Friday, November 20, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Ethnographic Biography: How the Personal Connects with the Professional
LIU Heng, HYI Coordinate Researcher 2009-2010.
Discussant: Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Please feel free to bring your lunch with you; coffee and beverages will be served.
Sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute
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, November 20, 12:00 PM
East Asian Archaeology Seminar
Scribal Training at Anyang-Paleographic and Archaeological Evidence
Adam Smith, Columbia University
Peabody Museum 14A, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Friday, November 20, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Remembering the Soldiers: The Cultural Reproduction of National Trauma in Japan
Akiko Hashimoto, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Discussion Moderator: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Dept. of Sociology, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Monday, November 23, 12:15 PM
Fairbank Center Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop
The Cure for What Ails You: China's Response to the Financial Crisis and its Effectiveness
Daniel H. Rosen, Principal, Rhodium Group; Adjunct Professor, Columbia University; and Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute of International Economics
Knafel Building, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Talk details at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/POLITICS%20AND%20FOREIGN%20POLICY/CPFP_Rosen.html
Monday, November 23, 4:30 – 6:00 PM
A Comparison of China and India
Yasheng Huang, Professor of International Management International Program Professorship in Chinese Economy and Business, MIT Sloan School of Management
Please sign up at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t3ARxRyCJ2xAC2Dg2NaU0ug&hl=en
China Salon Speaker Series organized by the Harvard Kennedy School China Caucus, supported by KSSG
Harvard Kennedy School, L-230, Cambridge
Monday, November 23, 6:15 PM
Harvard University Asia Center and the South Asia Initiative present:
A Screening of Silent Waters (Khamosh Pani)
Directed by Sabiha Sumar
CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Tsai Auditorium S010, Concourse Level
For more information, contact the Asia Center at 617-496-6824
Tuesday, November 24, 4:15 PM
Fairbank Center Visiting Scholars Presentation
Ponds, Paddies, and Frontier Defense: Hebei in Northern Song China (960-1127)
Ling Zhang, Ziff Environmental Fellow 2009-2010
At the end of the tenth century, the Northern Song government constructed a series of ponds in northern Hebei to thwart invasion from the Liao Dynasty. This strategic body of water dramatically
modified the local environment and brought on profound environmental problems, which played a role in the long-term decline of north China.
CGIS South, Room S153, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
For more about the speaker: http://environment.harvard.edu/about/fellows/ling-zhang
Tuesday, November 24, 4:30 – 6:00 PM
World Expo in Shanghai in 2010
Guiyu Xiao, Deputy Secretary General, Shanghai Municipal People's Government, People's Republic of China
Please sign up at,
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhbUP8hE6gf6dFdQUkFBMnpmTm4zcUdxNTB0ZS1rYkE&hl=en
China Salon Speaker Series organized by the Harvard Kennedy School China Caucus, supported by KSSG
Harvard Kennedy School, L-140, Cambridge
Wednesday, November 25, 7:00 PM
Harvard Law School Japanese Law Film Series: Family and War in Law and Film
Film Screening: Seven Samurai (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1954) with English subtitles
Peripatetic samurai agree to protect an impoverished and beseiged farming community. On the scarcity and sanctity of gratitude and compassion. Starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune, in one of the greatest films ever made. Nominated for two Academy Awards and the Golden Lion in Venice.
Hauser Hall 102, Harvard Law School, 1545 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Tuesday, December 1, 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Special Series on International Relations of East Asia
The United States and Kaji Wataru in Wartime China and Occupied Japan
Erik Esselstrom, Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont
Discussion Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Dept. of History, Harvard University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations presentation co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
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.
Friday, December 4, 4:00 – 5:30 PM
Modernity’s Aesthetic Turn: Art Education and the Nation in Japan and Egypt
Raja Adal, Reischauer Institute postdoctoral fellow (Ph.D. History, Harvard University 2009)
Discussion Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Dept. of History, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University
Porté Room S250, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge
Thursday, December 10, 4:00 PM
The Charles Neuhauser Memorial Lecture
China on the World Stage
Thomas Fingar, Payne Distinguished Lecturer, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
This lecture will challenge conventional wisdom and suggest alternative ways to think about how China’s rise and roles on the world stage are facilitated and constrained by the existing global order, why and how China’s rise—in conjunction with the rise of many other countries—will drive changes in the international order, and why and how the international system is changing China. Thomas Fingar served as the first deputy director of national intelligence for analysis (May 2005 - December 2008) and, concurrently, as chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
Reception follows.
CGIS South Building, Belfer Case Study Room, S020, 1730 Cambridge Street
Talk details at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/Neuhauser%20Lecture.html
Monday, December 14, 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Prime Ministerial Leadership: Japanese Diplomacy under Koizumi and Beyond
Tomihito Shinoda, Professor, International University of Japan
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations presentation
Bowie-Vernon Conference Room K262, CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St., Cambridge