• Asia Responds to Trump in Asia

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Listen again on the Fairbank Center's podcast: Chair:  Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, […]

  • Lex Berman – A Practical Approach to GIS and Spatial Thinking for China Research

    Northwest Building, Room B129 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Lex Berman, GIS Specialist & Web Services Manager, Center for Geographic Analysis Spatial Humanities is a synthesis between traditional historical and textual research methods and the use of geographic information systems […]

  • Nicholas Burns – U.S. Foreign Policy, Trump, and China

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    As President Trump returns from his first visit to China as Commander-in-Chief, how is U.S. foreign policy reacting to a new administration in Washington and a new rising power in […]

  • Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    9:30 AM     Workshop Opens 9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China Speaker: Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan This paper describes the ritualization of death […]

  • Kevin O’Brien – China’s Disaffected Insiders

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Event Summary Speaker: Professor Kevin O’Brien, Walter and Elise Haas Professor of Asian Studies; Alann P. Bedford Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, […]

  • Paul W. Kroll – Personal Moments in Medieval Chinese Poetry

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado Medieval Chinese poetry, like most self-consciously traditional literature, embraces learning, presumption, and intertextuality with ardor. Scholarship delights to roam in these fields which […]

  • A roundtable discussion on “Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy”

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Participants: Michael Sandel (Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University) Joseph C.W. Chan (Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong) Chaibong Hahm (President, The Asan Institute for Policy […]