Thinking through Performance in China – A Workshop on Chinese theories of Acting, Singing, and Theater (c.1200–1850)
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThis workshop reconsiders the significance of critical writings about acting, singing, and theatrical performance in China (c.1200–1850). How did artists, intellectuals, and critics reflect on experiences of watching or listening […]
Curatorial Chat: Central Asian Chronicles Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery
Houghton Library Quincy Street & Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesJoin co-curators Dr. Gülnar Eziz, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and Isa Youshe, PhD Student, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University, for a 30-minute guided tour of the Central […]
Symposium – Thinking Between/Through Historic and Modern China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard UniversityJoseph W. Esherick, Professor Emeritus, History Department, University of California San […]
Joseph Esherick – Rethinking the Chinese Revolution
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Joseph Esherick, Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, San Diego Moderator: Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute. Was the Chinese Revolution inevitable? […]
Film Screening: That Day, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesA renowned young pianist, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang), […]
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Zhu Fangsheng – Families, Schools, and Cities
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Zhu Fangsheng, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Duke Kunshan University This talk will trace the origins and consequences of how contemporary Chinese cities govern public school admissions. School districts became […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook – The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Timothy Brook, The University of British Columbia, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino, Trinity CollegeYan Gao, University of MemphisIan M. Miller, St John’s University Series Convener:Ling Zhang, Boston College In 1644, after close […]
Borders in Motion: New Paradigms of East Asian Comparative Literature – an online book launch forum
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Satoru Hashimoto, Johns Hopkins UniversityXiaolu Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyMiya Qiong Xie, Dartmouth College Hosts:Karen Thornber, Harvard UniversityDavid Der-wei Wang, Harvard University Venue
Contextual Annotation in Textual and Visual Media: COMARKUS and IMMARKUS
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Hilde De Weerdt, Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History, KU Leuven Hilde De Weerdt joined the Early Modern History Research Group, KU Leuven in March 2022 as Professor of […]
Special Presentation featuring Stephen MacKinnon – History as Biography: Chen Hansheng 陈翰笙 (1897-2004)
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Stephen MacKinnon, Emeritus Professor of History; Former Director of Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State UniversitySteven MacKinnon, author of Chen Hansheng: China’s Last Romantic Revolutionary, will discuss the remarkable […]
2024 Gender Studies Workshop – The Chinese Family Romance
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States9:10 AM: Introductory remarks 9:15 AM: Literature Panel Tina Lu, Yale University - "The Family Romance, Chuanqi, and What Can't Be Said" Maria Sibau, Emory University - "Inventing Mothers in […]
2024 Harvard Visual China Graduate Symposium – Time and Temporality in Chinese Art & Culture
Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow do humans and objects exist in relation to time and experience time? We often turn to space and spatial models as the dominant approach to analyzing visual materials, yet […]