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 […]

Speaker: Zhang Ke, Associate Professor of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of History, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/progress-or-perish-different-images-india-late-qing-china

Speaker: Feruza Aripova, PhD Candidate in World History, Northeastern University; Center Associate, Davis Center Moderator: Rochelle Ruthchild, Research Scholar, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University; Center Associate, Davis Center Online event. For more information, please visit: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/tracing-effects-soviet-gender-and-sexual-politics-central-asia-0

Speakers: Jianye He, Librarian for Chinese Collections, UC Berkeley Kwok leong Tang, Digital China Fellow of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Ian Chapman, China Studies Reference and Instruction Specialist, University of Washington Amanda Shuman, post-doc researcher and database manager, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Freiburg Karl Gerth, Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu […]

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. Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpd-2hqTopHdfnfVovpSg7mzMWFAZsH8Le After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Via Zoom Meeting Speaker: Olga Lomová, Charles University in Prague It is a well-known fact that since the late nineteenth century many Western modernists were fascinated by ancient Chinese poetry believed to be congenial to their new aesthetics. While Ezra Pound is a notorious example in the English-speaking world, Pauline Yu and others have also […]

Speakers: Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University Alex Csiszar, Harvard University Kathryn James, Yale University Presented via Zoom. Registration Required Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpf-mvqDsiGtAblBeWA3ymZhyloJtgcQs4

Please join East Asian Legal Studies to meet EALS faculty, staff, and scholars. The Zoom link to this event will be published at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University As the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall (GFW), the Facebook Walls, the virtual walls in virtual realities…. The existence of the walls shatters the myth of an infinitely open, borderless digital space, […]

Speaker: Nicolas Tackett, University of California Berkeley Situated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. This talk will focus on the dramatic evolution of Chinese political culture, as reflected in new political ideals, new ideas of Chinese space, and a […]

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. Register in advance for this meeting: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pdO-grz4pG9ch-VhtIx9tM_Bncj7GvyLt After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.