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  • Sun Ren – Artist Talk

    Sackler Building Auditorium 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Sun Ren The Harvard Chinese Art Media Lab (CAMLab) is thrilled to present an artist talk by actor, playwright, and ceramics pioneer Sun Ren as part of a week-long series on contemporary Chinese art. Exploring themes of medium, materiality, and history, the series investigates how contemporary artists are engaging with China’s millenia-long pottery tradition. Reserve a spot […]

  • John Kamm – Counterrevolution in One Country: Tiananmen 1989

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

    Speaker: John Kamm, Chairman and Executive Director, The Dui Hua Foundation Drawing on recently available materials, the speaker will examine how courts dealt with counterrevolutionary offenses and hooliganism in the aftermath of Tiananmen.

  • Panel Discussion – Vietnam: Party, State and Society in an Era of Great Power Rivalry

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

    Chair: Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University The nature and limits of the party-state: Borje Ljunggren, Associate, Harvard Asia Center; former Swedish Ambassador to China and Vietnam Health equity and markets: Lincoln Chen, President, China Medical Board Civil society, dissent and repression: Eva Hansson, Coordinator, Forum for Asian Studies, […]

  • Lucy Hornby – China’s Secret World of Shadow Banking

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

    Read event summary here Speaker: Lucy Hornby, Nieman Fellow for Journalism, Harvard University Lucy Hornby, a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard, has lived in China for 20 years, most recently serving as deputy bureau chief in Beijing for the Financial Times. She has reported from every Chinese province and region for the FT and […]

  • The Taiwan Constitutional Court: History and Challenges

    Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speakers: Tzong-Li Hsu, Dr. iur., Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany; Chief Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court and President, Judicial Yuan Jau-yuan Hwang (SJD ‘95), Justice, Taiwan Constitutional Court http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/eals/events.html

  • Valerie Karplus – China’s Climate Policy and Air Quality: From Subnational to Global Impacts

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

    Speaker: Valerie J. Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management China's future energy mix will have a decisive effect on the world's ability to meet climate change mitigation goals. This talk will discuss China's national approach to climate change, and use a multi-scale modeling approach to analyze the effects […]

  • April Hughes — Apocalyptic Saviors, Terrestrial Utopias, and Imperial Authority: The Reign of Empress Wu Zetian (690-705CE)

    Speaker: April Hughes, Boston University This talk examines the association between Wu Zhao of Great Zhou (Empress Wu Zetian) and Maitreya Buddha in a commentary on the Scripture of the Great Cloud (Dayun jing 大雲經, T. no. 387) presented to the throne in 690 just prior to her being declared emperor. The Commentary quotes from Attesting Illumination (Zhengmingjing證明經, T. no. 2879), a non-canonical apocalyptic scripture in […]

  • Liu Jingfang – China’s Green Movement: Players, Style, and Strategy

    Speaker: Liu Jingfang, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20 Chair/discussant: Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University While China is transforming itself into an economic powerhouse, it also suffers from dire environmental degradation and crisis. Behind the notorious images of Beijing’s grey […]

  • Randall Schriver – U.S. National Defense Strategy Implementation in the Indo-Pacific

    Allison Dining Room, 5th Floor Taubman Building 15 Eliot St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Randall G. Schriver, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Moderator: Graham Allison,  Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, former Director of the Belfer Center, and founding Dean of Harvard Kennedy School RSVP required.