Urban China Series Featuring Andrew Grant: Abject Space in Redevelopment: Urban Tibetans in Xining’s Old City Center
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: 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 […]
Diachronic Analysis of Human-Object Relations: A Case Study of the Kavinyangang Ancestral Pots, Taiwan
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Chih-Hua Chiang, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Liebmann, Harvard University More info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/diachronic-analysis-of-human-object-relations/ Venue
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 SchoolSpeaker: 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 […]
Erik Mueggler – Writing, Slavery, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Southwest China
Colloquium 101, Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering 601 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Meg Rithmire – The Past, Present, and Future of State – Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons
Rubenstein 414AB 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: 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 […]
Conference: China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) at Ten
Boston University Hillel House, 213 State Road 213 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, United StatesFor 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
Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard UniversityUfrieda Ho, Journalist and AuthorGayatri Sethi, Educator and AuthorDuncan Yoon, New York UniversityGeoffrey Jones, Harvard Business SchoolAnnette Skovsted Hansen, Aarhus UniversityIsaac Odoom, Carleton UniversityMarlous van Waijenburg, […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesDuring 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 […]
China Westward: Reimagining the Interwoven Material and Cultural Histories of China, Central Asia, and the Himalayas
Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAbout the Conference: This conference will explore historical interactions between China and the “Western Regions,” providing new insights into Chinese civilization and its global context. Experts will focus on the […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Sackler Building, Lower Level 485 Broadway, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesDuring 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 […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Cheng-hua Wang – What Handscroll Landscape Painting Could Convey: Format, Structure, and the Discourse on Huayi in the Late Northern Song Dynasty
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Cheng-hua Wang, Associate Professor, Princeton University Focusing on landscape paintings in the handscroll format from the tenth to the twelfth century, this talk aims to present two structural innovations […]
“Actually, We Are Mongols!”: Resurgence of the Yuan Non-Han Ancestries in the Late Qing North China
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Iiyama Tomoyasu, Waseda University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/discussant: Mark Elliott, Harvard University This talk attempts to shed light on the largely unknown trajectories of the resurgence and evolution of […]