Photographs and audio are now available from the April 8, 2016 "Thailand Update 2016" conference, which featured leading scholars from around the world who discussed the current political situation in Thailand. Audio is available on iTunes U here. … [Read more...]
April 6 Event: “Sites of Extraction: Perspectives from a Japanese Coal Mine in Northeast China:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the April 6, 2016 event “Sites of Extraction: Perspectives from a Japanese Coal Mine in Northeast China” During the discussion, Cornell University professor Victor Seow talked about his research on the energy industry in East Asia with Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University. Audio is … [Read more...]
March 21 Event: “Woman and City: A Conversation with Wang Anyi:” Photos
Photographs are now available from the March 21, 2016 event "Woman and City: A Conversation with Wang Anyi" The sold-out event featured acclaimed author Wang Anyi in conversation with Lydia H. Liu, Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society and Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities. Eugenia Lean, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and … [Read more...]
March 11 Event: “The Nuclear Disaster, Tsunami, and Manga: The Representation of Recent Disasters in Japanese Popular Culture:” Video
Video is now available from the March 11, 2016 event “The Nuclear Disaster, Tsunami, and Manga: The Representation of Recent Disasters in Japanese Popular Culture." The event featured guest speaker Yukari Fujimoto, Professor of Japanese Studies, Meiji University and Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; and moderator Hikari Hori, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages … [Read more...]
February 18 Event: “Digital Humanities in East Asian Studies at Columbia: Strategies and Possibilities:” Video
Video is now available from the February 18, 2016 event “Digital Humanities in East Asian Studies at Columbia: Strategies and Possibilities.” The workshop featured Tucker Harding, the Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in Digital Humanities at Columbia University, and Tenzin Dickyi, Editor at The Treasury of Lives. Their presentation was moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley … [Read more...]
