• An ant who shakes the tree (蝼蚁撼大树):personal experiences in education reform in China

    Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event   Please join us for a lecture with:   Chenjian (C.J.) Li, University Chair Professor Peking University   Moderated by: Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science Columbia University   Event summary: Education reform is one of the most important and difficult tasks in all nations, especially in […]

  • U.S.-Japan Relations in a Turbulent World

    Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event     Click here for a write-up and video of the event.   Please join us for a panel discussion: Featuring: Kanji Yamanouchi, Ambassador and Consul General of Japan in New York In discussion with: Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Hugh […]

  • Film Screening and Discussion of “Broken Harmony: China’s Dissidents”

    Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event   Please join us for a film screening with: Teng Biao, human rights lawyer; President China Against the Death Penalty Hua Ze, human rights activist; Executive Director of a human rights organization  (confidential for safety reasons) He Yang, documentary filmmaker; former human rights activist  Risa Morimoto, Director Diana Chiawen Lee, […]

  • 能 Neng (Capacity/Energy) and China’s Long 1980s: A Re-evaluation

    East Asia Languages and Cultures Department Event Please join us for a conference with:   Tani Barlow (Rice University)  Nick Bartlett (Barnard College) Corey Byrnes (Northwestern University) Julie Chu (University of Chicago) Lily Chumley (New York University) Myron Cohen (Columbia University)  Joshua Freeman (Princeton University) Erin Huang (Princeton University) Paola Iovene (University of Chicago) Yukiko […]

  • “New Directions in Japanese Studies”

    Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a workshop with: Yan CHANG (University of Minnesota) Stephen CHOI (Columbia University) Carol GLUCK (Columbia University) Harry HAROOTUNIAN (Columbia University) Tianyuan HUANG (Columbia University) Mairead HYNES (Columbia University) IWASAKI Minoru (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) NARITA Ryūichi (Japan Women’s University) Jordan SAND (Georgetown University) Isaac TAN […]