Past Events

Oct 15 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

How Hedging Made US-China Tensions Worse: Order, Strategic Competition, and Aggregated Security Dilemmas in Asia and the Pacific

Chong Ja Ian (Associate Professor, National University of Singapore; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20)
Chair/discussant: M. Taylor Fravel (Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Co-sponsored with the Asia Center and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Oct 11–14
Central China Normal University (CCNU), Wuhan, China

回顾与展望：中国教会大学史研究三十年

"Retrospect and Prospect: Thirty Years' Research on the History of Christian Colleges in China"

国际学术研讨会 International Symposium

Organized by the Research Center for East-West Culture Exchange, CCNU; and the Institute of Modern Chinese History, CCNU

Co-organized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute; College of History and Culture, Shandong University; and College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University
Oct 10 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

Transwar Continuities of Colonial Intimacy: Korean-Japanese Relationships in Korean Cinema in the 1960s

Su Yun Kim (Assistant Professor, Korean Studies Program, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the University of Hong Kong; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20)
Chair/discussant: Yoon Sun Yang, Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Boston University)

Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Oct 1 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

The Embryo Hunts in Public: Eugenics, the Atomic Bomb, and the Politics of Visibility in Japanese Film Culture, 1957-1966

Kinoshita Chika (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20)
Chair/discussant: Alexander Zahlten (Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

Co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Sep 25 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA

Networks, Regions, and Knowledge in Fourteenth Century China: The Compilers of the History of the Yuan

Chen Wenyi (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2019-20)
Chair/discussant: Peter Bol (Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

Jul 2 7:00–9:00pm
Pompadour Room, Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Bangkok

HYI Reception at the 2019 AAS-in-Asia Meeting

Jul 1–11
Hanoi and Mai Chau, Vietnam

Contemporary challenges to development in upland regions of Vietnam: Impact on ethnic minority peoples

A training program organized by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Institute of Anthropology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

Jun 21–26
Nanjing University, China

Cultural Study on the Medieval Silk Road: Arabic Materials and Research Methodology

Nanjing University workshop, co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute

Jun 15 9:00am–5:00pm
Nanjing University, China

国家与社会治理的历史逻辑

("The historical logic of state and social governance in China")

An academic workshop sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 南京大学政府管理学院 (School of Government, Nanjing University), and 南京大学当代中国研究院 (Nanjing University Contemporary China Research Center)
Jun 15–23
Peking University, China

Buddhism and Ethnicity in the Period of Sixteen Kingdoms and Northern Dynasties

2019 PKU-HYI International Summer Training Workshop

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