Gray Tuttle, the Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, discussed his new book, co-edited with Ben Hillman, Ethnic Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang: Unrest in China’s West, in a Q & A with The New York Times on May 26, 2016. The book, a Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute published by Columbia University … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Talks on Public Radio Programs About President Obama’s Visit to Hiroshima
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke about President Obama's visit to Hiroshima with WNYC Radio's "On the Media" and Wisconsin Public Radio's "Kathleen Dunn Show." She also discussed the different ways that Japanese and Americans remember World War II with PRI's "The World." With … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Adam Bronson’s “One Hundred Million Philosophers”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: One Hundred Million Philosophers: Science of Thought and the Culture of Democracy in Postwar Japan, published by the University of Hawaii Press. The book’s author is Adam Bronson, who will become Lecturer in the History of Japan at Durham University in the fall of … [Read more...]
Duncan McCargo Discusses Thailand’s Constitutional Referendum with USA Today
Duncan McCargo, Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Professor of Political Science at the University of Leeds, was quoted in a May 22, 2016 article in USA Today about the possibility of elections in Thailand following the 2014 military coup. In the article, Professor McCargo discusses the August Thai constitutional referendum, noting "I think the … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Talks About Royalty in Japan on “BackStory”
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke on the BackStory radio program about royalty in Japan. On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday, BackStory presented the May 13, 2016 podcast "Watch the Throne: America and Royalty" in which leading historians, including Professor Gluck, … [Read more...]
