Events

2024 China Town Hall Featuring Kurt Campbell and Rana Mitter

L-332 DELAND, Littauer Building 79 JFK St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Kurt Campbell, Deputy U.S. Secretary of StateRana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy SchoolJoin the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the Greater China Society at HKS on April 9th for the 2024 CHINA Town Hall (CTH), a two-part […]

Arbitrary Detention in Xinjiang: A Survivor's Story

WCC 1015, Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speakers:Rayhan Asat, Uyghur Lawyer, HLS LLM ‘16Mihrigul Tursun, Uyghur Activist, Former Detainee and Camp Survivor In 2015, Mihrigul Tursun was imprisoned in a re-education camp in Xinjiang by the Chinese […]

China: The Rise and Fall of the EAST - How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to its Decline

Building 66, 110 25 Ames St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Yasheng Huang, Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Faculty Director, MIT-China Program, Center for International Studies. Discussant: Will Knight, Senior Writer, Wired Magazine More information: […]

Curatorial Chat: Central Asian Chronicles Echoes of the Silk Road in Manuscripts and Imagery

Houghton Library Quincy Street & Harvard Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Join co-curators Dr. Gülnar Eziz, Preceptor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, and Isa Youshe, PhD Student, Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University, for a 30-minute guided tour of the Central […]

Film Screening: That Day, on the Beach (Hai tan de yi tian)

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

A renowned young pianist, Tan Ching-Ching (Terry Hu) comes back to Taipei for the first time in thirteen years to give a performance. An old friend, Lin Jia-li (Sylvia Chang), […]

Contextual Annotation in Textual and Visual Media: COMARKUS and IMMARKUS

CGIS South, Room S153 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Speaker: Hilde De Weerdt,  Professor of Chinese and Early Modern Global History, KU Leuven Hilde De Weerdt joined the Early Modern History Research Group, KU Leuven in March 2022 as Professor of […]

Film Screening: In Our Time (Guang yin de gu shi)

Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center 24 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

The omnibus film In Our Time initiated radical innovations in terms of aesthetic styles, industry practices and commonly depicted themes, thereby revolutionizing the filmmaking industry in Taiwan and inaugurating the movement of […]

Perspectives on Academic Freedom

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

Speakers:Sugata Bose, Harvard UniversityWilliam Kirby, Harvard University Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts, AmherstZeynep Kadirbeyoglu, Brandeis UniversitySidney Chalhoub, Harvard UniversityJoan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonDurba Mitra, Harvard UniversityBeshara Doumani, Brown UniversityBrian Connolly, University of South Florida In 2019, alarmed by attacks on academic freedom happening simultaneously in several parts of the world (Brazil, India, Turkey, […]