Call for Papers for the Consortium for Asian and African Studies (CAAS) Symposium in Paris, October 2018 THEME: MINORITIES BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND AREA APPROACHES: [SELF]DEFINITIONS, CONSTRUCTIONS, REALITIES, IDENTITIES, and MEMORIES Two notes to applicants: 1) European and Asian members of the consortium include what we call the Middle East in their definition of Asian … [Read more...]
Newsweek Japan Features Four Cover Stories on Carol Gluck’s Special Seminar on World War II in Public Memory
Newsweek Japan recently devoted four cover stories to a series of two-hour special seminars led by Professor Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. In these seminars Gluck engaged in spirited conversations with a group of around fifteen Columbia students on the subject of the public memory of World War II. The group of graduate students, … [Read more...]
Ying Qian Receives 2018-19 Global Humanities Projects Grant
We congratulate Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, who will share a 2018-19 Global Humanities Projects Grant for the project "Thinking the Ecological in Media Studies." The grants, awarded by Columbia University, support projects that engage collaboratively with scholars outside of the United States, with a focus on any topic that brings … [Read more...]
WEAI Presents New “Student Spotlight” Video Series
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to present a new Student Spotlight video series that introduces viewers to Columbia University students whose research involves East Asia and Southeast Asia. Please click on the names below to watch the current videos: Clay Eaton, PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Area of Focus: Japanese and … [Read more...]
Modern Tibetan Studies Holds March 2018 Events
In March 2018, the Modern Tibetan Studies program held three popular events: “Some Observations on the Social Status of the Spiritual Teacher in Tibet;" "A Conversation on Early Gelug Institutional History;" and "Social Mobility in the Tibetan Army." Please read below to learn about the lectures. “Some Observations on the Social Status of the Spiritual Teacher in Tibet” - a … [Read more...]
