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2016 Oct 28

Fairbank Center: Du Fu (712-770): China’s Greatest Poet: A Conference in Honor of the Library of Chinese Humanities

Fri - Sat, Oct 28 to Oct 29, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Location: 

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, 1730 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA

 

Website: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dufu/home

The symposium brings together over twenty scholars in premodern and modern Chinese literary studies from North America and East Asia.  The discussions will focus on four aspects:

  • Rethinking Du Fu in the context of the medieval world and poetics
  • Dimensions of Du Fu’s works less explored in Du Fu studies, such as Buddhism, humor, self-exegesis, and everyday life
  • Reception of Du Fu from Song through Qing literature,...
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2016 Oct 25

Ash Center: "A New Asia: How China Shaped the Postwar Global Order"

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Loeb House at Harvard University, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

2016 S.T. Lee Lecture

The Harvard Kennedy School Office of Alumni Relations and Resource Development and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation invite you to the 2016 S.T. Lee Lecture, presented by Rana Mitter, Professor of History and Politics of Modern China...

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2016 Nov 14

Mahindra Humanities: The All-Encompassing Lamp of Awareness: A Forgotten Treasure of the Great Perfection, Its Authorship and Historical Significance

4:30pm

Location: 

Barker Center, Kresge Foundation Room (114), 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Buddhist Studies Forum
Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
The All-Encompassing Lamp of Awareness: A Forgotten Treasure of the Great Perfection, Its Authorship and Historical Significance
Cosponsored...

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2016 Oct 20

Ash Center: Book Talk with Edward Foley, Author of Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States

4:10pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200 North, Cambridge, MA

The Ash Center is hosting a book talk with Edward B. Foley, the Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Chair in Law and Director of Election Law at The Ohio State University College of Law and author of Ballot Battles: The History of Disputed Elections in the United States. This talk will be...

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