Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, took part in a panel discussion titled "Fifty Years After the Tet Offensive: Lessons from the Vietnam War" on February 8, 2018 at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Nguyen was joined in the discussion by Harvard historian Fredrik Logevall … [Read more...]
WEAI Offers 2018-2019 Funding Opportunities to Columbia Graduate & Undergraduate Students
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is currently offering funding for research, language acquisition, unpaid internships, and dissertation write-up during the summer and the academic year to selected Columbia students committed to professional and academic engagement with East and Southeast Asia. Beginning this year, all fellowship applications will be accepted via a new … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Presents at Panel in Berlin About Memorial Museums and the Historical Past
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, gave a talk titled "The Past is a Moving Target" at a conference on Memorial Museums and the Historical Past at the Topography of Terror in Berlin on February 6, 2018. The Topography of Terror is a widely visited place of remembrance in Berlin. During the … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen Discusses the Legacy of the 1968 Tet Offensive in a WEAI Video
We are pleased to present the short video "The 50th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive" in which Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, discusses the global impact of the 1968 Tet battles. Professor Nguyen is currently writing a comprehensive history of the Tet Offensive. She is the … [Read more...]
Qin Gao Talks to the BBC World Service About China’s Plan to Eliminate Poverty by 2020
Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director of the China Center for Social Policy at Columbia University, spoke on the BBC World Service's "More or Less" February 2, 2018 radio program about China's plan to eliminate poverty by 2020. The program asks: How does China measure poverty and is it possible for them to make sure, over the next few years, that no … [Read more...]
