Events

Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire

Speaker: Christopher Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania The European conquest of the Americas, the consequent ecological exchange, massive mortality, and rise of plantation economies […]

Yi Na – Seeing and Being Seen: The Cultural Roles of Tibetan Thangka

Speaker: Yi Na, Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnic Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Gregory Nagy, Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative […]

Nara Dillon – Feeding the Poor: Food Welfare in the PRC

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

Read event summary here Speaker: Nara Dillon, Harvard University Nara Dillon’s research interests include globalization and the politics of welfare, charity, and inequality in China.  In addition to contemporary Chinese […]

Workshop: The Birth of the Chinese Population

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

Speaker: Malcolm Thompson, An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow Discussant: Gail Hershatter, Professor of History, UC–Santa Cruz Abstract: What kind of problem is "the population problem" in China? That it would be […]

By Land and By Sea: China’s Belt and Road in Europe

Speakers: Kevin Gallagher, Boston University Philippe Le Corre, Harvard University Thomas Berger, Boston University Grant Rhode, Boston University and U.S. Naval War College Min Ye, Boston University Vesko Garcevic, Boston University Georgios Dimitrakopoulos, former Member of […]