Events

Katie Hill – A History Written by Our Bodies: Artistic Activism and the Agonistic Chinese Voice of Mad For Real’s Performances at the end of the Twentieth Century

Room 422, Sackler Building 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States

Dr. Katie Hill's talk will discuss the work of Mad For Real, a performance duo (Cai Yuan and Jianjun Xi) who work between Britain and China and became known for pioneering interventional performance in the public space using the city of London as a cultural canvas. Her talk explores the duo's artistic activism at the […]

Michael Kingston – Arctic Shipping and the Northern Sea Route, Shipping Trends, and The New Polar Code Regulations: The Concerns and Contributions of The International Insurance Industry

CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Michael Kingston, Managing Director, Michael Kingston Associates; Special Advisor, Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Group, Arctic Council Moderator: George Soroka, Lecturer, Harvard University; Center Associate, Davis Center More info: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/arctic-shipping-and-northern-sea-route-shipping-trends-and-new-polar-code-regulations

Margaret K. Lewis – Why Law Matters in Taiwan

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

Listen to an interview with Margaret Lewis on our "Harvard on China" podcast. Download and read the transcript of this podcast interview here. Speaker: Margaret K. Lewis, Seton Hall University School of Law Professor Margaret Lewis’s research focuses on law in mainland China and Taiwan with an emphasis on criminal justice. Professor Lewis has been […]

Mandopop: 40 Years of Chinese Popular Music and Culture

Hall D, Science Center 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Watch again: Listen again: Speakers: GAO Xiaosong 高曉松 FANG Wenshan (Vincent Fang) 方文山 LUO Dayou (Lo Ta-yu) 羅大佑 Yin Yue 尹約 This is a ticketed event. Only ticket holders will be allowed in the auditorium. All available tickets have been distributed. This talk will be conducted in a mixture of English and Mandarin.

Maria Adele Carrai – Sovereignty in China and the Long Legacies of History

Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard Asia Center; Senior Researcher, KU Leuwen, Belgium Chair: William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law; Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School Discussant: Anne Orford, Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, Harvard Law School Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series

Harutoshi Matsutani – The Social Cost of Automobiles and Environment Policies in Asia: A Comparative Study on China and Japan

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Harutoshi Matsutani, Fellow, Harvard Asia Center; Professor of Economics, Aichi University, Japan Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus Discussant:  Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Asia Center Fellows Seminar Series

Wen-hsin Yeh – Vast Ocean, Small People: The Aborigines of Taiwan

Speaker: Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California at Berkeley For centuries under the Ming and the Qing, indigenous communities of Taiwan (i.e. the Austronesian-speaking tribal groups in the mountains and on the Pacific side of the island) led distinct styles of life in a state of relative insularity. That insularity ended in the 19th century when […]

Workshop –  Ocean, Island, Shore: Placing the Global Pacific in the Age of Climate Change

HUCE Seminar Room 440 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, United States

9:00-9:05 opening remarks by organizers Chair: Xiaofei Gao (Fung Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center) 9:05-9:50 John Huth (Donner Professor of Science, Department of Physics, Harvard University) Discussant: Christina Thompson (Editor, Harvard Review, Harvard University) 9:50-10:35 John Hayashi (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University) Writing the History of Japanese Transoceanic Migration and Disease Prevention Discussant: Warwick Anderson (Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of […]

Henny Sender – Trump as China’s Friend?

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Henny Sender, Financial Times Henny Sender is chief correspondent for international finance at the Financial Times, based in Hong Kong. Sender was part of a team at the Wall St Journal that won a Loeb award for coverage of the meltdown of Amaranth hedge fund. Her work on the overseas […]

Panel Discussion – Tiananmen at 30

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

Watch again on YouTube: Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download a transcript of this event here. Speakers: Hao Jian, Professor, Beijing Film Academy Louisa Lim, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne; Author, The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited Wang Dan, Founder and Executive Director of Dialogue China Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of […]

Film Screening and Discussion with Director Hu Jie – The Spark

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

Director Hu Jie will be in person for a Q&A (Mandarin with English translation) following the screening. Following the Anti-Rightist movement of 1957, a group of Lanzhou University students who had been condemned as Rightists were sent to rural areas in Tianshui, Gansu Province, to be reformed through labor. There they witnessed the violent absurdities […]