Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote the article "Who is Kim Jong-un?" in the August 18, 2016 edition of The New York Review of Books. On September 14, 2016, Professor Nathan talked with host Jeremy Hobson on WBUR Radio's "Here and Now" about the mysterious North Korean dictator. Examining the historical and social … [Read more...]
Myron L. Cohen Receives the First Class Professional Medal in Hakka Affairs
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and former Institute director, received the First Class Professional Medal in Hakka Affairs on September 10, 2016 at the opening ceremony of the Fourth Taiwan International Conference on Hakka Studies. The Hakka Affairs Council presented … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Sheena Chestnut Greitens’ “Dictators and Their Secret Police”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence, published by Cambridge University Press. The book's author is Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes the 2016-17 INTERACT Postdoctoral Teaching Collaborative
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes the 2016-2017 INTERACT Postdoctoral Teaching Collaborative: Peter E. Hamilton, Tucker Harding, Miki Kaneda, Victor Louzon, Rune Steenberg Reyhe, and Simon Toner. INTERACT is a pioneering program at Columbia University that focuses on developing global studies in the undergraduate curriculum through a network of postdoctoral … [Read more...]
WEAI Presents the Fall 2016 Modern Taiwan Lecture Series
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Department of Anthropology are pleased to present the Fall 2016 Modern Taiwan Lecture Series, hosted by faculty members Myron L. Cohen and Murray Rubinstein. This lecture series can be taken by Columbia University students for credit as course GR8499. All lectures will take place in Schermerhorn Hall, Room 963, from 4:10 PM - … [Read more...]
