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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210413T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar featuring Wu Hung - Unearthing Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wu Hung\, University of Chicago \nWorshipped by later folk artists as the God of Painting\, Wu Daozi (c. 686 – c. 760) was also praised by Tang art historian Zhang Yanyuan as someone who “did not look back and will have no successors.” But alas this Sage of Painting (Hua Sheng) left no work to us (imagine if we could only read about Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo\, or know Du Fu and Li Bo only by reputation). Can archaeology remedy this unfortunate situation as it has done for so many other fields from classical philosophy to ancient science? This talk suggests that a set of newly discovered imperial tomb murals (so new that they are still being conserved in a museum lab) may allow us to approach Wu’s style more closely than ever before\, and also leads us to problematize the concept of authorship in Tang painting. \nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrf–opjsqEtMtPaFa8anuUbAYGJ7Vm_vv
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-wu-hung-unearthing-wu-daozi-landscape-murals-in-empress-zhenshuns-tomb-738-ce/
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210413T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210413T213000
DTSTAMP:20260518T104010
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taomo Zhou - Leveraging Liminality: Shenzhen and the Origins of China’s Reform and Opening
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Taomo Zhou\, Assistant Professor of History\, Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore \nImmediately north of Hong Kong\, Shenzhen is China’s most successful Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Commonly known as the “social laboratory” of reform and opening\, Shenzhen was the foremost frontier for the People’s Republic’s adoption of market principles and entrance into the world economy in the late 1970s. This talk examines prototypes of the SEZ in Bao’an County\, the precursor of Shenzhen during the Mao era (1949-1976). Between 1949 and 1978\, Bao’an was a liminal space where state endeavors to establish a socialist economy were challenged by capitalist influences from the adjacent British Crown Colony. To create an enclave of exception to socialism\, communist cadres in Bao’an promoted individualized\, duty-free cross-border trade and informal foreign investment schemes as early as 1961. Although beholden to the inward-looking planned economy and stymied by radical leftist campaigns\, these local improvisations formed the foundation for the SEZ—the very hallmark of Deng Xiaoping’s economic statecraft. \nTaomo Zhou is an Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, specializing in modern Chinese and Southeast Asian history. Taomo’s first book\, Migration in the Time of Revolution: China\, Indonesia and the Cold War (Cornell University Press\, 2019)\, was selected as one of the Best Books of 2020 by Foreign Affairs. Taomo is working on a new research project on Shenzhen—the first Special Economic Zone of China—and its connections with the Export Processing Zones and free ports across Southeast Asia. This research is funded by a Tier 1 grant from the Ministry of Education\, Singapore. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/taomo-zhou-leveraging-liminality-the-border-town-of-baoan-and-the-origins-of-chinas-reform-and-opening/
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210414T123000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Lecture Series featuring Eswar Prasad - China’s Role in Global Finance
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Eswar Prasad\, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy\, Cornell University; Senior Fellow and New Century Chair in International Economics\, Brookings Institution; Research Associate\, National Bureau of Economic Research. \nThis lecture will discuss China’s economic prospects\, policies\, and reforms\, and their implications for its role in international finance. The lecture will cover China’s economy\, financial markets\, and the renminbi\, and also touch upon the country’s new digital currency. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eswar-prasad-critical-issues-confronting-china-lecture-series/
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210415T120000
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc–oqzIqGdxB4YY7w9_4_JRVcTfeHNBh
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/hyl3/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T173000
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SUMMARY:Gods of Leather and Lilies: Ancestral Spirits and Community Leadership Culture in the Buddhist Debates at Kōyasan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Tinsley\, University of California\, Irvine \nSince the early fifteenth century\, the monastic participants in the Risseigi debates at the Kōyasan esoteric Buddhist community have been promoted to membership in the “Myōjin-kō” confraternity. Although debate protocol was based on that of Kōfukuji’s\, the process by which the debating priests were qualified for the confraternity is modeled on practices of rotating leadership in the local communities outside the Buddhist complex. These involved the excursions of various “non-Buddhist” gods and the investiture of their temporary custodians with a program of worship. I will introduce this organizational model and its variants before focusing on the objects of worship\, their material supports\, and their meanings. \nUnderstanding the practice of rotating leadership sheds light on the initially confusing selection of gods. Most important among these at Kōyasan’s debates was “Ryūgi Myōjin” whose roots can be found in the spirits of a willow swamp and a lily-field\, and who is related to a mysterious god of leather-making. Important texts for understanding these practices\, the debates\, and these gods are the Gohonjiku ritual manual\, the Gohonjiku painting\, Sanja takusen paintings\, the Myōjin-kō liturgy\, and the “origin tale” of the leather-making god. The incorporation of the gods (who previously/also occupied other spheres of worship) into Buddhist debates is to do with community identity reinforcement but is indicative of co-existence rather than of subjugation or appropriation. This talk’s study of the “patterns and players” in the debates shows that the medieval mountain was considered\, fundamentally\, a site of gods – and ancestral spirits – despite the Buddhist community settled there. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtd–gqjIsHtfvicCbZb99ToOr_cndAKGP
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gods-of-leather-and-lilies-ancestral-spirits-and-community-leadership-culture-in-the-buddhist-debates-at-koyasan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T200000
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SUMMARY:China Economy Lecture Series featuring Angela Zhang — Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Angela Zhang\, Director of the Center for Chinese Law and Associate Professor\, The University of Hong Kong \nIn this webinar\, Angela Zhang will discuss her new book Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation (Oxford University Press). This book examines the unique ways in which China regulates and is regulated by foreign countries\, revealing a ‘Chinese exceptionalism’ that is reshaping global antitrust regulation. Angela will provide a deep dive into Chinese bureaucratic politics while analyzing the power imbalances between businesses and the government in China. In addition to examining the challenges foreign multinationals have faced in complying with Chinese antitrust law\, she will also explore the difficulties Chinese firms have encountered as U.S. and E.U. antitrust regulators tighten their scrutiny over Chinese businesses. Angela will conclude with her book’s implications for future Sino-American relations\, as well as the recent events surrounding Ant Group’s IPO debacle and the Chinese regulation of big tech. \nAngela Zhang is an associate professor of law and the director of the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong. An award-winning legal scholar\, Angela is a highly sought-after commentator on Chinese antitrust issues. Before joining the University of Hong Kong\, Angela taught at King’s College London and practiced law for six years in the United States\, Europe\, and Asia. Angela received her LLB from Peking University\, and her LLM\, JD and JSD from the University of Chicago Law School. She wrote her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Judge Richard A. Posner. To learn more about Angela\, please visit angelazhang.net. \nPart of the China Economy Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-economy-lecture-series-featuring-angela-zhang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210420T123000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar featuring Martin K. Whyte - China's Hukou System: How an Engine of Development Has Now Become a Major Obstacle
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Martin K. Whyte\, John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and Sociology\, Emeritus\, and former director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nAs the People’s Republic of China has pursued economic development over the decades\, a central dilemma concerns how to treat its massive rural population\, and the extent to which its rural-origin citizens can contribute to\, and benefit from\, economic growth.  In different time periods\, there have been dramatic changes in the nature of rural-urban relations\, often with paradoxical consequences for prospects for economic growth. The talk will examine the nature of rural-urban relations in different time periods\, with a focus on post-1978 changes.  The initial reforms\, by freeing peasants from the “socialist serfdom” of the communes and allowing geographic mobility while maintaining the hukou system and systematic discrimination against those of rural origin\, produced the primary engine of China’s post-1978 economic boom.  However\, by maintaining pernicious discrimination based upon hukou status\, particularly regarding the educational opportunities of rural youths\, China now faces a major human capital deficit that it is struggling to overcome.  The talk concludes with a discussion of why it has been so hard to reform and eliminate hukou-based discrimination\, and what more needs to be done for China to escape the “middle income trap” and continue its economic rise. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-directors-seminar-featuring-martin-k-whyte-chinas-hukou-system-how-an-engine-of-development-has-now-become-a-major-obstacle/
CATEGORIES:Director's Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T134500
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Jessica Chen Weiss - A World Safe for Autocracy: The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jessica Chen Weiss\, Associate Professor of Government\, Cornell University \nHow does China’s domestic governance shape its foreign policy? What role do nationalism and ideology play in Beijing’s regional and global ambitions? The Chinese leadership has been at once a revisionist\, defender\, reformer\, and free-rider in the international system—insisting rigidly on issues that are central to its domestic survival\, while showing flexibility on issues that are more peripheral. To illuminate this variation and prospects for conflict and cooperation\, Weiss will discuss her new book project\, which theorizes and illustrates the domestic-international linkages in Beijing’s approach to issues ranging from sovereignty and homeland disputes to climate change and COVID-19. \nJessica Chen Weiss is Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University. She is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press\, 2014). The dissertation on which it is based won the 2009 American Political Science Association Award for best dissertation in international relations\, law and politics. \nHer work has appeared or is forthcoming in International Organization\, China Quarterly\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, and Security Studies. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation\, Cornell Einaudi Center\, Cornell Center for Social Sciences\, Uppsala University\, Princeton-Harvard China & The World Program\, Bradley Foundation\, Fulbright-Hays program\, and University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. \nBorn and raised in Seattle\, Washington\, Weiss received her Ph.D. from the University of California\, San Diego. Before joining Cornell\, she was an assistant professor at Yale University (2009-2015) and founded FACES\, the Forum for American/Chinese Exchange at Stanford\, while an undergraduate at Stanford University. Learn more about her research and writing at www.jessicachenweiss.com. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-jessica-chen-weiss/
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T075959
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SUMMARY:Genocide in the 21st Century: The Uyghur Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Join the Harvard Human Rights Working Group and the Human Rights Foundation for a 2-day conference spotlighting engaging experts on the Uyghur crisis\, to gain a holistic and multi-dimensional understanding of the genocide in this region. Panels will explore topics of authoritarianism\, digital repression\, complicity in the fashion industry\, and the separation of Uyghur families. Guillermo Hava ‘23 will moderate the closing panel “Silence is Not an Option\,” where participants will gain concrete tactics for standing up against these atrocities. \nPanels will take place on Thursday\, April 22\, and Tuesday\, April 27th. To learn more about our panels and speakers and to register\, please use this link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/Uyghur-rights/register
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/genocide-in-the-21st-century-the-uyghur-crisis/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T123000
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SUMMARY:Special Event featuring Xiaotong Feng - Rural Revitalization: China’s “Ace” in Dealing with Western “Competition”
DESCRIPTION:Reading the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Xiaotong Feng\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Communication University of China; Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar \nDiscussant/Moderator: Michael Szonyi\, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History; Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies\, Harvard University \nIn the past few years\, even the most optimistic scholars will not deny that China’s relations with Western countries have encountered big difficulties. Whether China accepts this willingly or not\, the external conditions needed to maintain China’s past economic growth model are now absent. The “Rural Revitalization” strategy promoted by Xi Jinping is generally regarded as an internal social governance issue\, aimed at promoting social equity\, balancing urban-rural differences and protecting the natural environment. However\, can  “Rural Revitalization” also be seen as a strategy to help China cope with “competition” from Western countries?  Can it reduce China’s dependence on the US dollar?  Does it represent a new and unprecedented development model? \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/xiaotong-feng-rural-revitalization-chinas-ace-in-dealing-with-western-competition/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:China Social and Economic Symposium: The Evolving Role of US and China in the Global Economy
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nLawrence H. Summers\, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University; Former Secretary of the Treasury; Former Director of the National Economic Council\nKevin Rudd\, 26th Prime Minister of Australia; President and CEO of Asia Society; President of Asia Society Policy Institute; Chairman of International Peace Institute\nJin Liqun\, President and Chair of the Board of Directors of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank \nModerator: Ping Wang\, MPA 2021\, Harvard Kennedy School \nThis symposium is organized by China Society\, a student organization at the Harvard Kennedy School. \nMore information about other symposium panels may be found at: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/china-social-and-economic-symposium. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EzsNSNLbS7SHvl9g8aqvTw \n  \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-social-and-economic-symposium-the-evolving-role-of-us-and-china-in-the-global-economy/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Sci-fi China: Avatars\, Aliens\, Anthropos 科幻中國：异形，异次元，异托邦
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nDingru Huang\, Harvard University\nJannis Chen\, Harvard University\nDihao Zhou\, Yale University\nMichael O’Krent\, Harvard University\nEmily Xueni Jin\, Yale University \nPlease join us for a workshop on Chinese science fiction with writers Han Song\, Egoyan Zheng\, Regina Kanyu Wang\, and Chen Qiufan. Five young scholars will present their latest research. The event is co-hosted by David Der-wei Wang and Mingwei Song. \nThe event is co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University\, CCK Foundation\, and the East Asian Studies Program at Wellesley College. \nThis is a bilingual event conducted in English and Mandarin. \nPresented via Zoom Webinar\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_baKySmDQREyw7M1K9Ne77Q
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/sci-fi-china-avatars-aliens-anthropos-%e7%a7%91%e5%b9%bb%e4%b8%ad%e5%9c%8b%ef%bc%9a%e5%bc%82%e5%bd%a2%ef%bc%8c%e5%bc%82%e6%ac%a1%e5%85%83%ef%bc%8c%e5%bc%82%e6%89%98%e9%82%a6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210423T090000
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SUMMARY:Gender Studies Workshop - Acting the Part: Gender and Performance Onstage
DESCRIPTION:Presented via Zoom WebinarRegistration RequiredRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LZDsfUQ1Rwm2YW8IYxGS-A \nGender as a form of performance is nowhere more clearly articulated than on the theater stage (and in opera-based films). On stage\, the male and female characters are enacted by artistic mimesis based on a set of assumptions about what constitutes maleness and the femaleness. Theater is also a great unifying force in standardizing these notions and it offers stage characters larger than life-size power to influence the audience. In turn\, gender is not only a form of social performance\, but through theater\, the artistic form embodying the normative ideals of gender roles become formalized. This is true both in terms of acting technique and the social values contained within the system of gestures. This is especially evident in the role of the female or male impersonators in opera performances in whose art the ideal form is essentialized. However\, gender ideals and stereotypes vary with time and place. At the same time\, these “essences” also change over time\, and theater is the ideal platform to challenge the inherited conventions\, while often reaffirming their underlying values. True to the spirit of theater\, its license of playfulness also gives it a subversive potential. The issue of gender performance is likewise tightly linked to identity. The performance of gender roles on the theater stage of Chinese diaspora communities\, for example\, also engages with the issue of gender in the context of race and Asian identity. \nThis workshop explores the issues of performing gender identity on stage. Topics may include: gender impersonation – fanchuan 反串; actor training in genderized roles; subversion of gender norms on stage; gender performance\, identity and ideology in times of national upheaval\, migration and social change. \nParticipants:Hsu Pei Hung 許培鴻\, documentarian/cinematographerEileen Cheng-yin Chow\, Duke UniversityXing Fan\, University of TorontoXu\, Peng\, University of Hawai’iTed Hui\, Harvard UniversityMatthew Sommer\, Stanford UniversityCatherine Yeh\, Boston UniversityEmily Wilcox\, William & Mary \nCommentators:Wai-Yee Li\, Professor Chinese Literature\, Harvard UniversityEllen Widmer\, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies\, Professor of East Asian Studies\, Wellesley CollegeThomas P. Kelly\, Assistant Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nAGENDA (All Times EDT) \nUPDATED AND FINAL SCHEDULE \nFriday April 23 [all times listed are EDT] \nPANEL 19:00-9:10 AMWelcoming address by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow (Duke University) and Catherine Yeh (Boston University) \n9:10-9:50AM Documenting Peony: a conversation and visual presentation with \nphotographer/ filmmaker Hsu Pei Hung 許培鴻 and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow \n[10-minute break] \nPANEL 2  \n10:00-10:15AM Xing Fan (University of Toronto): “Beyond Filling Female Blanks: In Search of Theoretical Frameworks for Gender Representation in Asian Theatre Historiography” \n10:15-10:30AM Discussant Tom Kelly (Harvard University) \n10:30-10:45AM Discussion on source materials and paper \n[15-minute break] \n11:00-11:15AM Peng Xu (University of Hawai’i): “Little Kitten Opera”: The Female Performance of Masculinity on the Public Stage in Shanghai\, 1890s–1910s \n11:15-11:30AM Discussant Tom Kelly (Harvard University) \n11:30-11:45AM Discussion on source materials and paper \n[1-hour lunch break – we will reconvene at 12:45PM] \n PANEL 3 \n12:45-1:00PM Ming Tak Ted Hui (University of Oxford): “The Political Implications of Crossdressing Before the Fall of the Ming” \n1:00-1:15PM Discussant Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College) \n1:15-1:30 Discussion on source materials and paper \n[15-minute break] \n1:45-2:00PM Matthew Sommer (Stanford University): “The Persecution of M-F Crossing in Qing Dynasty China” (Stanford University) \n2:00-2:15PM Discussant Ellen Widmer (Wellesley College) \n2:15-2:30PM Discussion on source materials and paper \n[mid-afternoon 30-minute coffee break – we will reconvene at 3pm] \nPANEL 4 \n3:00-3:15PM Catherine Yeh (Boston University): Unveiling the Orchid Hand: Mei Lanfang’s Art of Female Impersonator and the Redefinition of Gender in Peking Opera \n3:15-3:30PM Discussant Wai-Yee Li (Harvard University) \n3:30-3:45PM Discussion on source materials and paper \n[15-minute break] \n4pm-4:15PM Emily Wilcox (William & Mary): “Ethnic Presence and Ethnic Absence: Qemberxanim’s Bodily Discourse and the Making of Female ‘Uyghur Dance’ in China” \n4:15Pm-4:30PM Discussant Wai-Yee Li (Harvard University) \n4:30pm-4:45PM Discussion on source materials and paper \n4:45-5:30PM General discussion and concluding remarks
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/gender-studies-workshop-gender-and-performance-onstage/
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies
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SUMMARY:Kazunori Mizushima and Mahan Moalemi: Futurisms and East Asian Media Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nKazunori Mizushima\, Professor of Cultural Studies\, Osaka Sangyo University\, Japan\nMahan Moalemi\, PhD Candidate in Film and Visual Studies\, Harvard University. \nKazunori Mizushima’s presentation\, From Neo-Tokyo to Neo-China and Beyond: For the Navigation of Futures in East Asian Media Ecologies\, discusses (1) the linkage between Tokyo 2020\, AKIRA\, and Neo-Tokyo\, (2) the transition of the future from Neo-Tokyo to Neo-China\, (3) the intricate relationship between right/left accelerationism and sinofuturism\, and (4) the relationship between AI-capital and post-capitalist inhumanism. It would be great if this could contribute even a little to the “politics of navigation” (Mahan Moalemi)\, which will open the futures in East Asian Media Ecologies toward “chronocommons.” \nMahan Moalemi’s presentation\, Ethnofuturisms\, will look into the critical potentials of “ethnofuturism in the plural form” as a comparative framework for approaching a range of theoretical and artistic endeavors\, including sinofuturism\, among others\, that negotiate the dilemmas of situated historicity after the alleged end(s) of history. \nPresented via Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96523725983?pwd=SjMzY2JuVjM3QzIxYlR2b2xOVW9DZz09
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/kazunori-mizushima-and-mahan-moalemi-futurisms-and-east-asian-media-ecologies/
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SUMMARY:Genocide in the 21st Century: The Uyghur Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Join the Harvard Human Rights Working Group and the Human Rights Foundation for a 2-day conference spotlighting engaging experts on the Uyghur crisis\, to gain a holistic and multi-dimensional understanding of the genocide in this region. Panels will explore topics of authoritarianism\, digital repression\, complicity in the fashion industry\, and the separation of Uyghur families. Guillermo Hava ‘23 will moderate the closing panel “Silence is Not an Option\,” where participants will gain concrete tactics for standing up against these atrocities. \nPanels will take place on Thursday\, April 22\, and Tuesday\, April 27th. To learn more about our panels and speakers and to register\, please use this link: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/Uyghur-rights/register
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/genocide-in-the-21st-century-the-uyghur-crisis-2/
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Annual Neuhauser Lecture featuring Wang Jisi - China and America: Is Peaceful Competition Possible?
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Wang Jisi\, Professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies\, Peking University \nWang Jisi is a professor in the School of International Studies and president of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies(IISS)\, Peking University(PKU). He is honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies\, and was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China’s Foreign Ministry in 2008-2016. \nAfter working as a laborer in the Chinese countryside in 1968-78\, Wang Jisi entered Peking University and obtained an MA degree there in 1983. He taught in Peking University’s Department of International Politics (1983-91)\, and then served as director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences until 2005. From 2005 to 2013\, Wang Jisi served as dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. He was concurrently director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China from 2001 to 2009. \nWang Jisi was a visiting fellow or visiting professor at Oxford University (1982-83)\, University of California at Berkeley (1984-85)\, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (1990-91)\, and Claremont McKenna College in California (2001). He was invited as a Global Scholar by Princeton University in 2011-15 and spent 9 months in total there with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has served as an adviser to a number of international institutions and journals\, including the Asia Society Policy Institute\, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo\, the journal The American Interest\, and the journal Global Asia. \nProfessor Wang’s scholarly interests cover U.S. foreign policy\, China’s foreign relations\, Asian security\, and global politics in general. He has published numerous works in these fields. \nThe Fairbank Center Annual Neuhauser Lecture \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairbank-center-annual-neuhauser-lecture-featuring-wang-jisi/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Border Conflicts in the Himalayas: Bhutan\, Nepal\, India\, and China
DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nSudha Ramachandran\, Independent Journalist; Adjunct Faculty\, Asian College of Journalism\, Chennai\nBhaskar Koirala\, Director\, Nepal Institute of Strategic and International Studies\nFrank O’Donnell\, Postdoctoral Scholar in the Rising Power Alliances Project\, Fletcher School\, Tufts University; Nonresident Fellow in the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center\nXiaoyu Pu\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, University of Nevada\, Reno; Public Intellectuals Program Fellow\, National Committee on United States-China Relations;  Non-Resident Senior Fellow\, Inter-American Dialogue\, Washington\, D.C. \nModerator: Arunabh Ghosh\, Associate Professor of History\, Harvard University \nAsia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series  \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://tinyurl.com/up3zjcvw.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/border-conflicts-in-the-himalayas-bhutan-nepal-india-and-china/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:Teng Fei - Re-estimating the Stranded Assets of the Coal Power Sector in China: Is It Too Big To Fail?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Teng Fei\, Associate Professor in the Institute of Energy\, Environment\, and Economy at Tsinghua University; Deputy Director of the Berkeley-Tsinghua Joint Research Center on Energy and Climate Change \nTeng Fei’s research interests include climate policy\, international climate regimes\, consumer behavior in energy consumption\, and energy modeling. He is also a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report\, Working Group III. He is lead author on the Second and Third China National Assessment Report on Climate Change\, and a member of the drafting team for several key national documents\, including the National Plan on Climate Change and the White Paper on Climate Change. He served as an advisory expert for China’s negotiation team under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for many years. He is also member of BASIC (Brazil\, South Africa\, India\, China) expert group in BASIC  ministerial meetings since 2011. \nTeng received his bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University in 1998\, and his MSc and Ph.D in Management Science in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in 2003. Teng finished his postdoctoral research in France in 2004. \nSponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy\, Economy\, and Environment\, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldequpzMiHtCGjqDYPO-HeZd3gtQ-GVpI
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/teng-fei-re-estimating-the-stranded-assets-of-the-coal-power-sector-in-china-is-it-too-big-to-fail/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Luke Patey — How China Loses: The Pushback Against Chinese Global Ambitions
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Luke Patey\, Senior Researcher\, Danish Institute for International Studies \nAt a time when many are fixated on US-China strategic competition\, how will China’s relations with the rest of the world shape its future power? From its Belt and Road Initiative linking Asia and Europe\, to its “Made in China 2025” strategy to dominate high-tech industries\, to its significant economic reach into Africa and Latin America\, China appears primed to become the world’s dominant superpower. But China also faces considerable new risks and challenges. Drawing on studies of selected countries in East Africa\, Latin America\, Europe\, and East Asia\, Luke Patey will discuss how many countries are recognizing that relations with China can undermine their independence and competitiveness and are working together to recalibrate their engagement \nDr. Luke Patey is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and Lead Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies\, University of Oxford. He is author of the new book\, How China Loses: The Pushback Against China’s Global Ambitions (Oxford University Press\, 2021). His work focuses on the intersection of China’s trade\, investment\, and finance with its foreign and security policy. His articles have appeared in The New York Times\, Financial Times\, The Guardian\, The Hindu\, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. He holds a doctorate and MSc from the Copenhagen Business School and a bachelor degree from Queen’s University. Patey’s last book was The New Kings of Crude: China\, India\, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan (Hurst\, 2014). \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n\n\nTranscript: Download Transcript
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-featuring-luke-patey-how-china-loses-the-pushback-against-chinese-global-ambitions/
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Lu Mai - The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lu Mai\, Vice-Chairman\, China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) \nDiscussants:\nJason Furman\, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School\nWinnie Yip\, Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy\, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Acting Director\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies \nModerator: Anthony Saich\, Director\, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs\, Harvard Kennedy School \nLu Mai’s book The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People explores the lives of 40 ordinary people in an effort to answer a key question: What is the “China Dream”? The book tracks the journeys of individuals selected from each generation since the 1930’s and identifies three driving forces motivating their lives and dreams: autonomy\, self-awareness\, and hard work\, along with family and social support as further important factors. These stories also reveal the ways in which significant national changes created differences in the interviewees’ dreams and experiences in pursuing them. The book chronicles how the future of an individuals is closely linked to the future of the country\, and how a bright future for the country can mean a good life for all. The study outlines the ways in which people’s longing for a better life is the basis and a central element of the Chinese Dream. \nLu Mai is Vice-Chairman of the State Council’s China Development Research Foundation (CDRF)\, and previously served as General Secretary for over two decades. Mr. Lu has extensive experience working on rural reform efforts in China\, having served as Director of Experimental Area Office for Rural Reform\, Research Center for Rural Development of the State Council in the late 1980’s and leading a number of related research projects for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Lu earned his B.A. in economics from Beijing College of Economics in 1982\, and his M.A. in public administration from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1991. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://ash.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-chinese-dream-and-ordinary-chinese-people
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/lu-mai-the-chinese-dream-and-ordinary-chinese-people/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour
DESCRIPTION:Summer is coming\, but field research in East Asia still seems to be quite impossible. How to spend the summer doing research efficiently? How do you utilize the databases in your fields? Do you have use cases or approaches to share? Please join the East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour to share your experience and methods in using databases. If you want to share your use cases\, please fill in this Google Form (https://forms.gle/WRLFjoSnsyU1Yq2p6) by 26 April 2021. The community hour will be recorded and posted on the Fairbank Center YouTube Channel. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://bit.ly/202104_EADSCH
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/east-asian-digital-scholarship-community-hour-2/
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SUMMARY:From the May Fourth to Baodiao: Defend the Diaoyu Islands Movement 1971-2021 海上風雷：五四論保釣，1971-2021
DESCRIPTION:This forum will be conducted in Mandarin \nIn 1971\, overseas Chinese students across the United States launched the Baodiao movement in response to the territorial disputes over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands between Mainland China\, Taiwan\, Japan\, and the United States. The movement ignited massive demonstrations and debates on issues from sovereignty to territoriality\, and form patriotism to global leftism\, such that it was compared to the May Fourth Movement. Fifty years after the movement\, veteran participants\, scholars\, and students will discuss its significance and impacts on contemporary cultural politics. \nSpeakers:\n劉大任 Liu Ta-jen\n張系國 Chang Hsi-kuo\n邵玉銘 Shaw Yu-ming\n黃子平 Huang Ziping\n蕭阿勤 Hsiao Ah-Chin\, Academia Sinica\n王智明 Wang Chih-ming\, Academia Sinica \nRespondents:\n陳芳代  Chen Fangdai\, Harvard University\n鍾秩維  Chung Chih-wei\, National Taiwan University\n李浴洋  Li Yuyang\, Beijing Normal University\n涂航  Tu Hang\, Harvard University \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8iJrUrbVQoaxAYJovBoO0w
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/from-the-may-fourth-to-baodiao-defend-the-diaoyu-islands-movement-1971-2021-%e6%b5%b7%e4%b8%8a%e9%a2%a8%e9%9b%b7%ef%bc%9a%e4%ba%94%e5%9b%9b%e8%ab%96%e4%bf%9d%e9%87%a3%ef%bc%8c1971-2021/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Thomas Mullaney - The Search for Mod China: How Chinese Computing Hacked Modernity
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Thomas Mullaney\, Professor of History\, Stanford University \nDuring the global rise of consumer PCs in the 1980s\, no Western-manufactured computer\, printer\, monitor\, operating system\, or software could handle Chinese character input or output. Not “out of the box\,” at least. The “Sinicization” of personal computing depended upon a messy\, decentralized\, and often brilliant series of Chinese hacks and modifications—or “mods\,” as the term is often abbreviated within computing circles. Western-built dot-matrix printers were modded. Western-designed disc operating systems were modded. Digital Chinese fonts were custom-designed\, pixel by pixel. Basic Input-Output Software (BIOS) was modded. Element by element\, engineers in China and elsewhere rendered Western-manufactured computing hardware and software compatible with Chinese. In this talk\, Stanford historian Thomas S. Mullaney draws from his forthcoming book The Chinese Computer: A History (MIT Press) to examine an unwritten chapter in the global history of computing—one too often dismissed as “copycatting\,” “mimicry\,” “piracy\,” and “theft.” \nSupported by the Asia Center and convened by Professor\, Victor Seow\, Department of the History of Science. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://tinyurl.com/ycp2nkk8
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/thomas-mullaney-the-search-for-mod-china-how-chinese-computing-hacked-modernity/
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SUMMARY:Takashi Shiraishi - Maritime Asia vs. Continental Asia: National Strategies in a Region of Change
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Takashi Shiraishi\, Chancellor\, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; Professor Emeritus\, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)\, Japan \nModerators:\nNargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\nJames Evans\, Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University\n\n\nThe tectonic shifts in today’s geopolitical landscape are having a particularly dramatic impact in Asia\, where the rise of China presents a growing challenge to the US-led order that has maintained peace and stability in the region since the end of the Cold War. In his book\, Takashi Shiraishi\, one of Japan’s leading authorities on Asia and national policy planning\, explores the deeper background and long-term trends behind the diplomatic challenges and dilemmas now facing Japan\, China\, ASEAN\, and the United States. One key question that he addresses: What accounts for the divide between the maritime states and the countries of mainland Asia? He discusses China’s Belt and Road Initiative from this broader perspective. \nCo-sponsored by the Davis Center; Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations\, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/takashi-shiraishi-maritime-asia-vs-continental-asia-national-strategies-in-a-region-of-change/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Angowski - A Clash of Clawed Significations: Reading and Rereading the Life of Yeshé Tsogyal and the Story of the Starving Tigress
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elizabeth Angowski\, Assistant Professor of Religion\, Earlham College \nFor an eager bodhisattva intent on honing the virtue of generosity\, there would appear to be no shortage of starving tigresses to feed\, or so it must have seemed to Yeshé Tsogyal\, an eighth-century tantric adept renowned for her role in disseminating Buddhism throughout Tibet. Within her earliest biography\, the Life of Yeshé Tsogyal (14th century)\, she encounters an emaciated tigress on the verge of devouring her cubs—a tigress much like the one to whom the Buddha\, in one of his previous lifetimes\, fed his own body. But when Yeshé Tsogyal’s story is set against the Buddha’s\, we see the tale take a remarkable turn. Where once a prince met his gory\, albeit praiseworthy end\, now a princess sees her shredded limbs restored by an act of truth and the kindness of a predator who plays against type. \nRecasting Yeshé Tsogyal as the protagonist of the Tigress Jātaka—a popular\, multiform tale that typically stars the Bodhisattva—might seem a curious choice on the part of the Life’s author\, but ultimately\, it is a brilliant intertextual move\, one that stands to (1) mobilize in the model reader certain\, perhaps otherwise mute\, expectations vis-à-vis the figure of Yeshé Tsogyal and (2) resignify the familiar story of the starving tigress in tandem. After clarifying the relationship between these works\, this talk will demonstrate how they stand to interanimate one another through a “clash of significations\,” a process by which both stories emerge\, in the end\, more than the sum of their parts. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlf-uhrj0pEtJNPDkKauJUrz48VK0pI_Gk
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/elizabeth-angowski-a-clash-of-clawed-significations-reading-and-rereading-the-life-of-yeshe-tsogyal-and-the-story-of-the-starving-tigress/
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:William Kirby - The Rise of China in the World of Universities
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: William C. Kirby\, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration\, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies\, Harvard University. \nGerman universities defined academic excellence in the 19th century. American universities came to set global standards in the 20th century. What\, then\, are the prospects for China to lead the world of universities in the 21st century? \nThis talk\, based on Professor Kirby’s forthcoming book\, The World of Universities\, will take us on a global tour: from Berlin to Boston to Berkeley to Beijing and beyond. We will conclude with the question: Can Harvard still lead? \nQuestions? Contact Harvard Alumni Travels at: haatravels@harvard.edu \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uS4aNd4FQ1aucGAnYyzcxA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/william-kirby-the-rise-of-china-in-the-world-of-universities/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Zhang Xianqing - People without Land: The Transition of Ethnic Landscape and Social Reconstruction of Dan in Eastern Fujian\, China
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Zhang Xianqing\, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar\nChair/discussant: Eugenio Menegon\,  Boston University \nMore information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/people-without-land-the-transition-of-ethnic-landscape-and-social-reconstruction-of-dan-in-eastern-fujian-china/ \nPresented via Zoom\nregistration required \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/zhang-xianqing-people-without-land-the-transition-of-ethnic-landscape-and-social-reconstruction-of-dan-in-eastern-fujian-china/
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SUMMARY:Africa-Asia Roundtable – Pandemics: Surveillance\, Preparedness\, and Response
DESCRIPTION:The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought a global focus on pandemic surveillance\, preparedness\, and response. As a result of the 2014 – 2016 Ebola outbreak\, the World Bank invested in the Regional Disease Surveillance Systems Enhancement (REDISSE) Program. Thirteen countries in West and Central Africa have received a $200 million funding commitment “to prevent\, detect\, and respond to the threat of emerging and epidemic-prone diseases.” In addition to funding\, the program has provided for intra-country cooperation on detecting and preventing pandemics as well as regional lab networks and training opportunities. More recently\, the Africa CDC  has spearheaded continental efforts to advance various elements of  detection and response to various health threats\, with notable success related to COVID-19. Such programs are examples of how regional and global cooperation designed to respond to an infectious disease outbreak can be leveraged in future pandemics. \nChina has promised the delivery of its Sinopharm vaccine to countries in Africa\, with 200\,000 doses arriving in Senegal and another 200\,000 in Zimbabwe. While the commitments fall far short of the 1.4 billion doses that will be needed to reach herd immunity in Africa\, China’s vaccine distribution has moved alongside the WHO-endorsed COVAX plan (to which China will also contribute 10 million vaccines). India has also been a contributor to global vaccine distribution\, both through COVAX and other direct supplies to the global south\, distributing more than 60 million doses. The scrambling for vaccines from the global north highlights a disparity in equitable access to vaccines\, raising questions about intellectual property and the possibilities for local production. \nOver two days\, we will convene four panels to further explore questions around vaccines and vaccine development\, technology transfer\, capacity building\, and global cooperation strategies for combating pandemics. What lessons can the world learn from Africa’s response to previous epidemics/pandemics including Ebola and HIV/AIDS and the current COVID-19 pandemic? What is the role of global cooperation between Africa-Asia\, and China-India-Africa in particular? Is the COVID-19 crisis and response\, including vaccine development and distribution\, an opportunity for a new era of global cooperation? \nFor more information\, visit the roundtable website. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GINBfEO1QemYZkoYbyIGhQ
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/africa-asia-roundtable-pandemics-surveillance-preparedness-and-response/
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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SUMMARY:A Symposium on Displacement and Convergence in the Age of Multipolarity (550s–610s)
DESCRIPTION:This symposium will be a multi-disciplinary examination of the displacement and diasporic communities during the period between 550s and 610s\, from the fall of the Liang through the end of the Sui. While scholarship in the past has tended to concentrate on only one side of the Northern and Southern Dynasties histories and literatures\, we hope to expand our view from the simple binary model of north and south to include the multiple sites of power and to emphasize the multi-polarity of this age from a decentered perspective. How did the master narratives of different court centers compete with one another? How did individual\, clan\, and state negotiate with the violent changes of the times and with one another at this particular historical juncture? How did the machinery of the state deal with a newly unified empire after nearly three hundred years of division? What can we gain as medievalists if we examine the limitations of our tools and methodologies imprinted with the modern disciplinary divide and its theoretical underpinnings? These are some of the questions we will address. \nFor more information\, visit the symposium website. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcuyurz8pE9LmR_l3FfeYhSsYq6NQ-yKX
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/a-symposium-on-displacement-and-convergence-in-the-age-of-multipolarity-550s-610s/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Combatting Anti-Asian Racism and Misogyny: What is our Local Community Doing?
DESCRIPTION:This public discussion will highlight key challenges of racism\, misogyny and other discrimination faced by our Asian and Asian-American community\, the responses of local organizations who have long sought to address such challenges\, and what more needs to be done in our own communities. Speakers represent perspectives from the Harvard Kennedy School’s staff\, faculty and student groups\, as well as leading local non-profits. \nRegistration link coming soon.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/combatting-anti-asian-racism-and-misogyny-what-is-our-local-community-doing/
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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