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29th Harvard East Asia Society (HEAS) Conference

March 31, 2026

This year's HEAS Conference, entitled “ Delineations: Temporality, Boundaries, and Imaginaries of East Asia ” was held Friday, February 13th and Saturday, February 14th, 2026. What do we do when we draw the line? We delineate to describe, to trace, to...

Harvard Art Museum exhibit highlights Wendy Wu's ('25) contribution

March 04, 2026

During Wendy Wu's ('25) internship at the Harvard Art Museums, she worked alongside Conservation Junior Fellow Meimei Xu to clean a Burmese silver bowl depicting the Vessantara Jātaka. The bowl is now on display in Room 2620 at the Harvard Art Museum. To...

Congratulations to our February Graduate - Yuehan Yin!

March 02, 2026

Yuehan Yin “Western Methods as Huihui Methods”: Reframing “East” and “West” in the Transformation of Early Qing Astronomical Knowledge System Thesis Advisor: Prof. Mark Elliott

Congratulations to our May 2026 Graduates!

March 02, 2026

29th Harvard East Asia Society Conference

February 13, 2026

The Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference is an annual event that provides an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students to exchange ideas and discuss current research on topics related to Asia. The conference invites young scholars to...

Zelin Wang ('25) receives the 2025 Noma-Reischauer Prize in Japanese Studies

December 15, 2025

RSEA Alum Zelin Wang and Prof. Shigehisa Kuriyama

Poetry Reading with Prof. David McCann

November 25, 2025

Congratulations to our November Graduates!

November 17, 2025

Houyi He When Bytes Dance with Bureaucracy: The Interwoven Development of Databases and Statecraft in Late Twentieth Century China Thesis Advisor: Arunabh Ghosh Jingyi Yuan Integrated Ritual Landscapes of Life Liberation: Iwashimizu Hōjōe and its...

Zelin Wang receives the 2025 Noma-Reischauer Prize in Japanese Studies

October 02, 2025

Recent graduate, Zelin Wang , A.M. '25, Regional Studies – East Asia, was awarded the 2025 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies for his thesis titled "Unsettled Settlers: A Biography of Tonkonbyō (1932-1945)". More information on the prize may be...

Congratulations RSEA 2025 Graduates!

May 28, 2025

Professors Karen Thornber and Yuhua Wang awarded Harvard College Professorships

May 13, 2025

RSEA’s former Chair, Prof. Karen Thornber, and current RSEA Committee member, Prof. Yuhua Wang, have been honored with Harvard College Professorships for excellence in undergraduate teaching. To learn more about their work, please click here...

Xin Wen (AM ’11, PhD ’17) receives the Joseph Levenson Prize from the Association of Asian Studies

April 08, 2025

RSEA alum Xin Wen (AM ’11, PhD ’17) has won the Joseph Levenson Prize (China, pre-1900) for The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road (2022, Princeton University Press). The book also won the James Henry Breasted Prize from the American...