Advanced Training Programs
The Advanced Training Program is a new initiative undertaken by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, in which a small group of promising young Asian scholars in the humanities and social sciences are selected and brought together at Harvard as visiting scholars or visiting fellows. They work closely with eminent scholars at Harvard and other major universities in the United States, and join academic activities organized by the academic community at large. The program aims to increase scholars' knowledge of new work in their field, and to foster collaborative work as a community.
Specific Programs:
2010
Urban Studies Training Program
This program is sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute, East China Normal University, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the New York University. It will be held at East China Normal University from June 15-25, 2010. Additional details TBA.
2010-2011
Grassroots Society and Popular Culture
Organized by HYI and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
HYI's second training program, co-organized with CASS, was launched in January 2010 with a focus on grassroots society as it relates to politics, economics, religion and culture. This program emphasizes comparative theories of societal change, structure and conflict and offers instruction in alternative methods of field work. The program brought together Chinese students and scholars from different social science disciplines and approaches to create a new network conducive to collaborative comparative research.
As part of the program, HYI and CASS organized a series of lectures by Professor Martin Whyte (Harvard, Sociology), Grzegorz Ekiert (Harvard, Government), Helen Siu (Yale, Anthropology), Lu Xueyi (Sociology, CASS), Zhang Xiaoshan (Economics, CASS), Zhang Jing (Sociology, PKU), Zhao Shukai (Political Science, Rural Development Center), Zhang Letian (Sociology, Fudan) and Zhou Yi (Sociology, Fudan), which took place January 9-18 in Beijing. Later in 2010, up to five qualified program participants may be selected for a 9-month research stay at Harvard or other American university.
2008-2010
Comparative and World Literature Training Program
The first two years of HYI's training program focused on Comparative Literature, led by Professor Stephen Owen in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
