Events of Interest

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • China’s Future: Navigating Geopolitics in a New Era

    Room L-166, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speakers:David J. Firestein, President and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Venue

  • Daisy Yan Du – Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Daisy Yan Du, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  Moderator: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University  Registration appreciated for planning purposes.  Chinese Animation: Multiplicities in Motion is the first edited volume that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmedialities of Chinese animation, from early animated special

  • Art of Journeys: From Ape Tales to the Monkey King Wukong

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    The launch of the hit game, “Black Myth: Wukong,” in August 2024 has sparked renewed interests in the many historical sites that inspired its stunning visuals. In fact, the role that players take on in the game—an anthropomorphic monkey with supernatural abilities—also has many previous incarnations in the history of Chinese and East Asian art

  • Indigenous Narrative: The Dynamic Biographies of gShen-rab Mi-bo, Founder of the Tibetan Bon Religion

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

    Speaker: Konchok Tsering, Assistant Professor, School for Tibetan Studies, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard University This talk delves into the transformation of gShen-rab Mi-bo’s life stories within the Tibetan Bon religion, examining three significant texts: mDo ‘dus, mdo gzer mig, and mdo dri med gzi brjid. Each

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Spring) Qingchun

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    More than two decades after making his monumental West of the Tracks (2002), documentary auteur Wang Bing (b. 1967) has released a new cinematic fresco of Chinese workers. Whereas his debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Caught by the Tides

    Directed by Zhangke JiaStarring Tao Zhao, Zhubin LiCaught by the Tides (风流一代) is an ambitious, genre-blending film from acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke. Spanning over two decades, the film interlaces newly shot scenes with archival footage, fragments from Jia’s earlier films, and documentary-style material to create a haunting portrait of love, memory, and transformation in modern China.The

  • Taiwanese Politics and US-China-Taiwan Relations Under Trump 2.0

    Room 101, Boston University Kilachand Center For Life Sciences and Engineering 610 Commonwealth Ave,, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: S. Philip Tsu, National Taiwan UniversityThis talk will examine this following aspects of the US-Taiwan-China relations: 1. How Taiwan society views the US and China, and the main developments in Taiwan's party politics/democratic governance since President Lai was inaugurated in 2024; 2. The implications of US foreign policy under Trump 2.0 for the trilateral

  • Is Authoritarian Constitutionalism an Oxymoron?

    WCC 3007, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Emeritus, Harvard Law School; Co-editor, Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism Professor Tushnet, who graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies

  • Film Screening: “Made in Ethiopia” 

    Boston University Howard Thurman Center, First Floor 808 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Filmed 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 crisis. The film immerses viewers in two colliding worlds: a booming industrial powerhouse driven by profit and progress, and a disappearing countryside where life is