Wednesday, September 2, 2026 2 PM – 3:30 PM Dahod Family Alumni Center at the Castle, 225 Bay State Road, Boston MA Please register here. As elsewhere, countries in Asia have experienced increasingly polarized domestic politics alongside growing geopolitical tensions. How do Asian states—authoritarian and democratic, large and small—respond to these two power plays […]
Wednesday, Sep 9, 2026, 6 PM – 7:30 PM 808 Commonwealth Ave., Brookline MA Please register here. The HTC Reception to Celebrate Asian Community 2026 Celebrate the diaspora at the Howard Thurman Center with desserts, music, and fun! The Howard Thurman Center invites the entire Boston University community to a celebration of […]
Thursday, Sep 17, 2026 4:00 –5:30 PM 121 Bay State Road, Boston MA Please register here. Join us for the China and the Global Economic Order (2025) book talk. Authors Gregory T. Chin and Kevin P. Gallagher trace how China has transformed its role within and outside of the Bretton Woods Institutions, from a […]
Tuesday, Sep 29, 2026 4:30pm-6pm 121 Bay State Road, Boston Please register here. This discussion will examine how modern state-building fragmented the Gulf and Indian Ocean’s pre-modern cosmopolitanism. Speakers will trace the Kingdom of Hormuz, historical cross-Gulf migrations between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Speakers: Houchang E. Chehabi is Professor Emeritus of International Relations […]
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 4pm-6pm Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground 808 Commonwealth Ave, Brookline, MA 02446 Please register here.
Thursday, October 1, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2 PM 121 Bay State Road, Boston MA Please register here. In recent years the issue of the rules-based order (RBO) has come under increased scrutiny with concerns that such an order is in danger of unraveling and uncertainty over what might come next. In this […]
Monday, October 5, 2026, 5 PM – 6:30 PM The Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering 610 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA Please register here. This talk examines the Philippines’ grand military strategy, the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC), which enables the country to develop the capabilities needed for regional deterrence […]
Thursday, Oct 8, 2026 4 PM – 5:30 PM 67 Bay State Road, Boston MA Please register here. Beginning in the early 1990s—well before the Belt and Road Initiative—Beijing encouraged Chinese firms, both state-owned and private, to “Go Out/Go Global” (走出去). Research shows many companies responded, but we still know little about how […]
Thursday, October 8, 2026 5 PM – 6:30 PM CAS 533B 685 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA, and via Zoom For Zoom, please register here.
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2026, 4 PM – 5:30 PM 121 Bay State Road, Boston MA Please register here. The Hikayat Abdullah (1849) is a pioneering work of modern Malay literature. It tells the remarkable life story of Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir (1796-1854), who lived in the Southeast Asian port cities of Melaka and […]