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  • Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition

    CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker/Photographer: Ian Teh Asia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building This event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. Ian Teh is an award-winning photographer based in UK and Malaysia.  He has published three monographs, Undercurrents (2008), Traces (2011) and Confluence (2014). His work is part of the permanent […]

  • Xie Lingyun and Imperial Performance: Deploying the Language of the Chuci

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Harrison Huang,  Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University The reception of the Chuci anthology has been largely framed around the representation of the attributed author Qu Yuan as a loyal subject. This talk instead traces Qu Yuan 's earlier reception and contested status during the Han dynasty, to show how the Chuci repertoire […]

  • Environment in Asia Series: “On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of our Possible Futures”

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Julie Klinger, Asst. Professor of International Relations, Boston University Julie Michelle Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. As a geographer, Dr. Klinger’s research emphasizes in-depth fieldwork to examine the processes through which resource frontiers are produced at local and global scales. She has […]

  • Regional Production Networks in East Asia: Origin, Evolution, and Implications

    Speaker: Professor Min Shu, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar; Associate Professor of International Economy, Waseda University, Japan Chair:  Professor Daniel M. Smith, Department of Government, Harvard University In the past three decades, regional production networks played an increasingly important role in East Asian political economy. Originated from Japan’s industrial policy to ‘export’ its sunset industries, the flow […]

  • Tectonic Geopolitical Shift? The China-Russia-US Strategic Triangle in the Trump Era

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers:  Lyle Goldstein, Associate Professor, US Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Associate Professor of Political Science, Endicott College, Beverly, MA Resurgent China-Russia relations have formed a new and major factor in global politics over the last decade and especially in the last few years.  The current world order has come to resemble in some disturbing […]

  • Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery

    Center for the Study of World Religions, Common Room 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih), PhD (Dharma Drum Institute), Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School Lunch will be provided.

  • Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel, organized and moderated by Professor Peter Bol, examines these trends in a global perspective, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia, the UK and Europe, the […]