• Annual Neuhauser Lecture Featuring Ambassador Samantha Power – China, the UN, and the Future of Human Rights

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

    Watch this event on YouTube: Listen to this event on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Samantha Power U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 2013-2017 Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in

  • Panel Discussion – How Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?

    Presented via Zoom

    Topics: Speakers:Jinghan Zeng, Professor of China and International Studies, Lancaster University; Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, Asia Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Jeremy Garlick, Director, J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies; Associate Professor of International Relations

  • Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany Featuring Constance Stelzenmüller – The Free World and Its Enemies: What Putin’s War and China’s Global Ambitions Mean For Us

    Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: Constanze Stelzenmüller, Director and Fritz Stern Chair, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Russia is at war with Ukraine—but also with the West. Will Germany’s Zeitenwende reforms be enough to help protect Europe in an age of permanent disruption? ** Please note that seating for this event is limited. To register for this

  • “Friends with No Limits?” The Future of China-Russia Relations

    Hall A, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Read our blog post on the event: Friends with “No Limits”? A Year into War in Ukraine, History Still Constrains Sino-Russian Relations Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy and Research Director, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and

  • Asia and the Russia’s War on Ukraine

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

    In-person attendees, register at https://forms.gle/zntgppbURiWLKch87Remote attendees via Zoom, register at https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i1W35PQSRoGfeMlV-Maizg#/registration How does Asia respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine? And what are the implications for Asian security and stability? While Japan and South Korea have sided with the West and supported Ukraine, China, and North Korea are deepening ties with Russia. China’s strategic alignment with Russia

  • Asia and Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

    Presented via Zoom

    Speaker: The Honorable Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Moderator: Yaena Kwon, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; TV Journalist at ZDF and WDR Co-sponsored by the Asia Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Korea Institute; Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, WCIA; and Reischauer Institute for Japanese

  • Special Presentation – China-Russia Relations Two Years into Putin’s Ukraine War: How Strong, For How Long? 

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

    Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College (NWC) China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI); Visiting Professor, Government Department, Harvard University; Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesJulia Famularo, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesVitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Endicott CollegeAlexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard

  • Eurasia From the East, 2024

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

    Speakers:David Wolff, Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido UniversityNorihiro Naganawa, Professor on Russian and Eurasian History, Hokkaido UniversityAkihiro Iwashita, Professor, Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido UniversitySerhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute , Harvard University As we approach the third year of the war in Ukraine,

  • Weixin XU — Ukraine Every Day: An Artist’s Diary of 1,090 Digital Drawings

    CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Artist Weixin XU has been working on his art project “Ukraine Every Day” since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Xu has completed almost 700 works using an iPad application. The portfolio includes portraits of soldiers, political figures, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as scenes of the war. These images give

  • Panel Discussion — Three Years In, Prospects for Peace? China-Russia-North Korea Relations on the Third Anniversary of Putin’s Ukraine War

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

    Speakers:Andrew S. Erickson, Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese StudiesEmily J. Holland, Assistant Professor, Naval War College Russia Maritime Studies Institute; former postdoctoral fellow, Davis CenterVitaly Kozyrev, Distinguished Professor of Political Science & International Studies, Endicott CollegeSeong-hyon Lee, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center; Senior Fellow, George H.W.

  • 2025 Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture featuring Ambassador R. Nicholas Burns — Lessons from the Front Lines of the U.S.-China Relationship

    Hall C, Science Center 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

    Speaker: R. Nicholas Burns, U.S. Ambassador to China, 2021-2025; Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations, Harvard Kennedy School Ambassador Nicholas Burns is the Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the