Events

Harvard Law School Symposium: Economic Sanctions and National Security

WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law School

This symposium features Professor Ashley Deeks, former Associate White House Counsel and former Deputy legal Adviser to the U.S. National Security Council; and Ambassador C.J. Mahoney, Deputy General Counsel of International Trade and Azure at Microsoft, and former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. The symposium will also feature a host of leading academics, attorneys, and regulators […]

Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits

Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]

Chinese Humanities 2033: New Visions, New Directions — A Two-Day Conference

Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Detailed information, including an agenda, may be accessed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lu4_McB0A-USCiJ5uTN7ZyKg-9QgQwc7/view?usp=drive_link Panelists:Mian Chen, Northwestern UniversitySean Xiangjun Feng, University of British ColumbiaBrendan Galipeau, National Tsing Hua UniversityTenggeer Hao, Columbia UniversityKeren He, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillYizhou Huang, Saint Louis UniversityMaciej Kurzynski, Lingnan UniversityMelody Yunzi, Li University of HoustonDylan Suher, University of Hong KongMengyuan Tian, University […]

Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Man in Black” by Wang Bing

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Wang Bing’s first work made outside of China, this one-hour featurette boldly announces a new phase in the director’s career. Shot at the historic Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, it stages a biographical encounter with eighty-six-year-old modern classical composer Wang Xilin, whose anti-Communist sentiments made him the target of intense persecution and abuse […]

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Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits

Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]

Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Youth (Spring)” by Wang Bing

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

Shot between 2014 and 2019 and compiled from 2,600 hours of footage, Wang Bing’s latest opus centers on young migrant laborers in Zhili, an industrial town near Shanghai that is home to thousands of privately-run garment workshops. Employing his trademark long takes and fixed camera setups, Wang contrasts routine days of sewing, stitching and scissoring […]

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Urban China Series Featuring Andrew Grant: Abject Space in Redevelopment: Urban Tibetans in Xining’s Old City Center

Presented via Zoom

Speaker: Andrew Grant, University of Tampa Examining Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, this talk argues that urban redevelopment and greenfield expansion have devalued the older urban areas in which Tibetans live.  Through over twenty months of fieldwork between 2012 and 2017, I found that un-redeveloped urban places were becoming increasingly associated with crime, grime, and […]

Tamar Grozwald Ozery – Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth

WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law School

Speaker: Tamar Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Panelists:William P. Alford (moderator), Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal Studies, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law SchoolRui Guo, Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law SchoolNicholas C. Howson, Pao […]

Erik Mueggler – Writing, Slavery, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Southwest China

Colloquium 101, Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering 601 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Erik Mueggler, Professor Anthropology, University of Michigan Imperial China managed its border regions by negotiating power with indigenous chieftains. Hereditary chieftains were allowed sovereignty over indigenous domains in exchange for keeping the peace and lending their militias to imperial campaigns. Ming and Qing colonialism in the Southwest took the form of a long, staggered […]

Meg Rithmire – The Past, Present, and Future of State – Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons

Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School. Over the last decade, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private sector participation to state crackdowns on business and slowing growth, if not economic stagnation or crisis. Prof. Rithmire will draw on her research on relationships […]

Conference: China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) at Ten

Boston University Hillel House, 213 State Road 213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, United States

For more information, including a complete agenda and speaker list, visit: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2023/09/13/conference-chinas-belt-road-initiative-bri-at-ten-us-naval-war-college-and-bu-oct-12-13-2023/ Venue