Events of Interest
Philippe LeCorre – EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Did Beijing Steal the Show?
Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Presented via Zoom Register at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9rPP_9PsTgizqjl-rRhxrA
Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuqsqjkqHtAFzbIKdd4b6f9r-qxzNdrn
Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
Speakers: Takashi Shiraishi, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018) Saori Katada, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Nonresident […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu – The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
Speaker: Tina Lu, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University When it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production, our […]
Erin Y. Huang – Ocean Media: South China Sea and Gilles Deleuze’s Desert Islands
Speaker: Erin Y. Huang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Princeton University “Humans can live on an island only by forgetting what an island represents,” writes Deleuze in his short essay “Desert Islands” (îles déserte; huangdao; mujintō; no-man island). But what does an island truly represent (that for Deleuze means the constant […]
Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2021 – Moving Bodies: Mobility and Control Across East Asia
Presented by: The Harvard East Asia Society, A GSAS Student Group, Harvard University For more information, including an agenda and a list of speakers, visit: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/2021-schedule.
The World is Watching: Activists and Academics on the Uyghur Genocide
Speakers: Rushan Abbas, Founder and Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs Kamaltürk Yalqun, General Secretary, Campaign for Uyghurs Darren Byler, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Rian Thum, Loyola University Join us to hear from activists and academics on the Uyghur genocide. Rushan Abbas, a prominent Uyghur American activist and the founder and Director of Campaign for […]
Shellen Wu – Mapping Science in a Global Age: the Human Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
Speaker: Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series; supported by the Harvard University Asia Center Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register here.
Robert Morrison – Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II
Speaker: Robert Morrison, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Bowdoin College The courts of the Ottoman sultans Mehmed II (d. 1481) and Bayezid II (d. 1512) were, on one hand, the site of significant developments of earlier scientific traditions inherited from Iran and Central Asia. On the other hand, scholars at the Ottoman court were […]
The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
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 […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Paula Varsano – Troubled Hearts and Worried Minds: Knowing the Subjects of the “Airs of the States”
Speaker: Paula Varsano, University of California, Berkeley In a moment when digital humanities, distant reading, manuscript studies, and a variety of historical and political lenses invite us to look at […]
Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvduyurD0sH9Ud92IUxxZt3oOUh4kv6XfQ