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Sabira Qureshi
Independent Development Consultant
The Multiple Identities of Muslim Women: Examples from Pakistan
12:30 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street
Friday, March 9
Professor James Fox
Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor, Resource Management, Asia-Pacific Program, The Australian National University
The Course of Avian Flu in Indonesia: Implications and Possibilities
12:30 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level , 1730 Cambridge Street
Friday, March 16
Professor Thomas Schroepfer
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Globalization and Design Practice in Asia
12:30 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level , 1730 Cambridge Street
Friday, April 20
Professor Charlotte Ikels
Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
Bioethics in China Today: The View from the Top
12:30 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street
Tuesday, April 24
The Future of American Power in Asia
Kurt Campbell
CEO and Co-Founder, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
Dr. William H. Overholt
Director, Center for Asia Pacific Policy, Rand Corporation
12:30 p.m. CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room, S020, Concourse Level
Co-Sponsored by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations
Friday, May 4
Democratic Process in Tibetan Society
Tenzin Norbu
Under Secretary, Tibetan Parliamentary Secretariat
Dharamsala, India
12: 30 p.m. CGIS South, Seminar Room S153
Co-Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
Friday, September 29
The Honorable Jaswant Singh
Former Indian Minister of External Affairs
Former Indian Minister of Finance
Senior Fellow, Harvard Asia Center
India's Relations with the Rest of Asia
CGIS South, Concourse Level Seminar Room 050
Co-sponsored with the South Asia Initiative
Wednesday, October 20
Ajmal M. Qureshi
Former Resident Representative of the United Nations
Food and Agricultural Organization in China, North Korea, Mongolia and Uganda
Senior Fellow, Harvard Asia Center
A Decade of Food Insecurity in North Korea
CGIS South, Concourse Level Seminar Room 050
Friday, November 17
Professor Soumodip Sarkar
Department of Business, Universidade de Evora, Portugal
Metamorphoses: An Integrated Model of Outsourcing from Asia
CGIS South, Concourse Level Seminar Room 050
Friday, December 1
Professor Gerald Figal
Department of History, Vanderbilt University
War and Bases under the Tourist Gaze in Postwar Okinawa
CGIS South, Concourse Level Seminar Room 050
Co-sponsored with the Reischauer Institute
Friday, September 30
Ian Buruma
Author and Journalist
The Politics of Memory in China and Japan
12:30 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street
Friday, October 7
Dr. Lincoln Chen, Director, Global Equity Initiative
The Tsunami and Katrina: Unmasking Problems And Opportunities
12:30 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)
Friday, October 28
Joan Kaufman
Director, HIV/AIDS Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government
Professor Jing Jun
Director, Social Policy Research Institute, Tsinghua University
AIDS in China
12:30 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level , 1730 Cambridge Street
Thursday, November 17
Professor Julia F. Andrews
Department of History of Art , Ohio State University, Author of Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China , 1949-1979
Joan Lebold Cohen
Associate in Research, Fairbank Center , Harvard University, Author of Yunnan School : A Renaissance in Chinese Painting
Dr. Musya Glants
Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Dr. Pamela Kachurin
Associate Director, NRC for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University
Contemporary Art and Social Change in China and Russia : Panel Discussion
3:30 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street
Co-Sponsored with the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Friday, December 2
Professor Ezra F. Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus, Harvard University
Professor Margarita Estevez-Abe
Department of Government, Harvard University ; Joy Foundation Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Takashi Oshima
Reporter, The Asahi Shimbun; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
The Japanese Lower House Election: Domestic and Regional Implications
12:15 PM , CGIS South, Seminar Room 050, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street
Friday, February 11
Nasim Zehra
Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Columnist/Analyst on national and international
security issues
Pakistan-India Peace Process: A Preliminary
Assessment
12:30 PM, Semniar Room 1, 625 Mass Ave.,
Cambridge
Friday, February 25
The Honorable Thomas Hubbard
Former Ambassador to Korea
Challenges on the Korean Peninsula
Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute
12:30 PM, 625 Mass Ave, Cambridge
Friday, March 4
Nicholas Eberstadt
Scholar, American Entreprise Institute
The Global War against Baby Girls: An Update on
the Asian Front
12:30 PM, 625 Mass Ave., Cambridge
Friday, April 8
Panel on Tibet
Friday, April 29
Mun S. Ho
Fellow, Center for Business and Government, KSG
Chris P. Nielsen
Executive Director, China Project, HUCE
Reconciling China's Economic Development with Protection of Local Air Quality and Global Climate
12:30 PM, 625 Mass Ave., Cambridge
October 8
Professor Merle Goldman
Professor Emerita of History, Boston University
Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
From Comrade to Citizen:
The Struggle for Political Rights in China
October 22
Kiran Bedi
Civilian Police Advisor, UN Department
of Peacekeeping Operations
Former Special Commissioner (Intelligence) Delhi Police
Keeping Security to Creating Security
November 5
The Honorable Franklin P. Huddle, Jr.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Tajikistan
Tajikistan, China, Russia and the U.S.:
Silk Road Politics after 9/11
November 19
Carol Yost
Director, Women's Programs
The Asia Foundation
Trafficking in Persons in Asia: Slavery in the 21st Century
December 3
Professor Merry White
Department of Anthropology, Boston University
Associate, Reischauer Institute
Development from the Grounds Up: Coffee for Schools in Rural Cambodia
February 5, 2004
Eamonn Fingleton
Author of Unsustainable: How Economic Dogma is Destroying American Prosperity
The New Economy and the Future of Manufacturing
Cosponsored with the Reischauer Institute and Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Forum
March 12 , 2004
Professor Arthur Kleinman
Chair, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Medical Anthropology
Stigma, SARS and AIDS in China
April 9 , 2004
Dr. Barnett Rubin
Center on International Cooperation New York University
Sustainable Security in Afghanistan
April 23 , 2004
Dr. Anne Thurston
Associate Professor of China Studies, SAIS
Author of Muddling Toward Democracy: Political Change in Gross Roots China
Project Hope and NGOs in China
May 3 , 2004
Professor Gavan McCormack
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Difficult Neighbors: Japan, North Korea and the Quest for a New East Asian Order
Cosponsored with the Korea Institute
Asia Center/Asia Society Fellows
Ning Ying, China
Pankaj Rishi Kumar, India
Indian and Chinese Filmmaking
November 7, 2003
Dr. Marcus Noland
Senior Fellow
Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.
Famine and Reform in North Korea
October 24, 2003
Erik Eckholm
Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
Former New York Times Bureau Chief, Beijing, PRC
China: Reflections on Stability and Human Rights
October 10, 2003
John Kenneth Knaus
Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
Author of Orphans of the Cold War
America's Contribution to the Tibetans' Struggle for Survival
May 2, 2003
The Honorable Farooq Sobhan
President, Bangladesh Enterprise Institute
Former Ambassador to China and the United Nations
"South Asia: The Most Dangerous Place on Earth?"
April 18, 2003
Dr. Susan Bayly
Centre of South Asian Studies and Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
Conceptualizing from Within: Theories and Representations of Modernist Religion in India and Vietnam
April 4, 2003
The Honorable Joseph W. Prueher
Former Ambassador to the People's Republic of China , Admiral USN (Ret.)
China: Swords to Ploughshares
February 28, 2003
Dr. Lincoln Chen
Director, Global Equity Program, Kennedy School of Government
Human Development in India and China : Comparative Analysis of Two Asian Giants
February 14, 2003
John Kamm
Executive Director, The Dui Hua Foundation
Political Prisoners and U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy in China
October 4, 2002
Professor Kenneth L. Pomeranz
Department of History, University of California , Irvine
Is China in East Asia? Long Term Development Paths in Comparative Perspective
Cosponsored with the Economic History Workshop
September 27, 2002
Admiral Hideaki Kaneda
Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Former Senior Research Advisor, National Security, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc
New Frontiers for U.S.-Japan Security Relations
Cosponsored with the U.S.-Japan Program
February 15, 2002
Dean Stephen Bosworth
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Former Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
North Korea after September 11
Cosponsored with the Korea Institute
February 2, 2001
Professor Robert Paarlberg
Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
Asia 's Response to Genetically Modified Food
September 29
Professor AnnaLee Saxenian
Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California at Berkeley
Brain Drain or Brain Circulation? The Silicon Valley-Asia Connection
October 6
The Honorable Ashton B. Carter
Ford Foundation Professor of Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Co-Director, Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense Project
Fostering Stability on the Korean Peninsula
November 3
Dr. Dai Sil Kim-Gibson
Independent Documentary Filmmaker
Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women
Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute
February 11
Professor Yasheng Huang
Harvard Business School
Why is Foreign Direct Investment Too Much of a Good Thing for China?
February 18, 2000
Major General Noboru Yamaguchi
Defense and Military Attaché
Embassy of Japan , Washington , D.C.
U.S.-Korea-Japan Security Cooperation: Opportunities, Challenges and Tasks
March 3, 2000
Yumiko Mikanagi
Visiting Scholar, Reischauer Institute; Professor of Political Science, International Christian University , Tokyo
Politics of Women and Work in Japan
April 14, 2000
Professor Nancy Tucker
Professor of History
Georgetown University
Playing with Fire: Relations between China, Taiwan and the United States
May 5, 2000
Professor Ezra F. Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University
Globalization of East Asia: Touring the Horizon
October 15, 1999
Professor Anthony Saich
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Negotiating the State: The Development of Social Organizations in China
December 10, 1999
Professor Evelyn Rawksi
Department of History, University of Pittsburgh; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
The Ancestral Gaze: Portrait Traditions in East Asia
March 5, 1999
Douglas Paal
President, Asia Pacific Policy Center
Political, Economic, and Strategic Trends in East Asia
March 26, 1999
John Holden
President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
China's Modernization: The Role of Competition
April 9, 1999
Amitav Acharya
Associate Professor, York University
Realism, Institutionalism, and the Asian Economic Crisis