Amy Langenberg and Ann Gleig – From Sudinna to the Sangha Sutra: Classical and Contemporary Buddhist Responses to Sexual Misconduct
Speakers: Amy Langenberg, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Eckerd College Ann Gleig, Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies, University of Central Florida Since the 1980s, American Buddhist convert communities […]
Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuqsqjkqHtAFzbIKdd4b6f9r-qxzNdrn
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series featuring David Yang – AI-tocracy: the Political Economy of AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jprZzHG68vE&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/ai-tocracy-the-political-economy-of-ai-with-david-yang?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: David Yang, Assistant Professor Economics, Harvard University The conventional wisdom suggests a misalignment between autocracy and technological innovation. In this project, we examine whether there exists a political and economic alignment between the monitoring aims of autocracies and the innovative aims of AI firms. We gather comprehensive […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Deborah Brautigam – Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics: Sri Lanka, Angola, and Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SvFjlu9ZM&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/debt-relief-with-chinese-characteristics-sri-lanka-angola-and-beyond-with-deborah-brautigam?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Reading the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Deborah Brautigam, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Director of the SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar
Panel Discussion – Iran and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between Desirable and Feasible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgTnxChTo5o&t=3s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/iran-and-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-between-desirable-and-feasible Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers:Eyck Freymann, Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford UniversityNader Habibi, Professor of Practice, Brandeis UniversityDina Esfandiary, Senior Advisor, International Crisis Group Moderators:Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis CenterJames Gethyn Evans, Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University Experiencing another […]
Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
Speakers: Takashi Shiraishi, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018) Saori Katada, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Nonresident […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu – The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
Speaker: Tina Lu, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University When it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production, our field is still largely dominated by Craig Clunas’ framework (itself largely adapted from Bourdieu). I am interested in considering the politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrea Ghiselli – Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNyI34EGR4k https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/protecting-chinas-interests-overseas-securitization-and-foreign-policy-with-andrea-ghiselli?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Andrea Ghiselli, Assistant Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University Moderator: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate The securitization of non-traditional security issues is a scarcely discussed and, yet, extremely powerful force that shapes the evolution of Chinese foreign and security policy. The lecture […]
Erin Y. Huang – Ocean Media: South China Sea and Gilles Deleuze’s Desert Islands
Speaker: Erin Y. Huang, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Princeton University “Humans can live on an island only by forgetting what an island represents,” writes Deleuze in his short essay “Desert Islands” (îles déserte; huangdao; mujintō; no-man island). But what does an island truly represent (that for Deleuze means the constant […]
Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2021 – Moving Bodies: Mobility and Control Across East Asia
Presented by: The Harvard East Asia Society, A GSAS Student Group, Harvard University For more information, including an agenda and a list of speakers, visit: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/2021-schedule.
The World is Watching: Activists and Academics on the Uyghur Genocide
Speakers: Rushan Abbas, Founder and Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs Kamaltürk Yalqun, General Secretary, Campaign for Uyghurs Darren Byler, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado Rian Thum, Loyola University Join us to hear from activists and academics on the Uyghur genocide. Rushan Abbas, a prominent Uyghur American activist and the founder and Director of Campaign for […]
Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum featuring James Benn – Meditation in the Surangama Sutra
Speaker: James Benn, Professor and Director of the Centre for Buddhist Studies, McMaster University Please note earlier start time. In the later Chinese Buddhist tradition one text above all others has been extolled for the profundity of its ideas, the beauty of its language, and its insight into the practice of meditation—this is the scripture popularly […]