• Gender Studies Workshop: Women and Friendship in Dynastic China

    Participants: Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis Ron Egan, Stanford University Grace Fong, McGill University Eileen Chow, Duke University Maram Epstein, University of Oregon Xu Man, Tufts University Organized by: Wai Yee Li, Harvard University Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College AGENDA 12:45-1:00 p.m.   Welcoming remarks First Panel Chair:              Wai-yee Li Discussant:     Xu Man […]

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

    Day One Focus: China and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century May 1, 2017 | 4pm - 6pm Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street Discussant: Kirk W. Larsen, Brigham Young University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gHchhLjPBg Day Two Focus: China and Korea in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  May 2, 2017 | […]

  • China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater

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

    Speaker: S.E. Kile, University of Michigan Studies of Li Yu’s theorization of playwriting and theatrical performance have generally focused on his creation of a new technical vocabulary for playwriting and performance, the relationship between his theory’s tenets and his own playwriting practice, and the impact of profit-seeking on his ideas. I propose that using technology […]

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Day Two Focus: Late 19th Century and 20th Century Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad was School Professor […]

  • Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Day Three Focus: China’s relations with North and South Korea Today Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government.  He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before coming to Harvard in 2015, Westad […]

  • Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World

    Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen Fellows at Harvard. The topic of the workshop, also related to a major concern of the Berggruen Institute, is “Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the […]

  • East Asian Media Studies Conference

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

    The East Asian Media Studies Conference will present a snapshot of a young and still-forming field of inquiry. It will provide a space for discussing the question of field formation and the interventions that such work allows for. In this respect, the conference is associated with the asia-theory-visuality conference held in Princeton in November 2015. […]

  • Can Computation Change the Study of Chinese Culture and History?

    Speaker: Richard Jean So, University of Chicago The emergence of large corpora of digitized cultural and historical texts and new methods in text mining and analysis have made possible a new form of computational analysis for the humanities and China Studies. The question and challenge is whether these new methods and "data" will enrich our study […]