• Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China

    Gund Hall 42 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This discussion marks the opening of the exhibition Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China, in the main gallery of Gund Hall at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. With the aim of encouraging further conversation about the present and future state of China’s architecture culture, the exhibition highlights several buildings in five thematic categories—cultural, regeneration, […]

  • Contemporary Architecture in China: ChinaGSD Forum 论坛

    Please join the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's ChinaGSD for a Public Forum in conjunction with the exhibition Towards a Critical Pragmatism: Contemporary Architecture in China. The Forum will be moderated Professor Li Xiangning (Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD Spring 2016, Deputy Dean and Professor in History, Theory and Criticism at Tongji University CAUP) with an opening address by Professor Wu […]

  • Mid-Autumn Festival

    Science Center Plaza 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Join the Fairbank Center for an afternoon of lively performances, delicious food and drink, cultural displays, music, crafts, tea ceremonies, giveaways, and of course, mooncakes! In honor of our 60th anniversary, our Mid-Autumn Festival event celebrates all things China at Harvard. So come learn about our innovative research, practice Chinese calligraphy, try your hand at making […]

  • Developments in the South China Sea, Post-Arbitration Award

    Room 100, Pound Hall 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Lynn Kuok, Non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Law of the National University of Singapore, Member of the Global Future Council on International Security of the World Economic Forum; Visiting Scholar at East Asian Legal Studies

    Speaker: Peter Dutton, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College

    Co-sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

  • Modern China Lecture Series: (Self-)Disciplining the Corporation: FCPA Practice, Compliance, and Global Anti-Corruption Regimes in China

    Speaker: Matthew S. Erie, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford An expansive literature examines the question of norm diffusion and legal transplantation, particularly in regards to democracy, transparency, and human rights, in the developing world, and, especially, China. To the extent that such analyses consider human actors, these are usually public interest lawyers, NGOs, […]

  • China’s Rise in the Asia-Pacific Region and Japanese Foreign Policy

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

    Speaker: Makato Iokibe Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President, National Defense Academy of Japan (2006-12); formerly Professor of History, Kobe University Discussant: Arne Westad S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School. Organized by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Co-Sponsored by the […]

  • 60th Anniversary Symposium

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

    Join us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center's world-leading research on China.

  • Brown University Strait Talk Final Presentation on Taiwan-China Cross Strait Relations at Harvard University

    Each year, fifteen delegates travel to Brown University for a weeklong Interactive Conflict Resolution and public events on the Taiwan Strait issue. The ICR will be facilitated by Dr. Tatsushi Arai, a professor at the School of International Training Graduate Institute. The final presentation made by the delegates of the Strait Talk Symposium will surround […]