Paul Blustein – Schism 2.0: China and America’s Trade Conflict in the Biden Administration
Speaker: Paul Blustein, Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation; Senior Associate (non-resident), Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) Moderator: Christina Davis, Director, Program on U.S.-Japan […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David M. Lampton – Biden Deals with China Amidst Multiple Crises, Domestic and International
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-15yLfaxKkQ https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/biden-deals-with-china-amidst-multiple-crises-domestic-and-international-with-david-m-lampton?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: David M. Lampton, Hyman Professor Emeritus Johns Hopkins—SAIS; Senior Fellow, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute David M. Lampton is Senior Fellow […]
Wei-chieh Tsai – Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires
Speaker: Wei-chieh Tsai, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shenzhen University Settler nativization is an important issue, yet insufficiently studied in colonial histories of early modern Eurasian empires. In the early […]
Philippe LeCorre – EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Did Beijing Steal the Show?
Speaker: Philippe Le Corre, Research Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government Presented via Zoom Register at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9rPP_9PsTgizqjl-rRhxrA
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Eddy U – A New Approach to Studying the Chinese Intellectual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ptVvXWrKI https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/a-new-approach-to-studying-the-chinese-intellectual-with-eddy-u?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Eddy U, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis No system of rule has objectified the intellectual as much as communist rule of the twentieth century. Communist regimes codified, identified, and governed part of the general population as intellectuals based on Marxist thought. This talk […]
Amy Langenberg and Ann Gleig – From Sudinna to the Sangha Sutra: Classical and Contemporary Buddhist Responses to Sexual Misconduct
Speakers: Amy Langenberg, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Eckerd College Ann Gleig, Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies, University of Central Florida Since the 1980s, American Buddhist convert communities have been the site of reoccurring cases of sexual abuse and misconduct. This two-part presentation will reflect on how some contemporary practitioners have responded, in […]
Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. Presented via Zoom Registration Required Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuqsqjkqHtAFzbIKdd4b6f9r-qxzNdrn
Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series featuring David Yang – AI-tocracy: the Political Economy of AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jprZzHG68vE&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/ai-tocracy-the-political-economy-of-ai-with-david-yang?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: David Yang, Assistant Professor Economics, Harvard University The conventional wisdom suggests a misalignment between autocracy and technological innovation. In this project, we examine whether there exists a political and economic alignment between the monitoring aims of autocracies and the innovative aims of AI firms. We gather comprehensive […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Deborah Brautigam – Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics: Sri Lanka, Angola, and Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5SvFjlu9ZM&feature=youtu.be https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/debt-relief-with-chinese-characteristics-sri-lanka-angola-and-beyond-with-deborah-brautigam?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Reading the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Deborah Brautigam, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Director of the SAIS China Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Part of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series Presented via Zoom Webinar
Panel Discussion – Iran and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between Desirable and Feasible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgTnxChTo5o&t=3s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/iran-and-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-between-desirable-and-feasible Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers:Eyck Freymann, Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford UniversityNader Habibi, Professor of Practice, Brandeis UniversityDina Esfandiary, Senior Advisor, International Crisis Group Moderators:Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, Program on Central Asia, Davis CenterJames Gethyn Evans, Communications Officer, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University Experiencing another […]
Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
Speakers: Takashi Shiraishi, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018) Saori Katada, Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Nonresident […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu – The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
Speaker: Tina Lu, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University When it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production, our field is still largely dominated by Craig Clunas’ framework (itself largely adapted from Bourdieu). I am interested in considering the politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing […]