Chinese Ecologies – An International Symposium on the Environment and Indigeneity
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesApril 6 Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street 13:00-13:10 Welcome Remarks 13:10-14:25 Panel 1: Articulating the Polemics of the Anthropocene Chair: Karen Thornber […]
Manoranjan Mohanty – China’s Transformation: The Success Story and the Success Trap
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, Council for Social Development, New Delhi Chair: Prof. Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute The book provides insights into the economic and social transformation that China has undergone from 1979 […]
William Overholt – Book Talk: “China’s Crisis of Success”
Harvard Coop 1400 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: William Overholt, Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where […]
Maya Stiller – Maps, Graffiti, Kinship: The Use of GIS in the Spatial Analysis of a Sacred Mountain in Late Chosŏn Korea (1600-1900)
Speaker: Maya Stiller Fellow, Korea Institute; ACLS/The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Buddhist Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture; Assistant Professor, University of Kansas Light refreshments […]
Diana Fu: Mobilizing Without the Masses
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Dr. Diana Fu, University of Toronto Diana Fu is assistant professor of Asian politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society […]
Michael Hunter – The Ten Thousand Rooms Project: A Collaborative Workspace for Pre-Modern Textual Studies
Speaker: Michael Hunter, Yale University Digital China Initiative Workshop Series RSVP at: https://goo.gl/4hJH7P Questions: ying_qin@fas.harvard.edu Directions and Parking: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/pages/visit
Eugenio Menegon and Elisa Frei – Calamity from Within? Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century
John J. Burns Library, Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Eugenio Menegon, Department of History, Boston University & Collaborative Scholar, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Elisa Frei, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium, […]
Harvard University Asia Center 20th Anniversary Celebration
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesS020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse 9:30 a.m. Coffee 9:45 a.m. Welcome by Professor Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center; Professor of East […]
Lin Wei-ping – Gender, Gambling, and the State in the Militarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Speaker: Lin Wei-ping, National Taiwan University; HYI Associate Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/gender-gambling-and-state-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan
Kevin Rudd – China’s Worldview Under Xi Jinping
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: The Honorable Kevin Rudd, President, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010, 2013) and former Foreign Minister (2010-2012) Sponsored by the Tsai Lecture Fund, Harvard University Asia […]
Mai Jia – The Art and Politics of the Espionage Novel in Contemporary China
Speaker: Mai Jia, Chinese novelist and President of the Zhejiang Writers' Association This lecture will be given in Chinese.
Mareike Ohlberg and Kristin Shi-Kupfer – Ideas and Ideologies Competing for China’s Future
Speakers: Mareike Ohlberg, Research Associate, Mercator Institute for China Studies; former An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Kristin Shi-Kupfer, Head of Research on Politics, Society, and the Media, Mercator […]