Lan Li – Sea Shells: Metaphor, Anatomy, and Epistemology of Brainlessness
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Lan Li Venue
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Winston Ma – Blockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesBlockchain, Digital Currency, and the Post-20th Party Congress US-China Tech Race Speaker: Winston Ma, Author of The Hunt for Unicorns, The Digital War, andBlockchain and Web3；Adjunct Professor, NYU Law School; former MD and Head of North America at China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. Unlike many other countries, China takes a bifurcated […]
Jingran Zhang – Characterization and Environmental Impacts of Chinese and Global Aviation Emissions of CO2 and Air Pollutants
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Jingran Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project Jingran Zhang studies transportation energy and environmental issues, with a special focus on the global aviation sector. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University. Sponsored by the Harvard-China Project on Energy, Economy, and Environment, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.QUESTIONS? Contact Kellie Nault Venue
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Taisu Zhang: The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation: Belief Systems, Politics, and Institutions
Room S030, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Taisu Zhang, Professor of Law and History, Yale UniversityHow states develop the capacity to tax is a question of fundamental importance to political science, legal theory, economics, sociology, and history. Increasingly, scholars believe that China's relative economic decline in the 18th and 19th centuries was related to its weak fiscal institutions and limited revenue. […]
Guido Goldman Lecture on Germany Featuring Constance Stelzenmüller – The Free World and Its Enemies: What Putin’s War and China’s Global Ambitions Mean For Us
Yenching Auditorium 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Constanze Stelzenmüller, Director and Fritz Stern Chair, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Russia is at war with Ukraine—but also with the West. Will Germany’s Zeitenwende reforms be enough to help protect Europe in an age of permanent disruption? ** Please note that seating for this event is limited. To register for this […]
Karina Simonson – Representations of Africa and Asia in Soviet Lithuanian Children’s Visual Culture
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Karina Simonson, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University, and Postdoctoral fellow at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania In this presentation, Karina Simonson will provide an overview of her postdoctoral book project, starting with a daring initial research idea, discussing its aims and tasks, facing an unexpectedly vast amount […]
China Humanities Seminar Featuring Jeffrey Riegel – Further Reflections on an ‘Unmoved Heart’: Mengzi 2A2 Revisited
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jeffrey Riegel, University of California Berkeley, Emeritus Mengzi 2A2 consists of Master Meng’s answers to questions put to him by a follower named Gongsun Chou. The first few of these replies relate to bu dong xin, “unmoved heart,”—i.e., mental quietude and equanimity in the face of humiliation or disappointment as well as excitement or […]
Minhua Ling – Containerization of Migrant Housing on Shanghai’s Edge
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Minhua Ling, Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study China’s escalated infrastructural and real estate development has gradually erased urban villages and reduced affordable living space for rural-to-urban migrants. This talk showcases the emerging practice of container housing among low-income migrants who live in removable cargo containers or prefabricated metal shelters on the urban fringe of […]
Panel Discussion – China’s New Politics: What have we learned from the 20th Party Congress
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University Pardee School of Global StudiesLucy Hornby, Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Former Beijing correspondent, Financial TimesAnthony Saich, Director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy SchoolYuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University Moderator: Mark Wu, […]
Li Zhiying – Tibet as Told by the Early Qing Emperors
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Li Zhiying, Associate Professor, Centre for Tibetan Studies, Sichuan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2022-23Chair/discussant: Leonard van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies, Harvard UniversitySeating is limited. Masks are required for all audience members. How did the official narrative about the Qing-Tibetan relationship come into being? This talk focuses on the different narratives […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Lingling Wei – How China’s Private Business is Responding to Xi Jinping’s State Capitalism
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Lingling Wei, Senior China Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal Lingling Wei is a senior China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She covers China's political economy, focusing on Beijing's policy-making process and its key decision makers. Born and raised in China, she has a M.A. in journalism from N.Y.U. and got her start covering […]
Chinese Kinesthetic Forms
Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesTopics: Movement has a distinctively rich tradition in China. Chinese Kinesthetic Forms considers movement as an organizing principle across myriad media and cultural forms—from dance and music, to painting and calligraphy, to theater and martial arts. The conference explores how movement, as both expression and object of perception, opens experiential dimensions, even beyond the corporeal. […]