LRCCS and Asia Library Deep Dive Lecture | Localist Turns: A Data-Driven Approach to Chinese Local History
Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
The “Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies” series is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese...
International Institute Conference on Migration
Featuring local and international experts on migration
Presented by the International Institute area studies centers: African Studies Center, Armenian Studies Program, Center for Middle...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Language of Emotion: Chinese Translations of the Buddhist Terminology of Sense Perception and Desire in the Han and Three Kingdoms Period (ca. 150-280 CE)
Eric Greene, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
This talk is a preliminary investigation into a large set of sources pertaining to the some of the first encounters between Indian Buddhist...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land of Ghosts: Rediscovering King Hu’s "Legend of the Mountain"
Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture Studies; Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Best known for his classic martial arts films like "A Touch of Zen" and "Come Drink with Me," King Hu (1932-1997) was...
Grace Lin Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing
Lamstein Children's Literature Lecture
Before Grace Lin was an award-winning and NY Times bestselling author/illustrator of picturebooks, early readers and middle grade novels,...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liberalism, Nationalism, and Paths Out of Reforms: A Comparison of Late-Qing China and 19th Century Germany
Iza Ding, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh; WCED Visiting Associate, 2019-2020; U-M Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science, 2019-2020
What are the conditions under which liberalism as “rational centrist reformism” fails to obtain its goals without succumbing to the...
Jenny Zhang Reading & Book Signing
Zell Visiting Writer in Fiction
Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Oral history and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet
Charlene Makley, Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province)...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing a China: Nationalism and Culture in Modern History
Wen Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
During the past three decades, China has witnessed an enormous growth of intellectual interest in defining a Chinese cultural identity. At...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Dui yang 對揚, or ‘Responsive Exaltation:’ Performative Dimensions of Court Speech and Civil Examinations in the Early Tang
Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures University of California, Berkeley
The phrase dui yang 對揚 (roughly, “responsively exalt”) is a ubiquitous formula in Zhou bronze inscriptions, evoking a symbiotic...
Globally Engaged Career Panel
Students and community members interested in globally-engaged career paths will gain new perspectives and job search insights from this...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Paying for China’s Urbanization: Land Finance and Its Impact
Weiping Wu, Professor and Director, Urban Planning Program; School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University
At the center of China’s rapid urbanization is land: land leasing provides both current revenue and collateral for future revenue streams....
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Publics, Scientists, and the State: Mapping the Global Human Genome Editing Controversy
Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
This talk examines the unfolding controversy surrounding human genome editing in and across China’s national public sphere and national...
International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception
Graduation ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students affiliated with the African Studies Center; Center for European Studies; Center...
