Richard Weitz: Russia, China, and the United States as Great-Power Competitors: Implications for Nuclear Security and Conflict
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Richard Weitz, Senior Research Fellow, Hudson Institute
Rudolf Wagner – The Public Performance of Justice: The Transcultural Career of a Political Installation Across Eurasia
Speaker: Rudolf Wagner, Universitat Heidelberg; Fairbank Center Associate
Matthew Wells – The Vision to Restore the Empire: Manufacturing Monarchy and Empire in the Early 4th Century
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Matthew Wells, University of Kentucky This presentation will discuss part of an ongoing project that attempts to explain how the early leaders of the Eastern Jin understood and executed what Dennis […]
Yeling Tan – Disaggregating “China, Inc” – Explaining the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Floor 2.5, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yeling Tan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon When China joined the WTO in 2001, conventional wisdom held that global trade rules would provide a credible commitment […]
Huang Xiangchun – The Art of Keeping Appropriate Distance: Practicing “Ethnicity” of the “Dan” (蜑) on the Margins Through Time
Speaker: Huang Xiangchun, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2018-19| Chair/discussant: Robert Weller, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Boston University What does “ethnicity” mean in late imperial and […]
Melanie Manion – Xi Jinping’s Anticorruption Campaign
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Melanie Manion, Duke University Melanie Manion is Vor Broker Family Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She studied philosophy and political economy at Peking […]
Symposium – Tale of Three Cities: Urban Regeneration Through Design and Cultural Innovation
Gund Hall Room 111 48 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Yuan Qian, Director, Vanke Urban Research Institute Lemin Zhang, Xiamen University. Ruoxi Zhang, Xiamen University. Neill Mclean Gaddes, Principal, Sans Practice James Shen, Principal, People’s Architecture Office, Harvard Loeb […]
Adam Segal – The Future of US-China Technology Competition
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program […]
Li Yinghua – Let Silent Stones Speak: A technological analysis of lithics and examination of cultural homogeneity and diversity in South China and Southeast Asia from 30,000 to 6,000 years ago
Speaker: Li Yinghua Professor, School of History, Wuhan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2018-19 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/let-silent-stones-speak-technological-analysis-lithics-and-examination-cultural-homogeneity
Julie Zhu – Life under Mao: the Cultural Revolution and the “Barefoot Doctors”
Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Julie Zhu Up through the early 1970s, the "Barefoot Doctor" initiative in China brought primary care to rural China through a cadre of village health workers affectionately referred to […]
Jessica Teets – Managing Local Cadres
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Jessica Teets, Middlebury College Jessica C. Teets is an Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at Middlebury College, and Associate Editor of the Journal […]
Workshop – Sinophone Humanities in Southeast Asia
SCHEDULE 10.15am – 10.30am: Welcome Remarks by David Wang 10.30am – 12pm: Panel A: The Geopolitics of Southeast Asian Space, Memory and History Chair: Huang Ying-che (Aichi University) Ko Chia-cian […]