Events of Interest
Events
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The Arnold Arboretum and China: A Century-Old Partnership
Weld Hill Research Building 1300 Centre St., Boston, MA, United StatesSurrounded by our Bonsai & Penjing collection, enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres as you view Professor Yin Kaipu's (Chengdu Institute of Biology) photographs which document a century of environmental change. […]
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Gufran Beig – Anatomy of Extreme Pollution Event in a Megacity: Delhi
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Gufran Beig, Project Director, System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India; Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences; World […]
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Jennifer Hsieh – Noise, Decibels, and the Paradox of Reproducibility in Urban Taiwan
Davison Room, Music Building 3 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jennifer Hsieh, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Jennifer Hsieh holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Stanford University and comes to the Fairbank Center from the University of Amsterdam where […]
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David Yang – Historical Traumas and the Roots of Political Distrust: Political Inference from the Great Chinese Famine
Littauer Center, Room M16 1805 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: David Yang, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University Chairs: Melissa Dell, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University Claudia Goldin,Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard […]
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Martha Hanson – Heaven and Earth Are Within One’s Grasp (Qian Kun zai wo 乾坤在握): The Handy Mind in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine
Room 469, Science Center 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Professor Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins Part of the Harvard University Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series
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Tony Saich and Jesse Turiel – Polling China: Understanding Public Opinion Across China
Speakers: Tony Saich, Ash Center Director, and Jesse Tureil, PhD candidate, Boston University Join us for a conversation with Ash Center Director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs Tony Saich […]
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Jing-Bao Nie – In search of a Benevolent Polity: Eldery Suicide in China and a Confucian Socio-Ethical Vision of Eldercare
Speaker: Professor Jing-Bao Nie, University of Otago, New Zealand Chair: Professor Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical […]
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Lan Pei-Chia – Raising Global Families: Global Parenting and Class Inequality in Taiwan
Speaker: Prof. Lan Pei-Chia, National Taiwan University Chair: Prof. Andrew Gordon, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute https://harvard-yenching.org/events/raising-global-families-global-parenting-and-class-inequality-taiwan Based on in-depth interviews with ethnic Chinese parents from more than a hundred families […]
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East Asian Legal Studies Open House
Austin Hall Room 308 1515 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAn opportunity to meet EALS Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, and the 2018-2019 Visiting Scholars Remarks at 3:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.
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Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Andrew Gordon, Harvard University Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego Sugata Bose, Harvard University Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Moderator: […]
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China’s Anti-Poverty Miracle?
JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Lu Mai Secretary General, China Development Research Foundation Rohini Pande Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School Anthony Saich Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and Director, […]
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Panel Discussion – Strongman Politics in the 21st Century
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Elsa Clavé, Harvard University Asia Center Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University Valerie Sperling, Clark University Moderator: Thomas Vallely, Ash Center […]