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SUMMARY:China and the World in the Post-COVID-19 Era
DESCRIPTION:What will the impact be of COVID-19 on the global economy and how will that impact global health and the potential for global collaboration for a healthier future? Join “China and the World in a Post-COVID-19 Era” to gain perspectives on the post-pandemic outlook for trade and investment\, sustainable development\, collaborations in public health\, and mental and psychological health. With an in-person and Zoom-based audience of academics\, policymakers\, medical practitioners\, and social entrepreneurs\, the forum features keynote speakers Jeffrey D. Sachs (Columbia University) and Jeffrey Koplan (Emory University) as well as discussants from Chinese and U.S. universities\, Chinese government officials\, and social entrepreneurs. \nOpening:\n\nQizhu Tang (唐其柱)\, Vice President\, Wuhan University; Dean\, Wuhan University School of Medicine\nJuhua Xiao (肖菊华)\, Vice-Governor of Hubei Province\nHonghui Chen (陈红辉)\, Vice-Mayor of Wuhan\nXiankang Dou (窦贤康)\, President\, Wuhan University\nMark Elliott (欧立德)\, Vice-Provost for International Affairs\, Harvard University; and Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History\, Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, Harvard University\n\nSession I: Broader Implications on Global Health and Psycho-Social Impacts\n\nWinnie Yip (叶志敏)\, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\nJeffrey Koplan\, Vice-President for Global Health\, Emory University; Former Director\, U.S. Centers for Disease Control\nBarry Bloom\, Joan and Jack Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health\, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases\, and Former Dean\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nRuiping Xiao (肖瑞平)\, Director\, Institute of Molecular Medicine\, Peking University; Associate Editor \, New England Journal of Medicine\nShekar Saxena\, Professor of Global Mental Health\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\n\nSession II: The Future Under Global Economic Integration\n\nSong Min (宋敏)\, Dean of School of Economics and Management\, Wuhan University\nJeffrey D. Sachs\, University Professor and Director\, Center for Sustainable Development\, Columbia University\nYao Yang (姚洋)\, Dean\, National School of Development at Peking University\nBert Hofman (郝福满)\, Director of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore\, Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School\n\nClosing:\n\nWannian Liang (梁万年\, Executive Associate Dean of Tsinghua University\, Vanke School of Public Health; former Director-General of Healthcare Reform\, National Health Commission of China\nWilliam Hsiao (萧庆伦)\, Emeritus Professor of Economics\, Department of Health Policy and Management\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\nDongsheng Chen (陈东升)\, Chairman of Dong Fureng Research Institute of Wuhan University; Founder\, Chairman and CEO of Taikang Insurance Group\n\nOrganized by Wuhan University (School of Medicine\, and School of Economics and Management)\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University\, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and sponsored by the Taikang Public Health and Epidemic Control Fund. \nResources:\n\nPlease see additional information in the program agenda here.\nRegistration required. Register here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-wuhan-forum-china-and-the-world-in-the-post-covid-19-era/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T110000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Language Resources
DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nWhen: Nov 12\, 2020 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)\n\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqdOyurjotGNQFReBoL3L0wpgjXm0IhIlk\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-language-resources-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201112T190000
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SUMMARY:China Town Hall: Society & Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRaymond Chang\, Major League Baseball China\nLucas Sin\, Junzi Kitchen\nJanet Yang\, Janet Yang Productions \nModerator: Alison Friedman\, Performing Arts of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority \nStarting with ping-pong diplomacy in 1971\, cultural diplomacy has played a pivotal role in facilitating mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and China. This event will gather leading cultural figures to discuss how\, despite sometimes turbulent political and economic relations\, sports\, food\, and film continue to reveal our shared humanity and connect us through culture. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://www.tfaforms.com/4855337
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-town-hall-society-culture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201113T130000
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SUMMARY:Chinese Literature Across the Borderlands
DESCRIPTION:Convened by:\nDavid Der-wei Wang\, Harvard University\nKyle Shernuk\, Yale University\nMiya Qiong Xie\, Dartmouth University \nThis workshop aims to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a territorial gateway\, a geopolitical space\, a contact zone\, a liminal terrain\, and an imaginary portal. To this end\, participants will explore the intersection of ethnic\, linguistic\, cultural\, and ecological dynamics that inform the cartography of the Chinese borderland\, from the Northeast to the Southwest\, from Inner Mongolia to Tibet\, and from Nanyang to Nanmei. We will reflect on the recent\, interdisciplinary growth in understanding the characteristics of borders and frontiers\, including migration and settlement\, cultural hybridity\, and transnationalism\, as well as take issues with the boundaries of literature as it manifests itself in multiple forms of media and mediation. This workshop is organized around a forthcoming special issue of Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. \nSchedule:  \n13:00-14:00: Panelist Positions Papers (3-5 min/presenter)\n14:00-14:45: Panelist Roundtable Discussion\n14:45-15:00: Q&A w/ Zoom Attendees \nPanel 1: “Bordering” National Imaginaries  \n\nMiya Xie (Dartmouth): “The Making and Unmaking of Nationalist Literature from the National Margin: Rereading Duanmu Hongliang’s The Korchin Banner Plains as Borderland Writing”\nYanshuo Zhang (Michigan): Shen Congwen’s Idealized Ethnic: Borderland\, Ethnicity\, and the Spiritual Enchantments of a Modern Master\nLevi Gibbs (Dartmouth): “The Cultural Hybridity of Chineseness: Regional Transgression in Stories of Northern Shaanxi”\n\nPanel 2: Ethnic Negotiations \n\nTuo Jianing (Sichuan University): “Sinophone Hui Literature in the Mengjiang Regime during the Second Sino-Japanese War”\nJerôme de Wit (University of Tübingen): “The Cultural Creation of the Ethnic Korean Minority in China: Focusing on the Portrayal of Local Landscape in post-1949 Korean-Chinese Literature”\nChristopher Peacock (Columbia): “Unsavory Characters: Forced Bilingualism in the Tibetan Fiction of Tsering Döndrup”\nE.K. Tan (Stony Brook University): “Conciliatory Amalgamation: The Politics of Survival in Sinophone Uyghur Writer Padi Guli’s A Hundred Years of Bloodline (2015)”\nMark Bender (Ohio State): “Treading Poetic Borders in Southwest China and Northeast India”\n\nPanel 3: Sinophone and Xenophone Articulations \n\nBrian Bernards (USC): “Sinophonic Detours and Trespasses in Colonial Burma: The Transborder Poetics of Ai Wu’s Travels in the South”\nJessica Tan (Harvard): “Unfinished Revolutions: Wei Beihua\, Chairil Anwar and the Limits of Realism of Post-war Mahua Literature”\nKyle Shernuk (Yale): “Embracing the Xenophone: Siu Kam Wen and the Possibility of Spanish-language Chinese Literature\n\n\nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nl2mg5FtTtydlP0t4pUbVg.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/chinese-literature-across-the-borderlands/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T193000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - East Asia Responds to U.S. Election Results
DESCRIPTION:Presenters:\nToshihiro Nakayama\, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy\, Faculty of Policy Management\, Keio University; Adjunct Fellow\, Japan Institute of International Affairs\nShin-wha Lee\, Professor\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, Korea University\nWu Xinbo\, Dean\, Institute of International Studies; Director\, Center for American Studies; Fudan University\nDiscussant: Ezra Vogel\, Honorary Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences\, Emeritus\, Harvard University\nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcuuvqT0rHtU4M2pcRaMBZj73P1WwZXCh
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-east-asia-responds-to-u-s-election-results/
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CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201119T200000
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SUMMARY:Tao Leigh Goffe - "My Mother Told Me I am Chinese": Afro-Asian Aesthetics in the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tao Leigh Goffe\, Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Feminist\, Gender & Sexuality Studies\, Cornell University \nIn this talk\, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss the aesthetic challenge ‘Chinese’ poses as a racial category in the Caribbean. The introduction of Chinese as a category of labor to the West Indian plantation (Jamaica\, Trinidad\, Cuba) is a history she traces from 1803 to the present through the institution of “racial indenture” as a replacement from enslaved African labor\, chiefly on sugar plantations. Identifying common aesthetic strands of Chinese cosmology in artwork by people of Chinese descent with roots in the Caribbean\, Goffe asks questions about the Chinese haunting of the Caribbean plantation. \nMade possible by the generous support of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations \nPresented via Zoom\nJoin at: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93136279659?pwd=VUo2cVBHRUE0ZnppM0hlUE56YWNtQT09
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tao-leigh-goffe-my-mother-told-me-i-am-chinese-afro-asian-aesthetics-in-the-caribbean/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201124T120000
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SUMMARY:Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala - Uyghur Poetry in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opportunity to hear from Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala\, two of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur today. The event will feature opening remarks by Mark Elliott\, Harvard’s Vice Provost of International Affairs\, followed by presentations from both poets. We will also have the opportunity to hear from Dr Gülnar Eziz\, Harvard Preceptor in Uyghur and Chaghatay and Dr. Joshua Freeman of Princeton’s Society of Fellows\, on their translation work. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Harvard Hillel\, Uyghur Academy-USA\, the Human Rights Working Group\, and the Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom. \nOpen to the public.\nRegistration is required.\nRegister here: https://guestlist.co/events/666291 \nProceeds from the event will fund books and supplies for Uyghur Academy-USA and the Boston Uyghur School.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/tahir-hamut-izgil-and-rana-yashar-aybala-uyghur-poetry-in-translation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201130T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201130T220000
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SUMMARY:Cheng Yu-yu - Revolution in the Nation of Poetry: Physical and Linguistic Perspectives since 1919  (詩國革命的「漢語」脈絡)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Cheng Yu-yu\, National Taiwan University \nThis talk will be given in Mandarin. \nOnce Chinese poetry becomes “modern poetry\,” its so-called modernity must be discussed in the context of the modernity of “Chinese language” itself. From the late Qing and early Republican periods on\, when confronted with the invasion of such things as new lexicon\, new academic disciplines\, alphabetic languages\, and English grammar\, the Chinese language\, Chinese characters\, and the cultural tradition to which it belongs have never ceased responding to and reflecting upon such foreign forces. In examining this “modernizing” process of Chinese poetry\, which progressed from the question of “how to speak to the new world” to that of “how to reestablish a new relationship with the world\,” one cannot overlook the new ways of thinking of the Chinese language that emerged from and were constructed by various disciplines\, including grammatology\, philology\, phonology\, psychology\, and rhetoric studies. And in discussing “modern poetry\,” one should not disregard how figures such as Ma Jianzhong\, Liu Shipei\, Huang Ren\, Huang Kan\, Tang Yue\, Hu Pu’an\, Chen Wangdao\, and Li Anzhai\, as well as Chen Shih-Hsiang and Kao Yu-kung\, have consciously sought the basis upon which the Chinese language and Chinese characters depend for their existence and adaption to change. What lie at the very core of this basis are the “speakability” and the “manifestability” of the Chinese language. These concepts were engaged in a tug-of-war with the tumultuous modern vision prevalent since the late Qing\, exhibiting a well-matched rivalry that cannot be ignored. \n當漢語詩成為「『現代』詩」，這所謂「現代質地」（modernity）還是必須回到「漢語」的現代性來討論。晚清民初以來，面對新語詞、新學科、拼音文字、英語文法這些如同外來侵襲的事物，漢語、漢字及其所在的文化系統，從未停止回應與思考；從「如何向新世界開口發聲」到「如何重建與世界的新關係」，漢語詩「現代化」的進程裡，不應該忽視當時由語法學、文字學、音韻學、心理學、修辭學等不同領域出發而建構的漢語新思維，討論「現代詩」不應該忽略如馬建忠、劉師培、黃人、黃侃、唐鉞、胡樸安、陳望道、李安宅，以至於陳世驤或高友工等人，是如何自覺的去發現漢語、漢字所以存有與應變的依據，而其中允為核心的是漢語的「可發聲性」與「可體現性」，正與晚清以來高張喧騰的現代視線相互拉鋸，呈現不可輕忽的抗衡態勢。 \nProfessor Yu-yu Cheng\, Academician of Academia Sinica\, the Chair Professor of Chinese literature at National Taiwan University\, is devoted to developing pioneering and interdisciplinary interpretations of Chinese classical literature by combining the Eastern and Western humanistic thoughts. She enjoys an international reputation for her contribution to the discourses of space\, body\, and Chinese lyrical tradition. Cheng has published numerous books\, including “Literary Ch’i” in Six Dynasties Literary Theory\, The Situation Aesthetics in Six Dynasties\, Gender and Nation: Discourses of Encountering Sorrow in Han and Jin Rhapsodies\, The Poet in Text and Landscape: Mutual Definition of Self and Landscape\, Metaphor: Crossing Categorical Boundaries in Ancient Chinese Literature\, and Gesture and Language: A New Approach to the Revolution of a Poetic Tradition\, etc. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegistration required.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-GtqDosHtFLLK39YRE6hU_gP7MyM9sX
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/cheng-yu-yu-tradition-and-modernity-in-the-revolution-of-the-poetry-nation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T110000
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SUMMARY:Meng Gao - The Essential Role of Vertical Profile Observations of Atmospheric Composition in China
DESCRIPTION:**PLEASE NOTE THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED FROM NOVEMBER 18 TO DECEMBER 2** \nSpeaker: Meng Gao\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography\, Hong Kong Baptist University; Associate\, Harvard-China Project \nMonitoring and modeling/predicting air pollution are crucial to understanding the links between emissions and air pollution levels\, to supporting air quality management\, and to reducing human exposure. Yet\, current monitoring networks and modeling capabilities are unfortunately inadequate to understand the physical and chemical processes above ground\, and to support attribution of sources. Vertical observations of atmospheric composition would be essential to reduce uncertainties\, and to advance diagnostic understanding and prediction of air pollution. In this talk\, three major issues of air quality research in China will be exemplified: (1) current observation networks provide only partial view of air pollution\, and this can lead to misleading air quality management actions; (2) satellite retrievals of air pollutants are widely used in air pollution studies\, such as health risk assessment\, but too often users do not acknowledge that they have large uncertainties\, which can be reduced with measurements of vertical profiles; (3) air quality modeling and forecasting require vertical observational constraints. \nMeng Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography\, Hong Kong Baptist University and Associate\, Harvard-China Project. He earned a B.Sc degree in atmospheric physics from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and an M.Sc and Ph.D in chemical engineering from the University of Iowa. Dr. Gao Meng’s research focuses on air pollution in highly polluted regions (China and India) and its interactions with health and climate. He uses a coupled meteorology-chemistry model to investigate in detail the chemical and physical processes leading to severe particulate matter and ozone pollution in Asia. He has demonstrated that aerosol interactions with radiation and clouds contribute in important ways to intensification of aerosol enhancements. He has shown how the assimilation of PM2.5 in winter haze periods can improve model predictions and that these improved predictions can reduce significantly the uncertainties in estimates of health impacts and aerosol radiative forcing. He has also shown how ocean temperature in autumn can be used effectively to predict the severity of Indian winter haze\, which can help guide pollution control planning at least a season in advance. \nPresented via Zoom.\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctduyqpzwiGNWMZt42nWYMuuC1aBGxxdHN
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/meng-gao-the-essential-role-of-vertical-profile-observations-of-atmospheric-composition-in-china/
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CATEGORIES:Environment,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201203T203000
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SUMMARY:Michael Szonyi - Did Chinese Peasants Have a Revolution? Perspectives from the Long Twentieth-Century
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University.\nDiscussant: Gail Hershatter\, Distinguished Professor of History\, University of California – Santa Cruz\nModerator: Jeffrey Wasserstrom\, Chancellor’s Professor of History\, University of Califorina – Irvine \nFor much of the last seventy years the answer to the question “Did Chinese peasants have a revolution?” has seemed self-evident. But from our vantage point in 2020\, it is equally self-evident that rural people did not have the revolution they were promised or that they expected\, and that their experience of revolution was highly distinctive. In this presentation\, Professor Michael Szonyi first explores some of the ways that focusing on the experience of rural people may help us rethink our understandings of both modern Chinese history and the challenges facing contemporary China.  Then he turns to discuss how one aspect of rural life – the household development cycle – has impacted the experience of revolutionary change in rural China. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration required\nRegister at: https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fM-yryoyRxqGMIiJRRHAWg
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/michael-szonyi-did-chinese-peasants-have-a-revolution-perspectives-from-the-long-twentieth-century/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T094500
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SUMMARY:From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria- Eliminating Countries in Africa
DESCRIPTION:On December 7–8\, 2020\, Harvard University will partner with National Institute for Parasitic Diseases (NIPD)\, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\, and the World Health Organization to convene a special scientific symposium titled\, “From 30 Million to Zero Malaria Cases in China: Lessons Learned for Malaria-Eliminating Countries in Africa.” \nParticipants will gain insights on China’s successful integration of sophisticated genetic technologies with ongoing malaria surveillance efforts for improved malaria policy decision-making for eradication and also gain insights as experts discuss the progress and challenges of malaria elimination in middle- to high-burden countries. \nMore information here. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-30-million-to-zero-malaria-cases-in-china-lessons-learned-for-malaria-eliminating-countries-in-africa/
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CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201207T220000
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SUMMARY:Song Lihong - Trauma and Transcendence: The Shadow of the Holocaust on an Israeli Sinologist
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Song Lihong\, Professor\, Department of Religious Studies and Glazer Institute of Jewish and Israel Studies\, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2020-21\nChair/discussant: David Stern\, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature\, Harvard University \nThe late Irene Eber (1929-2019)\, professor of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a long-time affiliate of the Fairbank Center of Harvard\, is arguably the scholar on the intercultural and transnational encounters between Jews and modern China. She is also a Holocaust survivor who wrote an inimitable memoir\, The Choice: Poland\, 1939-1945. It offered an unparalleled chance to unravel how China is construed by a Jewish Sinologist haunted by an all-pervasive mood of subdued obsession and inner wrestling with her memories of the Holocaust. This talk\, sitting on the intersection of China studies\, Jewish studies\, and Holocaust studies\, will examine the nexus between her Jewish identity and her academic vocation\, and discuss how this tormented scholar made a variety of personal and academic choices and managed to find her position in this world of imponderables. \nhttps://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/trauma-and-transcendence/ \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_brAA3a7e79Sj6D3
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/song-lihong-trauma-and-transcendence-the-shadow-of-the-holocaust-on-an-israeli-sinologist/
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210203T150000
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UID:10326-1612358100-1612364400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Wei-chieh Tsai - Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei-chieh Tsai\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, Shenzhen University \nSettler nativization is an important issue\, yet insufficiently studied in colonial histories of early modern Eurasian empires. In the early modern era\, the Qing and Russian empires both penetrated the heartland of Inner Eurasia. Military subjugation and conquest was followed by a migration of people and colonization toward the Inner Eurasian borderlands. Both regimes faced similar problems\, and settler nativization was one of them. Those Han Chinese and Russian settlers were mostly poor\, lowly educated\, and single men working as farmers and merchants. They migrated into the Inner Eurasian borderlands seeking arable lands and trade opportunities. To survive in the strange lands\, those settlers and their offspring as minorities had to work with indigenous peoples and gradually acquired indigenous cultures and identities. This paper explores the similarity and difference between the nativization of Han Chinese and Russian settlers and the responses of the states. This paper argues that the difference of autonomy and local authority of native peoples in both empires should contribute to the consequence of settler nativization in the Qing and Russian empires. \nRegister for Zoom meeting link
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-chieh-tsai-settler-nativization-in-the-inner-eurasian-borderlands-of-the-qing-and-russian-empires/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210204T160000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210126T155011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T155011Z
UID:10311-1612447200-1612454400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Philippe LeCorre - EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Did Beijing Steal the Show?
DESCRIPTION: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 \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9rPP_9PsTgizqjl-rRhxrA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/philippe-lecorre-eu-china-comprehensive-agreement-on-investment-did-beijing-steal-the-show/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T120000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210203T214049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T214049Z
UID:10366-1613473200-1613476800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuqsqjkqHtAFzbIKdd4b6f9r-qxzNdrn
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-library-bibliographic-orientation-session/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T213000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210216T152730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T152730Z
UID:10413-1614024000-1614029400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nTakashi Shiraishi\, Chancellor\, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President\, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President\, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018)\nSaori Katada\, Professor of International Relations\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, University of Southern California\nDaniel Drezner\, Professor of International Politics\, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University; Nonresident Senior Fellow\, Brookings Institution\nWilliam Norris\, Associate Professor\, The Bush School of Government and Public Service\, Texas A&M University \nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nThis symposium is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOyorj0tGtCej8VhG_ljsUW-cOF6EsNp
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-japanese-economic-statecraft-in-an-era-of-u-s-china-rivalry/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210126T160440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T160440Z
UID:10312-1614096000-1614103200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu - The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tina Lu\, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures\, Yale University \nWhen it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production\, our field is still largely dominated by Craig Clunas’ framework (itself largely adapted from Bourdieu). I am interested in considering the politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji 閒情偶寄 (1671) not simply as a means for its author to climb up a social hierarchy but as a much more expansive political imagining. Many of the collection’s essays treat what are obviously political topics (for example\, behavior appropriate to people of different social standing)\, but I will argue that their form and language also demand consideration as political acts. \nPlease note that Professor Lu’s talk will be recorded and archived on the MHC and EALC websites. If you do not feel comfortable being recorded\, please disable your video. The Q&A session will not be recorded. \nThis event is generously sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtc-iopzwoG9KcANoTFgoQondjKok6oHAY
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-tina-lu-the-politics-of-li-yus-xianqing-ouji-casual-expressions/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T210000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210216T154617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210216T154617Z
UID:10414-1614196800-1614200400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Erin Y. Huang - Ocean Media:  South China Sea and Gilles Deleuze’s Desert Islands
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Erin Y. Huang\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature\, Princeton University \n“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 strife between the earth’s elements)? What is producing the culture of forgetting? And why do islands appear deserted even when they are inhabited? In recent years when the large-scale Chinese state-led artificial islanding (rengong zaodao) in the South China Sea created an international territorial dispute\, caused by new experimentations with the limit of the early modern European legal concept of the “free sea” (coined by the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Hugo Grotius)\, these questions that Deleuze raised in the 1950s return as the definition of the “island” increasingly gravitates toward the “technologies of islanding” that are reshaping the operations of global financial and military power. Transforming the “island” into free treaty ports\, military vessels and bases\, logistics cities\, and special economic zones\, islanding\, rather than insularity\, is at the heart of the critical infrastructure of global circulation. Bringing together the methodological approaches of infrastructure and media studies and the island writings of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze\, this talk explores a new genealogy of island critique\, from Danial Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that marks the beginning of British maritime power to the contemporary American satellite surveillance network on Asian oceans (e.g. AMTI’s “Island Tracker”) and the expansion of Chinese infrastructural empire that is creating new conflict shorelines. Rather than defining “ocean media” at the outset\, this examination probes what we mean by “media” in the context of understanding capital’s creation of “environment\,” and the new conceptualizations of “Europe” (old centers of maritime power) and “Asia” (new experimenters of existing colonial techniques). \nErin Y. Huang is assistant professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature and an associated faculty of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility (Duke University Press\, 2020). She is currently working on her second book that focuses on maritime capitalism\, islanding\, special economic zones\, and feminist critiques of global logistics. \nThe talk is part of the East Asian Media Ecologies lecture series. \nPresented via Zoom\nLog on to: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91834267809?pwd=Q3pCZVZBM3RXSzVwVlBFRC9aZz09SWNw
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/erin-y-huang-ocean-media-south-china-sea-and-gilles-deleuzes-desert-islands/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210227T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210208T144411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210208T144411Z
UID:10387-1614420000-1614520800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2021 - Moving Bodies: Mobility and Control Across East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: The Harvard East Asia Society\, A GSAS Student Group\, Harvard University \nFor more information\, including an agenda and a list of speakers\, visit: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/2021-schedule.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2021-moving-bodies-mobility-and-control-across-east-asia/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T141500
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210218T163451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210218T163451Z
UID:10468-1614517200-1614521700@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The World is Watching: Activists and Academics on the Uyghur Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRushan Abbas\, Founder and Executive Director\, Campaign for Uyghurs\nKamaltürk Yalqun\, General Secretary\, Campaign for Uyghurs\nDarren Byler\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Colorado\nRian Thum\, Loyola University \nJoin 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 Uyghurs\, will be presenting an overview of the current crisis as well as personal stories of engaging in activism. Kamaltürk Yalqun will be sharing how the persecution has affected Uyghur intellectuals\, including his father\, Yalqun Rozi\, a famous Uyghur scholar and literary critic. Dr. Darren Byler\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado\, will be sharing some of his research\, including a discussion of surveillance and terror rhetoric. Dr. Rian Thum will be sharing his ethnographic research on China and Islam. Each panelist will be presenting individually\, with a question and answer session at the end. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association\, Harvard College Democrats\, Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom Harvard Chapter\, HLS Advocates for Human Rights\, Harvard Hillel\, Latinas Unidas de Harvard College\, Harvard Facilitators for Religious\, Ethical\, and Spiritual Inquiry\, the HLS Students Turkish Law Students Association\, the Harvard Human Rights and Business Law Students Association\, and the Harvard Law School Immigration Project. \nPresented via WebEx\nFor more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-is-watching-activists-and-academics-on-the-uyghur-genocide-tickets-141572379799?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-world-is-watching-activists-and-academics-on-the-uyghur-genocide/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210302T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210302T131500
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210222T154358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210222T154358Z
UID:10477-1614686400-1614690900@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Shellen Wu - Mapping Science in a Global Age: the Human Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shellen Wu\, University of Tennessee\, Knoxville \nScience and Technology in Asia Seminar Series; supported by the Harvard University Asia Center \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shellen-wu-mapping-science-in-a-global-age-the-human-dynamics-of-scientific-knowledge/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210303T131500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210303T150000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210129T141713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210129T141713Z
UID:10327-1614777300-1614783600@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Robert Morrison - Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Morrison\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Religion\, Bowdoin College \nThe 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 more interested than their predecessors in the scientific culture of contemporary non-Islamic societies. Important science came east while the science of Islamic societies traveled west. In this lecture\, Professor Morrison will describe some of the content of the science but focus on the cultural dynamics that facilitated this remarkable scientific exchange which had a lasting impact on the European Renaissance. \nRegister for Zoom meeting link
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/robert-morrison-scientific-exchange-at-the-courts-of-mehmed-ii-and-bayezid-ii/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T153000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210218T214659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210218T214659Z
UID:10472-1614949200-1614958200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
DESCRIPTION: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 accounts and perspectives of Asian American women have often been overlooked in formal records\, and the tangible objects providing critical evidence of their histories have been ignored. \nThis program will bring together Asian American activists and artists\, including novelists\, filmmakers\, and photographers\, to share the stories that inspire their craft and the objects they retain as part of their personal histories. \n“The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep” reflects the Radcliffe Institute’s commitment to revealing complete\, balanced\, and diverse histories of women in America. \nYou can register for this event by visiting www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-stories-we-tell-objects-we-keep-conference-virtual.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-stories-we-tell-and-the-objects-we-keep-asian-american-women-and-the-archives-2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210309T180000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210126T160745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T160745Z
UID:10313-1615305600-1615312800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Paula Varsano - Troubled Hearts and Worried Minds: Knowing the Subjects of the "Airs of the States”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paula Varsano\, University of California\, Berkeley \nIn a moment when digital humanities\, distant reading\, manuscript studies\, and a variety of historical and political lenses invite us to look at literature as a manifestation of larger and\, sometimes\, impersonal cultural forces\, this talk takes up a different constellation of questions:  how does one recognize and define the presumed poetic subject in early Chinese poetry\, and how does it function as an object of understanding\, as an entity whose voice we continue to seem to hear\, whose words we endlessly examine? This talk will home in on the nascent lyric subject already evident in the “Airs of the States” of the Book of Odes\, or Shijing. Specifically\, it will explore how particular figural devices create meaning primarily through indeterminacy\, enriching the seemingly easy legibility of the archetypal lovelorn maiden\, the wandering soldier\, or the misunderstood friend with the hidden depths of a three-dimensional subject. \nPaula Varsano\, Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of California\, Berkeley\, specializes in classical poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries\, with particular interest in literature and subjectivity\, the evolution of spatial representation in poetry\, and the history and poetics of traditional literary criticism. Among her publications are: Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and its Critical Reception (Hawaii\, 2003) and The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture (SUNY\, 2016). She is currently completing Knowing and Being Known: The Lyric Subject in Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUof-iqrDkrEtH9z_-tgweek_mGAX1bWlYw
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-paula-varsano-troubled-hearts-and-worried-minds-knowing-the-subjects-of-the-airs-of-the-states/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210310T210000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210203T214255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T214255Z
UID:10367-1615406400-1615410000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvduyurD0sH9Ud92IUxxZt3oOUh4kv6XfQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-library-bibliographic-orientation-session-2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T170000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210309T181314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T181314Z
UID:10524-1615564800-1615568400@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:David Mervart - The Missing Colonial Empire: Reading European Histories from within the Sinosphere
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Mervart\, Associate Professor in Japanese History\, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)\, Spain\nModerator: David Howell\, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair\, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC)\, Harvard University \nThis talk proposes to take stock of the conceptual vocabulary which early Japanese observers and commentators resorted to when trying to describe and understand the historical trajectory of what we now so self-evidently perceive as an ‘imperial’ expansion of the western powers’ dominion around the world. \nBy the late eighteenth century\, there existed a well-established convention to translate western modes of universal sovereignty (Kayzer\, Caesar\, Tsar\, Imperator) into the equally universalist nomenclature of the post-classical Chinese political theology. By extension\, it had become perfectly possible to speak of an ‘emperor-land’ (Ch: diguo; J: teikoku) as a general type of polity. Yet\, despite these conditions of translatability by means of such comparative political vocabulary\, curiously\, the expansion of European powers over the globe was not described in the language of Sino-Japanese equivalent of ‘empire’. \nGiven that Japanese commentators did not see the conquest and settlement of the non-European world as an instance of empire\, what conceptual vocabulary did they use? Which is really to ask: What class of known historical events serving as a general precedent did they suggest the exploits of the Occidentals to be an intuitive instance of? Querying a range of primary sources from the 1790s–1840s\, this talk will try to offer some answers while sketching an alternative\, historically documented way of articulating the ‘age of empire’. \nReischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuc-GorDMuHNOzItWEpM9zgGBqDpUMMhVq
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-mervart-the-missing-colonial-empire-reading-european-histories-from-within-the-sinosphere/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T110000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210309T213346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T213346Z
UID:10527-1615975200-1615978800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Qing Yang - A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qing Yang\, Professor\, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology \nQing Yang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is also an Alumna (Visiting Scholar) and Collaborator of the Harvard-China Project. Her forthcoming paper in Nature Communications explores biochar as a contributing factor in attaining China’s renewable energy goals and carbon reduction. Her research interests include renewable energy systems\, and their implications on ecological and environmental systems. She studies greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption for renewable energy derived processes. Professor Yang earned her Ph.D. from Peking University where she focused on energy systems analysis. \nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment\, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAodeurpjorGtWM_8QLxMZQEsvQ7Xe_su3L
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/qing-yang-a-ready-to-implement-carbon-negative-option-to-help-china-achieve-carbon-neutrality-biochar-with-biofuels/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210406T103000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210325T162013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T162013Z
UID:10547-1617699600-1617705000@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Lin Chaochao - Rethinking the Making of the Chinese Working Class after 1949
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lin Chaochao\, Department of History\, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry\, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government\, Harvard University; Director\, Harvard-Yenching Institute \nThe year 1949 marked a watershed in Chinese working-class history. With rapid industrialization\, the policy inclination of the state brought great changes to all aspects of the working-class: their size and composition\, job security\, labor insurance\, and the housing\, medical care\, education and cultural benefits they can enjoy. Because of the relationship of production and exploitation which is different from the classical class theory\, the real existence of the working class under the planned system is often questioned. Researchers are more likely to regard it as the class shaped by politics than the class subject with independent consciousness. This talk is not only a reflection on the theoretical logic of class formation\, but also a reflection on the real historical experience of the Chinese working class. Based on the discussion of several controversial issues\, this study would like to find out the pattern and the path of the Chinese working-class formation after 1949. \nMore info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/rethinking-the-making-of-the-chinese-working-class-after-1949/ \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5sASphqhv6BkbvE
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lin-chaochao-rethinking-the-making-of-the-chinese-working-class-after-1949/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T110000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210401T130613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210401T130613Z
UID:10572-1617789600-1617793200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Li Zheng - Decarbonization Pathways of China's Power Sector
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Li Zheng\, Executive Vice President\, Institute for Climate Change and Sustainable Development\, Tsinghua University; Professor\, Department of Energy and Power Engineering\, Tsinghua University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdeGopj4oHtFVDnYKTCpu9EiOozMH7rFi
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/li-zheng-decarbonization-pathways-of-chinas-power-sector/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210407T133000
DTSTAMP:20260719T184247
CREATED:20210331T170156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210331T170156Z
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SUMMARY:Free Ekpar: Commemorating Five Years of the Unjust Detention of Ekpar Asat
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nSophie Richardson\, Human Rights Watch\nThor Halvorssen\, President\, Human Rights Foundation\nIrwin Cotler\, Raoul Wallenberg Center\nGregory Niemeyer\, University Of California\, Berkeley\nChris Coons\, US Senator\, Delaware\nMartha Minow\, Former Dean\, Harvard Law School \nJoin Rayhan Asat (Harvard Law School ‘16) in commemorating the fifth anniversary of her brother Ekpar’s imprisonment by the Chinese government. This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation\, the Raoul Wallenberg Center\, the Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom\, the Trebuchet\, Harvard Law School Advocates for Human Rights\, and Harvard Jewish Law Students Association. \nMore information: https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/event/free-ekpar-commemorating-five-years-unjust-detention \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGlf6h3RSBLN-qfrZ1qC9ZUnzaCb84E0SriNHWRXDIjeP0kg/viewform
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/free-ekpar-commemorating-five-years-of-the-unjust-detention-of-ekpar-asat/
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