The Dorothy Borg Research Program of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that applications are welcome for The Weaving Knowledge Summer Workshop on Lanna Weaving and Dyeing. Complete information is below: Weaving Knowledge Summer Workshop on Lanna Weaving and Dyeing Application Deadline: 1 December 2016 Workshop dates: 6 – 23 July … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Takes Part in Chatham House Conference “Challenge and Uncertainty in a Volatile World: Japan-UK Perspectives”
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, took part in the Chatham House conference "Challenge and Uncertainty in a Volatile World: Japan-UK Perspectives" on October 12 and 13, 2016. The event, held in Tokyo, was the fourth in a series of five annual conferences on the UK-Japan relationship and … [Read more...]
The Center for Korean Research Co-organizes International Workshop on Modern Korean Literature and Culture
WEAI is pleased to announce that the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University has co-organized the first international workshop on "Critical Studies in Modern Korean Literature and Culture, 1945-1980: Creating the Groundwork for a Cooperative/Reciprocal System between South Korea and the United States to Promote Research on Modern Korean Literature and Culture," which … [Read more...]
WEAI Senior Research Scholar Elizabeth Wishnick writes in Foreign Affairs about Russia’s role in the South China Sea
WEAI Senior Research Scholar Elizabeth Wishnick has written a September 19, 2016 article titled "Russia Wants to Be a Contender" in Foreign Affairs about Russia's growing role in the South China Sea. Since 2002, Professor Wishnick has been a research scholar at WEAI. A professor of political science at Monclair State University, she previously taught undergraduate and … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Asks “Who is Kim Jong-un?” in The New York Review of Books and on WBUR’s “Here and Now”
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...]
