Asia Center Seminar Series

Professor Daisy Yan Du, Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar: Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center

Asia Center Special Event

Professor Michael Szonyi, Author; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University

Chair: Professor Karen Thornber, Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center; Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Discussants:

Professor Peter Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Vice Provost...

We are pleased to announce the next in the SoHP Lecture Series “What’s New in the Fall of the Roman Empire,” co-sponsored by SoHP, Department of the Classics, and the Standing Committee on Archaeology.

On Thursday, February 15^th, Kimberly D. Bowes, Assoc. Professor of Classical Studies at UPenn, will speak from 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm on “The Archaeology of Poverty: How poor were Roman peasants? Did they get poorer?” followed by a public reception. The lecture takes place in the Tsai...

Women and Culture in the Early Modern World series

Emily Fine,
University of Alabama

ANNE WALTHALL
Professor, History School of Humanities, University of California, Irvine

Moderator: David L. Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University

Reischauer Institute Japan Forum Presentation

See also: Reischauer Institute Japan Forum

Prof. Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross

Beginning with Sylvain Lévi,  most scholars for the past century who have assessed the state of Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley have described the tradition as “decadent,” “corrupted by Hinduism,” and so in serious decline. Many predicted its withering away, most often due to competition from the reformist Theravādins, a movement that arrived in Nepal a century ago. The predations of the modern Nepalese state with its staunchly Hindu biases have also been a central axis of analysis. What has emerged...

Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Speaker:

Jon Stewart, Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University.

Contact:

Ilana Freedman
ifreedman@g.harvard.edu

Chairs:

Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor of Comparative...

Science and Democracy Lecture

Speaker:

Sunita Narain, Director General, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi.

Panelists:

Sunil Amrith, Mehra Family Professor of South Asian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University.

Jody Freeman, Archibald Cox Professor of Law and Director, Environmental Law Program, Harvard Law School.

David S. Jones, A. Bernard Ackerman Professor...

9:30 AM     Workshop Opens

9:45-10:45     Playing with Corpses: Assembling Bodies for the Dead in Southwest China

Speaker: Erik...

Speaker: Daisy Yan Du, Assistant Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; HYI Visiting Scholar
Chair/discussant: Jie Li, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

For more information on the talk, please view here

This talk examines...

Speaker: Jing Tsu, Yale University

It is tempting to understand the Chinese script revolution of the modern era as part of a familiar narrative of...

Cold War Studies Seminar

Speaker(s): 

Ruta Vanagaite, Lithuanian journalist and writer
Efraim Zuroff, Coordinator of Nazi War Crimes Research and Director of Israel Office and Eastern European Affairs, Simon Wiesenthal Center

In the highly acclaimed book Our People: Journey with an Enemy, Ruta Vanagaite and Efraim Zuroff sought to bring to light the role of ordinary Lithuanians in the annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry during World War II. They visited 40 sites of mass murder in Lithuania and Belarus,...

Speaker(s): 

Alexis Peri, Assistant Professor of History, Boston University

The late Stalinist period was notorious as an era of isolationism and growing hysteria against western influence--including prohibitions against marrying foreigners. Likewise, the Truman administration’s anxieties about containing communism touched off a series of decrees to limit subversive speech and inspect Americans’ loyalties. And yet, during this tumultuous time,...