On April 13, 2018, Madeleine Zelin, the Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies at Columbia University, spoke about the customary and legal context for late imperial Chinese business practice at the Fordham Workshop on Business Organization in History, a program sponsored by the Fordham Corporate Law Center. A pioneering scholar of the study of Chinese legal and economic … [Read more...]
Call For Papers: October 2018 CAAS Symposium in Paris
Call for Papers for the Consortium for Asian and African Studies (CAAS) Symposium in Paris, October 2018 THEME: MINORITIES BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND AREA APPROACHES: [SELF]DEFINITIONS, CONSTRUCTIONS, REALITIES, IDENTITIES, and MEMORIES Two notes to applicants: 1) European and Asian members of the consortium include what we call the Middle East in their definition of Asian … [Read more...]
Newsweek Japan Features Four Cover Stories on Carol Gluck’s Special Seminar on World War II in Public Memory
Newsweek Japan recently devoted four cover stories to a series of two-hour special seminars led by Professor Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University. In these seminars Gluck engaged in spirited conversations with a group of around fifteen Columbia students on the subject of the public memory of World War II. The group of graduate students, … [Read more...]
Ying Qian Receives 2018-19 Global Humanities Projects Grant
We congratulate Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, who will share a 2018-19 Global Humanities Projects Grant for the project "Thinking the Ecological in Media Studies." The grants, awarded by Columbia University, support projects that engage collaboratively with scholars outside of the United States, with a focus on any topic that brings … [Read more...]
Modern Tibetan Studies Holds March 2018 Events
In March 2018, the Modern Tibetan Studies program held three popular events: “Some Observations on the Social Status of the Spiritual Teacher in Tibet;" "A Conversation on Early Gelug Institutional History;" and "Social Mobility in the Tibetan Army." Please read below to learn about the lectures. “Some Observations on the Social Status of the Spiritual Teacher in Tibet” - a … [Read more...]
