Events of Interest
Events
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Film Screening: The Eagle Huntress
Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United StatesFree admission Cosponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums
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Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza
Speaker: David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation Join David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior […]
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Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer’s View
Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel, AIIB (retired) Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University […]
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History in Images, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking
Boston University Photonics Center 8 St. Mary's Street, 9th Floor, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Carma Hinton, Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Comments by: Gerald Peary, Suffolk University Sponsored by the BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the […]
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The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think […]
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The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan, 1947
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Victor Louzon, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University The February 28th Incident, as the 1947 Taiwanese rebellion against Guomindang rule and its bloody suppression are known, […]
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State Legitimation and Popular Political Participation in the Early Modern Era: England 1560-1640, Japan 1660-1868, and China 1720-1840
Professor Wenkai He, Radcliffe/Yenching Fellow, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Hong Kong University Science and Technology, Division of Social Science Chair: Professor David Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Department of East […]
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China’s Banking Transformation: The Untold Story
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: James Stent, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of XacBank of Mongolia. Pundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has […]
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“Behemoth”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesBeginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the […]
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Trump and Asia: Business as Usual? U.S.-Asia Business and Trade in the Trump Era
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe "Trump and Asia" series continues with with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia.
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Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
HUCE Seminar Room 440 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Amy Zhang, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Day One Focus: China and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century May 1, 2017 | 4pm - 6pm Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South […]
