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 […]
Qu Tongli – Emergence of Modern Humans in China: Behavioral Perspectives
Speaker: Qu Tongli, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Peking University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Amy Clark, College Fellow - Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University China has been the focus of discussion on modern human origins. Human fossils found recently in South China show that modern humans emerged in China in the early Late Pleistocene […]
Wang Xiying – Intimacy, Desire, and Reproduction: Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Beijing
Speaker: Wang Xiying, Professor, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University This talk focuses on understanding the daily lives of women living with HIV/AIDS (WLHA) and their coping strategies of the illness within […]
Annual Neuhauser Lecture Featuring Ambassador Samantha Power – China, the UN, and the Future of Human Rights
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWatch this event on YouTube: Listen to this event on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speaker: Samantha Power U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 2013-2017 Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government William D. Zabel Professor of Practice in […]
Lan Yan – The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century of Chinese History
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lan Yan, Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Lazard; Chairman and CEO, Lazard of Greater China
Kwok-Leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Preparation for Digital Scholarship in Chinese Studies
Speaker: Kwok-Leong Tang, Digital China Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Digital China Lab is a series of workshops on data collecting and wrangling, which will be offered by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies this semester. Kwok-leong will talk about the difficulties faced by humanities students in engaging with digital methodologies and explain […]
Alice Chen and Joseph Fewsmith – The Implications of Taiwan’s Presidential and Parliamentary Elections
Land Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesYou're invited to a panel discussion on Taiwan's January 11th presidential and parliamentary elections with Alice Chen MPA/ID 2022 and Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston […]