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  • Book Talk: The Last Days of Stalin

    Lewis 241A 1557 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Joshua Rubenstein. staff member of Amnesty International USA from 1975 to 2012 and associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

  • The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival

    Speaker: Professor Bruce J. Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University Critical Issues Confronting China Seminar Series; co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies  and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Taiwan in Transition? Initial Impressions of the Tsai Ing-wen Administration

    Taiwan Studies Workshop 9:45am - Introductory Remarks: Hon. Stanley Kao, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States. 10:15am - Shelley Rigger, Davidson College 11:15am - Scott Kennedy, Center for Strategic and International Studies 1:00pm - Kuen-da (Dalton) Lin, Georgia Institute of Technology 2:00pm - Alan Romberg, Stimson Center  

  • The Future of Sino-EU Relations After Brexit

    CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Philippe Le Corre, Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Brookings Institution Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on Transatlantic Relations For years China’s international investment interests focused on a search for natural resources in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Recently China’s focus has shifted to […]

  • Learning Community Organizing in Japan and China

    CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Dr. Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School Kanoko Kamata, Executive Director, Community Organizing Japan Iris Hu, Leadership Trainer and Coach,  Harvard SEED for Social Innovation Moderator:  Professor Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University S354, […]

  • Fantasies of the Self: Multiples, Illusions and Poems in the Photographic Culture of Modern China

    Speaker: Prof. Shengqing Wu (Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;  HYI Visiting Scholar, 2016-17) Chair/discussant: Prof. David Wang (EALC, Harvard University) This talk investigates the visual configurations, rhetorical conventions, and fundamental concepts underlying China’s portrait photography in the early twentieth century. By surveying pictorial magazines, photo albums of courtesans, and poems […]

  • Living With A China Made Great Again

    Speaker: Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr.;  Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;  former U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires in the American embassies in Bangkok […]

  • China’s National Cap-and-Trade Program: the Promise and the Reality

    Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: WANG Pu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Co-sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Harvard Kennedy School. China’s national cap-and-trade program is regarded as a cornerstone of its climate policy outlined in the 13th Five-year plan (2016-2020), published right after the […]

  • Workshop: The Artist’s Hand—Technology in Practice

    Deknatel Hall 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    This workshop is an international event jointly sponsored by the Harvard History of Art and Architecture Dept., the China Academy of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design. It is designed to unite practicing artists and art historians in an exploration of the role of the Artist’s Hand and traditional technique in contemporary artistic […]

  • Film Screening and Discussion: Mr. Deng Goes to Washington

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Mr. Deng Goes to Washington tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s, China’s paramount leader, historic visit to the United States in 1979 that changed the trajectory of world history.  This dramatic story is told through first-hand experiences of those people from both countries who made the normalization of relations possible–politicians, diplomats,  and one former U.S. […]