Ongoing Workshops and Seminar Series

Workshops and seminars sponsored by the Center provide a forum for our affiliates, members of Harvard's intellectual community, and the interested public to discuss a range of academic issues. Most of the seminars meet in the CGIS south building at 1730 Cambridge Street on the Harvard campus. All of the seminar organizers are affiliated with the Fairbank Center. These ongoing seminar series do not maintain their own web sites, so for specific meeting information, please see the Asia Bulletin or contact the Fairbank Center.

China Business Seminar
Organized by Professor Regina Abrami at the Harvard Business School. This series was launched in spring 2006.

China Current Events Workshop
Organized by Gwendolyn Stewart, Harvard and Thomas Gottschang, Holy Cross College. Meets on selected Fridays at 4 pm.

China Gender Studies Workshop
Organized by Christina Gilmartin, Northeastern University; Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College; Yeh Weili, UMass Boston; and Vanessa Fong, Harvard University. Meets on selected Fridays at 4 pm.

China Humanities Seminar
Organized by Li Wai-yee and Vincent Leung, both of Harvard University. Meets on selected Mondays at 4 pm, usually in the Harvard-Yenching Building.

China Lunchtime Seminar
Organized by Merle Goldman, Professor emerita from Boston University. Meets over the lunch hour as announced.

Fairbank Director's Seminar
 Scholars invited by the Center director present their research. Usually meets on selected Fridays at 4 pm.

New England China Seminar
Organized by Merle Goldman, Professor emerita from Boston University. Meets in the early evenings beginning at 5:15 pm, on days as announced. This follows a format of two presentations, with a reception between (and a dinner on site for those who reserve in advance).

New England Art History Seminar
Organized by Susan Bush. Meets on Saturday afternoons at 2 pm in the Sackler Museum on the Harvard campus, as announced.

Seminar on Chinese Religions
Organized by Michael Puett of Harvard and Robert Weller from Boston University. Meets at 12:15 pm on Fridays as announced.

Taiwan Studies Workshop
Organized by Steven Goldstein, Smith College. Meetings as announced.

Modern Chinese History Seminar
Organized by Henrietta Harrison, Harvard University, and Rebecca Nedostup, Boston College. This was formerly known as the 20th Century China Seminar, but adopted its new name with the fall 2008 semester to reflect its active consideration of Qing history. Meets of Fridays at 4 pm as announced.

Zhongguo wenti xuexi yanjiu hui 中國問題學術研究會 (China Study Seminar)
The working language of this seminar is Chinese. It meets usually at 4 pm as announced. During the spring 2008 semester it was organized by Visiting Scholar Zhang Yuquan and Harvard-Princeton China in the World Postdoctoral Fellow Zheng Yu.

For more information on the seminar series and workshops, please call 617-495-4046.

 

For the most up-to-date listings of all Fairbank Center events and other Asia-related events at Harvard, see the Asia Center's Asia Bulletin, updated bi-weekly during the school year.