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 meet climate change mitigation goals. This talk will discuss China's national approach to climate change, and use a multi-scale modeling approach to analyze the effects […]
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 Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Harvard University
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. no. 387) presented to the throne in 690 just prior to her being declared emperor. The Commentary quotes from Attesting Illumination (Zhengmingjing證明經, T. no. 2879), a non-canonical apocalyptic scripture in […]
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 While China is transforming itself into an economic powerhouse, it also suffers from dire environmental degradation and crisis. Behind the notorious images of Beijing’s grey […]
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 Harvard Kennedy School RSVP required.
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 of Chinese Society, Harvard University Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University Karen Thornber, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature […]
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
International Implications from Contemporary Developments in Chinese Higher Education
William James Hall, Room 1550 33 kirkland st, cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Hamish Coates, Professor, Institute of Education and Director, Higher Education Division; Deputy Director, Global Research Center for the Assessment of College and Student Development, Tsinghua University Wen Wen, Associate Professor, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University; Deputy Director, Asian Research Center, Tsinghua University; Fulbright Scholar (2019-2020), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Discussants: Manja […]
Film Screening – Fukuoka
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by: Zhang Lu Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Peng Hai, PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Hae-hyo and Jea-moon were very good friends in college, eventually going their separate ways after falling in love with the same girl. They have not seen or heard from each other ever since. As […]
Film Screening – Jinpa
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by: Pema Tseden Q&A with Director following the screening, moderated by Benny Shaffer, PhD Candidate, Anthropology On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and chat, the […]
Xin Zhang – Governance by Numbers: Origins, Present and Future of China’s Social Credit System
WCC 1010, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xin Zhang, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Associate Professor, School of Law, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing Commenter/Discussant : Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor, […]