Exhibition – Fire Dream: Zhao Meng and the Reinvention of the Clay Medium
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesExploring the myriad material possibilities of clay, Zhao pushes the boundaries of the medium while reworking traditional forms. A closing reception and panel discussion will feature artists and scholars Brad Miller, Jeffrey Moser, Sun Ren, Eugene Y. Wang, and Nigel Wood. Closing Event: Friday, October 25, 2019 | 4:00 - 6:00 PM Room 427 | […]
Shelley Rigger – Taiwan’s Tumultuous “normal election”
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Shelley Rigger, Davidson College Shelley Rigger, is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. She has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi […]
Cobus van Staden – China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Africa: Lessons for Central Asia
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Cobus van Staden, Senior Researcher on China-Africa relations, South African Institute of International Affairs. Before the Belt and Road Initiative became the heart of Chinese foreign engagement, China was […]
Sun Ren – Artist Talk
Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sun Ren The Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab (CAMLab) is thrilled to present an artist talk by actor, playwright, and ceramics pioneer Sun Ren as part of a week-long series on […]
John Kamm – Counterrevolution in One Country: Tiananmen 1989
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: John Kamm, Chairman and Executive Director, The Dui Hua Foundation Drawing on recently available materials, the speaker will examine how courts dealt with counterrevolutionary offenses and hooliganism in the aftermath of Tiananmen.
Panel Discussion – Vietnam: Party, State and Society in an Era of Great Power Rivalry
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesChair: Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University The nature and limits of the party-state: Borje Ljunggren, Associate, Harvard Asia Center; former Swedish Ambassador to […]
Stuart McManus – Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Stuart McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
Lucy Hornby – China’s Secret World of Shadow Banking
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Lucy Hornby, Nieman Fellow for Journalism, Harvard University Lucy Hornby, a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard, has lived in China for 20 years, most […]
William Overholt – Hong Kong: The Rise and Fall of One Country, Two Systems
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: William Overholt, M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow and Former President, Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong| Lunch will be served Questions: mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
The Taiwan Constitutional Court: History and Challenges
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Tzong-Li Hsu, Dr. iur., Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany; Chief Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court and President, Judicial Yuan Jau-yuan Hwang (SJD ‘95), Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
Valerie Karplus – China’s Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management China's future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world's ability to […]
Maria Adele Carrai – Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840
Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Marie-Curie senior researcher at the Center for Global Governance at KU Leuven Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe […]