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Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion – Stevan Harrell’s “An Ecological History of Modern China”
Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion – Stevan Harrell’s “An Ecological History of Modern China”
Panelists: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington Peter Perdue, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University Jesse Rodenbiker, Assistant Professor of Geography, Rutgers University Robert Weller, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University Organizer: Ling Zhang, Associate Professor of History, Boston College Presented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BOeCcyb9RL2LQMD8zQwg9A Venue
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Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance
Urban China Series Featuring Li Zhigang: China’s New Experiments of Urban Neighborhood Governance
Speaker: Li Zhigang, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University, China ***This talk will be in Mandarin*** China faces significant challenges in neighborhood governance, particularly in old and dilapidated neighborhoods (老旧社区). In this context, some new and experimental approaches to neighborhood governance have emerged. This talk focuses on three representative […]
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Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Shakespeare’s Influence on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Speaker: Tianhu Hao, Zhejiang University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/discussant: David Damrosch, Harvard University Shakespeare has had an important influence upon modern Chinese literature and culture since the 1830s, which constitutes a significant part of Shakespeare’s global impact. Based on the rich sources recently accessible in Chinese and English databases, this article reconsiders Shakespeare’s impact on […]
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Reporting on China
Reporting on China
Speaker: David Barboza, Co-founder of The Wire and WireScreen David Barboza is the co-founder of The Wire Digital Inc., a New York-based news and data platform focused on China and global supply chains. The startup consists of a digital weekly news magazine, called The Wire, and a data and software analytics platform named WireScreen. Previously, […]
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yao Yang – China’s New Era: Reversing the Dire Consequences of 40 Years of Reform
Critical Issues Confronting China featuring Yao Yang – China’s New Era: Reversing the Dire Consequences of 40 Years of Reform
Speaker: Yao Yang, Dean, National School of Development at Peking University Forty years of reform and opening up have resulted in rapid growth and rising living standards for many Chinese, but also left a series of dire consequences. Professor YAO Yang, Dean of the National School of Development at Peking University, explains how the economic agenda […]
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Chinese Humanities 2033: New Visions, New Directions — A Two-Day Conference
Detailed information, including an agenda, may be accessed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lu4_McB0A-USCiJ5uTN7ZyKg-9QgQwc7/view?usp=drive_link Panelists:Mian Chen, Northwestern UniversitySean Xiangjun Feng, University of British ColumbiaBrendan Galipeau, National Tsing Hua UniversityTenggeer Hao, Columbia UniversityKeren He, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillYizhou Huang, Saint Louis UniversityMaciej Kurzynski, Lingnan UniversityMelody Yunzi, Li University of HoustonDylan Suher, University of Hong KongMengyuan Tian, University […]
Harvard Law School Symposium: Economic Sanctions and National Security
Harvard Law School Symposium: Economic Sanctions and National Security
This symposium features Professor Ashley Deeks, former Associate White House Counsel and former Deputy legal Adviser to the U.S. National Security Council; and Ambassador C.J. Mahoney, Deputy General Counsel of International Trade and Azure at Microsoft, and former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. The symposium will also feature a host of leading academics, attorneys, and regulators […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Man in Black” by Wang Bing
Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Man in Black” by Wang Bing
Wang Bing’s first work made outside of China, this one-hour featurette boldly announces a new phase in the director’s career. Shot at the historic Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris, it stages a biographical encounter with eighty-six-year-old modern classical composer Wang Xilin, whose anti-Communist sentiments made him the target of intense persecution and abuse […]
3 events,
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Youth (Spring)” by Wang Bing
Film Screening – People and Their Virtue: “Youth (Spring)” by Wang Bing
Shot between 2014 and 2019 and compiled from 2,600 hours of footage, Wang Bing’s latest opus centers on young migrant laborers in Zhili, an industrial town near Shanghai that is home to thousands of privately-run garment workshops. Employing his trademark long takes and fixed camera setups, Wang contrasts routine days of sewing, stitching and scissoring […]
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Urban China Series Featuring Andrew Grant: Abject Space in Redevelopment: Urban Tibetans in Xining’s Old City Center
Urban China Series Featuring Andrew Grant: Abject Space in Redevelopment: Urban Tibetans in Xining’s Old City Center
Speaker: Andrew Grant, University of Tampa Examining Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, this talk argues that urban redevelopment and greenfield expansion have devalued the older urban areas in which Tibetans live. Through over twenty months of fieldwork between 2012 and 2017, I found that un-redeveloped urban places were becoming increasingly associated with crime, grime, and […]
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Diachronic Analysis of Human-Object Relations: A Case Study of the Kavinyangang Ancestral Pots, Taiwan
Diachronic Analysis of Human-Object Relations: A Case Study of the Kavinyangang Ancestral Pots, Taiwan
Speaker: Chih-Hua Chiang, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Matthew Liebmann, Harvard University More info: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/diachronic-analysis-of-human-object-relations/ Venue
Tamar Grozwald Ozery – Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
Tamar Grozwald Ozery – Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth
Speaker: Tamar Groswald Ozery, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Panelists:William P. Alford (moderator), Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law, Director of East Asian Legal Studies, Chair of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Harvard Law SchoolRui Guo, Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law SchoolNicholas C. Howson, Pao […]
Erik Mueggler – Writing, Slavery, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Southwest China
Erik Mueggler – Writing, Slavery, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Southwest China
Speaker: Erik Mueggler, Professor Anthropology, University of Michigan Imperial China managed its border regions by negotiating power with indigenous chieftains. Hereditary chieftains were allowed sovereignty over indigenous domains in exchange for keeping the peace and lending their militias to imperial campaigns. Ming and Qing colonialism in the Southwest took the form of a long, staggered […]
3 events,
Conference: China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) at Ten
For more information, including a complete agenda and speaker list, visit: https://www.bu.edu/asian/2023/09/13/conference-chinas-belt-road-initiative-bri-at-ten-us-naval-war-college-and-bu-oct-12-13-2023/ Venue
Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories
Speakers:Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Harvard UniversityUfrieda Ho, Journalist and AuthorGayatri Sethi, Educator and AuthorDuncan Yoon, New York UniversityGeoffrey Jones, Harvard Business SchoolAnnette Skovsted Hansen, Aarhus UniversityIsaac Odoom, Carleton UniversityMarlous van Waijenburg, Harvard Business SchoolSeifudein Adem, Doshisha UniversityLina Benabdallah, Wake Forest UniversityMaria Adele Carrai, New York University ShanghaiIdriss Fofana, Harvard UniversityKumiko Makino, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan […]
Meg Rithmire – The Past, Present, and Future of State – Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons
Meg Rithmire – The Past, Present, and Future of State – Business Relations in China: Learning from Comparisons
Speaker: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business of Administration, Harvard Business School. Over the last decade, China has gone from high rates of economic growth with private sector participation to state crackdowns on business and slowing growth, if not economic stagnation or crisis. Prof. Rithmire will draw on her research on relationships […]
3 events,
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
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China Westward: Reimagining the Interwoven Material and Cultural Histories of China, Central Asia, and the Himalayas
About the Conference: This conference will explore historical interactions between China and the “Western Regions,” providing new insights into Chinese civilization and its global context. Experts will focus on the historical period when China was deeply engaged with the “Western Regions,” primarily from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The “Western Regions” […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Cheng-hua Wang – What Handscroll Landscape Painting Could Convey: Format, Structure, and the Discourse on Huayi in the Late Northern Song Dynasty
China Humanities Seminar featuring Cheng-hua Wang – What Handscroll Landscape Painting Could Convey: Format, Structure, and the Discourse on Huayi in the Late Northern Song Dynasty
Speaker: Cheng-hua Wang, Associate Professor, Princeton University Focusing on landscape paintings in the handscroll format from the tenth to the twelfth century, this talk aims to present two structural innovations that took place in the late eleventh century seen in a few examples—from homogeneous to heterogeneous spaces and from mono to poly-scenic views. Along with […]
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“Actually, We Are Mongols!”: Resurgence of the Yuan Non-Han Ancestries in the Late Qing North China
“Actually, We Are Mongols!”: Resurgence of the Yuan Non-Han Ancestries in the Late Qing North China
Speaker: Iiyama Tomoyasu, Waseda University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/discussant: Mark Elliott, Harvard University This talk attempts to shed light on the largely unknown trajectories of the resurgence and evolution of Yuan non-Han ancestries in north China from the late eighteenth century through the early twentieth century. By exploring three relatively well documented cases of the […]
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Chen Xiang – Political signaling drives China’s Pilot Emissions Trading Scheme
Chen Xiang – Political signaling drives China’s Pilot Emissions Trading Scheme
Speaker: Chen Xiang, Assistant Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Alumna (Visiting Fellow) and Associate, Harvard-China Project China’s approach to environmental regulation relies heavily on campaign-style enforcement and blunt-force regulation. While considered effective in the short run, this approach is often inefficient and generates unintended regulatory outcomes in the longer run. At the […]
Gallery Talk – Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade
Gallery Talk – Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade
Led by: Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museums Join curator Sarah Laursen for a closer look at artworks in the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade (September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024). The exhibition explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art […]
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Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
1 event,
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
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Fears of Inheritance Disruption: Tracing ‘Establishing Heirs’ in Ancient and Early Imperial China
Fears of Inheritance Disruption: Tracing ‘Establishing Heirs’ in Ancient and Early Imperial China
Speaker: Hsinning Liu, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/Discussant: Michael Puett, Harvard University It is widely acknowledged that in Imperial China, the system of inheritance adhered to the principle of patrilineal succession, which bore the responsibility for performing ancestral sacrifices. Consequently, every man was obligated to have a male heir. In cases where he did […]
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Urban China Series Featuring Leonardo Ramondetti: The Enriched Field: Urbanizing the Central Plains of China
Urban China Series Featuring Leonardo Ramondetti: The Enriched Field: Urbanizing the Central Plains of China
Speaker: Leonardo Ramondetti, Post-doctoral Researcher, Politecnico di Torino Since the early 2000s, China has seen unprecedented urban growth, spreading to every corner of the country. Driven by the urban entrepreneurialism of major municipalities until the mid-2000s, the reins have since passed to the central and regional administrations which plan development in a more comprehensive and […]
Christine Gschwendtner – Unlocking the Flexibility of Electric Vehicle Charging: Combining Plug-in Behavior, Control Strategies, and Incentives
Christine Gschwendtner – Unlocking the Flexibility of Electric Vehicle Charging: Combining Plug-in Behavior, Control Strategies, and Incentives
Speaker: Christine Gschwendtner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP) and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP), Harvard Kennedy School More information coming soon. Christine Gschwendtner is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard University, focusing on sustainable energy systems. She is particularly interested in the intersection of infrastructure and human behavior, specifically related to decarbonizing […]
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Modern China Lecture Series featuring Shellen Wu – Writing Global History from an Asian Perspective
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Shellen Wu – Writing Global History from an Asian Perspective
Speaker: Shellen X. Wu, Associate Professor and L.H. Gipson Chair in Transnational History, Lehigh University Global history has drawn criticism for its lack of diversity among its practicing ranks and the flattening effect of its materialist focus. I would like to propose a middle way: a global history that encompasses individual agency; an intellectual history […]
2 events,
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
Sabine Stricker-Kellerer – Partner, Competitor, Systemic Rival: Germany/EU´s Business with China
Sabine Stricker-Kellerer – Partner, Competitor, Systemic Rival: Germany/EU´s Business with China
Speaker: Sabine Stricker-Kellerer, Attorney and German Co-Chair of the German-Chinese Dialogue Forum, German Federal Foreign Office Dr. Sabine Stricker-Kellerer (LL.M. 1983) is a leading international legal expert on China business, with over 40 years’ experience on topics such as the establishment and restructuring of foreign investment projects in China, aspects of corporate structuring and regulatory […]
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Objects of Addiction: A Conversation about Opium and Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws in the United States
Objects of Addiction: A Conversation about Opium and Anti-Chinese Immigration Laws in the United States
Speakers:Erika Lee, Bae Family Professor of History, Harvard UniversityJolin Chan ’25, Harvard University; Student Board Member, Harvard Art MuseumsMadison Stein ’24, Harvard University Award-winning author and Harvard history professor Erika Lee will be in conversation with students Jolin Chan ’25 and Madison Stein ’24 about the role of opium in the restrictions on Chinese immigration in the […]
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
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Environment in Asia Series featuring Scott Moore – The Climate Risk to China’s Rise: Political, Economic, and Ecological Implications of Extreme Weather in China
Environment in Asia Series featuring Scott Moore – The Climate Risk to China’s Rise: Political, Economic, and Ecological Implications of Extreme Weather in China
Speaker: Scott Moore, Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania Convener of the Environment in Asia series: Ling Zhang, Associate Professor, Boston College There is a growing case that of the world’s major economies China’s is most heavily exposed to climate risks. This talk probes the […]
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Urban China Series Featuring Yang Yuzhen — The Production of Public Space and Collective Memory: A Chinese Inland City Across Time 杨宇振:公共空间与集体记忆的生产——一个中国内陆城市的历时样本
Urban China Series Featuring Yang Yuzhen — The Production of Public Space and Collective Memory: A Chinese Inland City Across Time 杨宇振:公共空间与集体记忆的生产——一个中国内陆城市的历时样本
Speaker: Yang Yuzhen, Professor of Architecture and Urban Development, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Chongqing University ***This talk will be in Mandarin.*** Modern public spaces in Chinese cities have undergone significant changes over the past century. The transformation of Chongqing, an inland city, is an essential part of China's modernization process from east to […]
Architecture of Virtuality: Liao Dynasty Pagodas and the Embodiment of Buddhist Vision
Architecture of Virtuality: Liao Dynasty Pagodas and the Embodiment of Buddhist Vision
Speaker: Youn-mi Kim, Ewha Womans University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2023-24Chair/discussant: Ryuichi Abe, Harvard University This talk explores the pagodas of China’s Liao dynasty (907-1125), uncovering the intricate relationships between the materiality of Buddhist architecture and its entwined vision and virtuality. It’s essential to recognize that Buddhist materiality is deeply connected with its immateriality. This dual […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kenneth Juster – How China is Reshaping U.S.-India Relations and the Quad
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Kenneth Juster – How China is Reshaping U.S.-India Relations and the Quad
Speaker: Kenneth I. Juster, U.S. Ambassador to India, 2017-2021Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Kenneth I. Juster, AB ’76, MPP '79, JD '79, served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021. He will discuss how China’s actions are reshaping India’s relationship with the […]
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Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
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Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
Harvard CAMLab Fall Public Visits
During Public Visits, CAMLab welcomes our audiences to explore immersive installations that stage cultural history with digital technologies. CAMLab Cave Public Visits are guided group tours. Reservations are limited to 15 per hour, in order to preserve the experiential dimension of CAMLab’s multisensorial project installations. Tours are led by a team of Harvard Student Educators, […]
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