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  • Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators,

  • Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators,

  • Objects of Addiction: The Legacy of the Opium Wars

    Harvard Art Museum, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy St, cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers:Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard UniversityWilliam Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolRana Mitter, S. T. Lee Professor of U.S.–Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolMeg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of

  • Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators,

  • Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators,

  • Margaret Hillenbrand – Read Your Mind: Facial Recognition Technology and Contemporary Chinese Portraiture

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, University of Oxford Margaret Hillenbrand's paper probes the links between facial recognition technology and contemporary Chinese portraiture. Its point of departure is a recent paper published by two AI researchers based in China. The paper introduces a facial recognition algorithm apparently capable of predicting the status

  • Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators,

  • Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits

    Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators,

  • The Lifestyles in the Tang Dynasty under the Influence of Manuscript Culture

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Zhao Shuyang, Nanjing University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Prof. Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University The physical form of books plays a crucial role in human’s daily life. Prior to the advent of woodblock printing in ancient China, the manuscript era prevailed, in which all books were laboriously copied by hand. This unique method of production

  • International Mitigation Finance: Carbon Mitigation, Welfare, and Optimal Recipient Design

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Naixin Huang, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, Tsinghua University; Harvard-China Project Fellow International mitigation finance is a primary way in global climate cooperation to limit fast-growing carbon emissions of developing countries. Using a multi-country-multi-sector quantitative trade model, we take the year 2017 as an example to estimate carbon mitigation and welfare effects from mitigation finance and

  • He Wenkai – Book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: He Wenkai, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2016-17 In this book, Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), Wenkai He examines the connections between state capacity, state legitimation and the expansion of political participation. He demonstrates

  • Hou Zhe – Between Ideals and Reality: The Working Class‘s Role in China’s Education Revolution

    Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Hou Zhe, Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24 Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute The assertion that “the working class must lead everything” was a fundamental tenet in the ideological framework of the education revolution during Mao’s era