IAAS Lecture Series Academic Year 2020-21

Previous Events, Spring 2021 virtual IAAS Lectures:

April 7, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET    The Invisible Outsider: Non-Chinese "Chinese" Art in the Harvard Art Museums    Abstract Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Harvard Art Museum   February 3, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET  Settler Nativization in the Inner Eurasian Borderlands of the Qing and Russian Empires   Abstract Wei-chieh Tsai, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Shenzhen University   March 3, 2021, at 1:15 pm ET   Scientific Exchange at the Courts of Mehmed II and Bayezid II   Abstract                   Robert Morrison, Professor and Chair, Department of Religion, Bowdoin College  

Previous Events, Fall 2020 virtual IAAS Lectures:

September 16, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET The Secret Life of a Turkic Lexeme: Grammaticalization in Modern Uyghur  Abstract and Bio Dr. Gülnar Eziz, Preceptor in Uyghur and Chaghatay Languages, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
October 7, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET  A Tangle of Hair-Knots: Uṣṇīṣa Buddhas and Intertextuality in Early Tibet   Abstract Prof. Jacob Dalton, Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism, UC Berkeley   November 4, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET  The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis   Abstract Prof. Arienne Dwyer, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas   December 2, 2020, at 1:15 PM ET Smallpox Against Itself: Exploring the History of Inoculation in Tibet Abstract Dr. Lobsang Yongdan, Research Fellow, University of Bonn