Events of Interest
Stuart McManus – Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Stuart McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
The Taiwan Constitutional Court: History and Challenges
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Tzong-Li Hsu, Dr. iur., Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany; Chief Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court and President, Judicial Yuan Jau-yuan Hwang (SJD ‘95), Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
Valerie Karplus – China’s Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management China's future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world's ability to meet climate change mitigation goals. This talk will discuss China's national approach to climate change, and use a multi-scale modeling approach to analyze the effects […]
Maria Adele Carrai – Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840
Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Marie-Curie senior researcher at the Center for Global Governance at KU Leuven Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University
Liu Jingfang – China’s Green Movement: Players, Style, and Strategy
Speaker: Liu Jingfang, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University While China is transforming itself into an economic powerhouse, it also suffers from dire environmental degradation and crisis. Behind the notorious images of Beijing’s grey […]
Randall Schriver – U.S. National Defense Strategy Implementation in the Indo-Pacific
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building 15 Eliot St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Randall G. Schriver, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, former Director of the Belfer Center, and founding Dean of Harvard Kennedy School RSVP required.
Film Screening and Panel Discussion – “One Child Nation”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanel Discussion: Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of “One Child Nation” Mable Chan, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Harvard University Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature […]
Jess Cohen-Tanugi – Five Tips for Creating Compelling Data Visualization
Speaker: Jess Cohen-Tanugi, Visualization Specialist, Lamont Library RSVP:https://forms.gle/BSG1esNAVgPsa8p9A Questions: fengentu@fas.harvard.edu
International Implications from Contemporary Developments in Chinese Higher Education
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Hamish Coates, Professor, Institute of Education and Director, Higher Education Division; Deputy Director, Global Research Center for the Assessment of College and Student Development, Tsinghua University Wen Wen, Associate Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director, Asian Research Center, Tsinghua University; Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Discussants: Manja […]
Xin Zhang – Governance by Numbers: Origins, Present and Future of China’s Social Credit System
WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xin Zhang, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor, School of Law, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing Commenter/Discussant : Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor, […]
Gerard Sanders and Xuan Gao – The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A 21st-Century Multilateral Development Bank
Austin East, Room 101 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Gerard Sanders, General Counsel, AIIB Xuan Gao, Senior Counsel and Head of Institutional Unit, AIIB Non-pizza lunch will be served.
Roger Shih-Chieh Lo – Redemptive Society and Cold War: Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) in Zhejiang, Fujian, and Taiwan, 1949-1978
Speaker: Roger Shih-Chieh Lo, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University Throughout the 20th century, the two most influential redemptive societies in Chinese local society, Tongshanshe (Fellowship of Goodness) and Yiguangdao (Persistent way) both suffered various level of crackdown from different regimes. From fieldwork and local archives, however, it is evident […]