Stuart McManus – Mancipia Indica: Neo-Roman and Non-Western Slave Law in Portuguese Asia
History Department Conference Room, Robinson Hall 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Stuart McManus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University Sponsored by the Early Modern History Workshop
Lucy Hornby – China’s Secret World of Shadow Banking
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Lucy Hornby, Nieman Fellow for Journalism, Harvard University Lucy Hornby, a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard, has lived in China for 20 years, most […]
William Overholt – Hong Kong: The Rise and Fall of One Country, Two Systems
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: William Overholt, M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow and Former President, Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong| Lunch will be served Questions: mrcbg@hks.harvard.edu
The Taiwan Constitutional Court: History and Challenges
Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Tzong-Li Hsu, Dr. iur., Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany; Chief Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court and President, Judicial Yuan Jau-yuan Hwang (SJD ‘95), Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html
Valerie Karplus – China’s Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management China's future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world's ability to […]
Maria Adele Carrai – Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept Since 1840
Speaker: Maria Adele Carrai, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Marie-Curie senior researcher at the Center for Global Governance at KU Leuven Discussant: Alastair Iain Johnston, Governor James Albert Noe and Linda Noe […]
April Hughes — Apocalyptic Saviors, Terrestrial Utopias, and Imperial Authority: The Reign of Empress Wu Zetian (690-705CE)
Speaker: April Hughes, Boston University This talk examines the association between Wu Zhao of Great Zhou (Empress Wu Zetian) and Maitreya Buddha in a commentary on the Scripture of the Great Cloud (Dayun jing 大雲經, T. […]
Liu Jingfang – China’s Green Movement: Players, Style, and Strategy
Speaker: Liu Jingfang, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University […]
Randall Schriver – U.S. National Defense Strategy Implementation in the Indo-Pacific
Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building 15 Eliot St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Randall G. Schriver, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Moderator: Graham Allison, Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, former Director of the Belfer Center, and founding Dean of […]
Film Screening and Panel Discussion – “One Child Nation”
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanel Discussion: Jialing Zhang, Co-Director of “One Child Nation” Mable Chan, Founder of China Personified; One in a Billion Productions Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor […]
Jess Cohen-Tanugi – Five Tips for Creating Compelling Data Visualization
Speaker: Jess Cohen-Tanugi, Visualization Specialist, Lamont Library RSVP:https://forms.gle/BSG1esNAVgPsa8p9A Questions: fengentu@fas.harvard.edu
Ya-Wen Lei – Coping With Growing Inequality
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRead event summary here Speaker: Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University