Asia Bulleting 12/06/24 - 12/20/24

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UPCOMING EVENTS – Please check the website for updates.

Friday, December 6, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
2024 Harvard Summer Opportunities & Funding Fair

Friday, December 6, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Indonesian Language Class
The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Bahasa Indonesia and culture course.

Tuesday, December 10, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
International Norms and Islamic Principles: Exploring Commonalities for Peacebuilding
Dr. Houda Abadi, Executive Director of Transformative Peace
Eldridge Adolfo, Senior Advisor of Dialogue and Meditation, Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm
Mark Muller Stuart, KC, Professor of Practice, Edinburgh University

Tuesday, December 10, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET
ILSS: Bahman Khodadadi, On Theocratic Criminal Law: The Rule of Religion and Punishment in Iran
Dr. Bahman Khodadadi, PIL-LC Research Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School

Tuesday, December 10, 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. ET
Symposium: A Decolonial Lens on Psychedelic Ethics
Christine Hauskeller, Co-editor of Philosophy and Psychedelics: Frameworks for Exceptional Experience (2022); Principal Investigator for the University of Exeter’s Philosophy and Psychedelics Research Group.  

Tuesday, December 10, 8:30  - 10:00 p.m. ET
Urban China Lecture Series featuring  Philipp Demgenski — The Burden of the Past: Housing Expropriation and the Changing Priorities of Inner-City Redevelopment in Contemporary China
Philipp Demgenski, Institute of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University

Wednesday, December 11 + 13, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. ET  
Mapping Color in History (MCH) in Action
Vaishnavi Patil, Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Harvard University; Research Assistant, MCH project
Tracy Stuber, MCH NEH Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
Celia Chari, Beal Family Postdoctoral Fellow at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies in Harvard University
Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwell Senior Conservation Scientist at the Harvard Art Museum
Anjali Jain, Research Manager for the Arts Program Mapping Color in History based in India; Freelance objects conservator
Babulal Marotia, Jaipur-based Artist Who Specializes in Miniature Paintings
Moderator: Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art + Architecture; Professor of South Asian Studies, Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University; and Project Director, Mapping Color in History (MCH)

Wednesday, December 11, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET
Unsexed: A Biologist’s (Unlonely) Search for the Evolutionary Logic of Sex and Gender
Lixing Sun, Researcher, Educator, and Science Writer

Friday, December 13, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET 
Indonesian Language Class
The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Bahasa Indonesia and culture course.

Monday, December 16, 11:30 - 1:00 pm ET
AI Meets Journalism: Rethinking Ethics, Efficiency, and Integrity in Taiwanese Newsrooms
Yi-Chieh Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, National Chengchi University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair/Discussant: John P. Wihbey, Associate Professor, Media Innovation and Technology, Northeastern University

Wednesday, December 18, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. ET 
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
Marietje Schaake, Fellow, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Stanford

Thursday, December 19, 2:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET
Middle East Dialogues: A Conversation with H.E. Tzipi Livni
H.E. Tzipi Livni, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Former Vice Prime Minister of Israel
Tarek Masoud, MEI Faculty Chair Professor

Friday, December 20, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Indonesian Language Class
The Indonesia Program at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia invites you to join a not-for-credit Bahasa Indonesia and culture course.

Asia Center Bulletin Board
Calls for Papers and Educational Opportunities

2025 Harvard Southeast Asia Studies Graduate Symposium
Call for papers
The Harvard Asia Center is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the 2025 Harvard Southeast Asia Studies Graduate Symposium. The symposium will focus on the theme applied, centering its discussions around the relationships between research and society. It aims to bring together graduate students from diverse academic disciplines, including anthropology, built environment studies, education, environmental studies, geography, history, political science, post-colonial studies, public health, religion, science and technology studies, and the social sciences. Deadline: January 2, 2025
Apply Here

Mittal Institute’s Visiting Artist Fellowship
Info Session: Tuesday, December 10, 9:00 - 10:10 am ET
The Visiting Artist Fellowship is a unique opportunity for mid-career visual artists from around South Asia to spend eight weeks on the Harvard campus. The VAF differs from a typical artist residency program in that it is research-centered, providing artists with the vast resources of Harvard’s intellectual community to enhance their artistic practice. Deadline: January 2, 2025

The Joan Andrea Kleinman Travel and Language Grant
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, invites undergraduate students of Harvard College and MD and MD-PhD students of Harvard Medical School to apply for the Joan Andrea Kleinman Travel and Language Grant. Deadline: February 3, 2025. Apply via CARAT.

2025 Taiwan Peace Fellowship Program
The Lung Tai Cultural Foundation has announced a Call for Papers for the 2025 Taiwan Peace Fellowship Program. It is a three-week, full-time residency based in Taipei, and will run from September 7–29, 2025. Fellows will gain personal development, access platforms to share experiences with the Chinese-speaking world, and expand their network. Deadline: February 26, 2025

Asia Center Student Organization Grants
The Harvard University Asia Center offers grants to undergraduate and graduate student organizations for transnational or comparative projects involving two or more countries or regions in East, South, and Southeast Asia OR single-country projects in Southeast Asia. Projects relating to the Asian diaspora and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) studies will also be considered. These grants are offered on an ongoing basis; however, organizations are encouraged to apply as early as possible, as funds are limited. Deadline: Rolling; at least one month in advance of the event or project start date

Asia Center Conference Attendance Grants for Students
The Asia Center offers grants of up to $500 to Harvard graduate and undergraduate students presenting papers that look at two or more countries of East, South, and Southeast Asia comparatively or explore the relations among Asian countries. See website for details. Deadline: Rolling

Asian University for Women Teaching Fellowship
AUW, a university located in Chittagong, Bangladesh, is dedicated to the education, empowerment, and leadership development of highly talented women from across Asia and the Middle East. The AUW Teaching Fellows program invites recent college graduates to partake in a one-year fellowship to teach English, math, or computer science to students in the Pre-Undergraduate Programs at AUW. Deadline: Rolling