We hope you will join us for a symposium and celebration of the late Paul Cohen, a longtime Fairbank Center Associate and the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of History and Asian Studies Emeritus at Wellesley College.

Opening Remarks: Michael Szonyi, Former Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University

Panel Discussion: How Paul Cohen Changed History

Moderator: Michael Szonyi, Former Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University

Panelists:
Cynthia Brokaw, Chen Family Professor of China Studies, Brown University
Angela Ki Che Leung, Professor Emerita, Hong Kong University (video)
Ellen Widmer, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies, emerita, Wellesley College; Center Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Guoqi Xu, David Chang Professor of Chinese history, University of Hong Kong (video)
Joseph Esherick, Professor of History, emeritus, University of California San Diego

Remembrances
Moderators:
Waiyee Li, 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
Ellen Widmer, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies, emerita, Wellesley College; Center Associate, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Speakers:
Andrew Shennan, Professor of History and Provost emeritus, Wellesley College
C. Patterson Giersch, Edith Stix Wasserman Professor in Asian Studies and Professor of History, Wellesley College
Joanna Handlin Smith, Editor emerita, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Catherine Yeh, Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Boston University
Dailan Xu, Class of 2027, Harvard College

Audience Remembrances

Special Remarks:
Elizabeth Sinn, Honorary Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong

CLOSING REMARKS
Waiyee Li, colleague
Ellen Widmer, colleague

Reception to follow