Events of Interest
Shellen Wu – Mapping Science in a Global Age: the Human Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
Speaker: Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series; supported by the Harvard University Asia Center Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register here.
Robert Morrison – Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II
Speaker: Robert Morrison, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Bowdoin College The courts of the Ottoman sultans Mehmed II (d. 1481) and Bayezid II (d. 1512) were, on one hand, […]
The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
The stories of Asian American women extend far beyond the geographic borders of the United States. Inspired by tales and objects from family history, their narratives often reflect the transnational nature of Asian American women’s lives. Despite the importance of these narratives to expanding and complicating our understanding of war, migration, inequity, and difference, the […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Paula Varsano – Troubled Hearts and Worried Minds: Knowing the Subjects of the “Airs of the States”
Speaker: Paula Varsano, University of California, Berkeley In a moment when digital humanities, distant reading, manuscript studies, and a variety of historical and political lenses invite us to look at literature as a manifestation of larger and, sometimes, impersonal cultural forces, this talk takes up a different constellation of questions: how does one recognize and define […]
Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvduyurD0sH9Ud92IUxxZt3oOUh4kv6XfQ
David Mervart – The Missing Colonial Empire: Reading European Histories from within the Sinosphere
Speaker: David Mervart, Associate Professor in Japanese History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain Moderator: David Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), Harvard University This talk proposes to take stock of the conceptual vocabulary which early Japanese observers and commentators […]
Qing Yang – A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels
Speaker: Qing Yang, Professor, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Qing Yang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is also an Alumna (Visiting Scholar) and […]
Lin Chaochao – Rethinking the Making of the Chinese Working Class after 1949
Speaker: Lin Chaochao, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The year 1949 marked a watershed […]
Li Zheng – Decarbonization Pathways of China’s Power Sector
Speaker: Li Zheng, Executive Vice President, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University; Professor, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdeGopj4oHtFVDnYKTCpu9EiOozMH7rFi
Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of the Unjust Detention of Ekpar Asat
Speakers: Sophie Richardson, Human Rights Watch Thor Halvorssen, President, Human Rights Foundation Irwin Cotler, Raoul Wallenberg Center Gregory Niemeyer, University Of California, Berkeley Chris Coons, US Senator, Delaware Martha Minow, Former Dean, Harvard Law School Join Rayhan Asat (Harvard Law School ‘16) in commemorating the fifth anniversary of her brother Ekpar’s imprisonment by the Chinese […]
Sarah Laursen – The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese “Chinese” Art in the Harvard Art Museums
Speaker: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museum The Harvard Art Museums’ database identifies over 6,600 objects in the collection as “Chinese.” But are they really? At least one third of China’s dynastic history—from its unification by the first emperor in 221 BCE until the fall of the Qing […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Wu Hung – Unearthing Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760)
Speaker: Wu Hung, University of Chicago Worshipped by later folk artists as the God of Painting, Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760) was also praised by Tang art historian Zhang Yanyuan as someone who “did not look back and will have no successors.” But alas this Sage of Painting (Hua Sheng) left no work to […]