We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan, published by the University of Hawaii Press. The book's author is G. Clinton Godart, who teaches history at Hokkaido University. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine is the first book in … [Read more...]
Call for Papers: April 15 Workshop on Modern East Asian Law in Global Perspective
Workshop on Modern East Asian Law in Global Perspective Columbia University, New York April 15, 2017 Call for Papers The Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University and the American Society for Legal History invite early-career scholars to submit proposals for an international workshop on modern East Asian legal history, to be held on April 15, 2017. … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan writes in Foreign Affairs about Xu Zhiyong and the democracy movement in China
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote the article "A China of Citizens: Xu Zhiyong's Quest for a Free China" in the January 13, 2017 edition of Foreign Affairs. In the article, Professor Nathan writes about democracy activist Xu Zhiyong, noting "Xu’s strategy involved using social media to draw attention to the … [Read more...]
WEAI Offers 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Opportunity in East Asia and the Americas
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to invite applications for its 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellowship on “Global Circuits” through the Dorothy Borg Research Program. The Institute is searching for a postdoctoral scholar who studies a region in East Asia or the Americas from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, or art history/material culture studies, … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck discusses Asia’s changing power dynamics on BBC Radio 4
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke on BBC Radio 4's program The New World about the changing power dynamics in Asia in an episode titled "Axis of Power." The episode, hosted by Gideon Rachman, explores the implications of changing international geo-politics and asks how world … [Read more...]
