The Asahi Shimbun recently interviewed Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, about Japan's current diplomacy efforts. In the article, Professor Curtis argues that the nature of Japan’s diplomacy can best be characterized as a “coping strategy." “A coping strategy does not seek to set the international agenda; instead it takes the … [Read more...]
WEAI Offers Four 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Opportunities
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University is pleased to announce four postdoctoral opportunities for the 2016-2017 academic year. All applications are due by February 25, 2016. Three of these positions are part of the Borg Research Program, a three-year initiative to support teaching, research, and public outreach on issues relating the United States and … [Read more...]
The Japan Times reports on the retirement and legacy of Professor Gerald L. Curtis
The Japan Times recently paid tribute to Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science, on the eve of his retirement from teaching at Columbia. In the December 12, 2015 article "Gerald Curtis, the Ultimate Insider in Japanese Politics, Retires," Jeff Kingston, a Columbia PhD who teaches at Temple University in Japan, talked with leading academics about Professor … [Read more...]
Study of the WEAI “The Age of Irreverence” is featured in the media
Christopher Rea's Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (University of California Press, 2015) has recently been the focus of media attention. Rea, an associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, discussed his book with host Carla Nappi on the New Books in East Asian Studies … [Read more...]
Theodore Hughes co-edits special issue of “The Journal of Korean Studies”
WEAI professor Theodore Hughes and Dickinson College's Jina Kim have co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies entitled Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art. Published in December 2015, Intermedial Aesthetics: Korean Literature, Film, and Art takes up the question of what lies in between and across the large spectrum of media that includes … [Read more...]
