Asia Bulletin: Upcoming Asia-Related Events 3/10/2012 ? 3/25/2012
Monday, March 19 - 4:00 pm
South Asia Initiative Pakistan Seminar Series
Thinking with the Heart: A Language of Justice after the 1971 War of Bangladesh
Yasmin Saikia, Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies, Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict; Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Chair: Asad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Room K262, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Co-Sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
Monday, March 19, 4:00 p.m.
Korea Cin?math?que: ?Korea Uncut: Beyond the Facade?
?Dear Pyongyang? (2005) // by director Yang Yong-Hi
Chaired byNicholas Harkness, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
Port? Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Tuesday, March 20, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Qadi Justice in Chinese Courts: The Bureaucratization of Islamic Procedural Justice in the PRC
Matthew Erie, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Department, Cornell University
The Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall, Room 308
Tuesday, March 20, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m.
Origins of Japan?s Electric Power and the Fukushima Disaster: A Historical Perspective
Takeo Kikkawa, Professor of Japanese Business History, Hitotsubashi University
Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan presentation co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel Bldg., 1737 Cambridge St.
Tuesday, March 20, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Hiroshima, The Geneva of Asia?
Osamu Yoshida, Professor and Chair, Hiroshima University Partnership Project for Peace Building and Capacity Development (HiPeC)
Weatherhead Center Fellows Program presentation co-sponsored by the Reischauer Institute
Porte Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Tuesday, March 20, 4:15 pm
Fairbank Center Special Lecture
Ideas of the University in Contemporary China: A Critical Review
Tong Shijun, East China Normal University
For more details, go to: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/tong-shijun
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
Wednesday, March 21, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Organizing in China: Communist Party of China, NGOs and Beyond
Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University
Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy; Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Anthony Saich, Daewood Professor of International Affairs; Director, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Webcast: http://hausercenter.harvard.edu/1077/nonprofits-in-china-seminar/
Bell Hall (5th floor), Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge
Co-sponsored by Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and Ash Center
Wednesday, March 21, 12:00 p.m.
East Asian Archaeology Seminar (co-organized by the Harvard Archaeology Program Seminar Series)
The Beginning of Agriculture in China
Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University
Putnam Laboratory, Peabody Museum Room 5, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge
Wednesday, March 21, 4:10 - 5:30 p.m.
An Inside Job: Indonesia?s Path to Constitutional Democracy
Donald Horowitz, Duke University
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 200-North
Wednesday, March 21, 4:15 pm
Talk title: ????????????
Please note: talk will be in Chinese
Prof. Dai Jinhua, Peking University
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge St.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
http://www.harvard-yenching.org/upcoming
Wednesday, March 21, 4:30 p.m.
Early Korea Project (co-sponsored by the East Asian Archaeology Seminar)
Ancient Korean Mokkan: Focusing on its Features and Uses
Changseok Kim, Professor,Department of History Education, Kangwon National University; Visiting Scholar, Korea Institute, Harvard University
Chaired byMark Byington, Project Director, Early Korea Project, Harvard University
Port? Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Wednesday, March 21, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Coping Strategies of Indonesian Humanitarian Volunteers: Personal, Organizational, Cultural, and Policy Dimensions
Maria Nelden Djakababa, HKS Indonesia Research Fellow
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106
Thursday, March 22, 4:15 pm
Fairbank Center Research Workshop
Death and Destruction in Anhui Province: The Social and Political Origins of the Great Leap Forward Famine
Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., Professor of Politics, Brandeis University,
Lu Huilin, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Beida Oral History Research Institute, Beijing University
Sun Feiyu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Beijing University
For more details, go to: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/death-and-destruction-anhui-province-social-and-political-origins-great-leap-forward-
CGIS South, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University
Friday, March 23, 12:00 p.m.
Religious Identities in Asia Seminar Series
Co-sponsored by the Asia Center, the Center for the Study of World Religions and the Korea Institute
How Does a Sacred Thing Become an Antique Market Commodity? - The Case of Korean Shaman Paintings
Laurel M. Kendall, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Chaired by Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Victor and William Fung Director, Asia Center, Harvard University
Room S153, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
Friday, March 23, 12:15 pm
Fairbank Center Chinese Religions Seminar
Belief in Song Religion: ?Writings from Longshu on the Pure Land? (Longshu jingtu wen ?????)
Robert Hymes, Columbia University
For more details, go to: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/robert-hymes
CGIS South, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room (S030), 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
Friday, March 23, 4:00 pm
South Asian Initiative South Asia without Borders Seminar Series
Faith, Loyalty, Status: Mughal-era perspectives on elite Rajput conversions to Islam
Ramya Srinivasan, Associate Professor, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
Room S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA
Co-Sponsored by the Department of South Asian Studies
Friday, March 23, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Law and Techne: The Stenographic Typewriter and Postwar Legal Reform in Japan
Miyako Inoue, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Moderator: Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies, and Chair, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
Reischauer Institute Japan Forum presentation
Porte Room (S250), CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St.
Friday, March 23, 4:15 pm
Fairbank Center Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy Workshop
Greenpeace in China: The Emergence of Autonomous Civil Society in Authoritarian Regimes
Jessica C. Teets, Middlebury College
For more details, go to: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/node/6370/edit?destination=node%2F6370
CGIS North, Room K262, 1737 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
Friday, March 23
6:00 pm
Parallel Connections: Music and Dance in South Asia Reception and Exhibition
Visual Arts: Pragati Sharma, Jyoti Joshi, Don Perrault, and Sunanda Sahay
Music: Warren Senders
Dance: Ranjani Saigal
CGIS Knafel Concourse, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
7:00 p.m.
Panel Discussion Welcome Remarks: Parimal Patil, Professor of Religion and Indian Philosophy; Chair of the Department of South Asian Studies
Chair: Laura Weinstein, Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian Art and Islamic Art, Museum of Arts, Boston
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge
Co-Sponsored by the South Asia Initiative, LearnQuest, and the Government of Orissa, India
Friday, March 23, 6:30 pm
Fairbank Center Emergent Visions: New Independent Documentaries
Remembering the Great Leap Famine: Two Documentaries from the Post-1980s Generation
For more details, go to: http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/emergent-visions-famine
CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Room (S020), 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University
Sunday, March 25, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
A South Indian Classical (Karnatak) vocal concert
Suhas Rao (vocal)
Rasika Murali (violin)
Umayalpuram Mali (mridangam)
Paine Hall
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