Speakers: Vera Mironova, Writer; Center Associate, Davis Center Farukh Chariyev, Project Component Manager, NGO “Barqaror Hayot” Rustam Azizi, Deputy Director, Center for Islamic Studies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center Around 5,000-10,000 individuals from post-Soviet Eurasia traveled to Syria and Iraq to join […]

Speaker: Bruce Rusk, University of British Columbia This presentation examines the textual existence of material objects in early modern China, arguing that a new concept of the archive refigured the relationship between document and thing. The use of textual sources to understand the material culture of the past of course had a long history, particularly […]

Speaker: Deng Yanhua, Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2020-21 Chair/discussant: Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School NGOs in rural China cannot operate successfully and achieve their goals if they lose the trust of the people they aim to serve and the grassroots leaders they must work […]

Speakers: Lyle Goldstein, Research Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Political Science and International Studies, Endicott College Watch live on YouTube. Examining contemporary Russia-China relations, assessments by Western scholars yield a wide variety of perspectives and conclusions.  Some view the relationship as inherently brittle, lacking in genuine substance and […]

Speaker: Arnika Fuhrmann, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. What does it mean to imagine “Asia” beyond the reductive visions of contemporary policy? This project explores the contemporary visual culture of Chinese pasts and colonial modernities, revived across the cinemas, new media, hospitality venues, and other material sites of East and Southeast Asia. […]

Speakers: Daniel S. Markey, Senior Research Professor, International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), John Hopkins University Andrew Small, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Moderator: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center; Associate Professor, KIMEP University Watch live on YouTube. Under the ambitious leadership of President […]

Speaker: Lucas R. Bender, Yale University The seventh and early-eighth centuries have often been considered the period of “China’s Cosmopolitan Empire” on account of their relative tolerance of religious and ideological diversity, their acceptance of significant “foreign” populations in the capital and on the borderlands, and their active recruitment of non-“Han” ethnicities into the military and civil […]

What will the impact be of COVID-19 on the global economy and how will that impact global health and the potential for global collaboration for a healthier future? Join “China and the World in a Post-COVID-19 Era” to gain perspectives on the post-pandemic outlook for trade and investment, sustainable development, collaborations in public health, and […]

The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering online bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important resources in Chinese, Japanese and Korean language resources. When: Nov 12, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdOyurjotGNQFReBoL3L0wpgjXm0IhIlk After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about […]

Speakers: Raymond Chang, Major League Baseball China Lucas Sin, Junzi Kitchen Janet Yang, Janet Yang Productions Moderator: Alison Friedman, Performing Arts of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Starting with ping-pong diplomacy in 1971, cultural diplomacy has played a pivotal role in facilitating mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and China. This event will […]