Lu Mai – The Chinese Dream and Ordinary Chinese People
Speaker: Lu Mai, Vice-Chairman, China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) Discussants: Jason Furman, Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Winnie Yip, Professor of the Practice of […]
East Asian Digital Scholarship Community Hour
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 […]
From the May Fourth to Baodiao: Defend the Diaoyu Islands Movement 1971-2021 海上風雷：五四論保釣，1971-2021
This forum will be conducted in Mandarin In 1971, overseas Chinese students across the United States launched the Baodiao movement in response to the territorial disputes over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands […]
Thomas Mullaney – The Search for Mod China: How Chinese Computing Hacked Modernity
Speaker: Thomas Mullaney, Professor of History, Stanford University During the global rise of consumer PCs in the 1980s, no Western-manufactured computer, printer, monitor, operating system, or software could handle Chinese […]
Takashi Shiraishi – Maritime Asia vs. Continental Asia: National Strategies in a Region of Change
https://youtu.be/dLu1opvjlyY Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Takashi Shiraishi, Chancellor, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; Professor Emeritus, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan Moderators: Nargis Kassenova, Senior Fellow, […]
Elizabeth Angowski – A Clash of Clawed Significations: Reading and Rereading the Life of Yeshé Tsogyal and the Story of the Starving Tigress
Speaker: Elizabeth Angowski, Assistant Professor of Religion, Earlham College For an eager bodhisattva intent on honing the virtue of generosity, there would appear to be no shortage of starving tigresses […]
William Kirby – The Rise of China in the World of Universities
Speaker: William C. Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University. German universities defined academic excellence in the 19th […]
Zhang Xianqing – People without Land: The Transition of Ethnic Landscape and Social Reconstruction of Dan in Eastern Fujian, China
Speaker: Zhang Xianqing, Xiamen University; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/discussant: Eugenio Menegon, Boston University More information: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/people-without-land-the-transition-of-ethnic-landscape-and-social-reconstruction-of-dan-in-eastern-fujian-china/ Presented via Zoom registration required
Africa-Asia Roundtable – Pandemics: Surveillance, Preparedness, and Response
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 […]
A Symposium on Displacement and Convergence in the Age of Multipolarity (550s–610s)
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 […]
Combatting Anti-Asian Racism and Misogyny: What is our Local Community Doing?
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 […]
Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data Project Workshop
Speakers: Haihui Zhang, Head of the East Asian Library and Chinese Studies Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Library System Yuanziyi Zhang, Student Coordinator of CCVG Data project Ruoyun Zheng, Student Coordinator […]