Friday, November 6, 2009, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Bernard Schwartz Book Award Luncheon
Join us in honoring the winner of the first annual Bernard Schwartz Book Award, a prize given to recognize excellence in nonfiction writing on Asia or U.S.-Asia relations.
Duncan McCargo is one of the world’s leading scholars on Thailand. His award-winning book Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand examines the violent separatist insurgency that has raged in southern Thailand since 2004 and has resulted in more than 3,000 deaths. Tearing Apart the Land offers an illuminating account of Southeast Asia, Islam, and insurgency and counterinsurgency movements, with relevance for hotspots around the globe.
12:00 – 12:30 pm: Registration and reception
12:30 – 2:00 pm: Lunch and event
$30 non-members, $20 members/seniors/students with ID. Reservations are required and seating is limited.
This event will also be a free video webcast from 12:30 to 2:00 pm EST on AsiaSociety.org. Online viewers are encouraged to send questions to moderator@asiasoc.org.
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Friday, November 6, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring
Frances Rosenbluth, Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Damon Wells Professor of International Politics, Yale University
Discussion Moderator: J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation co-sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Friday, November 6, 6:00 - 7:30 PM
Tagore's Asian Voyages: A Rediscovery in Poetry, Music and Dance
Opening remarks by Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor
Songs performed by: Pramita Mallick & Siddharth Bhattacharjee
Dance performed by: Sushmita Biswas
Pramita Mallick is a leading exponent of the music of Rabindranath Tagore, the great Bengali poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
The concert by Pramita Mallick will feature Siddharth Bhattacharjee on the tabla
Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge
Friday, November 6 & Saturday, November 7, 2009
Special 'South Asia without Borders' Symposium
Ideas of Asia in Tagore and his Times
Venue:
Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA
Friday November 6, 2009
2:30-4:15 pm: Academic Session I
Chaired by Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of History & Homi Bhabha, Professor of English
History, Hermeneutics and the Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore
Saranindranath Tagore, National University of Singapore
Asian Relations and Tagorean Diplomacy: the Journeys of Kalidas Nag
Kris Manjapra, Tufts University
4:30 pm-5:30 pm: Tea Reception and venue of the SAI exhibit Visions of Asia: the Art of Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose
Remarks by Lori Gross, Associate Provost for the Arts, Harvard University
Venue: Fisher Family Commons, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Saturday November 7, 2009
9:30 am-11:am: Academic Session II
Chaired by Wang Bangwei, Peking University
China in Tagore’s One-Nest World
Tan Chung, Independent Scholar, Chicago
Japan, Tagore and the Idea of Visva-Bharati
Nilanjan Banerjee, Visva-Bharati
Chinese Perceptions of India during the Early Twentieth Century
Tansen Sen and Zhang Xing, Nalanda-Sriwijaya Center, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
11:15 am-12:45 pm: Academic Session III
Chaired by Tansen Sen
The Chinese Response to Tagore’s Ideas Reexamined
Wang Bangwei, Peking University
Tagore’s Understandings of China
Wei Liming, Peking University
Tagore, Xu Zhimo and the National Culture School
Zeng Qiong, Beijing Normal University
Saturday November 7, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
New Linkages: Infrastructure and Entrepreneurship in Republican and Contemporary China
Two panels with papers by historians, political scientists, and economic historians on transportation, communications, and investment institutions/networks before and after 1949 will provide the historical context for assessing China's ongoing infrastructure development.
Presenters: Li Dan (Fudan University, Shanghai); Eric Harwit (University of Hawi'i); Zhao Minghua (University of Greenwhich, U.K.); Anne Reinhardt (Williams College); Elisabeth Köll (Harvard Business School); Regina Abrami (Harvard Business School)
CGIS South, Concourse Level, S050, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Open to interested scholars. For more information, please contact Elisabeth Köll at ekoll@hbs.edu
Workshop schedule at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/SPECIAL%20EVENTS/IFW_Koll.html
Saturday, November 7
The Department of History of Art and Architecture Presents:
Early Spring (1072): Multiple Views
9:45 am - Eugene Wang (Harvard University): Welcome and Introductory Remarks
10:00 am - Yukio Lippit (Harvard University): Introduction to Ogawa Hiromitsu
10:10 am - Ogawa Hiromitsu (Tokyo University): "The Chinese Painting Survey and Its
Significance"
10:30 am - Robert Harrist, Jr. (Columbia University): "Things I Wish I Understood about Early Spring"
11:30 am - Ping Foong (University of Chicago): "Early Spring and the Song Dynasty’s Progenitor Ancestor"
12:00 pm - Charles Hartman (University at Albany—SUNY): "Landscape as Religion, Landscape as Politics: Guo Xi's Early Spring"
1:30 pm - Scarlett Jang (Williams College): "Voices from Early Spring"
2:00 pm - Peter Sturman (UC, Santa Barbara): "The Rhetoric of Realism"
2:30 pm - Amy McNair (University of Kansas): "Early Spring as 'Landscape of Truth': Xuanhe huapu on Guo Xi"
3:30 pm - Heping Liu (Wellesley College): "Early Spring and the Eleventh-Century Landscape ofEcology"
4:00 pm - Hui-shu Lee (UCLA): "Small Matters: Guo Xi and Xiaojing"
4:30 pm - Round Table Discussion: Ogawa Hiromitsu, Yoshiaki Shimizu, Eugene Wang, Yukio Lippit
5:00 pm – Reception
The workshop is open to pre-registered guests only. Please contact Phillip Bloom (pbloom@fas.harvard.edu) to register. Further information is available at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~eaah/conferences/early_spring/index.html.
The workshop is sponsored by the Rockefeller Fund for East Asian Art, Harvard University.
Barker Center, Room 133, Cambridge
Monday, November 9, 4:00 PM
Distinguished Visitor Series of the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies at Suffolk University
China and Tibet: How to Solve the Problems
Dr. Lobsang Sangay, PhD, Harvard Law School
Munce Conference Room in the Archer Building, 20 Derne Street, Boston
Monday, November 9, 7:00 PM
Film Screening: United Red Army (Dir. Koji Wakamatsu, 2008) Japanese with English subtitles
The most militant of the many radical political groups forged in late 1960s Japan, the United Red Army has also been among the most contested and controversial. After a string of bold and deadly attacks on the police in 1972, several URA members fled to a remote mountain holdout where the bloody events unflinchingly chronicled in Wakamatsu’s celebrated most recent film took place. A frightening exploration of the conflict between individual expression and ideological conviction, Wakamatsu’s powerful and unsettling film focuses with harrowing intensity on the disintegration of the group as its members gradually turn on each other in grueling sessions of critique and, eventually, torture.
Harvard Film Archive special screening. Tickets are $9 General Admission, $7 Harvard Staff, non-Harvard students and seniors. Harvard students free. For more information view, http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa or contact (617) 495-4700 for more information.
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Tuesday, November 10, 12:30 - 2:00 PM (Please note the new date)
The Politics of Economic Downturn in Japan and China
Kay Shimizu, Advanced Research Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Discussion Moderator: Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Dept. of Government, and Director, Reischauer Institute and Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations presentation co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Tuesday, November 10, 7:30 - 10:00 PM
Film Screening: Dung Dot (Don't Burn It) by Dang Nhat Minh in Vietnamese with English subtitles.
The film Don’t Burn It is the story of a female doctor, Dang Thuy Tram, from Hanoi. During the war, she headed an infirmary in a war-ravaged area where, according to her diary, "death can be easier than having a meal." Her diary documents her love for people, her burning longings for her family and relatives, and her dreams about peace, which have touched the heart of an American soldier on the opposing side. In 2005, 35 years after Dang Thuy Tram’s diary was found by an American solider, it was returned to her family. In 2007, it was published by Random House with a translated title Last Night I Dreamed of Peace.
Northwest Science Building, B-103
Sponsored by the Harvard- Vietnamese Students Association
Contact: tquan@fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday, November 11, 7:00 PM
Harvard Law School Japanese Law Film Series: Family and War in Law and Film
Film Screening: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Dir. Kazuo Hara, 1987) with English subtitles
Documentary. Deranged veteran of the New Guinea campaign pursues superiors through 1980s Japan. Kinema junpo award for Best Film.
Hauser Hall 102, Harvard Law School, 1545 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Thursday, November 12, 12:15 PM
Fairbank Center China Lunchtime Seminar
The Political Impact of China's International Returned Migration
Donglin Han, Princeton-Harvard China and the World Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Talk description at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/CHINA%20LUNCHTIME/CLS_Han.html
Thursday, November 12, 3:30 PM
Soil Acidification in China: Is Controlling SO2 Emissions Enough?
Zhao Yu, post-doctoral researcher, China Project and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard
Pierce Hall 100F, 29 Oxford St., Cambridge
Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard SEAS
Friday, November 13, 11:30 - 1:00 PM
The Alchemy and Jouissance of Death: Sichuan Sarcophagi in New Perspective
Eugene Wang, Professor of the Department of History of Art and Architecture,
Harvard University
Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge
Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
Friday, November 13, 12:15 PM
Fairbank Center Chinese Religions Seminar
Three Corpse Worms: Fragmentation, Alienation, and Integration of Person/Community
T. J. Hinrichs, assistant professor of history, Cornell University
CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Talk description at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/CHINA%20RELIGIONS/CR_Hinrichs.html
Friday, November 13, 12:30 PM
Asia Center Modern Asia Series Seminar
Rethinking Liberal Secularism in Pakistan
Professor Asad Ahmed, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level
Co-Sponsored with the South Asia Initiative
Brown bag Lunch; coffee and dessert will be provided.
For more information, contact the Asia Center at 617-496-6824
Friday, November 13, 4:00 - 5:00 PM
East Asian Legal Studies and the Korea Institute present
A New Framework for Trade between Korea and the U.S.: Bilateral Trade Disputes and KORUS
Jaemin Lee, Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Researcher, Georgetown University Law Center, Associate Professor of Law, Hanyang University
Pound Hall, Room 419, Cambridge
Friday, November 13, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story
Ian Condry, Associate Professor, Mitsui Career Development Professor, Foreign Languages and Literatures, MIT
Discussion Moderator: Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Dept. of Government, and Director, Reischauer Institute and Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation co-sponsored by the Harvard Japan Society
Tsai Auditorum S010, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Friday, November 13, 4:15 PM
Fairbank Center China Humanities and Modern Chinese History Seminar
Bleached Bones and Unclaimed Corpses: Burying the Dead in Post-Taiping Jiangnan
Tobie Meyer-Fong, associate professor of history, Johns Hopkins University
Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Talk description at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/MODERN%20HISTORY/MHS_CHS_MeyerFong.html
Friday, November 13, 5:00 PM
Reading the Vernacular in the Age of Consumer Culture
Mr. Richard Delacy, Preceptor in Urdu-Hindi
One Bow Street, Room 317, Cambridge
Sponsored by the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
Monday, November 16, 12:15 PM
Fairbank Center China Lunchtime Seminar
Sino-Hungarian Cooperation in Pursuit of Economic Reforms
Peter Vamos, Senior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Talk details at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/CHINA%20LUNCHTIME/CLS_Vamos.html
Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University
Monday, November 16, 1:00 PM
Between Reform and Revolution: Islamic Debates in Early Soviet Central Asia
Adeeb Khalid, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History, Carleton College
CGIS South Building, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street. Room opens at 12:30, presentation begins at 1:00 p.m.
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lunchtime Lecture
You may bring your own lunch to the seminar room. Snacks will be provided.
Questions? iaas@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-3777.
Monday, November 16, 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Poetry and Truth: In the case of a Hisoshima poet, Araki Yasusada
Hosea Hirata, Tufts University
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures, the Asian Studies Program, and the Insitute of Liberal Arts at Boston College
Conact: chiangs@bc.edu
Carney 106, Chestnut Hill Campus, Boston College
Tuesday, November 17, 12:30 – 2:00 PM (Please note the new date)
WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Getting Serious About Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto Era
Robert N. Stavins. Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government; Director, Harvard Environmental Economics Program; and Chairman, Environment & Natural Resources Faculty Group, Harvard Kennedy School
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE), the Asia Center, the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, and the Energy and Natural Resources Program (ENRP), the Harvard Kennedy School.
Belfer Case Study Room (S020), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street
Tuesday, November 17, 5:15 – 7:00 PM
The Nestorian Stele
Charles Stang, Assistant Professor of Early Christian Thought, Harvard Divinity School.
The Nestorian Stele, a facsimile of which hangs in the CSWR stairwell, is an eighth-century monument from Western China, commemorating a seventh-century mission of "Nestorian" Christians who brought with them from the West what the monument calls jingjiao, "the luminous religion."
An event supported by the CSWR Faculty Grant program. For more information, visit: www.hds.harvard.edu/cswr
Common Room, Center for the Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave., Cambridge
Tuesday, November 17, 5:15 – 9:00 PM
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies: New England China Seminar
China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformations in Comparative Historical Perspective
5:15 pm Session I
The Maritime Transformation of Ming China
Andrew R. Wilson, Professor of Strategy and Policy, US Naval War College
6:30 pm dinner break
We welcome participants to a buffet dinner at 6:30-7:30 pm, in Room S050. The dinner cost is $15 per person ($10 for students). Please register by November 12, 5:00 pm, with Wendy Duan at wduan@fas.harvard.edu.
7:30 pm Session II
China’s Maritime Transformation
Andrew S. Erickson, Associate Professor, Strategic Research, US Naval War College
Moderator: Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Discussant: Lyle J. Goldstein, Associate Professor, Strategic Research, US Naval War College
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Talk details at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/NE%20CHINA%20Seminar/NE%20CHINA_Wilson.html
Wednesday, November 18, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Life On & Slightly to the Right of the Autism Spectrum: Observations on Autism in China And Other Countries
Stephen M. Shore, ED.D, Assistant Professor of Special Education, Ruth S. Ammon School, Adelphi University
Harvard Law School, Pound 419, Cambridge
For more information, please see www.hpod.org.
Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Project on Disability
Wednesday, November 18, 4:00 PM
Asia Center Islam in Asia Seminar Series
Twelve Imams and Seven Muhammads: Shrine Culture in Chinese Turkestan
Rian Thum, Cornell University; PhD Candidate, Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Harvard University
CGIS South, Seminar Room S153, 1st Floor, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Reception to follow
For more information, contact the Asia Center at 617-496-6824
Wednesday, November 18, 5:30 – 7:00 PM
New England East Asian Art History Seminar
Speculations on Why Originality Can’t Be a Traditional Chinese Value (When It Is)
Katharine Burnett, associate professor in art history, University of California, Davis
Moderated by Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University
Sponsored by the Rockefeller Fund for East Asian Art, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Sackler Museum, Room 515, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge
Contact: nnaoi@fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, November 19, 7:00 PM
Emergent Visions: New Independent Documentaries
Rumination (Fanchu) 2009
Directed by Xu Ruotao
Discussant: Eugene Yuejin Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010), 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Film description at:
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/EMERGENT%20VISIONS/EV_Rumination.html
Friday, November 20, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
East Asian Legal Studies and the Korea Institute present
How Much Equality (and What Kind) in Korea? Some Cases
Ilhyung Lee, Edward W. Hinton Professor of Law; Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, University of Missouri
Pound Hall, Room 419, Cambridge
Friday, December 4, 1:00 PM
The Headless State: Rethinking Aristocracy and Models of Kinship Society in Inner Asia
David Sneath, Director of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit and Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
CGIS South Building, S250, 1730 Cambridge Street. Room opens at 12:30, presentation begins at 1:00 p.m.
Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lunchtime Lecture
You may bring your own lunch to the seminar room. Snacks will be provided.
Questions? iaas@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-3777.
Tuesday, October 20 -- Friday, November 13, 2009
SAI Exhibit
Visions of Asia: the Art of Abanindranath Tagore and Nandalal Bose
CGIS Knafel Bldg., Fisher Family Commons, 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Contact: sainit@fas.harvard.edu