• 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;

  • 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:

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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