In 2019 the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) marked 70 years of groundbreaking scholarship on East and Southeast Asia. As a dynamic hub for research, teaching, and public programming on the region, the Institute brought together scholars from across the academy with a year of initiatives and events that honored the Institute’s founding, celebrated … [Read more...]
Forum examines impacts and future of urbanization in China
The 6th Urban China Forum was successfully held in Avery Hall on October 5, 2019. The event was organized by the Urban Planning Program and Urban China Center (GSAPP) and the China Center for Social Policy, and was cosponsored by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; the School of Social Work; and Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. The event also … [Read more...]
The East Asian National Resource Center at Columbia: Seeding the future of East Asian studies
When the East Asian National Resource Center (NRC) was established at Columbia in 1960, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were not yet widely studied in the United States. Recognizing its importance as a center of excellence engaged in the cultivation of American international experts, the US Department of Education included Columbia among its first Title VI grantees, tasked with … [Read more...]
Alumni Profile: Trevor Menders
Trevor Menders is a 2018 graduate of Columbia’s East Asian Languages and Cultures Department and a former student worker at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He recently completed a year as a Fulbright Research Fellow in affiliation with Tokyo University of the Arts. Beginning in September he will be a Toshizo Watanabe Fellow at the Yokohama Inter-University Center for … [Read more...]
Student Profile: Andrew Wortham
Andrew Wortham is a graduate student of Anthropology at Columbia Teachers College, where his work is focused on emerging LGBT communities in China. He has received support from WEAI in various forms since 2016, including Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) awards and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships, for Chinese language study to support his … [Read more...]
