Upcoming Events
For upcoming HYI-sponsored events taking place outside of the Boston area, please click here.
A Study of the Interchange of 5th-7th Century East Asian Gilt Bronze Buddhist Sculptures
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Korea Institute
A talk by Prof. Yang Eun Gyeng (Archaeology, Pusan National University;
HYI Visiting
Scholar 2011-12)
Date: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Time:
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity
Ave.,
Harvard University
Forest or Not? Contentious Discourse on Expansive Oil Palm Plantations in Southeast Asia
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program
A talk by Prof. Okamoto Masaaki (Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)
Discussants: Deborah Gewertz (G. Henry Whitcomb Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College) and Frederick K. Errington (Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus at Trinity College
Date: Friday, March 30, 2012
Time:
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.,
Harvard University
This talk will focus on the contentious discourse regarding the rapid expansion of oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia. With the rapid rise in global demand for Crude Palm Oil (CPO) as the cheapest vegetable oil, oil palm plantations are sometimes devastatingly causing deforestation in Southeast Asia. CPO is used not only for cooking oil, but also for various usages including bio-diesel. This has sparked serious debates between pro-expansion (the government and business sector) and anti-expansion groups (environmental NGOs and indigenous communities). The Indonesian government and business sector shrewdly moved to define plantations as forests, so that the expansion of oil palm plantations is no longer deforestation but rather "re"forestation. If a REDD++ scheme is implemented, plantations could even obtain carbon credit as forests.
Of course, global NGOs are harshly criticizing this movement and the contention is becoming sharper and sharper, as CPO is very lucrative for the government and business sectors in Indonesia, while NGOs view the movement as environmentally devastating. This talk will cover the development of this contentious discourse and present the emergence of a strange but positive dynamic equilibrium or consensus among stakeholders.
Lin Chen-Kuo Talk - Title TBA
Lin Chen-Kuo
Date:
Monday, April 2, 2012
Time:
4:00 pm
Location: Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.,
Harvard University
A Re-study of the Daoguang Depression
Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
A talk by Prof. Ni Yuping (History, Beijing Normal University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)
Date:
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Time:
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.,
Harvard University
Talk title TBA
A talk by Prof. Won Jaeyoun (Sociology, Yonsei University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)
Date:
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Time:
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.,
Harvard University
Torts in China
Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
A talk by Prof. Zhu Yan (Law School, Renmin University of China; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)
Date:
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Time:
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.,
Harvard University
China's Urban Political Culture in Comparative Perspective
Date:
May 4-5, 2012
Location: Harvard University
A workshop organized by East China Normal University, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Talk title TBA
Co-sponsored by Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
A talk by Prof. Zhang Weiran (Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University; HYI Visiting Scholar 2011-12)
Date:
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Time:
12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Yenching Common Room, 2 Divinity Ave.,
Harvard University
