WEAI professor Gregory M. Pflugfelder has launched an interactive educational resource about the history of the Japanese monster movie GODZILLA. … [Read more...]
April 1 Event: “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy”
Photographs and audio are now available from the April 1, 2015 event “The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy.” The event featured a lecture by Michael Pillsbury, Director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute. His talk was moderated by Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University. During the event, Dr. … [Read more...]
March 26 Event: “Constructing Godzilla in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan and America”
Photographs and audio are now available from the March 26, 2015 event “Constructing Godzilla in Mid-Twentieth Century Japan and America.” The event featured a lecture by Yoshiko Ikeda, Associate Professor, College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and was moderated by Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of … [Read more...]
March 24 Event: “Subsidizing Tibet: Fiscal Estimates and Socio-Economic Consequences” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the March 24, 2015 event “Subsidizing Tibet: Fiscal Estimates and Socio-Economic Consequences.” The event featured a lecture by Andrew Fischer, Associate Professor of Development Studies, International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and was moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate … [Read more...]
February 25 Event “Birds of Metal in Flight: An Evening of Poetry with 5+5”
Photographs and video are now available from the February 25, 2015 event “Birds of Metal in Flight: An Evening of Poetry with 5+5.” The landmark event, held in the beautiful Cathedral of St. John the Divine, featured a reading by five Chinese poets: Bei Dao, Ouyang Jianghe, Xi Chuan, Zhai Yongming, and Zhou Zan; and five American poets: Charles Bernstein, Mei-mei … [Read more...]
