Visiting Scholars Present
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesFairbank Center Scholars will share current research on China-North Korea relations, Taiwan identity and history, and land rights in China. Each short presentation will be followed by Q & A […]
East Asian Ghost Stories Gathering
Room 102, 9 Kirkland Place 9 Kirkland Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesJoin us for Halloween goodies and spooky stories. Bring your favorite creepy tale to share, or just come listen! All Harvard students, faculty, & staff welcome. RSVP and direct questions […]
Lan Li – Sea Shells: Metaphor, Anatomy, and Epistemology of Brainlessness
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Lan Li Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesBlockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race Speaker: Winston Ma, Author of The Hunt for Unicorns, The Digital War, andBlockchain and Web3；Adjunct Professor, NYU Law […]
Jingran Zhang – Characterization and Environmental Impacts of Chinese and Global Aviation Emissions of CO2 and Air Pollutants
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jingran Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project Jingran Zhang studies transportation energy and environmental issues, with a special focus on the global aviation sector. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science […]
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions
Room S030, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law and History, Yale UniversityHow states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and history. Increasingly, scholars believe that China's relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. […]
Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany Featuring Constance Stelzenmüller – The Free World and Its Enemies: What Putin’s War and China’s Global Ambitions Mean For Us
Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Constanze Stelzenmüller, Director and Fritz Stern Chair, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Russia is at war with Ukraine—but also with the West. Will Germany’s Zeitenwende reforms […]
Karina Simonson – Representations of Africa and Asia in Soviet Lithuanian Children’s Visual Culture
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Karina Simonson, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University, and Postdoctoral fellow at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania In this presentation, Karina Simonson will […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Jeffrey Riegel – Further Reflections on an ‘Unmoved Heart’: Mengzi 2A2 Revisited
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jeffrey Riegel, University of California Berkeley, Emeritus Mengzi 2A2 consists of Master Meng’s answers to questions put to him by a follower named Gongsun Chou. The first few of […]
Minhua Ling – Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai’s Edge
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Minhua Ling, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study China’s escalated infrastructural and real estate development has gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This talk showcases the emerging practice of container housing among low-income migrants who live in removable cargo containers or prefabricated metal shelters on the urban fringe of […]
Panel Discussion – China’s New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University Pardee School of Global StudiesLucy Hornby, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Former Beijing correspondent, Financial TimesAnthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Moderator: Mark Wu, […]
Li Zhiying – Tibet as Told by the Early Qing Emperors
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Li Zhiying, Associate Professor, Centre for Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Leonard van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Harvard UniversitySeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. How did the official narrative about the Qing-Tibetan relationship come into being? This talk focuses on the different narratives […]