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  • Indigenous Narrative: The Dynamic Biographies of gShen-rab Mi-bo, Founder of the Tibetan Bon Religion

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Konchok Tsering, Assistant Professor, School for Tibetan Studies, Minzu University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25 Chair/Discussant: Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard University This talk delves into the transformation of gShen-rab Mi-bo’s life stories within the Tibetan Bon religion, examining three significant texts: mDo ‘dus, mdo gzer mig, and mdo dri med gzi brjid. Each

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Homecoming) Qingchun: Gui

    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 debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • Film Screening: Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy – Youth (Hard Times) Qingchun: Ku

    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 debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • 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 debut work memorializes the declining Socialist industrial complex in Northeast China and its aging employees, the Youth trilogy chronicles the plights of young migrant workers

  • 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 scenes with archival footage, fragments from Jia’s earlier films, and documentary-style material to create a haunting portrait of love, memory, and transformation in modern China.The

  • 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 in Taiwan's party politics/democratic governance since President Lai was inaugurated in 2024; 2. The implications of US foreign policy under Trump 2.0 for the trilateral

  • 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 School and served as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, specializes in constitutional law and theory, including comparative constitutional law. His research includes studies

  • 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 crisis. The film immerses viewers in two colliding worlds: a booming industrial powerhouse driven by profit and progress, and a disappearing countryside where life is

  • CLA x Lambda Panel on LGBTQIA+ Advocacy in China

    WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speakers:Yanhui Peng, LGBTQIA+ rights litigation advocate in ChinaMingyue Gao, Partner, Guantao Law Firm, ChinaYing Xin, Program Manager, Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program, HKS Carr-Ryan Center; Former Director, Beijing LGBT CenterJoin CLA and Lambda for a panel discussion on LGBTQIA+ activism and advocacy in China! Lunch will be provided at the event. RSVP(https://forms.gle/JZNxYivSGfTVxmFL9). Questions: Zeqing Li

  • Ryan Martinez Mitchell — The Rise of Authoritarian Sustainability? China’s Transformative Engagement with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    WCC 3018, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Ryan Martinez Mitchell, Associate Professor of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Author of Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law Since the adoption of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, this global development concept has been increasingly incorporated into the People’s Republic of China’s structures of state planning,

  • Lik Sam Chan — The Politics of Dating Apps in Urban China

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Lik Sam Chan, Lecturer, University of SydneyMomo, Blued, Aloha, Rela, Lesdo. These were, once upon a time, some of the most popular mobile dating apps in China. In this book talk, Lik Sam Chan dissects how urban life and dating apps shape each other in the context of southern China. The narratives explored include straight

  • Films from the Film Study Center: Screening and Conversation

    Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Please join us, in partnership with ArtsThursdays, for a special screening of short films by Darol Olu Kae, Kendra McLaughlin, Tiff Rekem, and Svetlana Romanova—current fellows at the Film Study Center at Harvard. Following the screening, the filmmakers will participate in a conversation with Dennis Lim, Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival. Tiff Rekem
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