• The Stories We Tell and the Objects We Keep: Asian American Women and the Archives

    Radcliffe Knafel Center 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    The stories of Asian American women extend far beyond the geographic borders of the United States. Inspired by tales and objects from family history, their narratives often reflect the transnational nature of Asian American women’s lives. Despite the importance of these narratives to expanding and complicating our understanding of war, migration, inequity, and difference, the […]

  • Triangular Economic Relations: China, The EU, and the United States

    Wexner W-434 A.B 19 Eliot St, Cambridge, United States

    Speakers: Lucy Hornby, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University; Deputy Bureau Chief in Beijing for the Financial Times Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Faculty Director of Action Learning, the MIT Sloan School of Management Yukon Huang, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Moderator: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center Co-sponsored by: Davis […]

  • ***CANCELED*** Lizhi Liu – From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China

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

    This event is canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience. Speaker: Lizhi Liu, Georgetown University A central question in political economy asks: how do developing states build market-supporting institutions (e.g., secure property rights, contract enforcement, and the rule of law)? Too often, political obstacles prevent developing states from adopting strong formal institutions. I propose that China has devised a novel solution […]

  • ***POSTPONED*** Environment in Asia Reunion Workshop – With a Special Tribute to Profs. Robert B. Marks and Peter C. Perdue

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

    THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IT FOR APRIL 2021. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE Organizer: Ling Zhang, Boston College Featuring roundtable conversations on: Multispecies Entanglement Imaginaries and Representations Land, Water, Fire, Air Energy and Resource Food, Body, Health Environmental Politics and Policies of Contemporary China Building a […]

  • ***POSTPONED*** Environment in Asia Reunion Workshop – With a Special Tribute to Profs. Robert B. Marks and Peter C. Perdue

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

    THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IT FOR APRIL 2021. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE Organizer: Ling Zhang, Boston College Featuring roundtable conversations on: Multispecies Entanglement Imaginaries and Representations Land, Water, Fire, Air Energy and Resource Food, Body, Health Environmental Politics and Policies of Contemporary China Building a […]

  • ***POSTPONED*** Annual Reischauer Lecture Series Featuring Angela Ki Che Leung – Soy Sauce: Becoming East Asia’s Everyday Food

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

    ***Due to COVID-19 concerns, this event has been postponed until a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience.*** Speaker: Angela Ki Che Leung Director and Chair Professor of History Joseph Needham – Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History, Science & Civilization Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Angela […]

  • ***POSTPONED*** Annual Reischauer Lecture Series Featuring Angela Ki Che Leung – Soy Sauce Technoscience and the Modern State

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

    ***Due to COVID-19 concerns, this event has been postponed until a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience.*** Speaker: Angela Ki Che Leung Director and Chair Professor of History Joseph Needham – Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History, Science & Civilization Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Angela […]

  • ***POSTPONED*** Annual Reischauer Lecture Series Featuring Angela Ki Che Leung – Reinventing Post-Industrial Soy Sauce : Traditions Imagined

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

    ***Due to COVID-19 concerns, this event has been postponed until a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience.*** Speaker: Angela Ki Che Leung Director and Chair Professor of History Joseph Needham – Philip Mao Professor in Chinese History, Science & Civilization Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Angela […]

  • CRITICAL ISSUES CONFRONTING CHINA SERIES FEATURING William Overholt – China-US: The New Game

    https://youtu.be/W6l0CQP1L3k Read a full transcript of this event here. Read event summary here. Speaker: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School William Overholt joined the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia in July 2008 and conducts research on development and governance issues. Previously, he served as a visiting scholar with the Institute for Asia and […]

  • Webinar | James Mulvenon – Beyond Espionage: IP Theft, Talent Programs, and Cyber Conflict with China

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfNmebFE4Ww Read the full transcript of this event here. Read the event summary here Speaker: James Mulvenon, Director of Intelligence Integration, SOSi Intelligence Solutions Group James Mulvenon is Director of Intelligence Integration for SOSi’s Intelligence Solutions Group, where he has recruited and trained a team of nearly fifty Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Pashto, […]

  • *** POSTPONED *** Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Performance

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

    THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED Participants: Xu, Peng, Swarthmore College Megan Ammirati, University of California Davis Emily Wilcox, University of Michigan Eileen Cheng-yin Chow,  Duke University Catherine Yeh, Boston University Matthew Sommer, Stanford University David Wang,  Harvard University Claire Conceison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ted Hui, Harvard University Commentator: Wai-Yee Li, Harvard University