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Exhibition – Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape

Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Photographs by Lisa Ross Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts […]

Lenora Chu – Lessons from China: The World’s Largest Education System

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Read event summary here Speaker: Lenora Chu - International Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor; Author, Little Soldiers Based on journalistic research as well as her own experiences as a parent navigating the Chinese education system, Lenora will illuminate the impact of culture on education and global competitiveness, discuss differences between Chinese and Western systems, and detail […]

Kwok-leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding

Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR This workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming and coding. Participants will use two Chrome extensions to parse information from websites and learn basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In order to […]

Panel Discussion – Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications

CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Watch again on YouTube: Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speakers: Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health, Harvard Chan School of Public Health Howard Markel, George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine; Director, Center for the History of […]

Panel Discussion – The COVID-19 Outbreak: Local and Global Decisions During Uncertainty

Kresge Building, G2 - bad duplicate 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

Please click here to watch/listen to our recent panel discussion on COVID-19 (Coronavirus).  Panel Discussants: Gabriel Leung, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health, University of Hong Kong; Member of the World Health Organization expert team on COVID19; and Harvard Chan MPH Alumnus Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. […]

Jay Xu – Asia Now: A New Focus on Contemporary Art

Room 422, Sackler Building 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Jay Xu, Director and CEO, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Ever since its doors opened in 1966, the Asian Art Museum has dedicated itself to inspiring new ways of thinking. Through its world-class collection, exhibitions, and programs, the AAM connects diverse communities to various aspects of Asian art and culture. To further its […]

Bin Li – From History Books to Digital Humanities Database: Methods, Tools, and Case Studies of Chinese Classics

Artificial intelligence technology has rapidly changed the study form of humanities. In this presentation, we will discuss the key issues in using natural language processing, deep learning, GIS, database and visualization technologies to design a new digital humanities database from the electronic texts of ancient books. We will introduce automatic tagging tools for ancient Chinese […]

Lin Sheng-chih – Rethinking the Religious Elements in the Tombs of Early Medieval China

Speaker: Lin Sheng-chih, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University This talk examines religious elements in the tombs of early medieval China (220–589), in an effort to gain new […]

EALC First Fridays Live Broadcast

Speakers: Hisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History: "Toward a History of Timeless Wisdom" Dylan Suher, Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature: "Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumph at Midnight and the Birth of 'Television-Style Television'" The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard  invites you to join us for our first ever live broadcast of our signature […]