Neuhauser Lecture featuring Susan Thornton – Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-evolution
Listen again: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Susan Thornton, Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Susan Thornton was Acting Assistant […]
Fred Hu and Graham Allison – Belfer Center Student and Fellow Session
Belfer Center Library Room 369, Littauer Center 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Student and Fellow Session with Fred Hu, Chairman of Primavera Capital Group, and Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of the Belfer Center. Dr. Hu is Chairman and founder of Primavera Capital Group, a China-based global investment firm. He was […]
Yiu Yuk-man Carine – Reconstructing the history of Chinese dialects through foreigners’ eyes
Speaker: YIU Yuk-man Carine, Associate Professor of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: C.-T. James Huang, Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/reconstructing-history-chinese-dialects-through-foreigners-eyes
Data and/in the Humanities
Speaker: Carol Chiodo, Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship, Widener Library, Harvard University
Yu Zhou – Technological Innovation: Exploring Chinese Models
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Yu Zhou, Vassar College China’s technological ambition and trajectory have become a central concern for the US-China Trade War and will likely to define US-China relations for a long time to come. This talk traces the evolution of Chinese policies on technological innovation. Based on case studies on ten […]
China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; Co-Director of Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, HKS; former Science Advisor to President Barack Obama and former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Peter Huybers, Department of […]
Yanfei Sun – Religious Toleration in Premodern Empires
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yanfei Sun, Zhejiang University Yanfei Sun is associate professor of sociology at Zhejiang University. Her research interests include sociology of religion and political sociology. In addition to religious changes in […]
Panel Discussion – Revisiting the Wilsonian Moment in Asia, 1919
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History; Interim Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University Arunabh Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University; Acting Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute Erez Manela, Professor of History, Harvard University Heather Streets-Salter, Chair and Professor of History, Northeastern University Chair: Karen L. Thornber, Professor […]
Susan Greenhalgh – Coca-Cola in China: the Role of Foreign Industry Funding in China’s Health Science and Policy
Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSusan Greenhalgh is the John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University. She is an author, anthropologist, and specialist on contemporary China. Greenhalgh’s work […]
Nicholas Lardy – The State Strikes Back: The End of Economic Reform in China?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead the event summary here Speaker: Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics Nicholas R. Lardy is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He […]
Başak Bilecen – Chinese International Students’ Networks at Elite Universities: A Comparative Study of Germany and the US
Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Başak Bilecen, Rosalind Franklin Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Groningen Chair: Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School; […]
Jenny So – Rare and Beautiful Objects, New and Unexpected Findings: Revisiting Harvard’s Early Chinese Jades
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jenny So, Chinese University of Hong Kong Jenny So will highlight the exciting discoveries she made while preparing a new catalogue of the ancient Chinese jades in the Harvard […]