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  • Reporting on Asia – A Discussion with Four Nieman Fellows

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Glenda M. Gloria, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of Rappler, Philippines social news network Shalini Singh, Features Reporter, New Delhi, India; former reporter for The Week and the Hindustan Times; founding trustee at the People's Archive of Rural India Bonny Symons-Brown, Australian Broadcasting Corporation; former TV news anchor, Jakarta, Indonesia Edward Wong, The New York

  • Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse 9:30 a.m.         Coffee 9:45 a.m.         Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University 10:00 a.m.       Introduction by Vice Provost Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Harvard University; Mark

  • Mareike Ohlberg and Kristin Shi-Kupfer – Ideas and Ideologies Competing for China’s Future

    Speakers: Mareike Ohlberg, Research Associate, Mercator Institute for China Studies; former An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Head of Research on Politics, Society, and the Media, Mercator Institute for China Studies Unlike any other Chinese leader since the beginning of the reform era, Xi Jinping has worked on crafting a unified national

  • His Excellency Cui Tiankai Speaks on U.S. – China Relations

    Harvard Law School, Austin North (Room 100) 1515 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United States

    This Event begins at 12:15pm. Speaker: Cui Tiankai, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United States of America. His Excellency Cui Tiankai, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the United States of America, will present a public lecture on the current state of U.S.-China relations at the Fairbank

  • Graham Allison – Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School Discussants: Roderick MacFarquhar,  Leroy B. Williams Professor of History, Harvard University Oriana Skylar Mastro, Assistant Professor of Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University This event is co-sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. Listen again:

  • Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen

    In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will convene an international symposium on Chinese and comparative literatures on April 26 and 27, 2018, at Harvard University. Papers will

  • Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University will convene an international symposium on Chinese and comparative literatures on April 26 and 27, 2018, at Harvard University. Papers will

  • Panel Discussion: The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Panelists: Fabio Lanza, University of Arizona Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University Andrew Gordon, Harvard University Joseph Esherick, University of California San Diego Sugata Bose, Harvard University Lien-Hang Nguyen, Columbia University Bruce Cumings, University of Chicago Moderator: Karen Thornber, Harvard University Asia Center Organized by: Arunabh Ghosh, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Harvard University Asia Center Reischauer Institute

  • Panel Discussion – Strongman Politics in the 21st Century

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Elsa Clavé, Harvard University Asia Center Ayşe Kadıoğlu, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University Valerie Sperling, Clark University Moderator: Thomas Vallely, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Listen again on Soundcloud: As the role of "strongman" leaders on the world stage appears to be

  • Adrian Zenz – Recent Developments in Xinjiang

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Adrian Zenz, Lecturer in social research methods, European School of Culture & Theology, Germany Moderator: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost, International Affairs, Harvard University Co-Sponsored by: Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Listen again on

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Listen Again:  Speaker: Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing.

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Stephen Owen

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Listen Again:  Speaker: Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle period of Chinese literature (200-1200), however, he has also written on literature of the early period and the Qing.