• Urban Rusnak – Energy Connectivity and Investment Disputes in Eurasia

    Speaker: Urban Rusnák, Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Opening remarks: Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Join the Negotiation Task Force for a guest lecture by Urban Rusnák, Secretary General of the Energy Charter […]

  • Elizabeth Ingleson – Making Made In China: Race, Labor, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980

    History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Elizabeth Ingleson, Southern Methodist University Interested attendees should e-mail marinoauffant@gmail.com for a copy of the pre-circulated paper. Part of the Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) series, a forum for cutting-edge work in the fields of international and global history.

  • Jane Perlez – The Cultural Revolution Revisited: 1967-2019

    Taylor Seminar Room, Lippman House 1 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Jane Perlez, 2019 Joan Shorenstein Center Fellow, Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Moderator: Lucy Hornby, 2020 Nieman Fellow, Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief for the Financial Times. Long before she was Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, Jane Perlez was an accidental tourist at the peak of China's Cultural Revolution. […]

  • Kwok-Leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies

    Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang, Digital China Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Digital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain […]

  • Daniel Koss – Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China’s Communist Party

    Speaker: Daniel Koss, Lecturer, EALC, Harvard University In most non-democratic countries, today governing forty-four percent of the world population, the power of the regime rests upon a ruling party. Contrasting with conventional notions that authoritarian regime parties serve to contain elite conflict and manipulate electoral-legislative processes, this book presents the case of China and shows […]

  • Xi Yang – China’s Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Xi Yang, Visiting Researcher, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum Beijing Under the pressure of improving its environmental governance, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known as “coal-to-gas” in residential heating in Northern region. This bold policy sets strict gas replacement targets for “26 + 2” key cities. However, China suffered […]

  • Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig – China, Russia, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge

    Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Jessica Brandt, Head of Policy and Research, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Torrey Taussig, Research Director, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, Harvard Kennedy School Chair: Sebastián Royo, Professor of Government, Suffolk University; Visiting Scholar 2019-2020, Local Affiliate and Seminar Co-chair, CES, Harvard University https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2020/02/china-russia-europe-authoritarian

  • Bin Li – From History Books to Digital Humanities Database: Methods, Tools, and Case Studies of Chinese Classics

    Artificial intelligence technology has rapidly changed the study form of humanities. In this presentation, we will discuss the key issues in using natural language processing, deep learning, GIS, database and visualization technologies to design a new digital humanities database from the electronic texts of ancient books. We will introduce automatic tagging tools for ancient Chinese […]

  • EALC First Fridays Live Broadcast

    Speakers: Hisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History: "Toward a History of Timeless Wisdom" Dylan Suher, Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature: "Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumph at Midnight and the Birth of 'Television-Style Television'" The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard  invites you to join us for our first ever live broadcast of our signature […]