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 […]
Yong Han Poh – Life in Singapore: Views from Migrant Workers
Speaker: Yong Han Poh, Harvard College, ’20 Chair: Nicole Newendorp, Lecturer on Social Studies; Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard University
Wen-Chin Wu – How does China’s Foreign Aid Undermine the Effectiveness of US Foreign Policy? —Evidence from UN General Assembly Voting Data
Speaker: Wen-Chin Wu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Christina Davis, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor, Radcliffe Institute The economic rise of China is inspiring a burgeoning literature on how China uses its economic power to influence other countries’ domestic […]
Sean Sylvia – The Quality of Primary Care in Rural China: Evidence from Mystery Patients
Harvard Chan School, Building 1, Room 1208 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sean Sylvia, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Kent Calder – Super Continent: BRI and the Emergence of an Integrated Eurasia
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Kent Calder, Johns Hopkins University Kent Calder serves as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and International Research Cooperation at JHU. He is also Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, and served from 2016-2018 as Director of Asia Programs. Before arriving at Johns Hopkins SAIS in […]