• Wealth and Politics in Asia: HYI Annual Roundtable

    Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall Boylston Hall, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Panelists:Yuen Yuen Ang, Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins UniversityYasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDevesh Kapur, Starr Foundation Professor of South Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)Pasuk Phongpaichit, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Chulalongkorn UniversityBridget Welsh, Honorary Research Associate, University of

  • Harvard Visual China Inaugural Graduate Symposium–“Luminosity in Chinese Art & Culture”

    Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States

    From Prometheus the Fire-Bringer to myths of cosmogony, light and luminosity is an enduring metaphor in human history. In modern science, light and luminosity are understood as matters of wavelength and energy. Yet in the Chinese context, luminosity is not confined to issues of the visual and visibility. In fact, luminosity had long been associated

  • 2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Discussing Disability Law in China

    WCC 2012, 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

  • 2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Antitrust in China: Debunking the Myth and Unravelling the Intricacies

    WCC 2012, 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

  • 2023 China Law Symposium: Reacquainting with China through Common Interests – Double Reduction Policy in China: An Educational Double-Edged Sword?

    WCC 1015, 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

  • Wangdao and Leadership: A Zoom Talk by Stan Shih

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Stan Shih, Co-founder & Honorary Chairman, Acer Group Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1rO8EfocTC27eSYbRM7jaA Venue

  • 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