Past Events

Mar 9 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

History and Memory of Modern Science in China: The Discovery of the Peking Man

Tai Li-Chuan (Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair/discussant: Sigrid Schmalzer (Associate Professor, Department of History, UMass-Amherst)

Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Mar 6 10:00am–5:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Revisiting Markets and Institutions in Early Modern East Asia: Beyond Exceptionalism and Generalization

A workshop organized by Kuroda Akinobu (U Tokyo/Harvard) and David Howell (Harvard) in cooperation with the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Project No. 26285073)

Mar 5 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

The martyr Yi Suni and early Catholics in Korea

Jung Byung-Sul (Professor, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair/discussant: Si Nae Park (Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute

Mar 3 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Neighborhood Space in 1950s Beijing: Urban Governance in the Early PRC

Park Sang-Soo (Professor, Department of History, Korea University; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair/discussant: Anthony Saich (Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School)

Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Mar 2 4:00–5:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Revisiting Dongjiang: Northern Soldiers and Maritime Trade During the Ming-Qing Transition

Professor Zhao Shiyu (Peking University)
 
Part of the China Humanities Seminar series, co-sponsored with the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
 
Feb 20 12:00–1:00pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Problems of Translating Between Chinese and English in the Social Sciences

Stevan Harrell (Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington)

Feb 19 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

When the PRC Penetrates the Northern Thai Borderland: Nationalist Chinese descendants and the Influence of the PRC and Taiwan

Aranya Siriphon (Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Chiang Mai University; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Discussant/chair: Michael Herzfeld (Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)

Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center

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

Nurturing the Unconscious/Naturalizing the Uncanny: Terunobu Fujimori Architecture and Post-Apocalyptic Symbolism

Kim Hyon-Sob (Professor, Department of Architecture, Korea University; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair/discussant: Melissa McCormick (Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

Co-sponsored with the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Feb 5 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

The Fish, the Sea, and the Political Economy of the Partial Border Citizen Regime at Two Border Towns in Thailand

Pitch Pongsawat (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Discussant/chair: Michael Herzfeld (Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)

Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center

Feb 4 12:00–1:30pm
Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Human Rights, Coercive Power, and the Idea of Global Justice

Tan Ankui (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Chair/discussant: Eric Beerbohm (Frederick S. Danzinger Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies, Harvard University)

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