The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to offer a guide to East Asia-related panels and presentations at the 2020 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference that will feature current Columbia University faculty, postdoctoral scholars, affiliates, and graduate students. The AAS conference will take place at Boston’s Sheraton Hotel & Hynes Convention Center from … [Read more...]
Announcement Regarding Covid-19 (Novel Coronavirus)
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is closely monitoring the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak first identified in Wuhan, China. We take concerns about the virus seriously and are following Columbia's guidelines and federal restrictions regarding international travel. For more information, read the University's website for policy and guidance relating to the … [Read more...]
WEAI hosts student discussion with writer, translator, and alumnus Mike Fu
On Wednesday, February 26th, writer and translator Mike Fu spoke with a group of students from the East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC) department and the MA in Regional Studies – East Asia (MARSEA) program about his process of translating Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao. Born in Chongqing in 1943 and raised in Taiwan during an era in which few women traveled … [Read more...]
LIVESTREAM — The Coronavirus epidemic in China and beyond: A panel discussion
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Featuring: Huang Yanzhong, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor and Director of Global Health Studies, Seton Hall University Yang Wan, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Nicholas Bartlett, Assistant Professor, … [Read more...]
Student Feature: Thu Anh Le
My journey to the Oral History program and Columbia was almost accidental. I had been doing some social advocacy work in my home country, Vietnam. The organization that I founded, Human Library Vietnam, sought to bring in people of marginalized identities and engage with the public as human “books.” My work there bore many resemblances to the practice of oral history, and when … [Read more...]
