Events
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Rethinking the Global Order: Latin America, China, and the U.S. Amid Transforming Economic and Political Paradigms
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesKeynote: Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar, President, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceModerator: Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Head of Latin America; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum Panelists:Enrique Dussel Peters, Professor,
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Against Erasure: Uyghur Poems, Imprisoned Souls, and the Act of Resistance
CGIS South, Room S050 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Aziz Isa Elkun, University of London In the face of the Chinese government1s systemic efforts to silence the Uyghur people, the written word becomes a profound act of resistance.
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Urban China Lecture featuring Chris Courtney — Defrosting the Deep History of Chinese Cold Chains
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chris Courtney, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, University of Durham, UK.Cold chains are a vital component of modern cities. Most histories trace their origins to the advent of
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Butchered Rooms: Precarity, Resilience, and the Politics of Informal Housing in Post-Handover Hong Kong
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Ruby YS LAI, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2025-26Chair/Discussant: Ya-Wen Lei, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University In the past decades, the growing housing crisis
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Fairbank Center Visiting Scholar Presentations
CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesPlease join us for research presentations by two Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars: Tommy Tse, Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, University of AmsterdamChina as data colonizer? Rethinking cultural
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Harvard Asia Law Conference II
WCC, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MassachusettsPlease join us for HALS 2026 Conference, which will take place at the WCC on Harvard Law School Campus April 1st & 2nd. This year, panels will feature topics like
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China Economy Lecture featuring Panle Jia Barwick — From Free Rider to Innovator: The Rise of China’s Drug Development
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Panle Jia Barwick, Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison This paper examines China’s transition from pharmaceutical “free rider” to global
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Natasha Heller — What is Ecology for a Chan Monk?
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Natasha Heller, University of VirginiaThe “ecocritical turn” has reached premodern studies and Asian humanities, but both contexts present significant challenges. Although the nonhuman world and the experience of it
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Dongsheng Zang — China’s Great Leap Forward to AI Supremacy
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Dongsheng Zang, Professor of Law, University of Washington School of LawModerator: Feng Zhu, MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business SchoolThe talk aims to provide a
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What Would a Rational and Effective U.S.-China Trade Policy Look Like? Is One Still Possible?
WCC B015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MassachusettsSpeaker: Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative (2021-2025) Ambassador Katherine C. Tai served as the 19th United States Trade Representative. As a member of President Biden’s Cabinet, Ambassador Tai was the
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Discovering History in China: Remembering Paul Cohen
Lower Level Conference Center Rooms 4-5, Gutman Library 6 Appian Way, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesWe hope you will join us for a symposium and celebration of the late Paul Cohen, a longtime Fairbank Center Associate and the Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of History and
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The OpenClaw Paradox: AI Agents, Labor Anxiety, and Radical Pragmatism in China
M-RCBG Conference Room B-102 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Lihui Zhang, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School In this study group, led by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Lihui Zhang, we will explore how Chinese