Navigating Asia: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Honor of Ezra Vogel
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis conference is organized to honor and celebrate the late Professor Ezra Vogel’s role as the inaugural Director of the Harvard Asia Center and his commitment to transnational scholarship. Day […]
Film Screening and In-Person Director Discussion – Days (Rizi)
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDirected by Tsai Ming-liang.With Lee Kang-sheng, Anong Houngheuangsy.Taiwan/France, 2020, DCP, color, 127 min.Mandarin with English subtitles. In-person discussion with the director follows the film screening.Featuring remarks by Jie Li, John L. Loeb Associate […]
Panel Discussion: China and Japan in the Global Politics of Climate Change
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Kelly Sims Gallagher, Academic Dean; Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy; Director, Climate Policy Lab; Co-Director, Center for International Environment & Resource Policy, The Fletcher School Tufts University Miranda Schreurs, […]
The Founding Generation: A Celebration of the Publication of Dr. Nongji Zhang’s Book on the People’s Republic of China’s First Generation of Legal Scholars, 1949-1992
WCC 2036 Milstein East A, Harvard Law SchoolSpeaker: Nongji Zhang, Librarian for East Asian Law, Harvard Law School LibraryPanelists: William P. Alford, Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director, East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard […]
Urban China Series featuring Toby Lincoln – Out of the Rubble of World War II: Reconstruction in China in Comparative Perspective
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Toby Lincoln, Associate Professor of Chinese Urban History, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester.This paper explores urban reconstruction in China after WWII, and argues that this was more […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kelly Sims Gallagher – The Global Race for Leadership in Clean Energy: China Versus the United States
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn conversation with: Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University Speaker: Kelly Sims Gallagher, Academic Dean and Founding Director, Climate Policy Lab, The Fletcher School, Tufts University […]
The United States Indo-Pacific Strategy: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of State Daniel J. Kritenbrink
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Please join the Asia-Pacific Initiative and Future of Diplomacy Project for a conversation with Daniel J. Kritenbrink, […]
Annabelle Pitkin – Renunciation and the Practice of Care: Himalayan Buddhist Embodiments of Longing and Devotion
Barker Center, Thompson Room 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MASpeaker: Annabella Pitkin, Assistant Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions, Lehigh UniversityDevotion plays a central role in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist accounts of guru-disciple relationship, part of an ideal of […]
CAMLab Cave Opening Celebration
Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCAMLab Cave opens following two years of renovation. It serves as a hub of innovative forms of knowledge production, pedagogy, and sensorial media practice. The Opening Celebration features projects that […]
China Humanities Seminar featuring Kaijun Chen – Materiality is Uncertainty: Furniture, Hairpins and Fireworks in Jin Ping Mei
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave. 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Kaijun Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Brown University This project responds to a candid question I had while reading Jin Ping Mei. The novel is packed […]
Yi Li – Building Chinese City-Regions Under State Entrepreneurialism
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Yi Li, Associate Professor, School of Public Administration/National Research Center for Resettlement (NRCR), Hohai University The past decade has witnessed a variety of city-regional projects across the world, such […]
Chia-Ling Wu – Making Multiple Babies: The Anticipatory Governance of Assisted Reproduction in Japan and Taiwan
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Chia-Ling Wu, Professor, National Taiwan University Venue