The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and former Institute director, will receive the 2016 Chinese Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award from the Shanghai Society of Anthropology. Professor Cohen, who earned his PhD from Columbia in 1967 and has taught at the University since 1966, … [Read more...]
Gerald L. Curtis Publishes Op-Ed on Japan’s Upcoming Election in The Wall Street Journal
Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University, has published a June 26, 2016 op-ed titled "Japan's Election Offers Little Choice" in The Wall Street Journal. As Japan's July 10 Upper House election approaches, Professor Curtis, a leading expert on Japanese politics, argues that voters, while having lost faith in Abenomics, will … [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...]
Read Gerald L. Curtis’s Keynote Speech “The US and Japan in a Turbulent Asia”
Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University, gave the keynote speech at a May 13, 2016 symposium in Japan that celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School. Titled "The United States and Japan in a Turbulent Asia," Professor Curtis's speech addressed how East Asia’s … [Read more...]
Duncan McCargo Writes About Thailand’s Constitution Referendum in the Nikkei Asian Review
Duncan McCargo, Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Professor of Political Science at the University of Leeds, wrote an April 12, 2016 op-ed in the Nikkei Asian Review about the upcoming constitutional referendum in Thailand. Titled "Thai Junta Marches Toward Day of Reckoning," Professor McCargo's article notes that "If not the beginning of the … [Read more...]
