Audio and photographs are now available from the September 28, 2017 event "The China Boom-Why China Will Not Rule the World." During the standing-room-only event, Ho-Fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Associate Professor in Political Economy at the Johns Hopkins University, discussed his new Columbia University Press book The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule … [Read more...]
Sept. 26 Event: “Luminous Memories: Bei Dao in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger:” Video and Photos
Video and photographs are now available from the September 26, 2017 event "Luminous Memories: Bei Dao in Conversation with Eliot Weinberger." During the sold-out event in Jerome Greene Hall, Bei Dao, widely recognized as the foremost poet of his generation, engaged essayist and translator Eliot Weinberger in a conversation about his newly published book, City Gate, Open Up, … [Read more...]
Sept. 21 Event: “”Japan’s New Foreign Minister: A Conversation with Columbia Students About Diplomacy:” Video and Photos
Video and photographs are now available from the September 21, 2017 event "Japan's New Foreign Minister: A Conversation with Columbia Students About Diplomacy," which featured His Excellency Tarō Kōno, Foreign Minister of Japan. The sold-out event--the Foreign Minister's only public address during his visit to the United States--was co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East … [Read more...]
May 8 Event: “Pacific Overtures: A Panel Discussion About the Celebrated Musical:” Video and Photos
Video and photographs are now available from the May 8, 2017 event "Pacific Overtures: A Panel Discussion About the Celebrated Musical and its 2017 Off-Broadway Revival." The event featured George Takei, actor and activist; John Weidman, librettist of "Pacific Overtures;" Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University; and David Hajdu, Professor of … [Read more...]
April 26 Event: “Dictators and Their Secret Police:” Photos
Photographs are now available from the April 26, 2017 lecture "Dictators and Their Secret Police in South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines," which featured speaker Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and author of the Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dictators and Their Secret Police (Cambridge … [Read more...]
