Philippines alliance, the foreign and defense policy of the Philippines under President Marcos, and evolving

  • China’s Clean Energy Engagement in Central Asia

    Speakers:Yipeng Zhou, Coordinator, Imperiia Project / A.M. in Regional Studies–REECAChristoph Nedopil, Director, Green Finance and Development Center, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan UniversityAlmas Chukin, Managing Partner, Visor Kazakhstan Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies China has become a global leader in clean energy

  • Xiconomics: What China’s Dual Circulation Strategy Means for Global Business

    WCC 2009, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Speakers:Andrew Cainey, Founding Director of the UK National Committee on China; Senior Fellow, Royal United Services InstituteMark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Join us for an illuminating dialogue between Andrew Cainey, founding director of the UK National Committee on China and senior fellow at the Royal

  • The Chinese Surveillance Technology Industry and its Reception in African Countries

    Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Bulelani Jili, Meta Ph.D. Research Fellow, Harvard University Bulelani Jili's research seeks to offer insights into how China’s domestic surveillance market and cyber capability ecosystem operate, especially given the limited number of systematic studies that have analyzed its industry objectives. For the Chinese government, investment in surveillance technologies advances both its ambitions of becoming

  • Lung Yingtai – My Life in an Indigenous Village

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Lung Yingtai, Writer, Former Minister of Culture of TaiwanChair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University Since Lung Yingtai relocated to an indigenous village in eastern Taiwan three years ago, she sought to comprehend the elements that comprise her life, including the journey of her daily water supply

  • Wei Hai Min and Her Personae: Jingju in Our Time

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Wei Hai Mun, Awardee of the Plum Blossom Award and the National Award for Arts in TaiwanDiscussant: David Der-wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University Co-sponsored by:East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityFairbank Center for Chinese StudiesAsian Cultural Council Taiwan FoundationChiang Ching-kuo Foundation  Venue