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Taiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested–and possibly broken. Beijing believes that “reunification” is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in U.S. strategy and is working to squeeze, isolate, and coerce Taiwan […]
This Worldwide Week, the Harvard University Africa Office is screening an exclusive abridged version of the new documentary series, The Trials of Winnie Mandela – a Netflix feature sizzling through Africa and igniting conversations about African women leaders in politics. After the film join us for a panel discussion featuring the granddaughter of Winnie and […]
Harvard, 1959: red brick, tradition – and suddenly, Le Corbusier. The Stranger at Harvard tells the remarkable story of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, and of Josep Lluís Sert, the Spanish architect in exile and Harvard GSD dean who helped bring it into existence. Combining an […]
In today’s global academic and professional environments, the ability to navigate cultural differences is essential for effective collaboration. This interactive workshop explores how cultural values and communication patterns may influence teamwork, leadership, feedback, trust, decision-making, disagreement, and responses to uncertainty. Using Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and Erin Meyer’s Culture Map as practical lenses rather than fixed […]
Please join Professor Rui Yang, Dean of Hong Kong University and Chen Yidan Visiting Global Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, for this conversation with HGSE faculty Fernando Reimers and Liao Cheng. Professor Yang is an internationally recognized leader in Chinese higher education systems, and how Chinese intellectual traditions shape education globally. Lunch […]
Now an unwillingly conscripted soldier of the Imperial Army, Kaji must battle on simultaneous fronts: against both the combat enemy and the commanding officers who invent ever more extreme punishments for his unwillingness to surrender his outspoken leftist beliefs. Nakadai’s incredible range is revealed as he draws deep from a corporeal expressivity not seen in […]
The first part of The Human Condition follows Nakadai Tatsuya as Kaji, a pacifist technocrat who naively signs a devil’s contract by accepting an unlikely post as supervisor of forced laborers in a remote Manchukuo mine in exchange for promised exception from military conscription. Newly-wed, Kaji is accompanied by his devoted bride—played with ardent intensity […]
Join the Harvard Center for International Development for a conversation with Professor Adnan Khan, Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of the Executive MPA/MPP Program at the London School of Economics and Political Science. With more than three decades of experience spanning government, academia, and international development, Professor Khan brings a rare perspective on how […]
Theodore Hughes crosses borders to demonstrate how stories of dying and death―what he calls the thanatographic imagination―in North Korea, the United States, and South Korea energize ideas about history, the present, and the future. What meanings are attached to deaths in a so-called “limited war” that turned out to be limitless? What does the 1953 […]
Presentation by Sanele Ntshingana, Mandela Fellow of the Hutchins Center, at the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Weekly Colloquium Series. Ntshingana’s project traces how isiXhosa-speaking intellectuals, thinkers, and activists from 1838 to 1938 conceptualized political authority using vernacular concepts such as umbuso and umthetho during a period of intense social and political […]