Conference and Workshops
Liberalism, Globalization, Populism and Nationalism in the World Today
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAcross the world there has been a growing reaction against liberalism and globalization paired with a rise in populism and nationalism. This specially adjourned panel, organized and moderated by Professor Peter Bol, examines these trends in a global perspective, with Harvard University experts in the histories of China and East Asia, the UK and Europe, the […]
Introducing the Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org) is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. Founder Donald Sturgeon introduces the database.
Harvard-Yenching Insitute Annual Roundtable Discussion: Asian Studies in Asia
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesPanelists: Hirano Kenichiro (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and of Waseda University, Executive Director of Toyo Bunko (education and employment)) Park Hyungji (Professor of English Literature, Yonsei University) Wang Hui […]
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections, organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang.
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections, organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang.
Berggruen Workshop: Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the World
Safra Center for Ethics 124 Mt. Auburn St., Suite 520N, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis workshop celebrates the partnership between the Berggruen Institute and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, thereby also taking advantage of the presence of the first group of Berggruen Fellows at Harvard. The topic of the workshop, also related to a major concern of the Berggruen Institute, is “Perspectives on Chinese Thought in the […]
East Asian Media Studies Conference
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe East Asian Media Studies Conference will present a snapshot of a young and still-forming field of inquiry. It will provide a space for discussing the question of field formation […]
“8 Brokens” – Rediscovered: Painted Collage from China, ca. 1900
Museum of Fine Arts, Riley Seminar Room 465 Huntingon Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesSymposium Organized by Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts RSVP: https://symposium-8-brokens.app.rsvpify.com/
Tyler Harlan – Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Tyler Harlan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles Since the 1950s, the Chinese government has used small hydropower (SHP) to drive rural electrification and local economic […]
Mediating Religion: Text and Object in Chinese Religion
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States9:30 AM Workshop Opens 9:45-10:45 Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China Speaker: Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan This paper describes the ritualization of death […]
The Rise of New Religions in Asia
Speakers: Helen Hardacre, Harvard University Adam Lyons, Harvard University Frank Korom, Boston University Amanda Lucia, University of California Riverside Robert Hefner, Boston University Juliane Schober, Arizona State University Gareth Fisher, Syracuse University Chien-yu Julia Huang, City Colleges of Chicago Wei-ping Lin, National Taiwan University More Info: www.bu.edu/asian/2018/01/03/the-rise-of-new-religions-in-asia/
Reconsidering Chinese Literature in the World: An International Symposium in Honor of Stephen Owen
In honor of Harvard University Professor Stephen Owen’s retirement from teaching, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and the Department of East Asian Languages and […]