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SUMMARY:US-China-Japan Trilateral Relations and the East Asian Order
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nRyo Sahashi\, Associate Professor of International Relations\, \nInstitute for Advanced Studies on Asia\, The University of Tokyo \nCommentator: Gerald Curtis\, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science \nColumbia University \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\,  \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nThe trilateral relationship among China\, Japan and the United States has generally been stable\, and it explained the regional order in East Asia since the 1970s. The trilateral relationship has been stabilized primarily by the stability of the US-China and US-Japan relations\, and secondly by the fact that American preponderance has been maintained and the commitment to Asia is certain\, with the remaining two parties formulating strategies on the basis of that balance of power. Although Japan-China relations have been repeatedly confronted and approached politically over time\, they have not shaken the trilateral relationship to that extent. Also\, in the area of regionalism\, the role of the United States has gradually become more important and contributed to the stability of order. \nNow\, however\, the fundamental conditions of the trilateral relationship are changing because of a shift in the balance of power\, a loss of confidence on American diplomacy\, and the overwhelming importance of the Chinese economy. Relations between the United States and China are described as an era of competition\, or as an era of confrontation. How will a change in the relationship between Japan\, the United States and China affect the order of Asia? What does good Japan-China relations mean? Is the Japan-U.S. relationship still strong?  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Sahashi specializes on international politics in East Asia. His recent book is In a Search for Coexistence: the United States and Two Chinas during the Cold War (Tokyo: Keiso\, 2015). In English\, he recently edited Looking for Leadership: The Dilemma of Political Leadership in Japan (Tokyo and New York: Japan Center for International Exchange\, 2015)\, and wrote on the impact of rising China on Asian order\, Japan’s security policy and Japan-Taiwan relations. Now he is writing his next book on US-China competition and leading two group studies on the alliance and order after the end of the Cold War.  \nConcurrently\, he serves as Research Fellow\, Japan Center for International Exchange. He frequently contributes to NHK\, Nikkei\, Asahi Shimbun\, Mainichi Shimbun\, Yomiuri Shimbun and other major media outlets.  \nDr Sahashi has taught at Kanagawa University as professor until March\, 2019 and has been Visiting Associate Professor\, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center\, Stanford University and Shigeru Yoshida Chair\, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He joined University of Tokyo with tenure from April\, 2019\, and concurrently\, Associate Professor\, Future Vision Research Institute\, the University of Tokyo.  \nHe also served as adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Sasakawa Peace Foundation\, Tokyo Foundation-German Marshall Fund of the United States Partnership Fellow\, and Guest Researcher for First Special Committee Research Office\, House of Councilors. He is the member of UK-Japan 21stCentury Committee. \nHe received his B.A. from International Christian University and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He also studied at Department of Political Science\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 4\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/us-china-japan-trilateral-relations-and-the-east-asian-order/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T140000
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SUMMARY:Italy and China’s MoU on the Belt and Road
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nDUE TO TRAVEL COMPLICATIONS\, THE SPEAKER WILL PRESENT REMOTELY. \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nMichele Geraci\, Former Undersecretary of State\, \nItalian Ministry of Economic Development \nModerated by: \nMaria Adele Carrai\, Associate Research Scholar\,  \nWeatherhead East Asian Institute;  \nMarie Curie Fellow\,  \nKU Leuven School of Law \nItaly was the first G7 country to sign the MoU with China on the One Belt One Road. It has attracted lots of criticism both from part of the domestic political parties and from Italy’s traditional allies in Europe and the US. Mr. Michele Geraci has been the main promoter of this MoU\, as a mean to boost trade since Italian exports to China and investment flows have lagged those of other European peers. Debt Trap\, selling of national assets and national security were mentioned as areas where Italy should be careful\, but with so many other countries joining\, formally or not the BRI\, the Italian government and Mr. Geraci have felt the need that more proactive trade promotion activity towards China was needed\, leaving unchanged its Atlantic and European alliances \nAbout the Speaker: \nMichele Geraci is former Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development\, responsible for Trade and Investment and the main promoter of MoU on Belt&Road between Italy and China (from FT: www.tinyurl.com/yx38cytx ). Prior to that\, he had lived for ten years in China where he analyzed the Chinese economy and held finance and economics teaching roles in various universities\, including Nottingham\, NYU-Shanghai and Zhejiang University. Prior to moving to China\, Mr. Geraci was an Investment Banker in the City of London and an Electronic Engineer for over 20 years. Immediately before taking his role as undersecretary\, he was named as a choice among four nominees for Italy’s Prime Minister. He is a frequent guest on major international media and has been awarded Italian Knighthood honor by Italian President Mattarella. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan. \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 4\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-2:00 PM\n\nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: European Institute at Columbia University\, Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/italy-and-chinas-mou-on-the-belt-and-road/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T200000
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SUMMARY:Youth Peace Conference: A Peace-Talk with twenty students from Korea - Our Vision and Role for Peace
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\n  \nKoreaFocus and NYU Freedom for North Korea are collaborating with PeaceCorea\, the NGO registered under the Korean Ministry of Unification and will host a youth peace conference on February 3rd and 4th. PeaceCorea and NYU will host twenty students from Korean universities and graduate schools in this event. Student Representatives from each group will present their visions and ideas of how youth can play roles in contributing to peace in the Korean Peninsula\, East Asia\, and the world. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMonday\, February 3rd\, 2020 \n6:00 PM-8:00 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Sreet \n  \nCosponsored by: Korea Focus; PeaceCorea; NYU Freedom for North Korea
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/youth-peace-conference-a-peace-talk-with-twenty-students-from-korea-our-vision-and-role-for-peace/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T200000
DTSTAMP:20200117T160932Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Global Studies: What\, Why\, and How
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join for an informal conversation with graduate students in East Asian\, European\, and transnational history with: \nJie-hyun Lim\, Sogang University\, Seoul \nDirector\,  Critical Global Studies Institute \n  \nModerated by: \nCarol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History\, Columbia University  \n  \nProfessor Lim\, a renowned historian of East Asia and Eastern Europe\, is the Founding Director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He is a visiting professor in January-February at Columbia. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nPizza will be served.   \nPlease register here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJanuary 30\, 2020 \n6:00 PM-8:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/critical-global-studies-what-why-and-how-an-informal-conversation-with-graduate-students-in-east-asian-european-and-transnational-history-with-professor-jie-hyun-lim/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200129T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200129T190000
DTSTAMP:20200430T162445Z
CREATED:20200106T184624Z
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SUMMARY:"In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam\," an evening with author Daniel Weiss
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \n \nFeaturing \nDaniel Weiss\, CEO and President \nMetropolitan Museum of Art \n  \nModerated by: \nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia \nColumbia University \n  \nDaniel Weiss’s In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O’Donnell\, a bright young musician and poet who served as a soldier and helicopter pilot. O’Donnell wrote with great sensitivity and poetic force\, and his best-known poem is among the most beloved of the war. In 1970\, during an attempt to rescue fellow soldiers stranded under heavy fire\, O’Donnell’s helicopter was shot down in the jungles of Cambodia. He remained missing in action for almost three decades. Weiss will talk about O’Donnell life and legacy on the 50th anniversary of his death and the war in Vietnam more generally. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDaniel Weiss\, President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, previously served as Professor of Art History and Dean of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at John Hopkins University as well as President of Lafayette College. He is author of In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam with PublicAffairs. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nRegistration required. Register here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJanuary 29\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-5:00 PM Wine and Cheese\n5:00 PM-6:00 PM  Main event \nIntroduction by Lien-Hang Nguyen \nBook talk by Daniel Weiss \nDiscussion with audience \n6:00 PM-7:00 PM  Book signing and reception with light refreshments and drinks \n  \nADDRESS\n\nJournalism School\, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall  \n2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027 \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Department of History\, Center for American Studies\, Society of Fellows\, the Heyman Center for the Humanities
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/in-that-time-michael-odonnell-and-the-tragic-era-of-vietnam-an-evening-with-author-daniel-weiss/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200128T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200128T140000
DTSTAMP:20200117T171855Z
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SUMMARY:The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
DESCRIPTION:SIPA Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nLan Yan\, Author \nModerated by: \nDean Merit E. Janow\, Dean of Columbia SIPA and Professor of Professional Practice International Economic Law and International Affairs \nColumbia University \n  \nThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China\, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day. \nThe history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential businesswomen of China today\, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country’s powerful elite\, including Zhou Enlai\, Deng Xiaoping\, and other top leaders. Her grandfather\, Yan Baohang\, originally a nationalist and close to Chiang Kai-shek and his wife\, Soong May-ling\, later joined the communists and worked as a secret agent for Zhou Enlai during World War II. Lan’s parents were diplomats\, and her father\, Yan Mingfu\, was Mao’s personal Russian translator. \nInspite of their elevated status\, the Yan’s family life was turned upside down by the Cultural Revolution. One night in 1967\, in front of a terrified ten-year-old Lan\, Red Guards burst into the family home and arrested her grandfather. Days later\, her father was arrested\, accused of spying for the Soviet Union. Her mother\, Wu Keliang\, was branded a counter-revolutionary and forced to go with her daughter to a re-education camp for more than seven years\, where Lan came of age as a high school student. \nIn recounting her family history\, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day\, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country. In telling her and her family’s story\, she serves up an intimate account of the history of contemporary China. \nAbout the Speaker: \nLan Yan was not allowed to enter higher education because her Communist family had been designated as counter-revolutionaries. In 1969\, she was sent to a re-education camp in Henan\, where her mother had been for a year. In 1977\, the year after the Cultural Revolution ended\, she enrolled at university. Exceptionally motivated\, she was awarded grants to study at the most prestigious universities in Europe and the United States. In 1991\, she joined the Gide Loyrette Nouel law firm based in Paris and became the first foreign woman to make partner. In 1998\, she returned to China to run the firm’s Beijing office. In 2011\, Lan Yan joined Lazard as managing director to lead its Chinese activities. Today\, she is the vice chairman of investment banking of Lazard and the chairman and CEO of Lazard Greater China (Beijing\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJanuary 28\, 2020 \n1:00 PM-2:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1512 \n420 W 118th Street \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-house-of-yan-a-family-at-the-heart-of-a-century-in-chinese-history-2/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T180000
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SUMMARY:A Global History of Victimhood Nationalism
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nJie-hyun Lim\, Sogang University\, Seoul \nDirector\,  Critical Global Studies Institute \n  \nModerated by: \nCarol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History\, Columbia University  \n  \nLim outlines ‘victimhood nationalism’ as a working hypothesis to explain competing national memories in the global memory space\, highlighting entangled histories across  postwar and contemporary Japan\, Korea\, Poland\, Germany\, and Israel. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJanuary 24\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-6:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-global-history-of-victimhood-nationalism/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T131500
DTSTAMP:20191206T141535Z
CREATED:20191206T141344Z
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SUMMARY:Population Aging in China: Challenges and Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Columbia Aging Center Seminar Series\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nYaoyin Zhu\, Visiting Researcher\, Columbia Aging Center\nVice President\, China National Committee on Aging \nRSVP: ColumbiaAgingCenter@cumc.columbia.edu \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 16\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nAddress\n\nAllan Rosenfield Building\, Room 440 \n722 W 168th Street \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/population-aging-in-china-challenges-and-strategies/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T163000
DTSTAMP:20191210T145744Z
CREATED:20191121T154837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T145744Z
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Craft in Postindustrial Society
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a Conference with: \nRabbit Goody\, Thistle Hill Weavers\nYuan Yi\, Columbia University\nJustin Squizzero\, The Burroughs Garret\nCarol Cassidy\,  Lao Textiles\nPamela Smith\, Columbia University\nTimothy Oakes\, University of Colorado Boulder\nKaruna Miryam Dietrich Wielenga\, Azim Premji University\nJacob Eyferth\, The University of Chicago\nEugenia Lean\, Columbia University \nCraft has long been understood in terms of its adversarial relationship with mechanization and industrialization. In industrial society\, where people live surrounded by machine-made\, mass-produced commodities\, craft has been relegated to the realm of “tradition\,” which belongs to the disconnected past. However\, what does craft mean in a postindustrial society like today’s United States? When manufacturing\, the long-time opponent to craft\, no longer constitutes a major economic sector\, what is the role of craft and what can we gain from it? These questions become even more critical now when on the one hand\, artificial intelligence threatens to encroach on human territory\, and on the other hand\, the senses of localism\, ethical consumption\, and environmental consequences are higher than ever. This one-day conference proposes to take advantage of this crucial moment as an opportunity to rethink craft both as a mode of production and as a way of living. By bringing together practitioners and scholars from Asia and the United States\, it provides a venue for an interdisciplinary conversation about craft\, technology\, and the economy.  \nThis event is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th Anniversary Event and part of Science and Society in Global Asia series.\n. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 13\, 2019\n9:00 AM – 4:30 PM\nProgram details: \n9:30 – 9:45 Introduction \nYuan Yi\, Columbia University \n9:45 – 10:45 “Heavy Metal Weaving”: Between Craft and Mechanization \nChair: Yuan Yi\, Columbia University \nSpeaker: Rabbit Goody\, Thistle Hill Weavers \n10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break \n11:00 – 12:30 Made in USA\, Made in Laos: Handwoven Textiles \nChair: Pamela Smith\, Columbia University \nSpeakers: Justin Squizzero\, The Burroughs Garret \nCarol Cassidy\, Lao Textiles \n12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break \n1:30 – 3:00 State\, Craft\, and Intangible Cultural Heritage \nChair: Jacob Eyferth\, The University of Chicago \nSpeakers: Timothy Oakes\, University of Colorado Boulder \nKaruna Miryam Dietrich Wielenga\, Azim Premji University \n3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break \n3:15 – 4:30 Roundtable  \nModerator: Eugenia Lean\, Columbia University \n  \nPlease visit the conference website by clicking here for more information about this program. \n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Natalie Pretzer-Lin np2603@columbia.edu . \n*Your presence at this event indicates your willingness to appear in any photos or videos produced by Columbia and by pre-approved third parties.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/rethinking-craft-in-postindustrial-society/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T163000
DTSTAMP:20191205T190300Z
CREATED:20191204T185824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T190300Z
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SUMMARY:New Directions in Chinese Contemporary Music
DESCRIPTION:Columbia University Department of Music Event\nPlease join for a seminar with: \nWenjing Guo\, former Dean of the Composition Department\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music  \nJianping Tang\, former Dean of the Composition Department\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music  \nGuoping Jia\, Director of the Institute of Musicology\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music  \nPing Chang\, Vice Dean of the Composition Department\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music  \nDanbu Chen\,  \nCentral Conservatory of Music  \nModerated by: \nWeiya Hao\, Dean of the Composition Department\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music \nGeorg Friedrich Haas\, Professor of Music\, Composition\, \nColumbia University \n  \nThe Department of Music at Columbia is taking advantage of the extraordinary presence in New York City of a group of composers from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing\, China\, to present a seminar at Columbia on “New Directions in Chinese Contemporary Music.” In this talk\, five composers associated with the Central Conservatory of Music will present their work and take questions. \nTheir work will be performed on December 13\, 2019\, at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium: \nCentral Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra of Beijing\nFriday\, December 13\, 2019\, 8:00 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage \nThis performance is the Carnegie Hall debut of the Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra of Beijing. Central Conservatory President Feng Yu\, also in his Carnegie Hall debut\, will conduct works for modern symphony orchestra and traditional Chinese instruments by eight distinguished Chinese composers. There will be six U.S. premieres and two composers\, Danbu Chen and Weiya Hao\, will have works performed at Carnegie Hall for the first time. \nComposer Ye Xiaogang (photo credit: George Lewis)\nCentral Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra of Beijing\nFeng Yu\, Conductor\nYa Dai\, Bamboo Flute\nLinfeng Fan\, Bamboo Flute\nJingli Zhang\, Marimba\nQiang Zhang\, Pipa\nYang Zheng\, Sheng \nWorks by Danbu Chen\, Guoping Jia\, Jianping Tang\, Ping Chang\, Weiya Hao\, Wenchen Qin\, Wenjing Guo\, and Xiaogang Ye \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 12\, 2019\n2:00 PM-4:30 PM \n  \nAddress \nButler Library\, Room 523 \n535 W 114th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/new-directions-in-chinese-contemporary-music/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T170000
DTSTAMP:20191203T174642Z
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SUMMARY:ephemera: science and technology: Collections on Modern China at Columbia’s Starr Library
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a workshop with: \nJim Cheng\, Columbia University\nLisa Claypool\, University of Alberta\nLaurence Coderre\, New York University\nDon J. Cohn\, Independent Collector\nFa-ti Fan\, SUNY Binghamton\nYi Gu\, University of Toronto\nEugenia Lean\, Columbia University\nYing Qian\, Columbia University\nSigrid Schmalzer\, UMass\, Amherst\nChengzhi Wang\, Columbia University\nDanping Wang\, Columbia University\nChuan Xu\, Columbia University \n  \nThis workshop brings together scholars working on history of science and technology\, visual culture and art history\, to examine a body of materials from the “Ephemera Collection on Chinese Science\, Technology\, Law\, and Society”\, housed at Columbia’s Starr library.  What kinds of questions can we ask of ephemera items\, such as pamphlets\, slides\, posters and exhibition catalogues? How do these material objects rescued from “the dustbin of history” challenge conventional understandings of science and technology? How can they help us understand science and technology as practice and experience in Republican and Mao-era China? The workshop begins with an introduction to the collection\, proceeds with focused reading sessions led by scholars\, and ends with a round-table discussion. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th anniversary event and part of the Science and Society in Global Asia series. \nNo registration required. \n\nEVENT DETAILS\n\n Friday\, December 6\, 2019\n2:00 PM – 6:00 PM\nSaturday\, December 7\, 2019\n9:00 AM – 5:00 PM \n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nSchedule\n\nFriday\, December 6\, 2019\n14:10 – 14:25 Opening Remarks\nJim Cheng and Eugenia Lean (Columbia University) \n14:25 – 14:55 Introduction of the Collection\nChengzhi Wang (Columbia University) \n14:55 – 15:45 Reading Session One \nLisa Claypool (University of Alberta) \n16:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break \n16:00 – 16:50 Reading Session Two\nFa-ti Fan (SUNY\, Binghamton) \n16:55 – 17:45 Reading Session Three\nDanping Wang (Columbia University) \nSaturday\, December 7\, 2019\n9:30 – 10:20 Reading Session Four\nSigrid Schmalzer (UMass\, Amherst) \n10:20 – 10:35 Coffee Break \n10:35 – 11:25 Reading Session Five\nYi Gu (University of Toronto) \n11: 30 – 13:00 Lunch \n13:00 – 13:50 Reading Session Six\nYing Qian (Columbia University) \n13:50 – 14:10 Coffee Break \n14:10 – 15:00 Reading Session Seven\nChuan Xu (Columbia University) \n15:00 – 15: 15 Coffee Break \n15: 15 – 17:00 Round Table\nLaurence Coderre (New York University)\nFa-ti Fan (SUNY\, Binghamton)\nEugenia Lean (Columbia University)\nSigrid Schmalzer (UMass\, Amherst)  \n  \nCosponsored by: C.V. Starr Library and Center for Science and Society \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/ephemera-science-and-technology-collections-on-modern-china-at-columbias-starr-library/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T131500
DTSTAMP:20191118T150609Z
CREATED:20191112T144611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T150609Z
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SUMMARY:Social Psychological Wellbeing of Left-behind Children in Rural China: Myths\, Concerns\, and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Study
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nShenyang Guo\, Frank J. Bruno Distinguished Professor of Social Work Research\, \nBrown School of Social Work\, Washington University in St. Louis  \nModerated by: \nQin Gao\, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work\, \nColumbia School of Social Work \n  \nThe year 2018 symbolized the 40th anniversary of China’s launch of the economic reform and open-the-door policies. The 40-years’ rapid economic development has made China the second largest economy in the world\, and brought about dramatic social changes in the country as well. One direct effect of the reforms was the creation of the so-called “left-behind children” who live in the rural areas while their parents moved to the cities for better economic opportunities. About 61 million children are estimated to be left-behind children. There are growing concerns among child-protective groups about the wellbeing of these children\, because this is a vulnerable subpopulation who lacked attachment\, warmth\, affection\, and care at a crucial age of development. \nIn this talk\, Prof. Shenyang Guo will introduce the “Let’s Be Friends—Shaanxi” project which aimed to assess and improve the social information processing skills of left-behind children. The project focused on children at ages 8-10\, a crucial age span for children’s socialization and development. Using a rich set of measures and rigorous analytical methods\, the study finds that left-behind children did not fare worse than other children. Of the 30 outcome variables examined\, only four show significant differences; the remaining 26 variables are not statistically significant with mixed findings about directions of the differences. Prof. Guo concludes that the outcomes of left-behind children may not be as bad as non-scientific news reports demonstrate\, though further research is very much needed. \n  \n  \nShenyang Guo is Frank J Bruno Distinguished Professor at Brown School of Washington University in St. Louis\, and the Yangtze-River Chaired Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is the author of numerous research articles in child welfare\, child mental health services\, welfare\, and health care. He is the author/co-author of Propensity Score Analysis\, Survival Analysis\, and Structural Equation Modeling. He has expertise in applying advanced statistical models to solving social welfare problems and has taught graduate courses that address survival analysis\, hierarchical linear modeling\, growth curve modeling\, propensity score analysis\, and program evaluation. In addition\, Guo is the Editor of Sage Publications’ Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences Series\, serves on the editorial board of Social Service Review\, and is a frequent guest reviewer for journals seeking a critique of advanced methodological analyses. Guo is a fellow of American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare\, and a fellow of Society of Social Work and Research. At Washington University in St. Louis\, Guo is Assistant Vice Chancellor for International Affairs – Greater China. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 2019-2020 Lecture Series event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 6\, 2019\n12:00 PM-1:15 PM \n  \nAddress \nSchool of Social Work\, Room C05 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nCosponsored by China Center for Social Policy
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/social-psychological-wellbeing-of-left-behind-children-in-rural-china-myths-concerns-and-evidence-from-a-randomized-controlled-study/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T133000
DTSTAMP:20200113T173611Z
CREATED:20191010T141517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T173611Z
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SUMMARY:Reporting Asia: Tibet
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nEdward Wong\, Diplomatic Correspondent \nThe New York Times \nModerated by: \nGray Tuttle\, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \n  \n \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nEdward Wong is a diplomatic and international correspondent for The New York Times who reports on foreign policy from Washington\, D.C. He has spent most of his 20-year career with the Times abroad\, reporting for 13 years from China and Iraq. As Beijing bureau chief\, he ran the Times’ largest overseas operation. Edward began reporting for the Times in 1999 and worked for four years on the metro\, sports and business desks before going overseas. His first posting was to Iraq to cover the American invasion and civil war\, from 2003 to 2007. He then reported from China for nine years. He has traveled across Asia on assignments\, including to North Korea\, Afghanistan and Myanmar. Edward received the Livingston Award for his coverage of the Iraq War and was on a team of Pulitzer Prize finalists. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 2017 to 2018 and taught international reporting at Princeton University as a Ferris Professor of Journalism in 2017. He is an associate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Edward graduated with honors from the University of Virginia\, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature. He has dual master’s degrees in journalism and international studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He was born in Washington\, D.C.\, and grew up in Alexandria\, Va. \nThis event is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th Anniversary Event and part of the Reporting Asia Lecture Series. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 5\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n**Please note this event was rescheduled from November 15** \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Natalie Pretzer-Lin np2603@columbia.edu . \n*Your presence at this event indicates your willingness to appear in any photos or videos produced by Columbia and by pre-approved third parties.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/reporting-asia-tibet/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T133000
DTSTAMP:20191118T150145Z
CREATED:20191024T142904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T150145Z
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SUMMARY:Inner Asian Islam in Qianlong-era Beijing
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \n David Brophy\, Associate Research Scholar\, \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University;  \nLecturer in Modern Chinese History\, University of Sydney \n  \nModerated by: \nEugenia Lean\, Director\, \nWeatherhead East Asian Institute;  \nAssociate Professor of Chinese history\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. \n  \nIn the mid-eighteenth century\, following the Qing conquest of Xinjiang\, a new community of Muslims came into being in the Inner City of Beijing\, residing around a mosque close to the Forbidden City. Like other representatives of newly-incorporated subject populations in the capital\, these Muslims became members of the Qing banner system. At the same time\, they kept up contact with Xinjiang\, and served as intermediaries between Islamic Inner Asia and the court. Drawing on recent archival and manuscript research\, this talk examines the religious life of this community\, and the place of Islam in the high Qing vision of universal emperorship. \n  \n  \nDavid Brophy is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and a Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Sydney. He studies the social and political history of China’s northwest\, particularly Xinjiang\, and its connections with the Islamic and Russian/Soviet worlds. After finishing his PhD at Harvard in 2011\, Professor Brophy spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World\, at the Australian National University. His book Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier (Harvard University Press\, 2016) is about the politics of Uyghur nationalism between Xinjiang and the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century. Most of Professor Brophy’s new research engages with the Manchu-language archive on Qing China’s eighteenth-century expansion. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 3\, 2019\n12:00 PM-1:30 PM \n  \nAddress \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/inner-asian-islam-in-qianlong-era-beijing/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T203000
DTSTAMP:20191114T150050Z
CREATED:20191114T143645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T150050Z
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SUMMARY:From Criminalization to Liberation:  Organizing Migrant Asian Sex Workers Across Oceans
DESCRIPTION:Center of the Study of Ethnicity and Race Event\nJoin us for a discussion organized by Red Canary Song: \nKK de la Vida \nChanelle Gallant \nElene Lam \nElena Shih \nKate Zen  \nModerated by Yin Q \nIntroduced by Mae Ngai \nHow might treating migrant sex work as labor rather than as a problem change policies\, transform communities and create new futures? \nThis conversation centers theories and practices that emerge from organizing with Asian sex worker communities embedded in complex migration networks that span East Asia\, Southeast Asia\, and North America. The dominant anti-trafficking discourse in relation to migrant sex work reinforces policing and surveillance networks\, stigmatizes sex workers\, and isolates migrants\, with the result that it often harms those who it is meant to “save.” \nAlthough multiple models of policing sex work\, including global anti-trafficking effortas full criminalization (in the US)\, buyer criminalization (the Swedish model)\, legalization (in the Netherlands)\, and full decriminalization (as in New Zealand)\, currently compete in activist\, governmental\, and policy-making circles\, they all disproportionately affect migrant sex workers. Understanding these policies\, discourses and their power within contemporary governance also requires revisiting racialized and gendered histories that must be traced back to Cold War geopolitics and earlier. \nBased on research and organizing in China\, Hong Kong\, Thailand\, the Philippines\, Canada\, and the United States\, the speakers here insist that we think of sex work alongside rather than in contrast to other forms of work\, shifting from criminal to labor law frameworks. The implications of migrant sex work organizing go beyond policy\, suggesting new ways for transnational communities\, arranged by differences of privilege based on language\, education\, immigration and citizenship status\, race\, gender\, sexuality\, and forms of sex work\, to imagine futures beyond criminalization and toward liberation. This panel will be followed by a Q & A and then a series of small breakout group discussions. \nThis event is organized by Red Canary Song\, a community group based in NYC focused on migrant and Asian sex worker rights. Learn more at redcanarysong.org and @redcanarysong \nAbout the Participants \nKK de la Vida is a member of Red Canary Song & pilipinx shifterhood collective Walang Hiya\, building bridges between NYC & Visayas\, Philippines. A graduate of anthropology from Barnard College\, Asian Cultural Council grantee in dance\, bodyworker\, herbalist & performance artist\, KK explores moving bodies in shifting techno-ecologies. \nChanelle Gallant is a co-founder of Migrant Sex Workers Project\, a grassroots group of migrants\, sex workers\, and allies who demand safety and dignity for all sex workers regardless of immigration status based in Canada. She has been a grassroots feminist organizer for nearly 2 decades and is on the national leadership team of Showing Up For Racial Justice. She writes about justice and sex\, most recently in the collection Pleasure Activism. She can be found online at www.chanellegallant.com \nElene Lam is a community organizer and human rights defender. Elene is the Executive Director and a Founder of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) and Migrant Sex Workers Project in Canada.\, She holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Law\, with a specialization in Human Rights. She is currently a Ph.D. student at McMaster University where she is researching the harms associated with anti-trafficking initiatives. Elene has been actively engaged in work related to human rights\, violence against women\, migration\, gender\, and sex work justice for more than 20 years. \nMae M. Ngai\, Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies\, is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration\, citizenship\, and nationalism. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1998 and taught at the University of Chicago before returning to Columbia in 2006. Ngai is author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America The Tape Family and the Origins of the Chinese American Middle Class. \nElena Shih is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Her first book\, Manufacturing Freedom\, Rescue\, Rehabilitation\, and the Slave Free Good is based on 40 months of ethnographic research with the anti-trafficking\, sex worker\, and migrant worker right’s movements in China\, Thailand\, and the US. \nYin Q is a BDSM educator/writer\, media producer\, sex worker rights activist\, and mother of two fierce girls. As an alumni of Barnard College\, Yin’s work has centered on uplifting stories of women\, queer\, and trans people\, as relevant in their web series\, Mercy Mistress\, and the short video documentary Yang Song: Fly in Power. Yin is currently an artist in residence at PS1MoMa. \nKate Zen is a coder\, artist\, and organizer. She’s the co-founder and interim director of Red Canary Song\, a grassroots collective of Asian and migrant sex workers in Flushing\, Queens. Previously\, she was part of Butterfly and the Migrant Sex Worker Project in Toronto. She worked on policy communications for the Global Network of Sex Work Projects in the UK\, organized with Streetwise and Safe and the Red Umbrella Project\, helped the editorial teams of $pread Magazine and Tits and Sass\, and served on the Board of SWOP-USA and Maggie’s Toronto. She also organized with street vendors and domestic workers\, working within the Chinatown community as a youth to cofound the Chinatown Literacy Project. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 2\, 2019\n6:30 PM-8:30 PM \n  \nAddress\n\nJerome Greene Hall\, Room 701 (Case Lounge) \n435 W 116th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Department of History\, the Department of Sociology\, the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought\, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Studies\, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights\, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/from-criminalization-to-liberation-organizing-migrant-asian-sex-workers-across-oceans/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T220000
DTSTAMP:20191016T195308Z
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SUMMARY:Part III: What is Law when East meets West: The Lessons of the Ming Sung Umbrella Factory Case in the Shanghai International Mixed Court
DESCRIPTION:University Seminar\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nMadeleine Zelin\, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies \nHistory and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments\, Columbia University \n  \nThis is event is part three of a this year’s Schoff Memorial Lecture Series entitled\, “China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century.” \nLaw was central to China’s early twentieth century transformation from empire to republic. This transformation not only uprooted the foundations of political life. It demanded the fashioning of a new and uniquely Chinese legal modernity in the shadow of Western extrater-ritorial privilege. In order to understand the ways in which law devel-oped on contested ground in places like early twentieth century China\, it may be useful to look at seemingly small struggles that reveal the larger processes at work. In these three lectures we will examine just such a struggle. In the first lecture we will see how the idea of the company was naturalized within a Chinese moral universe and came to represent law as the source of western power. In the second\, we will trace the resurrection of the customary realm as it challenged the hegemony of law on the books and the notion that before the arrival of Europeans China had no private law. Finally\, in the third lecture we will take a position as observers to the struggle between Chinese custom and the arrogance of Western legal universality at extraterritorialy’s premier forum\, the Shanghai International Mixed Court. \nMadeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Stud-ies and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Beginning with her first book\, The Magistrates Tael\, Zelin’s work has focused on the intersection of formal and informal institutions in the economic\, political and legal development of Chi-na. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China was awarded the 2006 Allan Sharlin Memo-rial Prize of the Social Science History Association\, the 2006 Fairbank Prize of the Association for Asian Studies and the 2007 Humanities Book Prize of the International Convention on Asian Studies. Zelin served many years as director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and as Director of Columbia University’s East Asian National Re-source Center. Outside the university she has worked to promote understanding of China in the US and as an integral part of teaching and research in the social sciences\, in roles including Co-Di-rector of the Luce Foundation-AAS Project on Emerging Fields in Asian Studies-Economic History\, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Committee for US China Relations. She is an avid New York amateur flutist. \nNo registration required. \nMore details regarding the Schoff Memorial Lecture Series.\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 25\, 2019 \n8:00 PM-10:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nFaculty House\, 2nd Floor \n64 Morningside Drive \n  \nCosponsored by: Columbia University Press Event
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/part-iii-what-is-law-when-east-meets-west-the-lessons-of-the-ming-sung-umbrella-factory-case-in-the-shanghai-international-mixed-court/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T130000
DTSTAMP:20191115T194013Z
CREATED:20191115T193649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T194013Z
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SUMMARY:The Third Wave of Globalization and China's Diplomacy in the Context of New Pattern of Geopolitics
DESCRIPTION:Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Event\n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nHao Su\, Director of Center for Strategic and Peace Studies and Professor \nDepartment of Diplomacy\, China Foreign Affairs University  \nModerated by: \nPeter Clement\, Visiting Senior Research Scholar \nArnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies;  \nAdjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs \nColumbia University \n  \nSince the modern times\, the world has undergone three waves of globalization. The first wave started from 500 years ago\, with the European countries connecting the world by means of the opening of new sea-routes\, the great discoveries of geography and the establishment of global colonial system. This is a linear globalization based on power. The second wave started at the end of WWII. The establishment of a series of US-led international institutions linked the world into a systematic international society. This is a flat globalization based on institutions. Nowadays\, the third wave of globalization is under way. The rise of emerging newly-economies from the developing world and the effect of economic globalization have brought about a trend of re-balance for the world economic pattern. This will be a tridimensional globalization based on governance. Facing the advent of this trend\, the Chinese government has proposed the “Belt and Road Initiative”\, in order to propel the network construction of both worldwide partnerships and regional integration\, with the purpose of promoting the realization of global governance. \n\n\nDr. Hao Su is a distinguished professor in the Department of Diplomacy and founding director of Center for Strategic and Peace Studies at the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAUO). He was chairman of the Diplomacy Department\, director of China’s Foreign Relations Section\, general secretary of East Asian Studies Center\, and director of Center for Asia-Pacific Studies within this university. He is also president of the of Beijing Geopolitical Strategy and Development Association\, member of Chinese Committee for Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) and Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC); board members of China Association of Arms Control and Disarmament\, Pacific Society of China\, China Association of Asian-African Development Exchange\, and China Association of China-ASEAN. He received his B.A. in history and M. A. in international history from Beijing Normal University and his Ph.D. in international relations from China Foreign Affairs University. He took his advanced study at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London in 1993-1995; and was a Fulbright scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies\, Columbia University\, and the Institute of East Asia at the University of California at Berkeley\, in 2001-2002. He was a senior research fellow or guest professor at the Center for Non-proliferation Studies\, Monterey Institute of International Studies\, in 2000\, the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden in 2004\, the Faculty of Society and Design of Bond University in Australia in 2014\, the Department of Politics at LUISS University in Italy in 2015\, the Department of Politics and Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan in 2017\, and at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2019. His specialties in diplomatic history of China\, China’s foreign and security policy\, strategic studies and regional security\, international relations in the Asia-Pacific region\, and East Asian integration. \n\n\n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lecture and Panels event. \n  \nAdvance registration via the Columbia/SIPA Calendars \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 21\, 2019\n12:10 PM – 1:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1302 \n420 West 118th Street \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-third-wave-of-globalization-and-chinas-diplomacy-in-the-context-of-new-pattern-of-geopolitics/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T220000
DTSTAMP:20191016T195244Z
CREATED:20191016T195208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T195244Z
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SUMMARY:Part II: Local Knowledge\, Legal Transplants and the Struggle over Limited Liability
DESCRIPTION:University Seminar\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nMadeleine Zelin\, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies \nHistory and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments\, Columbia University \n  \nThis is event is part two of a this year’s Schoff Memorial Lecture Series entitled\, “China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century.” \nLaw was central to China’s early twentieth century transformation from empire to republic. This transformation not only uprooted the foundations of political life. It demanded the fashioning of a new and uniquely Chinese legal modernity in the shadow of Western extrater-ritorial privilege. In order to understand the ways in which law devel-oped on contested ground in places like early twentieth century China\, it may be useful to look at seemingly small struggles that reveal the larger processes at work. In these three lectures we will examine just such a struggle. In the first lecture we will see how the idea of the company was naturalized within a Chinese moral universe and came to represent law as the source of western power. In the second\, we will trace the resurrection of the customary realm as it challenged the hegemony of law on the books and the notion that before the arrival of Europeans China had no private law. Finally\, in the third lecture we will take a position as observers to the struggle between Chinese custom and the arrogance of Western legal universality at extraterritorialy’s premier forum\, the Shanghai International Mixed Court. \nMadeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Stud-ies and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Beginning with her first book\, The Magistrates Tael\, Zelin’s work has focused on the intersection of formal and informal institutions in the economic\, political and legal development of Chi-na. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China was awarded the 2006 Allan Sharlin Memo-rial Prize of the Social Science History Association\, the 2006 Fairbank Prize of the Association for Asian Studies and the 2007 Humanities Book Prize of the International Convention on Asian Studies. Zelin served many years as director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and as Director of Columbia University’s East Asian National Re-source Center. Outside the university she has worked to promote understanding of China in the US and as an integral part of teaching and research in the social sciences\, in roles including Co-Di-rector of the Luce Foundation-AAS Project on Emerging Fields in Asian Studies-Economic History\, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Committee for US China Relations. She is an avid New York amateur flutist. \nNo registration required. \nMore details regarding the Schoff Memorial Lecture Series.\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 18\, 2019 \n8:00 PM-10:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nFaculty House\, 2nd Floor \n64 Morningside Drive \n  \nCosponsored by: Columbia University Press Event
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/part-ii-local-knowledge-legal-transplants-and-the-struggle-over-limited-liability/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T180000
DTSTAMP:20191024T150254Z
CREATED:20190911T140206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T150254Z
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SUMMARY:Japan’s Russia policy under the Abe Administration: Why Tokyo does not share Washington's threat perception
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nJames Brown\, Associate Professor \nDepartment of Political Science\, Temple University Japan Campus \nPeter Clement\, Visiting Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor \nArnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies\, Columbia University \n  \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy \nColumbia University \n  \nOn most international issues\, Japan’s foreign policy broadly tracks that of its U.S. ally. However\, there are exceptions. The clearest current example is Japan’s Russia policy under the Abe administration. While the U.S. National Security Strategy presents Russia as a revisionist power that presents a challenge to U.S. values and interests\, Japan’s National Security Strategy highlights no concerns about Russia’s behaviour and stresses that “it is critical for Japan to advance cooperation with Russia in all areas”. Moreover\, while Washington has progressively tightened sanctions on Russian businesses and officials since 2014\, Tokyo has announced an 8-point economic cooperation plan and has rolled out the red carpet for many individuals under Western sanctions. What accounts for this stark difference in approach? In part\, it is due to Prime Minister Abe’s personal determination to resolve the territorial dispute with Russia before the end of his time in office. However\, Japan’s current policy towards Russia is also shaped by underlying security concerns. Threatened by North Korea and China\, and increasingly worried about the endurance of the U.S. security commitment to the region\, Japanese strategists have judged that positive relations with Russia are essential for national security.  \n  \n  \n James D.J. Brown is an associate professor of Political Science at Temple University\, Japan Campus. Professor Brown’s current research focuses on Russian-Japanese relations\, with particular regard to the territorial dispute over the Northern Territories/Southern Kurils. He also continues to work on the relationship between energy and foreign policy. Further to these topics\, he has previously published research on the Soviet-Afghan War\, media reporting of the Syrian conflict\, and Edward Said’s Orientalism. He was the winner of the Political Science Association’s award for the best article published in Politics in 2010. Professor Brown received his PhD International Relations\, University of Aberdeen\, PGDip Russian Language\, University of Glasgow\, MRes Political Research\, University of Aberdeen\, MSc International and European Politics\, University of Edinburgh and BA (Hons.) Philosophy and Politics\, University of York. His previous academic appointments include Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow\, Hosei University (2012-2013)\, Teaching Fellow\, University of Aberdeen (2010-2011)\, Teaching Assistant\, University of Aberdeen (2008-2010). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lecture and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 14\, 2019\n4:00 PM – 6:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1302 \n420 West 118th Street \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/japans-russia-policy-under-the-abe-administration-why-tokyo-does-not-share-washingtons-threat-perception/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T133000
DTSTAMP:20191107T172528Z
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SUMMARY:Social Movement and Changing Identity in Hong Kong
DESCRIPTION:China Center for Social Policy Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nXiaogang Wu \, Chair Professor at the Division of Social Science and the Division of Public Policy \nHong Kong University of Science and Technology \nColumbia University \nNumerous studies have shown that the national identity has declined over time in Hong Kong\, especially since 2008. The decline is particularly prominent among young generated and highly educated groups. The identity politics is often intertwined with social movement in recent years. Based on the longitudinal data of the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) in 2013 and 2015\, respectively\, Professor Wu investigated the impact of social movement in reconstructing participants’ identity. Results from fixed – effect models show that participation in the Occupy Central has led to stronger local identity and weaker national identity.  These findings shed new lights on the theory of identity formation. \nAbout Speaker: \n\n\n\nXiaogang Wu is Chair Professor at the Division of Social Science and the Division of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)\, and Director of the HKUST Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER). His research interests include social inequality and mobility\, education\, gender and family\, urban sociology\, survey\, and quantitative methods.  Professor Wu has been the PI of the two longitudinal urban household data collection projects: “Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD)” since 2011\, and “Shanghai Urban Neighborhood Survey” (SUNS) since 2015.  He is currently leading a research team to study various issues in the two cities. He is currently visiting sociology department at NYU in Fall\, 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lecture and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 14\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/social-movement-and-changing-identity-in-hong-kong/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T133000
DTSTAMP:20191212T203538Z
CREATED:20191024T150557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191212T203538Z
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SUMMARY:Understanding Climate Change on the Tibetan Plateau: Environmental Conservation Research and Climate Science Approaches
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nPlease join us for a panel discussion with: \nYonten Nyima\, Visiting Research Scholar\, NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service \nBrendan Buckley\, Lamont Research Professor\, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory\, Columbia University \nTsering Bum\, Ph.D. candidate\, Department of Anthropology\, Emory University  \nChenxi Xu\, Associate Professor\, Institute of Geology and Geophysics\, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) \n  \nDiscussants:  \nBrendan Buckley\, Lamont Research Professor\, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory\, Columbia University \nEveline Washul\, Modern Tibetan Studies Program\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \n  \nEvent summary: \nThe Tibetan Plateau is the largest high-altitude region in the world and is incredibly important as a source of water\, biodiversity\, and mineral resources on the Asian continent. This also makes it one of the most sensitive areas to climate change. In past decades\, the Tibetan Plateau has seen more significant warming than surrounding regions due to its higher altitude. As such\, Tibetan communities are at the forefront of experiencing the impacts of climate change.  \nThis round table brings together social science researchers working with Tibetan pastoralist communities in China and climate scientists who have worked in the Himalayas and Asia to discuss how interdisciplinary approaches might enrich understandings of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau and contribute to our knowledge of global climate change. \n  \nSpeakers Bios: \nBrendan Buckley holds the position of Lamont Research Professor\, and has been a long-time member of the Tree Ring Lab at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (LDEO). While he has worked in locations around the globe\, Buckley has been one of the pioneers of tropical dendroclimatology\, having produced the longest and best replicated records of absolutely dated tree ring sequences from Southeast Asia. Among his most important discoveries were the identification of two key periods of drought that coincided with the two most tumultuous periods of the past millennium over Southeast Asia – the Angkor droughts of the late 14th/early 15th century\, and the Strange Parallels Drought of late 18th century\, respectively. He continues this important work by using new methods to develop discrete seasonal reconstructions of regional hydroclimate\, including measures of the strength of summer and winter monsoons\, as well as the “shoulder” seasons that lead into and out of them\, over the past millennium. Buckley is a proponent of interdisciplinary research\, working with historians\, archaeologists\, geochemists and atmospheric scientists. \nTsering Bum is from Mangra County in Amdo Tibet (Qinghai Province\, China). He is currently a PhD candidate of Environmental Anthropology at Emory University. From 2012 to 2016\, he worked as program manager and researcher at a Chinese environmental NGO dedicated to biodiversity conservation in western China. At this NGO\, he mainly worked with Tibetan pastoralist communities to establish community-based resource management teams to implement biodiversity monitoring\, waste management\, and human-wildlife conflict resolution work. Currently he is doing dissertation research on the impacts of increased monastic and statist wildlife conservation efforts on pastoralist communities\, specifically focusing on how wildlife conservation practices are transforming socioeconomic structures and power relations amongst Tibetan pastoralist communities. \nYonten Nyima is a human geographer specializing in Tibetan pastoralism. He is currently a visiting Research Scholar at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service\, New York University. His main research interests are development and environmental policies\, pastoralism\, rangeland and natural resource management and access\, indigenous knowledge and climate change\, and cultural politics and resistance. Dr. Yonten Nyima draws from political ecology and political economy in examining rationales for\, implementation of\, and socioeconomic\, cultural\, political and ecological effects of China’s ongoing development and environmental policies in Tibet. He has published peer-reviewed articles on Tibetan pastoralism in journals including Society and Natural Resources\, Conservation and Society\, Human Ecology\, and Area. \nChenxi Xu holds the position of Associate Professor at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics\, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS). He has been engaged in research on tree ring oxygen isotope and global changes and has contributed to the development of dendrochronology and dendroclimatology in tropical and subtropical areas. His main contributions include: 1) studies on oxygen isotope of trees with and without ring structure in Southeast Asia that indicate that tree ring oxygen isotope can be used as a new method to cross-date trees in the tropics; 2) systematic comparisons that showed that tree ring oxygen isotope in monsoonal Asia significantly correlated with summer moisture changes\, and thus the history of summer moisture changes in various locations (Laos\, Thailand\, Vietnam\, India\, Nepal and China) in the Asian monsoon region can be reconstructed based on this relationship. His hydroclimate reconstructions reveal South Asian summer monsoon has weakened in the past 200 years\, and the increased sea surface temperature in the Indian Ocean that resulted in reduced land-sea thermal contrast is the main reason for the weakening of the South Asian summer monsoon. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian 70th Anniversary event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 14\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \nCosponsors: Modern Tibetan Studies Program\, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory\, Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/understanding-climate-change-tibetan-plateau/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191112T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191112T190000
DTSTAMP:20191021T201640Z
CREATED:20191007T144326Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening and Discussion of Boys for Sale (売買ボーイズ)
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join us for a film screening of Boys for Sale (売買ボーイズ)  and discussion with: \n  \nIan Thomas Ash\, filmmaker and producer \nModerated by:  \nKim Brandt\, Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute \nColumbia University \n  \nThe event will focus on the screening of the 2017 documentary film Boys for Sale (売買ボーイズ) followed by remarks by the producer\, Ian Thomas Ash. \nAbout the film: In the Tokyo district of Shinjuku 2-chome there are bars that specialize in “Urisen”\, young guys who have sex with men. Featuring candid interviews and interspersed with animation detailing the awkward\, sweet\, and sometimes horrific situations these young sex workers experience\, the boys for sale boldly tell their stories of life in the Tokyo underground. This documentary is an illuminating look into a rarely seen world that tantalizingly shows the humanity of sex work. \nAbout the speaker:  \nBorn in America\, Ian Thomas Ash earned an MA in Film and Television Production at the University of Bristol\, UK\, in 2005. His first feature documentary\, ‘the ballad of vicki and jake’ (2006)\, received the Prix du Canton Vaud prize at the 2006 Visions du Reél International Documentary Film Festival in Nyon\, Switzerland. Ian’s two feature documentaries about children living in areas of Fukushima contaminated by the 2011 nuclear meltdown\, ‘In the Grey Zone‘ (2012) and ‘A2-B-C‘ (2013)\, have screened at festivals around the world where they have also received multiple awards. \nHis documentaries that followed also dealt with themes surrounding health and medicine in Japan\, starting with ‘-1287‘ (2014) which received numerous awards\, including the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2015 Nippon Connection Film Festival in Germany and the First Prize in the Asian Competition at the 2015 DMZ Docs Film Festival in Korea.  “Dying at Home” (2016) and “Suturing Cultures” (2017)\, both commissions from NHK World\, are on opposite end of the spectrum: one is about end-of-life care\, while the other is about the future doctors of Japan. \n“Boys for Sale” (2017\, dir. Itako)\, a documentary about male sex workers in Tokyo on which Ian served as Executive Producer\, screened in 40 film festivals across the world\, receiving six awards for Best Feature Documentary. \nIan has lived in Japan for a total of 16 years and has recently completed two documentaries: the feature-length version of his film about end-of-life care in a small village in rural Japan called “おみおくり〜Sending Off〜“\, which received the Audience Award at its World Premier in Germany in May 2019\, and a short called “The Father’s Love Begotten” about the sexual abuse of a young boy which also received the Audience Award at its World Premier in Holland in April 2019. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Arts and Cultures event. \n  \nNo registration required. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 12\, 2019\n5:00 PM – 7:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\n420 West 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/film-screening-and-discussion-of-boys-for-sale-%e5%a3%b2%e8%b2%b7%e3%83%9c%e3%83%bc%e3%82%a4%e3%82%ba/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191112T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191112T140000
DTSTAMP:20191111T164747Z
CREATED:20190905T134407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191111T164747Z
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SUMMARY:Effectiveness of a Collaborative Stepped-Care Model for Older Adults with Depression
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nTerry Lum\, Professor and Head of Department of Social Work and Social Administration \nHong Kong University  \nModerated by: \nJinyu Liu\, Assistant Professor of Social Work\, School of Social Work \nColumbia University \n  \nEvent Summary: Depression is common among older adults and creates a substantial burden on individuals\, caregivers\, and healthcare system. In this talk\, Prof. Terry Lum presents an innovative collaborative stepped care intervention that promotes the coordination between elderly center and community mental health center to provide nonpharmacological intervention to elders with mild to moderate level of depression. \nThe stepped care model was implemented in four districts in Hong Kong between September 2017 and February 2019. In each district\, one community mental health center and one elderly center worked together to implement this stepped care model. A quasi-experimental design was used to study the effectiveness of this intervention. A total of 853 older adults completed the intervention and additional 500 elders were recruited as control. Based on a rich set of measures and multivariate analyses\, this study found that the stepped care model was effective in reducing the levels of depression and anxiety among Chinese older people. Prof. Lum will introduce the stepped care model in detail and discuss its implementation and implications. \nAbout the Speaker: Professor Lum’s research focuses on social policy and evidence based multicomponent intervention for social problems. He is particularly interested in the interface among aging\, culture\, and humanity. He enjoys very much identifying and exploring the Asian perspectives in these topics. Professor Lum works closely with community stakeholders to develop\, implement\, and test various clinical and policy interventions to enhance the well-being of older people. Apart from serving as the Head of the Department of Social Work and Social Administration\, he is the Deputy Convenor of the HKU Strategic Research Theme on Aging and Associate Director of the Sau Po Center on Aging. Since 2011\, Professor Lum has received more than HK$79 million external research funding (US$10.1 million) as the principle investigator or co-principle investigator. His research findings on aging-in-place have led to the development of aging-in-place program for low income elders in public rental housing estates of the Hong Kong Housing Society. His research findings in long term care policy have led to the development of new assessment and service matching systems and reshaped the long term care infrastructure of Hong Kong. In 2001\, Professor Lum was awarded the prestigious Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar award. In 2011\, he was elected as a Fellow by the Gerontological Society of America. In 2016\, he was awarded the Career Leadership Award by the Association of Gerontology Education in Social Work (AGESW) in the United States. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 2019-2020 Lecture Series event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 12\, 2019\n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \n  \nCosponsored by the China Center for Social Policy and the Columbia School of Social Work.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/health-care-policies-and-services-for-older-adults-in-hong-kong/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191111T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191111T220000
DTSTAMP:20191016T195249Z
CREATED:20191016T194724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T195249Z
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SUMMARY:Part I: The “Company” Will Save Us: Utopian Visions of the Corporation in late Qing China
DESCRIPTION:University Seminar\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nMadeleine Zelin\, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies \nHistory and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments\, Columbia University \n  \nThis is event is part one of a this year’s Schoff Memorial Lecture Series entitled\, “China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century.” \nLaw was central to China’s early twentieth century transformation from empire to republic. This transformation not only uprooted the foundations of political life. It demanded the fashioning of a new and uniquely Chinese legal modernity in the shadow of Western extrater-ritorial privilege. In order to understand the ways in which law devel-oped on contested ground in places like early twentieth century China\, it may be useful to look at seemingly small struggles that reveal the larger processes at work. In these three lectures we will examine just such a struggle. In the first lecture we will see how the idea of the company was naturalized within a Chinese moral universe and came to represent law as the source of western power. In the second\, we will trace the resurrection of the customary realm as it challenged the hegemony of law on the books and the notion that before the arrival of Europeans China had no private law. Finally\, in the third lecture we will take a position as observers to the struggle between Chinese custom and the arrogance of Western legal universality at extraterritorialy’s premier forum\, the Shanghai International Mixed Court. \nMadeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Stud-ies and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Beginning with her first book\, The Magistrates Tael\, Zelin’s work has focused on the intersection of formal and informal institutions in the economic\, political and legal development of Chi-na. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China was awarded the 2006 Allan Sharlin Memo-rial Prize of the Social Science History Association\, the 2006 Fairbank Prize of the Association for Asian Studies and the 2007 Humanities Book Prize of the International Convention on Asian Studies. Zelin served many years as director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and as Director of Columbia University’s East Asian National Re-source Center. Outside the university she has worked to promote understanding of China in the US and as an integral part of teaching and research in the social sciences\, in roles including Co-Di-rector of the Luce Foundation-AAS Project on Emerging Fields in Asian Studies-Economic History\, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Committee for US China Relations. She is an avid New York amateur flutist. \nNo registration required. \nMore details regarding the Schoff Memorial Lecture Series.\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 11\, 2019 \n8:00 PM-10:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nFaculty House\, 2nd Floor \n64 Morningside Drive \n  \nCosponsored by: Columbia University Press Event
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-company-will-save-us-utopian-visions-of-the-corporation-in-late-qing-china/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191111T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191111T190000
DTSTAMP:20191024T132411Z
CREATED:20191024T132146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T132411Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: “Street New Yorkers”
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\n  \nPlease join us for the film screening of “Street New Yorkers\,” \nQ + A with \nFounder Jeon \nNo registration required. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMonday\, November 11\, 2019 \n5:00 PM  – 7:00 PM \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\,  Room 918 \nFood and refreshment will be served. \nCosponsored by The Academy of Korean Studies\, Seoul Korea; Columbia Alumni Association\, Korea; Korea Focus\, Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/film-screening-street-new-yorkers/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191111T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191111T181500
DTSTAMP:20191122T191411Z
CREATED:20191025T133931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191122T191411Z
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SUMMARY:Tenth Annual NT Wang Distinguished Lecture: "E-commerce and Inclusive Growth in China: Opportunities and Challenges"
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n10th Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture with Xubei Luo of Alibaba with Shang-Jin Wei\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nXubei Luo\, Senior Economist \n World Bank Group \nModerated by: \nShang-Jin Wei\, N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy \nColumbia Business School \n \nAbout the Speaker: \nXubei Luo is a Senior Economist at the World Bank Group. Since joining the Young Professional Program in 2005\, she has worked in the operation\, research\, and evaluation departments\, and conducted country work in the East Asia and Europe and Central Asia Regions. She led the enterprise aspect of the World Development Report 2014\, Risk and Opportunity. She recently task managed the partnership and joint research in e-commerce between the World Bank and the Alibaba Group\, China. She has been a lead author for Bank reports and evaluations on poverty\, investment climate\, and public expenditure tracking. She has co-authored a book of Multilateral Banks and the Development Process: Vital Links in the Results Chain (published by Transaction Publishers\, 2012)\, and published over 50 articles. She is ranked the top 10 percent of authors by all-time downloads on SSRN. Her research interest includes poverty and inequality\, growth\, labor market\, spatial economy\, global value chains\, e-commerce\, trade facilitation\, and monitoring and evaluation. \nMs. Luo holds a Ph. D. in Economics from International Development Research Center (CERDI)\, University of Auvergne\, France\, and three MAs in Project Analysis\, Development Economics\, and Economic Policy from CERDI\, and an MA in Finance from Sun Yat-Sen University\, China. \n  \nThis event is a Lectures and Panels event part of the continued NT Wang Lecture Series. \n  \nRegistration required. Please register at https://events.columbia.edu/go/tenthntwang \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 11\, 2019\n5:00 PM – 6:15 PM\n  \nAddress \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1501 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors: The Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/tenth-annual-nt-wang-lecture-e-commerce-and-inclusive-growth-in-china-opportunities-and-challenges/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191108T173000
DTSTAMP:20191031T143508Z
CREATED:20190923T201907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191031T143508Z
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SUMMARY:Buddhism and Politics in Korea
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\n  \nPlease join us for a workshop with: \nJuhn Ahn\, University of Michigan \nHwansoo Kim\, Yale University \nSeong Uk Kim\, Columbia University \nJin Y. Park\, American University \n  \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences\, and Symposia event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFriday\, November 8\, 2019 \n1:00 PM-5:30 PM \n  \nAddress\n\n420 W 118th St\, New York\, NY 10027 \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \n  \nCosponsored by: The Academy of Korean Studies\, Seoul Korea; the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures \n  \nTags: Korea
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/buddhism-and-politics-in-korea/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T173000
DTSTAMP:20191031T143440Z
CREATED:20190923T201641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191031T143440Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: "Lost Graves and Recycled Mourning Sheds: How the Late Koryŏ Elite Took the Drama Out of Afterlife”
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\n  \nPlease join us for a book talk with: \nJuhn Ahn\, Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies \nUniversity of Michigan \n  \nTwo issues central to the transition from the Koryo to the Choson dynasty in fourteenth-century Korea were social differences in ruling elites and the decline of Buddhism\, which had been the state religion. In this revisionist history\, Juhn Ahn challenges the long-accepted Confucian critique that Buddhism had become so powerful and corrupt that the state had to suppress it. When newly rising elites (many with strong ties to the Mongols) used lavish donations to Buddhist institutions to enhance their status\, older elites defended their own adherence to this time-honored system by arguing that their donations were linked to virtue. This emphasis on virtue and the consequent separation of religion from wealth facilitated the Confucianization of Korea and the relegation of Buddhism to the margins of public authority during the Choson dynasty. \n  \nRead an interview conducted by Ross Yelsey with Dr. Ahn here:  \n  \nJuhn Ahn is the author of Buddhas and Ancestors: Religion and Wealth in Fourteenth-Century Korea (University of Washington Press\, 2018) \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nThursday\, November 7\, 2019 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM \n  \nAddress\n\nKent Hall Lounge \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \n  \nCosponsored by: The Academy of Korean Studies\, Seoul Korea; the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/lost-graves-and-recycled-mourning-sheds-how-the-late-koryo-elite-took-the-drama-out-of-afterlife-a-book-talk-with-juhn-ahn/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T160000
DTSTAMP:20191024T145513Z
CREATED:20190905T134238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T145513Z
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SUMMARY:Top down or bottom up? Politics and Society in Thailand and Indonesia
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nAlex Arifianto\, Research Fellow\, Indonesia Programme\, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies \nNanyang Technological University – Singapore \n  \nChristopher Ankersen\, Clinical Associate Professor \nNYU Center for Global Affairs  \n  \nModerated by: \nAmy Freedman\, Department Chair and Professor of Political Science and International Studies \nLong Island University Post  \n  \nThis panel discussion will look at the broad question of whether changes in society are happening as a result of political manipulation from the top; or because of substantive changes within culture\, values and beliefs. \n  \nDr. Arifianto’s talk\, titled “From Identity Politics to New Sectarianization? Political Islam and the 2019 Indonesian Election”\, will look at the 2019 Indonesian elections and ask if the polarization and divisiveness is a new and lasting feature of Indonesian society\, or if it is a function of specific electoral dynamics unique to these candidates and this moment in time. \n  \nProfessor Ankersen’s talk\, titled “Culture in Action: The Case of Contemporary Thai Politics”\, will examine the cultural images being used to construct oppressive strictures in contemporary Thai politics and explore whether these structures are manifestations of long-standing cultural norms or if they are being manipulated from elites for regime survival.  \n  \nAbout Speakers: \nAlexander R. Arifianto is a Research Fellow with the Indonesia Programme\, Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies\, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) – Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. His research interest is political Islam and Islamic movements in Indonesia\, particularly Nahdlatul Ulama\, Muhammadiyah\, and new Islamist movements such as Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI). His articles have appeared in refereed journals such as Asia Policy (forthcoming)\, Trans-National and Regional Studies of Southeast Asia (TRaNS)\, Asian Security\, Asian Politics and Policy\, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations\, and Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (formerly ASEAN Economic Bulletin). In addition\, he also has published policy-oriented articles related to Indonesian politics in online magazines and blogs such as The Diplomat\, The Conversation\, New Mandala (Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs\, Australian National University)\, Order from Chaos (The Brookings Institution)\, and The Strategist (Australian Strategic Policy Institute). \n  \nDr. Christopher Ankersen is Clinical Associate Professor at the Center for Global Affairs\, where he teaches in the Transnational Security concentration. Prior to joining NYU\, Christopher was the Security Advisor for the United Nations system in Thailand (2012-2017). Previously\, he held positions at the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Phnom Penh\, Cambodia (2010-2012); the UN Offices in Geneva (2007-2010) and Vienna (2006-2007); and with the Department of Safety and Security in New York\, where he was Desk Officer for Iraq (2005-2006). \nFrom 2002 to 2004\, Dr. Ankersen was a Ralf Dahrendorf Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught at the LSE\, the London Centre for International Relations\, King’s College London\, Carleton University\, and the Royal Military College of Canada and has lectured at staff colleges in Canada\, Australia\, and Denmark. From 2000 to 2005\, he acted as a policy and strategy consultant to militaries\, governments and private firms in the UK and Canada. From 1988 to 2000\, Dr. Ankersen was an officer in the Canadian Forces\, serving in Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry\, including on overseas missions with the UN and NATO. \nDr. Ankersen is a member of the Regional Consultative Group for Asia and the Pacific on Civil-Military Coordination in Disaster Relief; a Senior Research Fellow at the German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG)\, Faculty of Law\, Thammasat University\, Thailand; and a Senior Fellow at the Canadian International Council. He currently serves as an associate editor with the journal International Politics Reviews. Dr. Ankersen is co-founder of the NYU Project on Armed Forces and Society. \nHis research interests include civil military relations\, strategic studies\, international security\, and crisis/disaster response. He is particularly interested in the geopolitics and transnational security issues of Southeast Asia. \nChristopher Ankersen holds a BA (Hons) in International Politics and History from Royal Roads Military College (Canada) and an MSc and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.                                                                                 \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 07\, 2019\n2:30 PM – 4:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/top-down-or-bottom-up-politics-and-society-in-thailand-and-indonesia/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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SUMMARY:The Historical Roots of Social Policy Exclusion: Shanghai and Bombay in the 1950s
DESCRIPTION:School of Social Work Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nMark Frazier\, Professor of Politics and Academic Director of India China Institute \nNew School University  \nModerated by: \nQin Gao\, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work; Director\, China Center for Social Policy \nColumbia University \n  \nScholars of Western democracies have amply demonstrated the path-dependent nature of social policies. Once introduced\, new policies create groups with powerful incentives to defend social policies from fundamental changes\, while outsiders focus their demands on inclusion into existing policies. Fundamental policy re-design\, let alone revocation and replacement\, becomes politically infeasible. This talk examines social and labor policies in cases where we might expect them to be most amenable to fundamental changes: post-revolutionary Shanghai and post-colonial Bombay. While both regimes made deep commitments to socialist transformation\, housing and labor policies were more incremental than transformative.  Using the concept of “social citizenship\,” this talk explores how social policy changes favoring labor market “insiders” over the urban poor. The policies enacted during the mid-20th century exerted a powerful influence on the way that social policies were developed to address the disruptions of liberalization and globalization in the late 20th century. \n  \nAbout Speaker: \nMark W. Frazier is Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research and Academic Director of the India China Institute at The New School (New York City). His research interests focus on labor and social policy in China\, and more recently on political conflict over urbanization\, migration\, and citizenship in China and India. His forthcoming book\, The Power of Place: Contentious Politics in Twentieth Century Shanghai and Bombay (Cambridge University Press\, 2019) examines long-term changes in political geographies and patterns of popular protest in the two cities. He is also the author of Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press\, 2010) and The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press\, 2002). He is also Co-Editor of the SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China (SAGE Publications\, 2018). He has authored op-ed pieces and essays for The New York Times\, Daedalus\, and The Diplomat. Frazier serves on the editorial board of China Quarterly and is a Faculty Associate at the Columbia University’s China Center for Social Policy. He has been a Public Intellectuals Program fellow at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations since 2005. Before assuming his current position at The New School in 2012\, he held a chaired professorship in Chinese Politics at the University of Oklahoma and was the Luce Assistant Professor in the Political Economy of East Asia at Lawrence University\, a liberal arts college in Wisconsin. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 06\, 2019\n12:15 PM – 1:45 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: China Center for Social Policy at Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-historical-roots-of-social-policy-exclusion-shanghai-and-bombay-in-the-1950s/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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