The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to invite applications for its 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Fellowship on “Global Circuits” through the Dorothy Borg Research Program. The Institute is searching for a postdoctoral scholar who studies a region in East Asia or the Americas from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, or art history/material culture studies, … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck discusses Asia’s changing power dynamics on BBC Radio 4
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke on BBC Radio 4's program The New World about the changing power dynamics in Asia in an episode titled "Axis of Power." The episode, hosted by Gideon Rachman, explores the implications of changing international geo-politics and asks how world … [Read more...]
Robert Barnett talks with The New York Times about Mongolia’s relations with China and the Dalai Lama
Modern Tibetan Studies Director Robert Barnett (Retired January 2018) was quoted in The New York Times in a December 30, 2016 article titled "Mongolia, With Deep Ties to Dalai Lama, Turns From Him Toward China." Discussing Mongolia's move toward China and away from the influence of the Dalai Lama, Professor Barnett noted "This is part of a near-global collapse in diplomatic … [Read more...]
Watch Howard French and Jeff Wasserstrom Discuss China’s Past and Present
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share a December 12, 2016 conversation between Howard W. French, Associate Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, about the influence of China's political history on current events. Howard W. French is … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck discusses Shinzo Abe’s Pearl Harbor visit in The New York Times and The Japan Times
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, was quoted in the December 24, 2016 New York Times article "In Pearl Harbor Visit, a Symbol of Reconciliation in Japan" and the December 28, 2016 The Japan Times article "Leaders’ Hawaii Remarks Include Veiled Message for Trump: Experts." Both articles … [Read more...]
