“Behemoth”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesBeginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with […]
Trump and Asia: Business as Usual? U.S.-Asia Business and Trade in the Trump Era
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe "Trump and Asia" series continues with with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia.
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Corruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Michael Forsythe, The New York Times Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Gender Studies Workshop: Women and Friendship in Dynastic China
Participants: Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis Ron Egan, Stanford University Grace Fong, McGill University Eileen Chow, Duke University Maram Epstein, University of Oregon Xu Man, Tufts University Organized by: […]
Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
HUCE Seminar Room 440 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Amy Zhang, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Day One Focus: China and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century May 1, 2017 | 4pm - 6pm Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street Discussant: Kirk W. Larsen, Brigham Young University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gHchhLjPBg Day Two Focus: China and Korea in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries May 2, 2017 | […]
China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: S.E. Kile, University of Michigan Studies of Li Yu’s theorization of playwriting and theatrical performance have generally focused on his creation of a new technical vocabulary for playwriting and performance, the relationship between his theory’s tenets and his own playwriting practice, and the impact of profit-seeking on his ideas. I propose that using technology […]
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesDay Two Focus: Late 19th Century and 20th Century Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Fifty Years with China – A Canadian Perspective
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Bernard Frolic, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesDay Three Focus: China’s relations with North and South Korea Today Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad […]
Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World
Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen […]
East Asian Media Studies Conference
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe East Asian Media Studies Conference will present a snapshot of a young and still-forming field of inquiry. It will provide a space for discussing the question of field formation […]