We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is David Ambaras, an Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. Japan's Imperial Underworlds uses vivid … [Read more...]
Duncan McCargo writes Asia Times article about Thailand’s closing National Assembly building
Duncan McCargo, Visiting Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professor of Political Science at the University of Leeds, wrote a December 14, 2018 article in the Asia Times titled "Lights Out on a Parliamentary Era in Thailand." In his piece, Prof. McCargo retraces the history of Thailand's National Assembly building, the "site of many political … [Read more...]
Now Accepting Proposals for Global Scholars Program Spring/Summer 2020
Applications are now open for proposals from faculty for the 2020 Global Scholars Program. The Columbia University Global Scholars Program (GSP), to be led by one or more faculty members with relevant regional and disciplinary expertise, offers undergraduates a unique hands-on international research experience in topics of transnational importance using social science, … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Delivers Two Lectures in Japan and Vienna
Continuing the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, known as the founding event of modern Japan, Carol Gluck gave the keynote lecture at the International Symposium on The Meiji Restoration and Asian Modernization" at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, on November 15, 2018 and delivered a similar lecture with the title, "The Danger of a Simple Story: The Meiji … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Emily Baum’s “The Invention of Madness”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Invention of Madness: State, Society, and the Insane in Modern China, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book's author is Emily Baum, an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Throughout most of history, in China the … [Read more...]
