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From the May Fourth to Baodiao: Defend the Diaoyu Islands Movement 1971-2021 海上風雷：五四論保釣，1971-2021

This forum will be conducted in Mandarin In 1971, overseas Chinese students across the United States launched the Baodiao movement in response to the territorial disputes over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands between Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. The movement ignited massive demonstrations and debates on issues from sovereignty to territoriality, and form patriotism […]

Thomas Mullaney – The Search for Mod China: How Chinese Computing Hacked Modernity

Speaker: Thomas Mullaney, Professor of History, Stanford University During the global rise of consumer PCs in the 1980s, no Western-manufactured computer, printer, monitor, operating system, or software could handle Chinese character input or output. Not “out of the box,” at least. The “Sinicization” of personal computing depended upon a messy, decentralized, and often brilliant series […]

William Kirby – The Rise of China in the World of Universities

Speaker: William C. Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University. German universities defined academic excellence in the 19th century. American universities came to set global standards in the 20th century. What, then, are the prospects for China to lead the world of universities […]

Zhang Xianqing – People without Land: The Transition of Ethnic Landscape and Social Reconstruction of Dan in Eastern Fujian, China

Speaker: Zhang Xianqing, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Eugenio Menegon,  Boston University More information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/people-without-land-the-transition-of-ethnic-landscape-and-social-reconstruction-of-dan-in-eastern-fujian-china/ Presented via Zoom registration required  

Africa-Asia Roundtable – Pandemics: Surveillance, Preparedness, and Response

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a global focus on pandemic surveillance, preparedness, and response. As a result of the 2014 - 2016 Ebola outbreak, the World Bank invested in the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Program. Thirteen countries in West and Central Africa have received a $200 million funding commitment “to […]

A Symposium on Displacement and Convergence in the Age of Multipolarity (550s–610s)

This symposium will be a multi-disciplinary examination of the displacement and diasporic communities during the period between 550s and 610s, from the fall of the Liang through the end of the Sui. While scholarship in the past has tended to concentrate on only one side of the Northern and Southern Dynasties histories and literatures, we hope […]

Combatting Anti-Asian Racism and Misogyny: What is our Local Community Doing?

This public discussion will highlight key challenges of racism, misogyny and other discrimination faced by our Asian and Asian-American community, the responses of local organizations who have long sought to address such challenges, and what more needs to be done in our own communities. Speakers represent perspectives from the Harvard Kennedy School’s staff, faculty and […]

Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data Project Workshop

Speakers: Haihui Zhang, Head of the East Asian Library and Chinese Studies Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Library System Yuanziyi Zhang, Student Coordinator of CCVG Data project Ruoyun Zheng, Student Coordinator […]

CrossAsia Integrated Text Repository Workshop

Speaker: Brent Hou-leong Ho, East Asia Department, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) At the April meeting of the East Asian Digital Scholarship Series, Matthias Kaun, director of Berlin State […]