WEAI professor Gerald L. Curtis, following a speech at Harvard University, provides in-depth answers about Japan's new security laws in a September 17, 2015 Christian Science Monitor interview. Read his Q&A here. … [Read more...]
Gregory Pflugfelder’s course on Japanese monsters named “Coolest Class in the U.S.”
WEAI professor Gregory Pflugfelder's popular course "A Cultural History of Japanese Monsters" is named the Number One Coolest College Class in the U.S. by Zipcar. Read the Ziptopia article here. Click here to read a Columbia University Record article about Professor Pflugfelder's expertise about the history of Japanese monsters such as Godzilla. Click here to … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Presented Keynote Lecture on Comfort Women and the Politics of Memory
On September 9, 2015, Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, presented the keynote lecture at the Fifth Annual Congress on Asia and the Pacific on "Comfort Women and the Politics of Memory in East Asia" Learn more about the conference here. … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Christopher Rea’s “The Age of Irreverence”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China, published by the University of California Press. The book’s author is Christopher Rea, associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. In his book, Professor Rea tells the story of … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Reto Hofmann’s “The Fascist Effect”
We are pleased to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy: 1915-1952, published by Cornell University Press. The book’s author is Reto Hofmann, who currently teaches at Monash University. In this book, Professor Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy in the interwar … [Read more...]
