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East Asian Programs Graduate Reunion

The faculty of Harvard University's East Asian programs and the Graduate School Alumni Association warmly invite you to the

East Asian Programs Graduate Reunion
April 9, 2010

Click here to download the registration form! (See below for registration details.)

 

Schedule of Events

Registration | 11:45 a.m.
Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street

Opening Luncheon | 12:30 p.m.

Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street

featuring remarks by

Henry Rosovsky, PhD ’59, economics; Louis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus

William Kirby, PhD ’81, history; T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies; Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Introduction by Arthur Kleinman, Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center; Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor
of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Breakout Panels | 2 p.m.

CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street

I. The Asian Century: Where is Democracy? | Room S250

Moderator: Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics; Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Panelists:

Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute

Toshiaki Miura, Editorial Writer, The Asahi Shimbun

Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History

II. Arts and Culture: What’s Old is New Again | Room S450

Moderator: Melissa McCormick, Professor of Japanese Art and Culture

Panelists:

Karen Thornber, PhD ’06, East Asian Languages and Civilizations; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor

Eugene Wang, PhD ’97, history of art and architecture; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art

III. Health, Medicine, and Food: How East Treats West | Room S001

Moderator: Arthur Kleinman, Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center; Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Panelists:

Ichiro Kawachi, Professor of Social Epidemiology

Michael Puett, Professor of Chinese History

Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History

Refreshments | 3:30 p.m.

CGIS South concourse (outside Tsai Auditorium)

Dateline: Asia | 4 p.m.

Tsai Auditorium

A roundtable discussion of economics, policy, society, and culture in contemporary Asia, by the journalists who cover it.

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Moderated by Xiaofei Tian, PhD ’98, comparative literature; Chair of the Regional Studies-East Asia Program and Professor of Chinese Literature; and Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science

Gady Epstein, Beijing Bureau Chief, Forbes Magazine (Twitter)

Joseph Kahn, Deputy Foreign Editor, New York Times

Evan Osnos, China Correspondent, The New Yorker (Twitter)

 

Reception  | 5:30–6:30 p.m.

CGIS South concourse (outside Tsai Auditorium)

featuring remarks by:

Jack Reardon, Executive Director of the Harvard Alumni Association

Dinner Celebration  | 7 p.m.

Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street

featuring remarks by:

Xiaofei Tian, PhD ’98, comparative literature; Chair of the Regional Studies-East Asia Program and Professor of Chinese Literature

Allan Brandt, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of the History of Science

 

Registration Details

Please complete the East Asian Reunion registration form and return it by April 1, 2010. An acknowledgment will be e-mailed once we receive your registration.

(Please complete the separate Alumni Day registration form if you plan to attend that event.)

Lodging

Harvard Square Hotel
Special guest room rate of $170.00 for April 8-10, 2010. All guests rooms are subject to a 14.45% tax (state and city tax). Rooms are based on availability. To reserve, please call the reservation department at 617-491-2222 and refer to the group GSAS Alumni Day or group code 284497.

The Inn at Harvard
Special guest room rate of $220.00 for April 8-10, 2010. All guests rooms are subject to a 14.45% tax (state and city tax). Rooms are based on availability. To reserve, please call the reservation department at 617-491-2222 and refer to the group GSAS Alumni Day or group code 284495.

Parking

Parking is available on the day of the event in the Broadway Garage on the corner of Broadway and Felton Street in Cambridge. Please tell the attendant that you are parking for GSAS Alumni Day.

Questions

Questions may be directed to the Harvard Graduate School Alumni Association at 617-495-5591 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .