Harvard Worldwide
Speaker: Guanli Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar, 2026-27 Chair/Discussant: Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Research Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, Harvard University
This presentation introduces Mapping Global China, an open-access research initiative that maps and analyzes China’s expanding global presence. Bringing together original datasets, interactive maps, and narrative storytelling, the project examines how Chinese capital, institutions, infrastructure, and other forms of engagement are reshaping places around the world. I will present some of the project’s new tools […]
The 2026 Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture. Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci will discuss her 2024 film Glück auf in Deutschland (Good Luck in Germany), which is featured in her first major exhibition in the United States, here at the Harvard Art Museums. The film examines the construction of postwar German identity in the Ruhrgebiet, a […]
Jung Hyun Kim, PhD, David E. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, presents “From labor market institutions to individual workplaces: Rethinking the health effects of labor market conditions.”
A talk in the Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series, hosted by Victor Seow.
The rat snake (aodaishō, Elaphe climacophora) by far Japan’s most ubiquitous snake, is frequently found inside farm houses and roofs and is widely considered to be a guardian deity of rice. Mountain landslides are referred to as ja-nuke (serpent breakouts). In medieval legends, women transform into terrifying snake-serpents. What is the relationship among these different […]
Four and a half years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, evidence of Russia’s genocidal acts and intent continues to grow. This event will present legal and factual findings of mounting evidence that Russia is committing genocide against Ukrainian nationals.
A book talk and discussion by Kristina Hook, Assistant Professor of Conflict Management, Kennesaw State University.
This presentation will discuss how Ukraine has used nation-branding techniques to engage global publics through promotion and consumption. The analysis will outline three dimensions – consumer choice, identity projects, and transactional practices – which distinguish how contemporary promotion interpellates publics differently from traditional wartime propaganda.
Between 1911 and 1924, the Russian art historian, novelist, essayist, and critic Pavel Muratov (1881-1950) published a dazzling trilogy of travel impressions entitled Obrazy Italii, previously untranslated but now rendered into English by Lena Lenček under the title Evocations of Italy (Northwestern University Press, 2026). At once erudite and lyrical, philosophical and practical, historical and […]