Events of Interest
Events
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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David Mervart – The Missing Colonial Empire: Reading European Histories from within the Sinosphere
Speaker: David Mervart, Associate Professor in Japanese History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain Moderator: David Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair, Dept. […]
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Qing Yang – A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels
Speaker: Qing Yang, Professor, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Qing Yang is a Professor in the Department of […]
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Lin Chaochao – Rethinking the Making of the Chinese Working Class after 1949
Speaker: Lin Chaochao, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The year 1949 marked a watershed […]