Asia Center Bulletin 11/08/24
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Monday, November 11, 8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. ET
The American Election Results: The View from Taipei
Christine Lai, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Kevin Luo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Andrew Nien-dzu Yang, Secretary General, Chinese Council of Advanced Policy Studies (CAPS)
Steven M. Goldstein, Taiwan Studies Workshop Director, Harvard University Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Tuesday, November 12, 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET
Bathing Through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)
Fei Huang,University of Tübingen
Moderator: Victor Seow, Harvard University
Tuesday, November 12, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
Numinous Topographies: Mountaineering, Spirituality, and Nature in Modern Japan
Caleb Carter, Associate Professor, Japanese Religions and Buddhist Studies, Kyushu University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair/Discussant: Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Research Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University
Tuesday, November 12, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET
'Sugarcane' Screening and Conversation
'Sugarcane' follows an investigation into the Canadian Indian residential school system, igniting a reckoning in the lives of survivors and descendants.
Tuesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. ET
Chinese Greenways: Innovative Planning, Governance, and Urbanism
Liu Zheng, Associate Professor of Urban Planning, South China University of Technology
Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 p.m. ET
My Brother and the Fortune Tellers: The Limits and Possibilities of Autofiction
Aruni Kashyap, Writer, Translator, Associate Professor of English, University of Georgia, Athens
Wednesday, November 13, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
Discrepancies Between Estimated and Actual Wind Power Generation in the U.S. and China
Dr. Haiyang Lin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-China Project, Harvard University
Wednesday, November 13, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
Political Self-Sacrifice in Myanmar: On the Technologies of Charisma and Well-Being
Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson, PhD, has been conducting long-term ethnographic and psycho-cultural research in Myanmar since 2008
Wednesday, November 13, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Tyler Jost — Bureaucracy and Blunder: How Politics Shapes China’s Policymaking
Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science, International & Public Affairs and Watson Institute Assistant Professor of China Studies, Brown University
Moderator: Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University; Fairbank Center Associate
Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. ET
Gardens for All Seasons—The Persian Garden Carpet Tradition — Norma Jean Calderwood Lecture
Walter B. Denny, Distinguished Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Chair of the Visiting Committee, Department of Textile Conservation, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday, November 13, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. ET
Film Screening: The Sacrifice
Directed by Robert Lemelson, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of California Los Angeles
Thursday, November 14, 12:20 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. ET
U.S. Tech Policy Toward China: Growing Parallels Between Washington and Beijing?
Angela Huyue Zhang, Professor of Law, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
Thursday, November 14, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Friday, November 15, 8:15 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
Conference: Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism and the Institution of the Dalai Lama
This conference will look at the history across the region, the esoteric practices of rebirth and divination, and the modern-day geopolitical implications of continuing this practice in Tibetan, Himalayan, Mongolian, and Central Asian communities -- and indeed across the Buddhist world in Asia and beyond.
Thursday, November 14, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
The Emergence of Korean Esports and its Implications in the Global Esports Sphere: from socio-cultural contexts
Dal Yong Jin, Distinguished Professor, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
Thursday, November 14, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. ET
Maritime Cities and Coastal Societies in the Pre-Modern Indian Ocean
Ranabir Chakravarti, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Chair: Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, Harvard University
Thursday, November 14, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m ET
The Purchaser-Provider Split and the Public Sector
Moderator: Nachiket Mor, Visiting Scientist, The Banyan Academy of Leadership in Mental Health
Friday, November 15, 2:00 p.m. - 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.
Friday, November 15, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
The 1970 Bhola Cyclone and the Birth of Bangladesh – Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with Mushfiq Mobarak
Mushfiq Mobarak, Professor of Economics at Yale University
Friday, November 15, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
Digital China Initiative Workshop — Building a Digital Collection with GenAI Tools
This workshop focuses on leveraging GenAI tools to create, manage, and analyze digital collections for Literary Sinitic Studies.
Friday, November 15, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
Heard and Unheard Sounds: Visualizing the Voice in Interwar Japan
Alexander Murphy, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Clark University and Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2022)
Moderator: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director, Committee on Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University
Monday, November 18, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
America’s Future in East Asia
Daniel Kritenbrink, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State.
Moderator: Mark Wu, Henry L. Stimson Professor, Harvard Law School
Monday, November 18, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET
China Humanities Seminar featuring Ya Zuo — Fighting Feelings with Feelings: The Quanzhen Daoist Ordering of Emotional Life
Ya Zuo, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tuesday, November 19, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
The Analysis of Neoliberalism and the Reconfiguration of Gender in the Thai Political Domain
Porranee Singpliam, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair/Discussant: Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
Tuesday, November 19, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
Fireside Chat with Lakshmi Puri, Author of “Swallowing the Sun” and former UN Assistant Secretary-General
Lakshmi Puri, Former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN
Tuesday, November 19, 8:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. ET
Urban China Lecture Series featuring Mark Baker
Mark Baker, University of Manchester
Wednesday, November 20, 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
Certainties Out of the Uncertain: Subnational Climate Diplomacy Between the U.S. and China
Fan Dai, Director, California-China Climate Institute, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Fellow, Environment and Natural Resources Program and Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Wednesday, November 20, 1:15 p.m. ET
Mirroring the Crowned Buddha(s): Intervisuality and Intertextuality of the Vairocana Imageries in Inner Asia, 9th -11th Century -IAAS Lecture Series.
Xiaotian Yin, Harvard University
Wednesday, November 20, 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. ET
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Anne Stevenson-Yang — What Happens After the Chinese Miracle?
Anne Stevenson-Yang, Founder and Research Director, J Capital Research
Moderator: Anthony Saich,Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Wednesday, November 20, 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. ET
The Word of the Buddha in Ancient Gandhāra: Evidence from Manuscripts and Inscriptions
Stefan Baums, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
Thursday, November 21, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
Wartime Mobilization in Late Colonial Korea: Enforcing Everyday Use of the ‘National Language,’ 1937-1945
Kyu Hyun Kim, Associate Professor of Japanese and Korean History, Department of History, University of California at Davis
Friday, November 22, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET
“Unmapping the Thar: The Desert Reimagined” – with Mittal Institute Bajaj Fellow Nilanjana Mukherjee
Nilanjana Mukherjee, Mittal Institute Bajaj Fellow Fall 2024,
Moderator: Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography in the Department of History of Arts and Architecture.
Friday, November 22, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
In a Man’s Voice: The Documents of the Nun Jukei and the Imagawa Warlords in the Sixteenth-Century
David Spafford, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: David L. Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Acting Director, Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Friday, November 22, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. ET
Book Talk: Transpatial Modernity: Chinese Cultural Encounters with Russia via Japan (1880 - 1930)
Xiaolu Ma, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Moderator: David Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University