Events

Jedidiah Korncke – Thomas Jefferson, Carsun Chang and A Lost Era of U.S.-China Constitutional Engagement

Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge

Speaker: Jedidiah Kroncke, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong Professor Kroncke’s study recovers a lost era of Sino-American constitutional imagination surrounding the drafting of the 1946 Republic of China Constitution. It examines the transnational dynamics that led the Constitution’s initial drafter, Carsun Chang, to travel to the U.S. in 1945 to ostensibly study […]

Community Viewing Event – Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements

Cabot Library Discovery Bar 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

Join us in browsing and reflecting upon Portraits of Freedom: The Womxn Driving our Freedom Movements at our Community Viewing Event at the Cabot Library Discovery Bar from 6:30-8PM on Friday, March 29th. Uyghur laghman noodles and wontons will be provided! RSVP here: tinyurl.com/coalitionPoF About the Exhibition: While history and society often highlight the prominent male figures, womxn play pivotal roles as […]

Film Screening: Yi Yi (A One and a Two …), with introduction by Kalli Peng

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge

Edward Yang’s cinematic swan song, released at the turn of the millennium, is a moving tapestry that weaves together the dissolution and reconstitution of the fragile subjectivities in an increasingly global, capitalist and mediated urban society. Yi Yi opens with a wedding and ends with a funeral. What unfolds between love and death is everything that saturates […]