Olga Lomová – European Dream About Chinese Poetry in Sinological Research: The Cases of Vasiliv Alekseyev (1881–1951) and Jaroslav Průšek (1906–1980)
Via Zoom Meeting Speaker: Olga Lomová, Charles University in Prague It is a well-known fact that since the late nineteenth century many Western modernists were fascinated by ancient Chinese poetry […]
Opening Event, Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History
Speakers: Cynthia Brokaw, Brown University Alex Csiszar, Harvard University Kathryn James, Yale University Presented via Zoom. Registration Required Register at https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpf-mvqDsiGtAblBeWA3ymZhyloJtgcQs4
MODERN CHINA LECTURE SERIES FEATURING Sören Urbanksy – Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian border
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C34LVzYgMuc&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/beyond-the-steppe-frontier-a-history-of-the-sino-russian-border-with-soren-urbansky Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Sören Urbanksy, Research Fellow, German Historical Institute Washington The Sino-Russian border, once the world’s longest land border, was special in […]
Confronting Disinformation: A Conversation with Audrey Tang
Speaker: Audrey Tang, Taiwan Digital Minister in charge of Social Innovation Moderator: Joan Donovan, Research Director, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s Digital […]
East Asian Legal Studies Open House
Please join East Asian Legal Studies to meet EALS faculty, staff, and scholars. The Zoom link to this event will be published at: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Robert Ross – Rising China in Perspective: Global Threat or Great Power Competitor
https://youtu.be/fwwxMTfMxyE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rising-china-in-perspective-global-threat-or-great-power-competitor-with-ross-robert?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Robert S. Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series […]
Digital China Series – Long Live the Digital Scholarship Project!
https://youtu.be/LAi1v3xUTNk https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/long-live-the-digital-scholarship-project Read the transcript for the event here. Presenters: Peter Bol, Harvard University, China Biographical Database Grace Fong, McGill University, Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, Japan Disasters […]
Ann Heirman – Protecting Insects in Medieval Chinese Buddhism: Daoxuan’s Vinaya Commentaries
Speaker: Ann Heirman, Ghent University Buddhist texts generally prohibit the killing of all sentient beings. This is certainly the case in vinaya (disciplinary) texts, which contain strict guidelines on the […]
Jinying Li – Walled Media, Mediating Walls
Speaker: Jinying Li, Brown University As the global digital network promises boundless access to limitless information, we are facing increasing layers of mounting walls in digital media: the Great Firewall […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Jorge Heine – China and the Global South: From Debt Diplomacy to Dependency?
https://youtu.be/pQ-2N-J47wE https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-and-the-global-south-from-debt-diplomacy-to-dependency-with-jorge-heine Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Jorge Heine, Research Professor, Boston University; Former Ambassador of Chile to China (2014-2017), to India (2003-2007) and to South Africa […]
Nicolas Tackett – The Mechanics of Cultural Change in China in a Period of Disunity
Speaker: Nicolas Tackett, University of California Berkeley Situated at the epicenter of the “Tang-Song Transition,” the tenth-century interregnum between the Tang and Song dynasties was a period of rapid change. […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series Featuring Rosemary Foot – China, the UN, and Human Protection: Beliefs, Power, Image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUGul3_tUiw https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/china-the-un-and-human-protection-with-rosemary-foot Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Rosemary Foot, Senior Research Fellow in International Relations at the University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College; Research […]