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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring David M. Lampton - Biden Deals with China Amidst Multiple Crises\, Domestic and International
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: David M. Lampton\, Hyman Professor Emeritus Johns Hopkins—SAIS; Senior Fellow\, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute \nDavid M. Lampton is Senior Fellow at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins—SAIS.  Immediately prior to his current post he was Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Stanford University’s Asia-Pacific Research Center from 2019-2020.  For more than two decades prior to that he was Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Lampton is former Chairman of the The Asia Foundation\, former President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations\, and former Dean of Faculty at SAIS. Among many written works\, academic and popular is his most recent book (with Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik)\, Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia (University of California Press\, 2020). He received his B.A.\, M.A.\, and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in political science where\, as an undergraduate student\, he was a firefighter. Lampton has an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies. He is a Life Trustee on the Board of Trustees of Colorado College and was in the US Army Reserve in the enlisted and commissioned ranks. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-david-m-lampton-biden-deals-with-china-amidst-multiple-crises-domestic-and-international/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Wei-chieh Tsai - Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Wei-chieh Tsai\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History\, Shenzhen University \nSettler nativization is an important issue\, yet insufficiently studied in colonial histories of early modern Eurasian empires. In the early modern era\, the Qing and Russian empires both penetrated the heartland of Inner Eurasia. Military subjugation and conquest was followed by a migration of people and colonization toward the Inner Eurasian borderlands. Both regimes faced similar problems\, and settler nativization was one of them. Those Han Chinese and Russian settlers were mostly poor\, lowly educated\, and single men working as farmers and merchants. They migrated into the Inner Eurasian borderlands seeking arable lands and trade opportunities. To survive in the strange lands\, those settlers and their offspring as minorities had to work with indigenous peoples and gradually acquired indigenous cultures and identities. This paper explores the similarity and difference between the nativization of Han Chinese and Russian settlers and the responses of the states. This paper argues that the difference of autonomy and local authority of native peoples in both empires should contribute to the consequence of settler nativization in the Qing and Russian empires. \nRegister for Zoom meeting link
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/wei-chieh-tsai-settler-nativization-in-the-inner-eurasian-borderlands-of-the-qing-and-russian-empires/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Philippe LeCorre - EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: Did Beijing Steal the Show?
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Philippe Le Corre\, Research Fellow\, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Harvard Kennedy School of Government \nPresented via Zoom\nRegister at:https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9rPP_9PsTgizqjl-rRhxrA
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/philippe-lecorre-eu-china-comprehensive-agreement-on-investment-did-beijing-steal-the-show/
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CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:Modern China Lecture Series featuring Eddy U - A New Approach to Studying the Chinese Intellectual
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Eddy U\, Professor of Sociology\, University of California\, Davis \nNo system of rule has objectified the intellectual as much as communist rule of the twentieth century. Communist regimes codified\, identified\, and governed part of the general population as intellectuals based on Marxist thought. This talk builds on my recently published book and illustrates how the “intellectual” (zhishifenzi) in China evolved from an obscure classification of people during the 1920s to embodied subjects locatable everywhere after the 1949 revolution. This transformation of the intellectual changed Chinese society\, intensifying mass surveillance\, political education\, and other governing practices. My analytical approach moves the study of the intellectual in modern China into new terrains. I end with an interpretation of the current situation in Hong Kong. \nEddy U is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Davis. He grew up in Hong Kong and moved to the United States in the late 1980s. His book\, Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification (UC Press\, 2019)\, won the Barrington Moore Book Award given by the American Sociological Association. \nPart of the Modern China Lecture Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/eddy-u-modern-china-lecture/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Modern China Lecture
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SUMMARY:Amy Langenberg and Ann Gleig - From Sudinna to the Sangha Sutra: Classical and Contemporary Buddhist Responses to Sexual Misconduct
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nAmy Langenberg\, Associate Professor of Religious Studies\, Eckerd College\nAnn Gleig\, Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies\, University of Central Florida \nSince the 1980s\, American Buddhist convert communities have been the site of reoccurring cases of sexual abuse and misconduct. This two-part presentation will reflect on how some contemporary practitioners have responded\, in particular identifying “generative responses” that combine Buddhist and non-Buddhist frameworks to generate new forms of Buddhist thought\, community\, and practice. Taking a constructive rather than a corrective approach\, it will then consider these responses in relationship to the Buddhist sexual ethics found in classical sources\, focusing especially on the ideas of consent and intention. \nAmy Langenberg is an associate professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College. She is author of Birth in Buddhism: the Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom (Routledge\, 2017). Ann Gleig is an associate professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. She is author of American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Press\, 2019). They are currently working on a co-written book project on sexual violations in American convert Buddhism\, which is under advance contract with Yale University Press. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkduiurjsvG9PmwRaDUydAC-oK7RPe5z7L
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/amy-langenberg-and-ann-gleig-from-sudinna-to-the-sangha-sutra-classical-and-contemporary-buddhist-responses-to-sexual-misconduct/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Buddhist Studies Forum
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SUMMARY:Harvard-Yenching Library Bibliographic Orientation Session
DESCRIPTION:The Harvard-Yenching Library is offering virtual bibliographic orientation sessions via Zoom to introduce you to the most important Chinese language resources. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcuqsqjkqHtAFzbIKdd4b6f9r-qxzNdrn
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-yenching-library-bibliographic-orientation-session/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210216T123000
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SUMMARY:Fairbank Center Director's Seminar Series featuring David Yang - AI-tocracy: the Political Economy of AI
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: David Yang\, Assistant Professor Economics\, Harvard University \nThe conventional wisdom suggests a misalignment between autocracy and technological innovation. In this project\, we examine whether there exists a political and economic alignment between the monitoring aims of autocracies and the innovative aims of AI firms. We gather comprehensive data on firms and government procurement contracts in China’s facial recognition AI industry. We find two results. First\, autocrats benefit from AI: local unrest leads to greater government demands for public security AI\, and increased AI investment suppresses subsequent unrest. Second\, AI sector benefits from the autocrats: the contracted AI firms innovate more both for the government and commercial markets. Taken together\, these results indicate a stable equilibrium between the autocrats and the AI sector. Using a directed technical change model\, we show that autocrats’ demand for AI not only could enhance its stability\, but may also sustain growth and bias innovation towards data-intensive sector when economies of scope from government data are sufficiently large. \nDavid Yang is an Assistant Professor of Economics. His research focuses on political economy\, behavioral and experimental economics\, economic history\, and cultural economics. In particular\, David studies the forces of stability and forces of changes in authoritarian regimes\, drawing lessons from historical and contemporary China. David received a B.A. in Statistics and B.S. in Business Administration from University of California at Berkeley\, and PhD in Economics from Stanford. \nPart of the Fairbank Center Director’s Seminar Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/david-yang-ai-tocracy-the-political-economy-of-ai/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Director's Seminar
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Deborah Brautigam  - Debt Relief with Chinese Characteristics: Sri Lanka\, Angola\, and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Reading the transcript of the event here. \nSpeaker: Deborah Brautigam\, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy\, Director of the SAIS China Africa Research Initiative\, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar \n 
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-sebastian-heilmann-why-systemic-competition-with-china-is-good-for-western-democracies/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T120000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion - Iran and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Between Desirable and Feasible
DESCRIPTION:Read the transcript of the event here. \nSpeakers:Eyck Freymann\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Oxford UniversityNader Habibi\, Professor of Practice\, Brandeis UniversityDina Esfandiary\, Senior Advisor\, International Crisis Group \nModerators:Nargis Kassenova\, Senior Fellow\, Program on Central Asia\, Davis CenterJames Gethyn Evans\, Communications Officer\, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of History\, Harvard University \nExperiencing another downturn in its relations with the West\, Iran has been more actively “looking to the East” to pursue stronger political and economic cooperation with China. Tehran remains an enthusiastic supporter of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, despite the withdrawal of Chinese companies from a number of projects due to U.S. sanctions. Iran still hopes to benefit from investments\, technologies and new connectivity routes promoted under the BRI umbrella. This roundtable will discuss the prospects of Iran becoming a node of the BRI\, and the promises and challenges of Chinese investment in the Iranian economy. \nEyck Freymann is a doctoral candidate at Balliol College\, Oxford. He was previously research assistant to Graham Allison\, Niall Ferguson\, and Shi Zhiqin at Harvard\, Stanford\, and Tsinghua Universities. He holds an MPhil from the University of Cambridge\, where he was a Henry Scholar; an AM in Asian Studies from Harvard University\, where he won the Joseph Fletcher Memorial Prize for best thesis; and an AB in East Asian History with highest honors from Harvard College. His research and commentary have appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Economist\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World (Harvard Asia Center Press\, November 2020). \nNader Habibi is the Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in the Economics of the Middle East at Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Before joining Brandeis University in June 2007\, he served as managing director of economic forecasting and risk analysis for Middle East and North Africa in Global Insight Ltd. Mr. Habibi has worked in academic and research institutions in Iran\, Turkey and the United States since 1987. He earned his PhD in Economics from Michigan State University. His most recent research projects include an analysis of the excess supply of college graduates in Middle Eastern countries\, impact of economic sanctions on Iranian economy and the impact of Arab Spring uprisings on economic conditions of the affected countries. Habibi also served as director of Islamic and Middle East Studies at Brandeis University (August 2014-August 2019). He has published a work of fiction about Middle East geopolitics titled: Three Stories One Middle East (2014). Links to his publications are available at https://naderhabibi.blogspot.com/. \nDina Esfandiary is Senior Advisor in the Middle East and North Africa department of the International Crisis Group (ICG). Previously\, she was a Fellow in the Middle East department of The Century Foundation (TCF)\, an International Security Program Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and an Adjunct Fellow in the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ (CSIS) Middle East Program. Prior to this\, she worked at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) in the War Studies Department at King’s College London from February 2015\, and in the Non-Proliferation and Disarmament programme of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London from October 2009. Dina has published widely\, including in Foreign Affairs\, the Atlantic\, The Guardian\, the Washington Post\, International Affairs\, the National Interest\, Arms Control Today\, and The Washington Quarterly. Dina is the co-author of Triple-Axis: Iran’s Relations with Russia and China (I.B Taurus\, 2018)\, and Living on the Edge: Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2016). She holds a PhD in the War Studies department at King’s College London and Masters Degrees from Kings College London and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. \nThis event is part of a new seminar hosted by the Fairbank Center and the Davis Center. This seminar aims to foster vibrant\, comprehensive\, and fruitful discussion about the ongoing transformations in geopolitics and governance resulting from China’s Belt Road Initiative. Co-sponsored by the Program on Central Asia at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/panel-discussion-iran-and-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-between-desirable-and-feasible/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210222T200000
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Japanese Economic Statecraft in an Era of U.S.-China Rivalry
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nTakashi Shiraishi\, Chancellor\, Prefectural University of Kumamoto; President\, Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies (2011-2017); President\, Institute of Developing Economies-JETRO (2007-2018)\nSaori Katada\, Professor of International Relations\, Department of Political Science and International Relations\, University of Southern California\nDaniel Drezner\, Professor of International Politics\, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy\, Tufts University; Nonresident Senior Fellow\, Brookings Institution\nWilliam Norris\, Associate Professor\, The Bush School of Government and Public Service\, Texas A&M University \nModerator: Christina Davis\, Director\, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations; Professor of Government; Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor\, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Harvard University \nThis symposium is part of the Special Series on Japanese Economic Statecraft. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcOyorj0tGtCej8VhG_ljsUW-cOF6EsNp
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/symposium-japanese-economic-statecraft-in-an-era-of-u-s-china-rivalry/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210223T160000
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SUMMARY:China Humanities Seminar Featuring Tina Lu - The Politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji (Casual Expressions)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tina Lu\, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures\, Yale University \nWhen it comes to an understanding of the politics of literature and literary production\, our field is still largely dominated by Craig Clunas’ framework (itself largely adapted from Bourdieu). I am interested in considering the politics of Li Yu’s Xianqing ouji 閒情偶寄 (1671) not simply as a means for its author to climb up a social hierarchy but as a much more expansive political imagining. Many of the collection’s essays treat what are obviously political topics (for example\, behavior appropriate to people of different social standing)\, but I will argue that their form and language also demand consideration as political acts. \nPlease note that Professor Lu’s talk will be recorded and archived on the MHC and EALC websites. If you do not feel comfortable being recorded\, please disable your video. The Q&A session will not be recorded. \nThis event is generously sponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University. \nPresented via Zoom\nRegistration Required\nRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtc-iopzwoG9KcANoTFgoQondjKok6oHAY
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/china-humanities-seminar-featuring-tina-lu-the-politics-of-li-yus-xianqing-ouji-casual-expressions/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:China Humanities Seminar,Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210224T113000
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SUMMARY:Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Andrea Ghiselli - Protecting China's Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNyI34EGR4k \n \nSpeaker: Andrea Ghiselli\, Assistant Professor\, School of International Relations and Public Affairs\, Fudan University\nModerator: Robert Ross\, Professor of Political Science\, Boston College; Fairbank Center Associate \nThe securitization of non-traditional security issues is a scarcely discussed and\, yet\, extremely powerful force that shapes the evolution of Chinese foreign and security policy. The lecture will show how this tortuous process deeply shaped China’s approach to the protection of the life and assets of Chinese nationals overseas\, an aspect of Chinese foreign policy that is already\, and will become increasingly important over time. This became evident as\, especially after the evacuation of 36\,000 Chinese nationals from Libya in 2011\, Chinese institutions evolved and issued new regulations that are also aimed at supporting the possible use of the military overseas. \nDr. Andrea Ghiselli is an assistant professor in the School of International Relations and Public Affairs\, Fudan University. He is also the Head of Research of the ChinaMed Project\, a research project on China’s role in the wider Mediterranean region sponsored by the University of Torino’s TOChina Hub. Andrea’s research interests include Chinese foreign policy\, China-Middle East relations\, and foreign policy analysis. Besides his book Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy published by Oxford University Press\, his research on Chinese foreign policy has been published in peer-reviewed journals like the China Quarterly\, the Journal of Strategic Studies\, the Journal of Contemporary China\, and Armed Forces & Society. \nPart of the Critical Issues Confronting China Series \nPresented via Zoom Webinar
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/critical-issues-confronting-china-series-featuring-andrea-ghiselli-protecting-chinas-interests-overseas-securitization-and-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Critical Issues Confronting China,Critical Issues Confronting China Series
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SUMMARY:Erin Y. Huang - Ocean Media:  South China Sea and Gilles Deleuze’s Desert Islands
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Erin Y. Huang\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature\, Princeton University \n“Humans can live on an island only by forgetting what an island represents\,” writes Deleuze in his short essay “Desert Islands” (îles déserte; huangdao; mujintō; no-man island). But what does an island truly represent (that for Deleuze means the constant strife between the earth’s elements)? What is producing the culture of forgetting? And why do islands appear deserted even when they are inhabited? In recent years when the large-scale Chinese state-led artificial islanding (rengong zaodao) in the South China Sea created an international territorial dispute\, caused by new experimentations with the limit of the early modern European legal concept of the “free sea” (coined by the seventeenth-century Dutch philosopher Hugo Grotius)\, these questions that Deleuze raised in the 1950s return as the definition of the “island” increasingly gravitates toward the “technologies of islanding” that are reshaping the operations of global financial and military power. Transforming the “island” into free treaty ports\, military vessels and bases\, logistics cities\, and special economic zones\, islanding\, rather than insularity\, is at the heart of the critical infrastructure of global circulation. Bringing together the methodological approaches of infrastructure and media studies and the island writings of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze\, this talk explores a new genealogy of island critique\, from Danial Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe that marks the beginning of British maritime power to the contemporary American satellite surveillance network on Asian oceans (e.g. AMTI’s “Island Tracker”) and the expansion of Chinese infrastructural empire that is creating new conflict shorelines. Rather than defining “ocean media” at the outset\, this examination probes what we mean by “media” in the context of understanding capital’s creation of “environment\,” and the new conceptualizations of “Europe” (old centers of maritime power) and “Asia” (new experimenters of existing colonial techniques). \nErin Y. Huang is assistant professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature and an associated faculty of Gender & Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Urban Horror: Neoliberal Post-Socialism and the Limits of Visibility (Duke University Press\, 2020). She is currently working on her second book that focuses on maritime capitalism\, islanding\, special economic zones\, and feminist critiques of global logistics. \nThe talk is part of the East Asian Media Ecologies lecture series. \nPresented via Zoom\nLog on to: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/91834267809?pwd=Q3pCZVZBM3RXSzVwVlBFRC9aZz09SWNw
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/erin-y-huang-ocean-media-south-china-sea-and-gilles-deleuzes-desert-islands/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Events of Interest
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210227T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210228T140000
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SUMMARY:Harvard East Asia Society Conference 2021 - Moving Bodies: Mobility and Control Across East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: The Harvard East Asia Society\, A GSAS Student Group\, Harvard University \nFor more information\, including an agenda and a list of speakers\, visit: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/2021-schedule.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/harvard-east-asia-society-conference-2021-moving-bodies-mobility-and-control-across-east-asia/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
CATEGORIES:Conference and Workshops,Events of Interest
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SUMMARY:The World is Watching: Activists and Academics on the Uyghur Genocide
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\nRushan Abbas\, Founder and Executive Director\, Campaign for Uyghurs\nKamaltürk Yalqun\, General Secretary\, Campaign for Uyghurs\nDarren Byler\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, University of Colorado\nRian Thum\, Loyola University \nJoin us to hear from activists and academics on the Uyghur genocide. Rushan Abbas\, a prominent Uyghur American activist and the founder and Director of Campaign for Uyghurs\, will be presenting an overview of the current crisis as well as personal stories of engaging in activism. Kamaltürk Yalqun will be sharing how the persecution has affected Uyghur intellectuals\, including his father\, Yalqun Rozi\, a famous Uyghur scholar and literary critic. Dr. Darren Byler\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado\, will be sharing some of his research\, including a discussion of surveillance and terror rhetoric. Dr. Rian Thum will be sharing his ethnographic research on China and Islam. Each panelist will be presenting individually\, with a question and answer session at the end. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association\, Harvard College Democrats\, Jewish Movement for Uyghur Freedom Harvard Chapter\, HLS Advocates for Human Rights\, Harvard Hillel\, Latinas Unidas de Harvard College\, Harvard Facilitators for Religious\, Ethical\, and Spiritual Inquiry\, the HLS Students Turkish Law Students Association\, the Harvard Human Rights and Business Law Students Association\, and the Harvard Law School Immigration Project. \nPresented via WebEx\nFor more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-world-is-watching-activists-and-academics-on-the-uyghur-genocide-tickets-141572379799?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=listing
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/the-world-is-watching-activists-and-academics-on-the-uyghur-genocide/
LOCATION:Massachusetts
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