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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David M. Lampton - Biden Deals with China Amidst Multiple Crises\, Domestic and International
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: David M. Lampton\, Hyman Professor Emeritus Johns Hopkins—SAIS; Senior Fellow\, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute \nDavid M. Lampton is Senior Fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins—SAIS.  Immediately prior to his current post he was Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Stanford University’s Asia-Pacific Research Center from 2019-2020.  For more than two decades prior to that he was Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Lampton is former Chairman of the The Asia Foundation\, former President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations\, and former Dean of Faculty at SAIS. Among many written works\, academic and popular is his most recent book (with Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik)\, Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press\, 2020). He received his B.A.\, M.A.\, and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in political science where\, as an undergraduate student\, he was a firefighter. Lampton has an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies. He is a Life Trustee on the Board of Trustees of Colorado College and was in the US Army Reserve in the enlisted and commissioned ranks. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-david-m-lampton-biden-deals-with-china-amidst-multiple-crises-domestic-and-international/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Wei-chieh Tsai - Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei-chieh Tsai\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, Shenzhen University \nSettler nativization is an important issue\, yet insufficiently studied in colonial histories of early modern Eurasian empires. In the early modern era\, the Qing and Russian empires both penetrated the heartland of Inner Eurasia. Military subjugation and conquest was followed by a migration of people and colonization toward the Inner Eurasian borderlands. Both regimes faced similar problems\, and settler nativization was one of them. Those Han Chinese and Russian settlers were mostly poor\, lowly educated\, and single men working as farmers and merchants. They migrated into the Inner Eurasian borderlands seeking arable lands and trade opportunities. To survive in the strange lands\, those settlers and their offspring as minorities had to work with indigenous peoples and gradually acquired indigenous cultures and identities. This paper explores the similarity and difference between the nativization of Han Chinese and Russian settlers and the responses of the states. This paper argues that the difference of autonomy and local authority of native peoples in both empires should contribute to the consequence of settler nativization in the Qing and Russian empires. \nRegister for Zoom meeting link
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-chieh-tsai-settler-nativization-in-the-inner-eurasian-borderlands-of-the-qing-and-russian-empires/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Philippe LeCorre - EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Did Beijing Steal the Show?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Philippe Le Corre\, Research Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9rPP_9PsTgizqjl-rRhxrA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/philippe-lecorre-eu-china-comprehensive-agreement-on-investment-did-beijing-steal-the-show/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Eddy U - A New Approach to Studying the Chinese Intellectual
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Eddy U\, Professor of Sociology\, University of California\, Davis \nNo system of rule has objectified the intellectual as much as communist rule of the twentieth century. Communist regimes codified\, identified\, and governed part of the general population as intellectuals based on Marxist thought. This talk builds on my recently published book and illustrates how the “intellectual” (zhishifenzi) in China evolved from an obscure classification of people during the 1920s to embodied subjects locatable everywhere after the 1949 revolution. This transformation of the intellectual changed Chinese society\, intensifying mass surveillance\, political education\, and other governing practices. My analytical approach moves the study of the intellectual in modern China into new terrains. I end with an interpretation of the current situation in Hong Kong. \nEddy U is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Davis. He grew up in Hong Kong and moved to the United States in the late 1980s. His book\, Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification (UC Press\, 2019)\, won the Barrington Moore Book Award given by the American Sociological Association. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eddy-u-modern-china-lecture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Amy Langenberg and Ann Gleig - From Sudinna to the Sangha Sutra: Classical and Contemporary Buddhist Responses to Sexual Misconduct
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nAmy Langenberg\, Associate Professor of Religious Studies\, Eckerd College\nAnn Gleig\, Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies\, University of Central Florida \nSince the 1980s\, American Buddhist convert communities have been the site of reoccurring cases of sexual abuse and misconduct. This two-part presentation will reflect on how some contemporary practitioners have responded\, in particular identifying “generative responses” that combine Buddhist and non-Buddhist frameworks to generate new forms of Buddhist thought\, community\, and practice. Taking a constructive rather than a corrective approach\, it will then consider these responses in relationship to the Buddhist sexual ethics found in classical sources\, focusing especially on the ideas of consent and intention. \nAmy Langenberg is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College. She is author of Birth in Buddhism: the Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom (Routledge\, 2017). Ann Gleig is an associate professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. She is author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press\, 2019). They are currently working on a co-written book project on sexual violations in American convert Buddhism\, which is under advance contract with Yale University Press. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkduiurjsvG9PmwRaDUydAC-oK7RPe5z7L
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/amy-langenberg-and-ann-gleig-from-sudinna-to-the-sangha-sutra-classical-and-contemporary-buddhist-responses-to-sexual-misconduct/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T110000
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuqsqjkqHtAFzbIKdd4b6f9r-qxzNdrn
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-library-bibliographic-orientation-session/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T123000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar Series featuring David Yang - AI-tocracy: the Political Economy of AI
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: David Yang\, Assistant Professor Economics\, Harvard University \nThe conventional wisdom suggests a misalignment between autocracy and technological innovation. In this project\, we examine whether there exists a political and economic alignment between the monitoring aims of autocracies and the innovative aims of AI firms. We gather comprehensive data on firms and government procurement contracts in China’s facial recognition AI industry. We find two results. First\, autocrats benefit from AI: local unrest leads to greater government demands for public security AI\, and increased AI investment suppresses subsequent unrest. Second\, AI sector benefits from the autocrats: the contracted AI firms innovate more both for the government and commercial markets. Taken together\, these results indicate a stable equilibrium between the autocrats and the AI sector. Using a directed technical change model\, we show that autocrats’ demand for AI not only could enhance its stability\, but may also sustain growth and bias innovation towards data-intensive sector when economies of scope from government data are sufficiently large. \nDavid Yang is an Assistant Professor of Economics. His research focuses on political economy\, behavioral and experimental economics\, economic history\, and cultural economics. In particular\, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes\, drawing lessons from historical and contemporary China. David received a B.A. in Statistics and B.S. in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley\, and PhD in Economics from Stanford. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-yang-ai-tocracy-the-political-economy-of-ai/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Director's Seminar
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Deborah Brautigam  - Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics: Sri Lanka\, Angola\, and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Reading the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Deborah Brautigam\, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy\, Director of the SAIS China Africa Research Initiative\, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-sebastian-heilmann-why-systemic-competition-with-china-is-good-for-western-democracies/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T130000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Iran and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between Desirable and Feasible
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:Eyck Freymann\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Oxford UniversityNader Habibi\, Professor of Practice\, Brandeis UniversityDina Esfandiary\, Senior Advisor\, International Crisis Group \nModerators:Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis CenterJames Gethyn Evans\, Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University \nExperiencing another downturn in its relations with the West\, Iran has been more actively “looking to the East” to pursue stronger political and economic cooperation with China. Tehran remains an enthusiastic supporter of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, despite the withdrawal of Chinese companies from a number of projects due to U.S. sanctions. Iran still hopes to benefit from investments\, technologies and new connectivity routes promoted under the BRI umbrella. This roundtable will discuss the prospects of Iran becoming a node of the BRI\, and the promises and challenges of Chinese investment in the Iranian economy. \nEyck Freymann is a doctoral candidate at Balliol College\, Oxford. He was previously research assistant to Graham Allison\, Niall Ferguson\, and Shi Zhiqin at Harvard\, Stanford\, and Tsinghua Universities. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge\, where he was a Henry Scholar; an AM in Asian Studies from Harvard University\, where he won the Joseph Fletcher Memorial Prize for best thesis; and an AB in East Asian History with highest honors from Harvard College. His research and commentary have appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Economist\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard Asia Center Press\, November 2020). \nNader Habibi is the Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in the Economics of the Middle East at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Before joining Brandeis University in June 2007\, he served as managing director of economic forecasting and risk analysis for Middle East and North Africa in Global Insight Ltd. Mr. Habibi has worked in academic and research institutions in Iran\, Turkey and the United States since 1987. He earned his PhD in Economics from Michigan State University. His most recent research projects include an analysis of the excess supply of college graduates in Middle Eastern countries\, impact of economic sanctions on Iranian economy and the impact of Arab Spring uprisings on economic conditions of the affected countries. Habibi also served as director of Islamic and Middle East Studies at Brandeis University (August 2014-August 2019). He has published a work of fiction about Middle East geopolitics titled: Three Stories One Middle East (2014). Links to his publications are available at https://naderhabibi.blogspot.com/. \nDina Esfandiary is Senior Advisor in the Middle East and North Africa department of the International Crisis Group (ICG). Previously\, she was a Fellow in the Middle East department of The Century Foundation (TCF)\, an International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and an Adjunct Fellow in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Middle East Program. Prior to this\, she worked at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) in the War Studies Department at King’s College London from February 2015\, and in the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London from October 2009. Dina has published widely\, including in Foreign Affairs\, the Atlantic\, The Guardian\, the Washington Post\, International Affairs\, the National Interest\, Arms Control Today\, and The Washington Quarterly. Dina is the co-author of Triple-Axis: Iran’s Relations with Russia and China (I.B Taurus\, 2018)\, and Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016). She holds a PhD in the War Studies department at King’s College London and Masters Degrees from Kings College London and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. \nThis event is part of a new seminar hosted by the Fairbank Center and the Davis Center. This seminar aims to foster vibrant\, comprehensive\, and fruitful discussion about the ongoing transformations in geopolitics and governance resulting from China’s Belt Road Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Program on Central Asia at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-iran-and-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-between-desirable-and-feasible/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T213000
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nTakashi Shiraishi\, Chancellor\, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President\, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President\, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018)\nSaori Katada\, Professor of International Relations\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, University of Southern California\nDaniel Drezner\, Professor of International Politics\, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University; Nonresident Senior Fellow\, Brookings Institution\nWilliam Norris\, Associate Professor\, The Bush School of Government and Public Service\, Texas A&M University \nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nThis symposium is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOyorj0tGtCej8VhG_ljsUW-cOF6EsNp
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-japanese-economic-statecraft-in-an-era-of-u-s-china-rivalry/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T180000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu - The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tina Lu\, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures\, Yale University \nWhen it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production\, our field is still largely dominated by Craig Clunas’ framework (itself largely adapted from Bourdieu). I am interested in considering the politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji 閒情偶寄 (1671) not simply as a means for its author to climb up a social hierarchy but as a much more expansive political imagining. Many of the collection’s essays treat what are obviously political topics (for example\, behavior appropriate to people of different social standing)\, but I will argue that their form and language also demand consideration as political acts. \nPlease note that Professor Lu’s talk will be recorded and archived on the MHC and EALC websites. If you do not feel comfortable being recorded\, please disable your video. The Q&A session will not be recorded. \nThis event is generously sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtc-iopzwoG9KcANoTFgoQondjKok6oHAY
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-tina-lu-the-politics-of-li-yus-xianqing-ouji-casual-expressions/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T113000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrea Ghiselli - Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNyI34EGR4k \n \nSpeaker: Andrea Ghiselli\, Assistant Professor\, School of International Relations and Public Affairs\, Fudan University\nModerator: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate \nThe securitization of non-traditional security issues is a scarcely discussed and\, yet\, extremely powerful force that shapes the evolution of Chinese foreign and security policy. The lecture will show how this tortuous process deeply shaped China’s approach to the protection of the life and assets of Chinese nationals overseas\, an aspect of Chinese foreign policy that is already\, and will become increasingly important over time. This became evident as\, especially after the evacuation of 36\,000 Chinese nationals from Libya in 2011\, Chinese institutions evolved and issued new regulations that are also aimed at supporting the possible use of the military overseas. \nDr. Andrea Ghiselli is an assistant professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs\, Fudan University. He is also the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project\, a research project on China’s role in the wider Mediterranean region sponsored by the University of Torino’s TOChina Hub. Andrea’s research interests include Chinese foreign policy\, China-Middle East relations\, and foreign policy analysis. Besides his book Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy published by Oxford University Press\, his research on Chinese foreign policy has been published in peer-reviewed journals like the China Quarterly\, the Journal of Strategic Studies\, the Journal of Contemporary China\, and Armed Forces & Society. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-andrea-ghiselli-protecting-chinas-interests-overseas-securitization-and-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T200000
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SUMMARY:Erin Y. Huang - Ocean Media:  South China Sea and Gilles Deleuze’s Desert Islands
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Erin Y. Huang\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature\, Princeton University \n“Humans can live on an island only by forgetting what an island represents\,” writes Deleuze in his short essay “Desert Islands” (îles déserte; huangdao; mujintō; no-man island). But what does an island truly represent (that for Deleuze means the constant strife between the earth’s elements)? What is producing the culture of forgetting? And why do islands appear deserted even when they are inhabited? In recent years when the large-scale Chinese state-led artificial islanding (rengong zaodao) in the South China Sea created an international territorial dispute\, caused by new experimentations with the limit of the early modern European legal concept of the “free sea” (coined by the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Hugo Grotius)\, these questions that Deleuze raised in the 1950s return as the definition of the “island” increasingly gravitates toward the “technologies of islanding” that are reshaping the operations of global financial and military power. Transforming the “island” into free treaty ports\, military vessels and bases\, logistics cities\, and special economic zones\, islanding\, rather than insularity\, is at the heart of the critical infrastructure of global circulation. Bringing together the methodological approaches of infrastructure and media studies and the island writings of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze\, this talk explores a new genealogy of island critique\, from Danial Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that marks the beginning of British maritime power to the contemporary American satellite surveillance network on Asian oceans (e.g. AMTI’s “Island Tracker”) and the expansion of Chinese infrastructural empire that is creating new conflict shorelines. Rather than defining “ocean media” at the outset\, this examination probes what we mean by “media” in the context of understanding capital’s creation of “environment\,” and the new conceptualizations of “Europe” (old centers of maritime power) and “Asia” (new experimenters of existing colonial techniques). \nErin Y. Huang is assistant professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature and an associated faculty of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility (Duke University Press\, 2020). She is currently working on her second book that focuses on maritime capitalism\, islanding\, special economic zones\, and feminist critiques of global logistics. \nThe talk is part of the East Asian Media Ecologies lecture series. \nPresented via Zoom\nLog on to: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91834267809?pwd=Q3pCZVZBM3RXSzVwVlBFRC9aZz09SWNw
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/erin-y-huang-ocean-media-south-china-sea-and-gilles-deleuzes-desert-islands/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210227T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T140000
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SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2021 - Moving Bodies: Mobility and Control Across East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: The Harvard East Asia Society\, A GSAS Student Group\, Harvard University \nFor more information\, including an agenda and a list of speakers\, visit: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/2021-schedule.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2021-moving-bodies-mobility-and-control-across-east-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T130000
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SUMMARY:The World is Watching: Activists and Academics on the Uyghur Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRushan Abbas\, Founder and Executive Director\, Campaign for Uyghurs\nKamaltürk Yalqun\, General Secretary\, Campaign for Uyghurs\nDarren Byler\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Colorado\nRian Thum\, Loyola University \nJoin us to hear from activists and academics on the Uyghur genocide. Rushan Abbas\, a prominent Uyghur American activist and the founder and Director of Campaign for Uyghurs\, will be presenting an overview of the current crisis as well as personal stories of engaging in activism. Kamaltürk Yalqun will be sharing how the persecution has affected Uyghur intellectuals\, including his father\, Yalqun Rozi\, a famous Uyghur scholar and literary critic. Dr. Darren Byler\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado\, will be sharing some of his research\, including a discussion of surveillance and terror rhetoric. Dr. Rian Thum will be sharing his ethnographic research on China and Islam. Each panelist will be presenting individually\, with a question and answer session at the end. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association\, Harvard College Democrats\, Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom Harvard Chapter\, HLS Advocates for Human Rights\, Harvard Hillel\, Latinas Unidas de Harvard College\, Harvard Facilitators for Religious\, Ethical\, and Spiritual Inquiry\, the HLS Students Turkish Law Students Association\, the Harvard Human Rights and Business Law Students Association\, and the Harvard Law School Immigration Project. \nPresented via WebEx\nFor more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-is-watching-activists-and-academics-on-the-uyghur-genocide-tickets-141572379799?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-world-is-watching-activists-and-academics-on-the-uyghur-genocide/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum featuring James Benn - Meditation in the Surangama Sutra
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Benn\, Professor and Director of the Centre for Buddhist Studies\, McMaster University \nPlease note earlier start time. \nIn the later Chinese Buddhist tradition one text above all others has been extolled for the profundity of its ideas\, the beauty of its language\, and its insight into the practice of meditation—this is the scripture popularly known as the Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sutra (Scripture of the Heroic March). In this talk\, I will look at the Śūraṃgamasutra’s general prescriptions for meditation. I will indicate some specific examples of methods of mental cultivation described by the scripture and taken up by later Buddhist practitioners. Finally\, I will talk about how the scripture elucidates in detail some of the potential dangers of meditation for the practitioner. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEod-6vrDMtH9OEsMHaq7KaNFyxyk-475Nj
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-buddhist-studies-forum-featuring-james-benn/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210302T131500
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SUMMARY:Shellen Wu - Mapping Science in a Global Age: the Human Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Shellen Wu\, University of Tennessee\, Knoxville \nScience and Technology in Asia Seminar Series; supported by the Harvard University Asia Center \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister here.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/shellen-wu-mapping-science-in-a-global-age-the-human-dynamics-of-scientific-knowledge/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Andrew B. Liu - Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript for the event here. \nSpeaker: Andrew B. Liu\, Assistant Professor of History\, Villanova University \nTea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today\, and at the turn of the twentieth century\, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea\, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest\, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time\, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters\, he explains\, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists\, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together\, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India. \nAndrew B. Liu is assistant professor of history at Villanova University\, where his research focuses on China\, transnational Asia\, political economy\, and comparative history. \nThis event co-sponsored by The Joint Center for History and Economics\, Harvard University. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/modern-china-lecture-series-featuring-andrew-liu/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yuen Yuen Ang - China's Corrupt Meritocracy
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript for the event here. \nSpeaker: Yuen Yuen Ang\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Michigan \nPortrayals of China’s political economy tend to be divided\, with one side depicting it as a Confucian-style meritocracy\, and the other arguing that the regime is a kleptocracy. In fact\, neither view is correct: in the Chinese officialdom\, competence and corruption can go hand in hand. Drawing on her new book\, China’s Gilded Age (Cambridge University Press\, 2020)\, Ang underscores that paradoxes define China’s political economy. Chinese growth is speedy yet risky and imbalanced. Corrupt officials worship the pursuit of prosperity. China’s regime is authoritarian yet its regions are decentralized and highly competitive. Understanding China requires that we grasp these seeming paradoxes\, which will persist well into the next decade. \nYuen Yuen Ang is the inaugural recipient of the Theda Skocpol Prize\, awarded by the American Political Science Association for “impactful empirical\, theoretical and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics.” She is also named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship [on] the most pressing issues of our times.” Her first\, award-winning book\, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (2016)\, is acclaimed as “game changing” and “field shifting.” The sequel to this book\, China’s Gilded Age: the Paradox of Economic Boom & Vast Corruption\, is released in 2020. She writes for a broad audience in Foreign Affairs and Project Syndicate. Ang is a graduate of Colorado College and Stanford University\, and a Public Intellectual Fellow at the National Committee of US-China Relations. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-yuen-yuen-ang/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Robert Morrison - Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Morrison\, Professor and Chair\, Department of Religion\, Bowdoin College \nThe courts of the Ottoman sultans Mehmed II (d. 1481) and Bayezid II (d. 1512) were\, on one hand\, the site of significant developments of earlier scientific traditions inherited from Iran and Central Asia. On the other hand\, scholars at the Ottoman court were more interested than their predecessors in the scientific culture of contemporary non-Islamic societies. Important science came east while the science of Islamic societies traveled west. In this lecture\, Professor Morrison will describe some of the content of the science but focus on the cultural dynamics that facilitated this remarkable scientific exchange which had a lasting impact on the European Renaissance. \nRegister for Zoom meeting link
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/robert-morrison-scientific-exchange-at-the-courts-of-mehmed-ii-and-bayezid-ii/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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UID:10472-1614949200-1614958200@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives
DESCRIPTION:The stories of Asian American women extend far beyond the geographic borders of the United States. Inspired by tales and objects from family history\, their narratives often reflect the transnational nature of Asian American women’s lives. Despite the importance of these narratives to expanding and complicating our understanding of war\, migration\, inequity\, and difference\, the accounts and perspectives of Asian American women have often been overlooked in formal records\, and the tangible objects providing critical evidence of their histories have been ignored. \nThis program will bring together Asian American activists and artists\, including novelists\, filmmakers\, and photographers\, to share the stories that inspire their craft and the objects they retain as part of their personal histories. \n“The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep” reflects the Radcliffe Institute’s commitment to revealing complete\, balanced\, and diverse histories of women in America. \nYou can register for this event by visiting www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2020-stories-we-tell-objects-we-keep-conference-virtual.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-stories-we-tell-and-the-objects-we-keep-asian-american-women-and-the-archives-2/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar featuring Kerry Ratigan - Social Policy and Decentralization in China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kerry Ratigan\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, Amherst College \nChina is widely known for its strong central government\, but the center needs the provinces to implement policies using their knowledge of local conditions. However\, provincial priorities sometimes conflict with those of the center. Drawing on research conducted for her forthcoming book\, Let Some Get Healthy First: How Local Politics Shaped Social Policy in China\, Ratigan shows how local politics have impacted social policy implementation in China. While some provinces tend to closely follow central directives\, others resist central policy\, sometimes subverting the goals of the central government. Although decentralization in contemporary China peaked in the early 2000s\, the impact of local government is still salient despite recent efforts to reign in local actors. \nDr. Kerry Ratigan is an assistant professor of Political Science at Amherst College where she currently teaches courses on Chinese politics and social movements. Her research has focused on Chinese politics\, social policy\, and state-society relations\, including extensive work on health policy adoption and implementation in rural China. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison\, a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics\, and a BA in Political Science and Spanish from Haverford College. \nPart of the Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kerry-ratigan-fairbank-center-directors-seminar/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Director's Seminar
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Paula Varsano - Troubled Hearts and Worried Minds: Knowing the Subjects of the "Airs of the States”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paula Varsano\, University of California\, Berkeley \nIn a moment when digital humanities\, distant reading\, manuscript studies\, and a variety of historical and political lenses invite us to look at literature as a manifestation of larger and\, sometimes\, impersonal cultural forces\, this talk takes up a different constellation of questions:  how does one recognize and define the presumed poetic subject in early Chinese poetry\, and how does it function as an object of understanding\, as an entity whose voice we continue to seem to hear\, whose words we endlessly examine? This talk will home in on the nascent lyric subject already evident in the “Airs of the States” of the Book of Odes\, or Shijing. Specifically\, it will explore how particular figural devices create meaning primarily through indeterminacy\, enriching the seemingly easy legibility of the archetypal lovelorn maiden\, the wandering soldier\, or the misunderstood friend with the hidden depths of a three-dimensional subject. \nPaula Varsano\, Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of California\, Berkeley\, specializes in classical poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries\, with particular interest in literature and subjectivity\, the evolution of spatial representation in poetry\, and the history and poetics of traditional literary criticism. Among her publications are: Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and its Critical Reception (Hawaii\, 2003) and The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture (SUNY\, 2016). She is currently completing Knowing and Being Known: The Lyric Subject in Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUof-iqrDkrEtH9z_-tgweek_mGAX1bWlYw
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-paula-varsano-troubled-hearts-and-worried-minds-knowing-the-subjects-of-the-airs-of-the-states/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jean Oi - The Political Genesis of Local Government Debt in China
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Jean Oi\, William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics\, Department of Political Science; Director\, Stanford China Program\, Stanford University \nChina’s rapidly growing local government debt (LGD) is now branded a “grey rhino\,” a known threat that has received little attention.  Why did Beijing let LGD get so out of hand?  What are the sources of LGD?  There is evidence to suggest that no matter how honest and law-abiding local cadres might be\, localities are likely to have local government debt.  Prof. Oi will argue that LGD stems from a grand bargain between the center and the localities that was made to secure support for the 1994 fiscals reforms.  This series of policy decisions institutionalized backdoor financing\, creating a “win-win” solution that recentralized tax revenues to Beijing while countering the downsides of fiscal recentralization for the localities.  The cost\, however\, was that China’s economic growth model was increasingly undergirded by mounting LGD\, with little transparency and control by the center. \nJean C. Oi is the William Haas Professor on Chinese Politics in the department of political science and a Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. She is the founding director of the Stanford China Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Professor Oi also is the founding Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. \nA PhD in political science from the University of Michigan\, Oi first taught at Lehigh University and later in the department of government at Harvard University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1997. \nHer work focuses on comparative politics\, with special expertise on China’s political economy and institutions in the process of reform. Fiscal politics and central-local relations in China are at the center of Oi’s research. Recent work delves inside local-level institutions to sheds new light on China’s authoritarian resilience by exploring how county governments through adaptive governance have been able to cope as the economy has grown exponentially and demands and needs from an increasingly complex society put more strains on resources and the political system. Most recently\, she co-edited a volume that highlights the challenges China now faces after reaping record breaking growth the last 40 years by only tweaking the institutions that it inherited from the Mao period. Current leaders continue to kick the can down the road rather than tackle the most political difficult part of the reform process. Instead\, leaders seems to be “going back to the future\,” relying on a playbook not seen since the Mao period. \nCurrent projects focus on growing local government debt in China and why there is so much when law prohibits localities from borrowing and budget deficits. Moving beyond her earlier work\, Oi also has begun a project to empirically assess the impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Oi takes an institutional and micro-level approach to identify the key players and their interests. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jean-oi/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvduyurD0sH9Ud92IUxxZt3oOUh4kv6XfQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-library-bibliographic-orientation-session-2/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210312T170000
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SUMMARY:David Mervart - The Missing Colonial Empire: Reading European Histories from within the Sinosphere
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: David Mervart\, Associate Professor in Japanese History\, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)\, Spain\nModerator: David Howell\, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Chair\, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC)\, Harvard University \nThis talk proposes to take stock of the conceptual vocabulary which early Japanese observers and commentators resorted to when trying to describe and understand the historical trajectory of what we now so self-evidently perceive as an ‘imperial’ expansion of the western powers’ dominion around the world. \nBy the late eighteenth century\, there existed a well-established convention to translate western modes of universal sovereignty (Kayzer\, Caesar\, Tsar\, Imperator) into the equally universalist nomenclature of the post-classical Chinese political theology. By extension\, it had become perfectly possible to speak of an ‘emperor-land’ (Ch: diguo; J: teikoku) as a general type of polity. Yet\, despite these conditions of translatability by means of such comparative political vocabulary\, curiously\, the expansion of European powers over the globe was not described in the language of Sino-Japanese equivalent of ‘empire’. \nGiven that Japanese commentators did not see the conquest and settlement of the non-European world as an instance of empire\, what conceptual vocabulary did they use? Which is really to ask: What class of known historical events serving as a general precedent did they suggest the exploits of the Occidentals to be an intuitive instance of? Querying a range of primary sources from the 1790s–1840s\, this talk will try to offer some answers while sketching an alternative\, historically documented way of articulating the ‘age of empire’. \nReischauer Institute Japan Forum Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuc-GorDMuHNOzItWEpM9zgGBqDpUMMhVq
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-mervart-the-missing-colonial-empire-reading-european-histories-from-within-the-sinosphere/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Reischauer Lecture Series featuring Rana Mitter — New Eras\, Old Stories: From May Fourth and Meiji to the Twenty-First Century “New Era” - Defining East Asia in the Age of Novelty\, Emotion and Purpose
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · How New is the New Era? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 1\nSpeaker: Rana Mitter\, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, St. Cross College\, University of Oxford\n \nDiscussant: Odd Arne Westad\, Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs\, Yale University \nLecture 1 of 3: How New is the New Era?\nChina’s leaders speak today of a “new era” – but East Asia has seen a range of “new eras” in the modern age\, defined by Japan\, China\, and outsiders who encountered both.  What defines that novelty and how familiar are the elements that form part of it?  The mid-twentieth century saw war\, social change and changing global encounters defined as moments when both China and Japan entered a “new” or “special” era in a global context.  What continuities and contrasts are there between the past and the present\, and what defines that “newness”? \nRana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China\, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several books\, including China’s War with Japan: The Struggle for Survival\, 1937-1945 (Penguin\, 2013)\, [US title: Forgotten Ally] which won the 2014 RUSI/Duke of Westminster’s Medal for Military Literature\, and was named a Book of the Year in the Financial Times and Economist. His latest book is China’s Good War: How World War II is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard\, 2020). His recent documentary on contemporary Chinese politics “Meanwhile in Beijing” is available on BBC Sounds.  He is co-author\, with Sophia Gaston\, of the report “Conceptualizing a  UK-China Engagement Strategy” (British Foreign Policy Group\, 2020).  He won the 2020 Medlicott Medal for Service to History\, awarded by the Historical Association.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. \nThe Annual Reischauer Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Korea Institute\, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\, and Harvard University Asia Center. \nListen to parts two and three of this three-part lecture below: \n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · An Era of Emotion? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 2\n \nHarvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · A Sense of Purpose? 2021 Annual Reischauer Lecture with Rana Mitter\, Part 3
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/rana-mitter-fairbank-center-annual-reischauer-lecture-series-night-one/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Special Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210315T173000
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SUMMARY:Trent Walker - The Scattering of the Thirty-Two Minds: A Southeast Asian Buddhist Doctrine of Rebirth
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Trent Walker\, Lecturer\, Department of Religious Studies; Postdoctoral Fellow\, The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies\, Stanford University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ucuCrqjIvGdHcV9R5NW15u5jLGwLD4M7j
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/trent-walker-the-scattering-of-the-thirty-two-minds-a-southeast-asian-buddhist-doctrine-of-rebirth/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210317T110000
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UID:10527-1615975200-1615978800@fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Qing Yang - A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Qing Yang\, Professor\, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology \nQing Yang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering\, School of Energy and Power Engineering\, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is also an Alumna (Visiting Scholar) and Collaborator of the Harvard-China Project. Her forthcoming paper in Nature Communications explores biochar as a contributing factor in attaining China’s renewable energy goals and carbon reduction. Her research interests include renewable energy systems\, and their implications on ecological and environmental systems. She studies greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption for renewable energy derived processes. Professor Yang earned her Ph.D. from Peking University where she focused on energy systems analysis. \nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment\, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAodeurpjorGtWM_8QLxMZQEsvQ7Xe_su3L
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/qing-yang-a-ready-to-implement-carbon-negative-option-to-help-china-achieve-carbon-neutrality-biochar-with-biofuels/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anne-Marie Brady - Magic Weapons: How the Democratic States are Responding to China’s Political Interference Activities
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Anne-Marie Brady\, Professor\, University of Canterbury\, New Zealand \nProfessor Brady is a specialist of Chinese politics (domestic politics and foreign policy)\, polar politics\, Pacific politics\, and New Zealand foreign policy. She is a fluent Mandarin Chinese speaker. She is founding and executive editor of The Polar Journal (Taylor and Francis Publishers). She has published ten books and over fifty scholarly papers. She has written op eds for The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The Australian\, Sydney Morning Herald\, and The Financial Times. Her research has a strong policy focus. \nIn 2017\, Professor Brady put her conference paper “Magic Weapons: CCP Political Influence Activities Under Xi Jinping” online\, as the topic was of public interest. The paper has been downloaded more 160\, 000 times and has helped spark a debate in New Zealand\, as well as internationally\, that resulted in a Parliamentary Inquiry into Foreign Interference in New Zealand. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/magic-weapons-chinas-political-influence-activities-under-xi-jinping \nProfessor Brady is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC. In 2014 she was appointed to a two-year term on the World Economic Forum’s Global Action Council on the Arctic. Her recent books include: Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China (Rowman and Littlefield\, 2008)\, China’s Thought Management (Routledge\, 2012)\, The Emerging Politics of Antarctica (Routledge\, 2013)\, China as a Polar Great Power (Cambridge University Press and Wilson Press\, 2017)\, and Small States and the Changing Global Order: New Zealand Faces the Future (Springer\, 2019). \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-anne-marie-brady/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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