2017 - 2019 REPORT
Global Multi-Year Partnerships
Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI)
The Institute’s collaboration with the Harvard-Yenching Institute started some years back when Prof. Elizabeth Perry (Director of HYI) became an advisor of the Institute. In the years that followed, the Institute partnered with HYI to co-organize three training workshops in Beijing and Shanghai for graduate students and junior faculty members from Hong Kong, China, elsewhere in Asia, and the United States. In 2011, the Institute teamed up with HYI and another long-term partner, East China Normal University (ECNU) to organize a three-year training program called “Urban Studies and the China Experience.” Workshops and conferences were organized at ECNU and Yale in the following years, and received great acclaim from participants and partners. In 2015 and 2016, the Institute was in collaboration with HYI, Peking University and Nankai University to organize two successful advanced training workshops, “Humanities, Social Sciences and Medicine in East Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches,” for graduate students and junior faculty members in the field of humanities, social sciences and medicine. The two workshops trained some 40 participants, of whom a small number of outstanding individuals were selected to spend a year in residency as visiting scholars at HYI.
The Institute and HYI decided to launch a publication workshop for selected alumni of the training program in 2015 and 2016. Scheduled to be held in the summer of 2020, this publication workshop will help young Asian scholars in the field of history of science, technology and medicine (STM) to prepare for publication.