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 […]
CrossAsia Integrated Text Repository Workshop
Speaker: Brent Hou-leong Ho, East Asia Department, Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) At the April meeting of the East Asian Digital Scholarship Series, Matthias Kaun, director of Berlin State […]
Meaningful Ageing: Shaping a Better Future for China’s Elderly
Monday, June 21, 2021 - 8:30-10:30 PM EDT Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - 8:30-10:30 AM EDT The challenges presented by the ageing of China’s population are vast and complex. Not […]
Arjun Subramaniam – A Military History of India Since 1972: Full Spectrum Operations and the Changing Contours of Modern Conflict
Speaker: Arjun Subramaniam, Retired Air Vice Marshal, IAF; President's Chair of Excellence in National Security, India’s National Defence College Discussant: M. Taylor Fravel, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director, […]
Special Event – The State of Taiwan Studies: A Roundtable Discussion on Methods and Directions
https://youtu.be/IZH0o9q_Wdc https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-state-of-taiwan-studies-a-roundtable-discussion-on-methods-and-directions?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. PanelistsJaw-Nian Huang, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University, TaiwanLawrence Zi-Qiao Yang, Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Research […]
Pivoting to a New Research Topic
Speakers: Michael Collins, Yenching Academy (currently Council on Foreign Relations) Bill Figueroa, University of Pennsylvania Yi Ci Lo, UC Irvine Tullia Fraser, Durham University (currently University of Hong Kong) Emily […]