Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar – Myths and Realities in Sino-American Relations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1oY9_6u0qY&t=2137s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/myths-and-realities-in-sino-american-relations-fairbank-center-directors-seminar?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy SchoolModerator: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton; Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama. Introduction by: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global […]
China Town Hall: Society & Culture
Speakers: Raymond Chang, Major League Baseball China Lucas Sin, Junzi Kitchen Janet Yang, Janet Yang Productions Moderator: Alison Friedman, Performing Arts of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority Starting with ping-pong diplomacy in 1971, cultural diplomacy has played a pivotal role in facilitating mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and China. This event will […]
Javier Cha — The Big Data Turn in the Humanities: Sailing into Uncharted Waters
Speaker: Javier Cha, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University; Visiting Scholar and Digital Historian-in-Residence, Department of History, Lingnan University The total amount of data created by 2020, if stored in a stack of single-layer Blu-ray discs, would reach seven times the distance between the Earth and the Moon. […]
Chinese Literature Across the Borderlands
Convened by: David Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Kyle Shernuk, Yale University Miya Qiong Xie, Dartmouth University This workshop aims to explore the shifting definitions of the borderland as a territorial gateway, a geopolitical space, a contact zone, a liminal terrain, and an imaginary portal. To this end, participants will explore the intersection of ethnic, linguistic, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Joseph Fewsmith – The Fifth Plenum: Implications for the Future
https://youtu.be/UGFXhhLyGbM https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-fifth-plenum-implications-for-the-future-with-joseph-fewsmith Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University Pardee School of International Relations and Political Science. Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar
Panel Discussion – East Asia Responds to U.S. Election Results
Presenters: Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University; Adjunct Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs Shin-wha Lee, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University Wu Xinbo, Dean, Institute of International Studies; Director, Center for American Studies; Fudan University Discussant: Ezra Vogel, Honorary Director, Program on […]
Economy Lecture Series featuring Kristen Looney – Rural Development in China and East Asia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDEEV4VSgck https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rural-development-in-china-and-east-asia-with-kristen-looney Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Kristen Looney, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government, Georgetown University Moderator/Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School This talk tackles the question of how countries achieve rural development and offers a new way of thinking about East […]
Tao Leigh Goffe – “My Mother Told Me I am Chinese”: Afro-Asian Aesthetics in the Caribbean
Speaker: Tao Leigh Goffe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cornell University In this talk, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss the aesthetic challenge 'Chinese' poses as a racial category in the Caribbean. The introduction of Chinese as a category of labor to the West Indian […]
Environment in Asia Lecture Series – Infectious Diseases and Public Health Management in China: From Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQx3sgioXuI https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/infectious-diseases-and-public-health-management-in-china?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, Duke University Mary Augusta Brazelton, The University of Cambridge Miriam Gross, The University of Oklahoma Elanah Uretsky, Brandeis University Moderator: Ling Zhang, Boston College Nicole Elizabeth Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies […]
East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour
Read the transcript of the event here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIE0MD6b7Vs&t=4s The East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour is an experimental and casual community-building event. It aims to provide a platform for scholars, graduate students, in particular, to share their ideas, skills, big and small projects, and learn from each other. Examples of presentation topics include but […]
Xingyi Wang – Boundary of the Body: The Monastic Robe and Revival of the Vinaya in Medieval China and Japan
Speaker: Xingyi Wang, PhD Candidate, Harvard University Modern scholarship often compares Buddhist monastic rules to legal codes or treats them mainly as nominal prescriptions. The reality, however, was more complex than what appeared on paper. I propose a new understanding of the Vinaya which sees it as vital device and site for the formation of […]
Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala – Uyghur Poetry in Translation
Join us for the opportunity to hear from Tahir Hamut Izgil and Rana Yashar Aybala, two of the foremost poets writing in Uyghur today. The event will feature opening remarks by Mark Elliott, Harvard’s Vice Provost of International Affairs, followed by presentations from both poets. We will also have the opportunity to hear from Dr […]