Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Ya-Wen Lei – Techno-Capitalism: Social Challenges and Fissures in Today’s China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard UniversityYa-Wen Lei is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. Trained in both law and sociology, she holds a LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School and […]
Taiwan Studies Workshop Panel Discussion: Elections in Taiwan 2024
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Richard C. Bush, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center for East Asia Policy Studies (CEAP), Brookings InstitutionJIA Qingguo, Director and Professor, Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding, Peking UniversityWei-Ting Yen, Assistant Professor of Government, Government Department, Franklin and Marshall College Moderator: Steven M. Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Director, Fairbank Center Taiwan Studies […]
Yan Wenjie – Fake News as a Socio-political-psychological Phenomenon: Evidence from China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yan Wenjie, Professor, Political Communication, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Baum, Marvin Kalb Professor Of Global Communications and Professor Of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Department of Government, Harvard University The spread of online falsity is one of the most pressing global challenges of the day. It is detrimental to the […]
Margaret Hillenbrand – Read Your Mind: Facial Recognition Technology and Contemporary Chinese Portraiture
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, University of Oxford Margaret Hillenbrand's paper probes the links between facial recognition technology and contemporary Chinese portraiture. Its point of departure is a recent paper published by two AI researchers based in China. The paper introduces a facial recognition algorithm apparently capable of predicting the status […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesDuring Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesDuring Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Yiyun Peng and Brian Spivey – Herbaceous Revolution and Environmental Protection: Introducing New Scholarship in Chinese Environmental History
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Yiyun Peng, D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of ChicagoBrian Spivey, Mellon Faculty Fellow, History Department, UC IrvineSeries Convener: Ling Zhang, Associate Professor, Boston College Yiyun Peng received her PhD in history from Cornell University in August 2023 and is currently the D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the […]
Urban China Series Featuring Fang Xu – Care to be a Shanghainese? Endangerment of the Vernacular and Flexible Resident Identity
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Fang Xu , Continuing Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, University of California Berkeley The transformation of Shanghai into a global city has driven millions of Shanghainese away from the urban core; and turned both the historic urban Shanghai and its newly urbanized periphery into a manifestation of the “China Dream”. Shanghai has also experienced the […]
Yangyang Cheng – Empires and Exiles: On Writing About Science and Technology Between China and the United States
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Yangyang Cheng, Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law SchoolModerator: Victor Seow, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University Dr. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where her work […]
Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Workshop
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesWhat do gender politics, the Sino-Japanese War, Cold War anxiety, and the Cultural Revolution have in common? Come for lunch and find out on Tuesday, November 28, when Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars present their recent research! At the workshop, scholars will present research on gender politics in Chinese film, contemporary Taiwanese literature and media studies, environmental […]
Wei Ran – Latin American Travelers and Revolutionary China in the Global 1960s: A Story of (Dis)encounters
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Wei Ran, Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Discussant: Mariano Siskind, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University In the Global 1960s, many Latin American leading intellectuals, such as Pablo Neruda, José Venturelli, Eduardo Galeano and Ricardo Piglia, visited Maoist China, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Yasheng Huang – China’s Long March: From Politics to Economics and From Economics to Politics
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation professor of global economics and management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. From 2013 to 2017, he served as an associate dean in charge of MIT Sloan’s global partnership programs and its action […]