The Harvard Asia Center Bulletin 10/25/24 - 11/08/24
October 25 - November 8, 2024
Upcoming Events & Announcements of Interest to the Harvard University Asia Center Community
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Friday, October 25, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
Sung Eun Kim – Circumventing the Liberal Order: Protectionism with Chinese Characteristics
Sung Eun Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Korea University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair/Discussant: Stephen Chaudoin, Assistant Professor, Government, Harvard University
Friday, October 25, 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, October 25, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
Performing Dissent: Miyazaki Tōten and Naniwabushi during the Russo-Japanese War
Joel Littler, Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. in Modern Japanese History, University of Oxford, 2024)
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
Monday, October, 28, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
Silver Democracy: Youth Representation in an Aging Japan
Charles Mcclean, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Moderator: Mary Alice Haddad, John E. Andrus Professor of Government; Director, Office of the Faculty Career Development, and Professor of East Asian and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
Monday, October 28, 12:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
The Social Psychology of Lynchings in Majoritarian India
Vatsal Naresh, Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University
Moderator: Nicole West Bassoff, PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Monday, October 28, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET
The Domestic Politics of International Statebuilding: Evidence from Postwar Japan
Melissa Lee, Klein Family Presidential Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, and Director, World House Student Fellows Program, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Volha Charnysh, Ford Career Development Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Local Affiliate & Seminar Chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Monday, October 28, 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. ET
From Words to Walls: Deciphering Cultural Impacts on Women's “Lack of Fit”
Dr. Wen Shan (Vivien), Lecturer at the S R Nathan School of Human Development, Singapore University of Social Sciences
Tuesday, October 29, 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET
How to Talk to Martians: Socialist vs. Capitalist Science in Korean SF
Dafna Zur, Stanford University
Moderator: Victor Seow, Harvard University
Tuesday, October 29, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. ET
Corky Lee's Asian America: A Panel Discussion with Professor Mae Ngai and Activist Virgo Lee About the Legacy of Corky Lee
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University
Virgo Lee, Activist
Tuesday, October 29, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET
Buddhist Women in Leadership: Women and Nuns at Larung Gar: A Talk with Venerable Gyatso Rinpoche
Wednesday, October 30, 1:15 p.m. ET
Watching Herds: Multispecies Interactions in Mongolian Nomadic Pastoralism
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series
Charlotte Marchina, National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations
Wednesday, October 30, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Edward Wong — The Empire Reborn: China’s Expansion and Nationalism Today
Edward Wong, Diplomatic Correspondent, The New York Times
Moderator: Mark C. Elliott, Vice Provost of International Affairs, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University
Thursday, October 31, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
The Use of the Modern and Taiwanese Film History
Chang-Min Yu, Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair/Discussant: Alexander Zahlten, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Thursday, October 31, 12:15 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. ET
Striking from the Schoolyard: State Worker Networks and Civil Society in Contemporary Jordan
Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Moulay Hicham Alaoui Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Scholars Program. PhD, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, October 31, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
Queering “Freedom’s Frontier”: Korean Augmentees and the Transpacific Geopolitics of U.S. Military Empire
Sung Eun Kim, 2024–25 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Chair: Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
Thursday, October 31, 5:00 p.m. ET
Halloween Movie Night w/ HISA and Indonesian Language Program
Friday, November 1, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
Haunting and the Psychopolitical in China
Emily Ng, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Friday, November 1, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET
PRC @ 75 – Film Screening – The Dreamers Revisited: Bumming in Beijing (Original Extended Version), featuring an introduction by Eugene Yuejin Wang
Introduction: Eugene Yuejin Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art; Founding Director of Harvard FAS CAMLab, Harvard University
Programmer: Sam Maclean, Communications Manager, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Friday, November 1, 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 1, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
Left Behind or Left Ahead? Female Political Engagement in Migrant-Sending Communities in India – Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with Rithika Kumar
Rithika Kumar, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rice University
Friday, November 1, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
The History and Structure of Desire in Boy Love (BL) Literature and Manga
Yukari Fujimoto, Professor at the School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University
Mari Kotani, Science Fiction & Fantasy literature critic and Cultural Studies scholar
Moderator: Tomiko Yoda, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities, Harvard University
Friday, November 1
“Gardens” A Thematic Display of Islamic and South Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums
This installation will feature a magnificent 18th-century Persian carpet and exquisite glass birds, the work of contemporary Turkish artist Felekşan Onar, in the Art of Islamic Lands gallery 2550. Related paintings from South Asia will be displayed in gallery 2590.
Monday, November 4, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET
Civilians Behind Front Lines: Turbulence and Stability within Boko Haram's Insurgency
Antonia Juelich, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Monday, November 4, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
Distant Travels as Methodology: Japan Studies and Visual Artist Tomiyama Taeko
Laura Hein, The Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History, Northwestern University
David Howell, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History and Acting Director, Weatherhead Center Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Monday, November 4, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
We Are One: Learnings from Community Engagement with Dr. Satchit Balsari
Dr. Satchit Balsari, Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Monday, November 4, 3:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. ET
Money Is No Object: How Understanding Capitalism as Capture-of-the-Future Changes the Way We Grasp its History
Timothy Mitchell, William B. Ransford Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
Monday, November 4, 4:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. ET
Mechanics of Spatial Growth
Lorenzo Caliendo, Won Park Hahn Professor of Global Affairs and Management and Professor of Economics, Yale University
Tuesday, November 5, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
Modern China Lecture Series featuring Selda Altan — Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism, Chinese Labor, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway
Selda Altan, Assistant Professor of History, Randolph College
Wednesday, November 6, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET
How Did The Hills Become Floating?
Jungyoon Kim, Assistant Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University
Wednesday, November 6, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET
Leveraging China’s Strengths as Alternative to Decoupling: Opportunities for Multinational Companies
Mitch Presnick, Visiting Fellow of Practice, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Founder, Super 8 Hotels, China
Discussant: William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University
Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET
Historic Water Architecture and its Contemporarisation – The State of Architecture in South Asia with A. Mridul
A. Mridul, principal of A. Mridul, Architect, and alumnus of Chandigarh College of Architecture, India
Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. ET
On Vietnamese Politics: A Conversation with Kevin D. Pham
Kevin Pham, Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam
Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. ET
Sufi Utterances for Peace: Qawwali Mehfil Performed by Ghayoor-Moiz-Mustafa Qawwal and Brothers
Thursday, November 7, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ET
Governing China in the Digital Age: Legacies, Challenges, and Transformations
Kaiping Zhang, Associate Professor, Political Science, Tsinghua University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2024-25
Chair/Discussant: Yuhua Wang, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Thursday, November 7, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET
Fireside Chat with Lakshmi Puri, Author of “Swallowing the Sun”
Kaiping Zhang, Governing China in the Digital Age: Legacies, Challenges, and Transformations
Lakshmi Puri, Former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling novel "Swallowing the Sun"
Thursday, November 7, 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. ET
Ghazal Asif Farrukhi's Lecture: Women's Interfaith Rituals at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan
Ghazal Asif Farrukhi, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Lahore University of Management Sciences University
Thursday, November 7, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. ET
PRC @ 75 – Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong featuring Rowena Xiaoqing He
Rowena Xiaoqing He (何曉清), Senior Research Fellow, University of Texas Austin; author, Tiananmen Exiles: Voices of the Struggle for Democracy in China
Friday, November 8, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. ET
Art Study Center Seminar: Capturing Myriad Moods of Love in Indian Painting and Dance
Janet O’Brien, Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian and Islamic Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums
Shriya Srinivasan, Co-Founder and Artistic Co-Director, Anubhava Dance Company, and Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard University
Friday, November 8, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET
Indonesian Language Class
This class will guide you through a comprehensive curriculum designed to accommodate all proficiency levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Friday, November 8, 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 8, 4:00 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. ET
"Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia"
Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor, Fletcher School, Tufts University.
Respondent: Aniket De, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, San Diego.