Jude Blanchette – What’s Communist about the Communist Party of China?
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Jude Blanchette - Center for Strategic and International Studies The speaker will explore the extant ideological and institutional legacies of socialism and Marxism within the […]
Mark Elliott and Kirsten Weld – The Public Face of History series: The Historian Confronting Political Controversies
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Mark Elliott, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University Kirsten Weld, Professor of History, Harvard University
Xi Yang – China’s Coal-to-Gas Policy for Residential Heating: Between the Shadow and the Light
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xi Yang, Visiting Researcher, Harvard-China Project; Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum Beijing Under the pressure of improving its environmental governance, China has strengthened its coal substitution policy known […]
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite – “The 18th Brumaire of Yuan Shikai,” By Mao Zedong: History, Classical Commentary, and Politics.
Speaker: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University Taking a small comment by the young Mao Zedong in his "Classroom Notes" as its point of departure, this talk revisits the very […]
Exhibition – Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape
Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South, Lower Level 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesPhotographs by Lisa Ross Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard Asia Center Arts […]
Zhai Shaodong – Ground Stone Tool Production: A Forsaken Craft During Early Urbanization in China
Speaker: Zhai Shaodong, Associate Professor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Rowan Flad, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard […]
Jessica Brandt and Torrey Taussig – China, Russia, and Europe’s Authoritarian Challenge
Adolphus Busch Hall 27 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Jessica Brandt, Head of Policy and Research, Alliance for Securing Democracy; Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Torrey Taussig, Research Director, Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship, […]
Lenora Chu – Lessons from China: The World’s Largest Education System
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Lenora Chu - International Correspondent, Christian Science Monitor; Author, Little Soldiers Based on journalistic research as well as her own experiences as a parent navigating […]
Kwok-leong Tang – Digital China Lab: Web Scraping without Coding
Registration Form: https://d.pr/SgidPR This workshop will introduce tools and basic skills to extract and collect data from web pages. It is intended for participants who have no familiarity with programming […]
Panel Discussion – Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWatch again on YouTube: Listen again on Soundcloud: Read and download the transcript for this event here. Speakers: Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public […]
Panel Discussion – The COVID-19 Outbreak: Local and Global Decisions During Uncertainty
Kresge Building, G2 - bad duplicate 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesPlease click here to watch/listen to our recent panel discussion on COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Panel Discussants: Gabriel Leung, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Helen and Francis Zimmern Professor in Population Health, University […]
Chien-Huei Wu – Economic-Security Nexus: The US-China Trade War and its Implication for Taiwan
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Chien-Huei Wu, Associate Research Professor, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica