Harvard Graduate Student Conference on Pre-modern Chinese Literature

During the long interval between the earliest textual records and our modern sense of what constitutes literature, the concept of wenxue 文學 went through myriad transformations that both enrich and challenge our understanding of the literary past. At this conference, our faculty discussants and graduate student presenters will explore four topics: the relationship between textuality and genre, the performativity of ritual and religion, the reciprocity between the authorial self and community, and the impact of...

Special Series: Post-Disaster Japan

Daniel Aldrich, Associate Professor of Political Science, Purdue University
 
Chiaki Moriguchi, Professor, Institute for Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, and Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University

Moderator: Susan Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University


Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs...

New Voices and New Approaches in China Gender Studies

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Seungsook Moon, Professor of Sociology, Vassar College; Sang-kee Kim Visiting Professor of the Social Sciences, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Chaired by Paul Y. Chang, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Abstract
Building upon empirically grounded studies of civil society in contemporary Asia and beyond, this study examines how such enduring social hierarchy...

Tan Ankui (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University)

Chair/discussant: Eric Beerbohm (Frederick S. Danzinger Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies, Harvard University)

Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute

Director's Seminar

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Kuroda Akinobu (Professor of East Asian History, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
Chair/Discussant: David Howell (Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages &...

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A workshop organized by Kuroda Akinobu (U Tokyo/Harvard) and David Howell (Harvard) in...

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

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

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Aranya Siriphon (Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Chiang Mai University)
Discussant/chair: Michael Herzfeld (Ernest E...

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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 Civilization,...

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Pitch Pongsawat (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University; HYI Visiting Scholar)
Discussant/chair: Michael Herzfeld...