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Asia Center Announcements
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The Asia Center's Research
Talks Series is part of a new series of virtual programs at the Harvard Asia Center aimed at showcasing some of the fascinating work being done on various facets of Asia by Harvard students, graduate students, faculty, Asia Center affiliates, and other
specialists.
The most recent installment of the Research Talks series is
"In
the Hands of the Revolutionaries and Communities: A Social History of Acupuncture,"
a two-part video series by Eana Meng, an MPhil Student at University of Cambridge, UK and a former Harvard student.
Eana Meng is a historian of medicine and a physician in training. Her research has traced the little-known histories of the Black Panther Party's use of acupuncture since the 1970s and the legacies that emerge from them, which include an ear
acupuncture detoxification (NADA) protocol currently used around the world. She is interested in the hidden histories that sit at the intersection of radical politics of health, integrative/alternative healing modalities, community healthcare, the opioid crisis
and pain, and crucial dimensions of race, gender, and class. She runs a blog at ofpartandparcel.com.
Meng will be joining Harvard’s MD-PhD in the History of Science program next year.
Watch the trailer and the first part of the two-part series, titled "Black Panther Party & Acupuncture? A History of Integrative Medicine" here.
The second part of Meng’s video series titled "'It’s First Aid!': Tracing the Global Transmission of a Five-Point Ear Acupuncture Treatment" will be released next week.
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Asia Center Associate
Adhira Mangalagiri Publishes Article in Economic and Political Weekly
Asia Center Associate and former Victor and William Fung Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020) Dr. Adhira Mangalagiri recently published in
Economic and Political Weekly the article A
Donkey’s Wisdom: Can Literature Help Us Respond to the China–India Border Clash?
From the abstract:
"The recent clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley has unleashed a new wave of anti-China sentiment and violent rhetoric in India. Can literature help us respond to the China–India border clash more ethically? Krishan Chander’s 1964
novel Ek Gadha Nefa Mein ( A Donkey in NEFA), based on the 1962 China–India border conflict, offers a way of denouncing the destruction of war without leaving unquestioned the inherently violent task of drawing and defending national borders.
The satirical novel tells the story of its protagonist, a talking donkey, caught in the front-lines of Tawang, and bearing witness to the atrocities of war. Through his witty and wise donkey, Chander challenges us to shift the terms of our outrage beyond national
categories and to stand instead on the side of a humanism that knows no national borders."
Read Dr. Mangalagiri's article
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The findings of the article entitled
"Land Use and Land Cover Changes along the China-Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipelines – Monitoring Infrastructure Development in Remote Conflict-prone Regions," published by Asia Center Research Fellow Dr. Thiri Shwesin Aung in
PLOS ONE, concluded that whilst substantial forest areas were lost along the pipelines, this is only part of the story, as afforestation has also happened in parallel. However, afforestation areas can be of a lower value, and in order to be able to
take the quality of forests into account, it is of crucial importance to accompany satellite-imagery based techniques with field observation. Findings have important implications for future infrastructure development projects in conflict-affected regions in
Myanmar and elsewhere.
Read Dr. Thiri's article
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The Asia Center reaffirms its unambiguous commitment to the policy and practice of zero tolerance of sexual harassment, gender-based disparity of treatment, and other forms of discrimination. View
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Asia Center Events This Week |
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Please visit our Events
Calendar for future Asia Center events and other Asia-related events across Harvard.
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ASIA CENTER VIRTUAL EVENTS
ASIA
CENTER RESEARCH TALKS SERIES: Eana Meng '19 on In the Hands of the Revolutionaries and Communities: A Social History of Acupuncture
Eana Meng '19, MPhil Student, University of Cambridge, UK
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Here
Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center
ASIA
CENTER RESEARCH TALKS SERIES: Kaitlin Hao '21 on Making Space: Five Contemporary Artists
Kaitlin Hao '21, Harvard College
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Here
Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center
ASIA
CENTER RESEARCH TALKS SERIES: Dr. Thiri Shwesin Aung on
The Impact of Natural Resources Extraction on the Ethnic Armed Conflicts, the Environment and Livelihood in Conflict-Affected Areas in Myanmar
Thiri
Shwesin Aung, Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center; Principle Researcher, Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
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Here
Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center
ASIA
CENTER RESEARCH TALKS SERIES: Jannis Jizhou Chen on "The Literature of Things: The Mansion of Secluded Books, Shu Yin Lou"
Jannis
Jizhou Chen, Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature, Harvard University
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Here
Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center
ASIA
CENTER RESEARCH TALKS SERIES: Dr. Chun Sheng Goh on "Transforming Borneo: From Land Exploitation to Sustainable Development."
Chun
Sheng Goh, Research Fellow, Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Sunway University; Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
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Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center
ASIA
CENTER AUTHOR CONVERSATIONS SERIES: A Conversation with Richard Jaffe on Seeking
Úâkyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
Richard
Jaffe, Director of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute and Professor of Buddhist Studies, Duke University
Charles
Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures, Harvard University
James
Robson, James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University
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Produced by the Harvard University Asia Center
ELEGY
TO A UYGHUR DREAMSCAPE
Photographs by Lisa Ross
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Sponsored by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Harvard Asia Center Arts Initiative; with support from the Provostial Fund Committee, Office of the Dean
of Arts and Humanities
THREAD
Interactive Virtual Exhibit on Rohingya Arts
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Sponsored by the Liberation War Museum and the Harvard University Asia Center
ASIA CENTER ARCHIVED EXHIBITS
SHADOWS
OF SHANGRI LA: NEPAL IN PHOTOGRAPHS 1975-2011
Photographs by Kevin Bubriski, Documentary Photographer; 2010-2011 Robert Gardner Visiting Artist, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
Curated by Bettina Burch
May 22 to September 30, 2014
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Sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard University
Asia Center
MAPPING
ASIA: AN EXHIBITION OF SELECTED MAPS FROM THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS
February 15 to April 14, 2017
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Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center with support from the Provostial Funds Committee,
Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, and with special thanks to the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard-Yenching Library
ASIA
INSECTA
Exhibition by Nathan Vedal Ph.D. ‘17
Summer 2017
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Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
MAGNIFICENT
TREES OF ASIA
January-March 2018
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Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
LIFE
IN SINGAPORE: VIEWS FROM MIGRANT WORKERS
Virtual Exhibit
Exhibition by Yong Han Poh '20
January-February 2020
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Sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Asia Center, and Mahindra Humanities Center. It was also supported by local migrant arts groups in Singapore, including the Migrant Workers Photography Festival and Migrant Writers
of Singapore.
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