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  • Tectonic Geopolitical Shift? The China-Russia-US Strategic Triangle in the Trump Era

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

    Speakers:  Lyle Goldstein, Associate Professor, US Naval War College Vitaly Kozyrev, Associate Professor of Political Science, Endicott College, Beverly, MA Resurgent China-Russia relations have formed a new and major factor in global politics over the last decade and especially in the last few years.  The current world order has come to resemble in some disturbing […]

  • Does Gender Matter? Nuns in a Modern Chan Buddhist Monastery

    Center for the Study of World Religions, Common Room 42 Francis Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Chin-ning Wang (Changshen Shih), PhD (Dharma Drum Institute), Visiting Lecturer on Women’s Studies and Chinese Religion, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School Lunch will be provided.

  • Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today

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

    Across the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel, organized and moderated by Professor Peter Bol, examines these trends in a global perspective, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia, the UK and Europe, the […]

  • Sacred Nation: Chinese Museums and the Legacy of Empire

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street 24 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University The official Chinese view of China’s history and national identity has been transformed in recent decades from a tale of revolutionary class struggle into a story of ancient and unbroken national and imperial glory. This shift can be discerned in both new and restored Chinese […]

  • Embodied Memories of the “Nine Polemics”

    Speaker: Sun Peidong (Associate Professor, Department of History, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar) Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Perry (Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University/Harvard-Yenching Institute) Masterminded by Mao himself and drafted by the CCP’s top theorists, the Nine Polemics (jiu ping 九评)  made ideological and media preparations for the launching of the Cultural Revolution. The core issues […]

  • China Humanities Seminar: The Poetry Demon – Tensions within Chinese Buddhist Monks’ Literature

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

    Speaker: Jason Protass is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He completed doctoral work at Stanford University in 2016, and was a visiting researcher at Academia Sinica in Taipei and at Hanazono and Ryukoku universities in Kyoto. Buddhist monks in Song dynasty China were visited by a literary impulse that interrupted religious activities […]

  • Critical Issues Confronting China Series: U.S.-China Relations: Past, Present and Future

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Professor Susan Shirk, Research Professor and Chair, the 21st Century China Center, School of Global Strategy and Policy, University of California, San Diego Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center

  • Picturing the World: Asian Maps After Mercator

    CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Professor Timothy Brook, University of British Columbia; author of Mr. Selden’s Map of China Chair: Andrew Gordon, Acting Director, Harvard Asia Center; Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor, Harvard University Reception to follow in the Asian Centers’ Lounge, 1st Floor, CGIS South Asia Center Seminar Series