Michelle Miao – Relational Justice: Reconciling Murder in China
Speaker: Michelle Miao, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: William Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Harvard Law School This talk analyzes and theorizes individual behaviors and social practices surrounding offender-victim reconciliation in murder cases in China. It explains that this partially-judicial process was enabled and […]
Urban Rusnak – Energy Connectivity and Investment Disputes in Eurasia
Speaker: Urban Rusnák, Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Opening remarks: Rawi Abdelal, Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business […]
Zheng Jiyong – North Korea’s Social-Economy Development and China’s North Korea Policy
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Zheng Jiyong, Director & Professor, Center for Korean Studies, Fudan University
Elizabeth Ingleson – Making Made In China: Race, Labor, and Politics in U.S.-China Trade 1971-1980
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Elizabeth Ingleson, Southern Methodist University Interested attendees should e-mail marinoauffant@gmail.com for a copy of the pre-circulated paper. Part of the Harvard International & Global History Seminar (HIGHS) series, a forum […]
Robert Spengler III – Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods We Eat
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Robert Spengler III From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along […]
Jin Ping Mei and the World: Translation and Transculturation — A Symposium in Honor of David Roy (1933-2016)
The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University will convene a symposium on Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) in honor of David Tod Roy (1933 – 2016), Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago, on December 5, 2019, at Harvard University. For more information, visit https://scholar.harvard.edu/jpm
Carma Hinton – From Goddess to Demon? Musings on the Transformation of Female Imagery in Paintings of Central Asia and China from the Late Tang to the Song Dynasties
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Carma Hinton, Asia Center Visiting Scholar; Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Chair: Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Asia Center Fellows Seminar
Justin Lin – Seventy Years of China’s Economic Development: Reflections on Modern Economics
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesListen to this event on our podcast: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Justin Yifu Lin, World Bank Chief Economist, 2008-2012 Dean, Institute of New Structural Economics Dean, Institute for South-South Cooperation and Development Professor and Honorary Dean National School of Development Peking University Co-sponsored by: Harvard College Association of U.S.-China […]
Jane Perlez – The Cultural Revolution Revisited: 1967-2019
Taylor Seminar Room, Lippman House 1 Francis Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jane Perlez, 2019 Joan Shorenstein Center Fellow, Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times. Moderator: Lucy Hornby, 2020 Nieman Fellow, Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief for the Financial Times. Long before she was Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, Jane Perlez was an accidental tourist at the peak of China's Cultural Revolution. […]
Shen Hongyu – The Evolving Role of Chinese Courts in International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Judge Shen Hongyu, The Supreme People’s Court of China; Visiting Scholar, The Center for Chinese Legal Studies, Columbia Law School
Exhibition – Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers
Asian Centers Lounge 1730 Cambridge St. First Floor, Cambridge, MA, United StatesOrganized by: Yong Han Poh, Harvard College ’20 Exhibition Reception: Thursday, February 6, 2020; 4:15 p.m. Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge Sponsored by the […]
Paize Keulemans – Acoustic Immersion and Iconic Extraction in Three Kingdoms History, Fiction, and Videogames
Speaker: Paize Keulemans, Princeton University What are the ludic attractions of a fifteenth-century novel? What role is played by historical narrative in a twenty-first-century game? How is a character developed in text and in pixels, in words, painting, or on a (computer) screen? And how is the noise and confusion of a third-century battle digitally reproduced […]