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SUMMARY:“Reporting Asia: Japan”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nBill Emmott\, former editor-in-chief \nThe Economist \nTomoko Kubota\, Independent Journalist and Oral historian \n  \nModerated by: \nCarol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History \nColumbia University  \n  \nAbout the Speakers: \nBill Emmott is a writer and consultant best known for his 13 years as editor in chief of The Economist in 1993-2006\, a publication he first joined in 1980 and served in Brussels\, Tokyo and London. During his time as editor the publication’s weekly circulation more than doubled from 500\,000 to over 1 million\, enjoying worldwide growth to become the leading current affairs and business magazine worldwide. \n  \nSince stepping down at the age of 49\, Bill has combined deep research into political and economic trends in Europe\, Asia and at a global level for his series of well received books with bespoke consulting and advisory work for major firms and institutions. He served as an adviser to Swiss Re from 2006-2019 and also currently assists a London-based hedge fund with its thinking on Italy and the wider euro area. A member of Tokyo University’s Global Advisory Board he is also on the Senior Advisory Panel for Critical Resource\, a consultancy. \n  \nIn 2017-18 he was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College\, Oxford\, is an honorary fellow of Magdalen College\, Oxford\, and is currently a Fellow of Tokyo College\, a new research institute at Tokyo University. He is now chairman of the board of Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub for Arts & Humanities\, chairman of the Japan Society of the UK\, and chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He is a regular contributor to La Stampa\, Nikkei Business\, Mainichi Shimbun and Project Syndicate\, as well as an occasional writer of op-eds for the Financial Times. In 2016 the Japanese government awarded him the “Order of the Rising Sun: Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon” for services to UK-Japan relations. \n  \nBill is the author of 14 books variously on Japan\, Asia\, the 20th century and Italy. The latest English work\, “The Fate of the West – the battle to save the world’s most successful political idea”\, was published in 2017; the latest Japanese work\, “Japan’s Far More Female Future”\, was published by Nikkei Publishing in June 2019. He was presenter and co-author of a documentary about Italy\, “Girlfriend in a Coma” (2013) and executive producer of “The Great European Disaster Movie” (2015)\, both shown on the BBC. With the director of those films\, Annalisa Piras\, he co-founded an educational charity\, The Wake Up Foundation\, which uses film\, art and journalism to foster a better understanding of the challenges facing western societies. In May 2019\, the foundation held a “Wake Up Europe Festival” for social impact documentary films in Turin\, Italy. \n  \nTomoko Kubota \nMs. Kubota joined Tokyo Broadcasting (TBS) in 2000 where she became an announcer and worked on various programs\, including Dobutsu kisotengai! [Amazing Animals!]\, Tetsuya Chikushi News 23\, and Hodo Tokushu [Special News]. From 2013\, she held appointments across the news bureau and served as a correspondent with the New York Bureau\, as well as a political reporter at TBS. In 2017 she became a freelancer and in 2019 she obtained an MA in oral history from Columbia University. She is currently in a doctoral program at the University of Tokyo where she further pursues her research on oral history. \n  \nThis event is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th Anniversary Event and part of the Reporting Asia Lecture Series. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 21\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nSchool of Journalism\, World Room \n2950 Broadway \n  \nCosponsored by: School of Journalism
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/reporting-asia-japan/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary,Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191018T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191019T180000
DTSTAMP:20191009T182733Z
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SUMMARY:The Bounds of Modern Japanese Literature and Film\, A Symposium in Honor of Professor Paul Anderer
DESCRIPTION:Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture Event\nPlease join us for a symposium with: \n  \nJohn Carpenter\, Metropolitan Museum of Art \nNina Cornyetz\, NYU \nStephen Dodd\, SOAS \nJoan Ericson\, Colorado College \nChris Hill\, University of Michigan \nIndra Levy\, Stanford \nSeiji Lippit\, UCLA \nDavid Lurie\, Columbia \nYi-Ping Ong\, Johns Hopkins \nSunyoung Park\, USC \nJanet Poole\, University of Toronto \nCharlotte Pu\, Columbia College \nJean-Emmanuel Shein\, Uniqlo \nNate Shockey\, Bard College \nLarry Siems\, Knight Institute \nToeda Hirokazu\, Waseda University \nJ. Keith Vincent\, BU \nTyler Walker\, Kalamazoo College \nKerim Yasar\, USC \nAnri Yasuda\, UVA \nEve Zimmerman\, Wellesley \nJonathan Zwicker\, UC Berkeley \n  \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences\, and Symposia event. \n  \nRegistration required at http://keenecenter.org/RSVP.html \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 18\, 2019\n2:00 PM-5:00 PM\nOctober 19\, 2019\n10:00 AM-6:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nKent Hall\, Room 403 \n1140 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY 10027 \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \n  \nCosponsored by: the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-bounds-of-modern-japanese-literature-and-film-a-symposium-in-honor-of-professor-paul-anderer/
LOCATION:Kent Hall\, Room 403\, Columbia University - Kent Hall\, Room 403\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191016T173000
DTSTAMP:20191014T152202Z
CREATED:20190923T200945Z
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SUMMARY:“Traversing Chosŏn Society through Music”
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Special Event\n  \nPlease join us for a special performance by: \nGamin Kang\, piri\, saenghwang and taepyeongso soloist  \n  \nQ&A with: \n Hye Eun Choi\, Visiting Scholar \nColumbia University \n  \nGamin Kang\, simply known as “gamin\,” a distinguished NYC soloist\, tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Born in Seoul\, gamin received her B.A. (1998) and Doctor of Musical Arts (2016) in Korean music from Seoul National University. Gamin plays piri (double reed Korean oboe)\, taepyeonso (double-reed horn)\, and saenghwang (mouth organ). She is a designated Yisuja\, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Gamin was second principal piri player at National Gugak Orchestra\, 2004-10. \n  \nRe-inventing new sonorities from ancient\, somewhat restrictive\, musical systems\, gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants\, including Artist-in-Residence (2014) at the Asian Cultural Council\, Rockefeller U.\, and Ministry of Culture\, Sports\, Tourism of Republic of Korea (2012). She has presented lecture/concerts at Harvard and Dartmouth\, and in Paris\, Strasbourg\, and Freiburg. Gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation in NYC with world-acclaimed musician Jane Ira Bloom\, presenting premieres at Roulette Theater\, New School\, and Metropolitan Museum\, NYC. Gamin was featured artist at the Silkroad concert\, Seoul\, 2018\, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. \n  \nIn addition to 5 CD’s\, gamin digitally released “Attraction\,” traditional solo music for piri. All About Jazz (2014) praised “…the most haunting track\, the elegiac Jeongseon Arirang\, played by gamin on piri…” Gamin’s latest recording comprises improvs with today’s most innovative musicians\, including Ned Rothenberg. Gamin premiered her newest solos\, performed by Korea Symphony (2016)\, Seoul Philharmonic (2015)\, and National Gugak Orchestra (2019). \nGamin was visiting scholar at James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies\, U. of Pennsylvania\, 2018. \n  \nClosing out 2019\, gamin will be Artist-in-Residence at Brandeis U.\, and continue her tour to Mexico City\, Berlin\, and Seoul. In March 2020\, gamin will perform her Carnegie Hall début with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra. \n  \nThis is an Arts and Culture Event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM \n  \nAddress\n\nKent Hall\, Room 403\n  \n  \nCosponsored by: The Academy of Korean Studies\, Seoul Korea; Columbia Alumni Association\, Korea; the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, The Department of Music \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/traversing-choson-society-through-music/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191015T133000
DTSTAMP:20191031T173126Z
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SUMMARY:“Mongolia at the Crossroads of Asia: Foreign Policy Challenges in the Democratic Era”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nAlicia Campi\, President of the Asian Political and History Association; Adjunct Professor at the Reischauer Center\, School of Advanced International Studies \nJohns Hopkins University  \n  \nModerated by: \nElizabeth Wishnick \nProfessor of Political Science \nMontclair State University;  \nSenior Research Scholar \nWeatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University  \n  \nThis event will discuss Alicia Campi’s new book\, Mongolia’s Foreign Policy: Navigating a New World (Lynne Rienner\, April 2019). Strategically located at the crossroads of Asia\, Mongolia has long attracted the attention of major world powers. How has this traditionally nomadic\, but resource rich\, country used a “Wolf Strategy” to establish its own place in the modern world? What challenges does it now face? Answering these questions\, Alicia Campi provides a multifaceted examination of the context\, formulation\, and execution of contemporary Mongolian foreign policy. She elaborates on how Mongolia has navigated the attention of major world powers\, including China\, Russia\, India\, Japan\, the Koreas\, EU countries\, and the United States\, and forged a path of its own in the modern world.  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Alicia Campi is a China/Mongolian specialist and was a U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer for 14 years who served in Asian posts (Singapore\, Taiwan\, Japan and Mongolia) and the U.S Mission to the United Nations in New York. Since 2013\, she has been a Research Fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies and Adjunct Professor within the Asia Programs at Johns Hopkins SAIS\, where she teaches a course on the ‘Construction of Northeast Asia.’ In 2016\, she became the coordinator of the U.S. State Department’s Northeast Asia regional studies course at the Foreign Service Institute. She received her AB in East Asian History from Smith College in 1971\, obtained an MA in East Asian Studies with a concentration in Mongolian Studies from Harvard University in 1973\, and spent 2 years in Taiwan at Fu Jen University. Dr. Campi received a PhD in Central Eurasian and Mongolian Studies with a minor in Chinese Studies in 1987 from Indiana University. In July 2004 she was awarded the “Friendship” Medal by Mongolian President N. Bagabandi and in 2011 received the “Polar Star” (Mongolia’s highest medal) from President Ts. Elbegdorj. In September 2007 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia. Dr. Campi has published over 100 articles and book chapters on contemporary Chinese\, Mongolian\, and Eurasian issues\, and has been a guest on Chinese programs for Radio Free Asia. She advises Chinese and western financial institutions on Eurasian investment issues\, particularly in the mining sector. Her book on The Impact of China and Russia on U.S.-Mongolian Political Relations in the 20th Century was published in 2009\, and her new book on Mongolian Foreign policy in the Democratic Era will be published in 2018. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 15\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/18887/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191014T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191014T133000
DTSTAMP:20191025T210026Z
CREATED:20190905T133227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T210026Z
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SUMMARY:“Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nSelçuk Esenbel\, Emerita Professor of Modern Japanese History in the Department of History \nBoğaziçi University\, Istanbul\, Turkey \n  \nModerated by: \nCarol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History \nColumbia University  \n  \nDr. Esenbel will focus her talk on her recent book\, Japan on the Silk Road. The book provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan’s current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats\, military officers\, archaeologists\, and linguists traversed the Silk Road\, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations. The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism\, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism. Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey\, India\, Egypt\, Iran\, Afghanistan\, and China at the same time reveal a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism and transnationality.  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nSelçuk Esenbel is Emerita Professor of Modern Japanese History in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University\, Istanbul\, Turkey. Esenbel is currently teaching as emerita in the Department of History and the Master of Arts in Asian Studies at Bogazici University. She is also currently teaching in the History Department of Istanbul 29 Mayis University. Esenbel is the founder and presently the academic advisor of the Master of Arts in Asian Studies and the Asian Studies Center at Bogazici University. After growing up in the United States\, Turkey\, and Japan\, Esenbel completed her undergraduate degree in History at the International Christian University (Japan) and George Washington University (USA). She received her MS degree from the Department of Japanese Language and Linguistics at Georgetown University (USA) in 1969. Esenbel earned her Ph.D in Japanese History from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University where she also worked as a student assistant in the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. From 1982 to 1985\, she was assistant professor at Boğaziçi University and became full professor in 1997\, serving as Chair of the Department of History at Bogazici University between 1994 and 2003 during which time she expanded the History program to be the first one in Turkey with a world history perspective. She helped establish Turkey’s Japanese Studies Association in 1993 and became its third president in 2002. Esenbel is the recipient of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun from Japan\, Alexander von Humboldt Georg Forster Research Award\, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award\, and has been serving as a member of the International Advisory Board of Trustees of the Toynbee Prize Foundation. Esenbel’s research interest cover social\, cultural\, and political topics of late Tokugawa and Meiji history. Her current research and publications are on Modern Japan’s interaction with the Turkic and Muslim worlds which have pioneered the field as a transnational history of pre- war Japan’s Pan-Asianism and Pan-Islam. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 14\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/japan-on-the-silk-road-encounters-and-perspectives-of-politics-and-culture-in-eurasia/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T181500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T194500
DTSTAMP:20190930T165344Z
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SUMMARY:The Voices of the Victims: The Rohingyas and their “Subhuman” life
DESCRIPTION:SIPA Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \n  \nNasir Uddin\, Cultural Anthropologist based in Bangladesh and Professor of Anthropology\, \n Chittagong University \n  \n  \nThe Rohingyas\, widely known as the world’s most persecuted ethnic minority\, experienced an unprecedented brutality committed by Myanmar security forces along in collaboration with some ethnic extremists and Buddhist fundamentalist. Under the pretext of counter insurgency following an alleged attack by ARSA on August 25\, 2017 onwards\, Myanmar security forces indiscriminately killed\, randomly raped and intentionally burnt houses and properties of the civilian Rohingya people in Rakhine state. A report prepared by a three-member-panel appointed by the United Nations published in August 2018 showed that the brutal military crackdown in 2017 triggered an influx of 725\,000 [until now 750\,000] Rohingyas to Bangladesh\, more than 10\,000 were killed on the ground in the first two months\, hundreds of girls and women were ganged raped\, and around 392 villages were partially or totally destroyed. Combined with previous waves of refugees\, now 1.3 million Rohingyas live in Ukhia and Teknaf refugee camps which are considered as the world’s largest camps. The intensity of atrocity was so extreme that the UN Human Rights Council’s Chief termed it as “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” whilst many scholars and many credible media outlets called it “genocide.” Accounts gathered by Nasir Uddin from the Rohingyas living in Ukhia and Teknaf unfold the horrible ways they were dealt with as if they were lesser than human beings what Uddin terms “subhuman” life. This talk presents the first-hand narratives of the Rohingya refugees\, the voices of the victims\, in the broader spectrum of statelessness\, refugeehood and human rights in the world. \n  \nNasir Uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh\, and Professor of Anthropology at Chittagong University. Uddin studied and carried out research at the University of Oxford\, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, the London School of Economics (LSE)\, Heidelberg University\, VU University Amsterdam\, Ruhr-University Bochum\, Delhi School of Economics (DSE)\, the University of Hull\, Kyoto University\, and the University of Dhaka. His research interests include refugees\, statelessness\, and citizenship; state in everyday life and transborder movements; indigeneity and identity politics; the Rohingyas; the Chittagong Hill Tracts; and South Asia more general. His latest edited book is “Deterritorialised Identity and Transborder Movement in South Asia” (Springer\, 2019 (co-edited with Nasreen Chowdhory). His forthcoming book is “The Rohingya: A Case of Subhuman” (Oxford University Press\, 2019). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lecture and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 10\, 2019\n6:15 PM – 7:45 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 802 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsors: SIPA Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration; Institute for the Study of Human Rights; Global Cultural Studies; Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-voices-of-the-victims-the-rohingyas-and-their-subhuman-life/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T200000
DTSTAMP:20191025T205014Z
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SUMMARY:KILOMET109: Women\, Modernity\, & Sustainable Fashion in Contemporary Vietnam
DESCRIPTION:East Asian Languages and Cultures Department Event\n \nVũ Thảo\, Founder \nKilomet 109 \nValerie Steele\, Director \nFashion Institute of New York \nHazel Clarke\, Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies \nThe New School \nDorothy Ko\, Professor of History \nBarnard College \n  \nModerated by: \nJohn Phan\, Assistant Professor \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 10\, 2019\n4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Panel Discussion \nTrunk show of Kilomet 109 October Line to follow. \n  \nAddress\n\nThe Auditorium & Foyer at the Forum  \n(125th Street & Broadway) \n  \nCosponsored by: WEAI
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/kilomet109-modernity-women-and-sustainability-in-contemporary-vietnam/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T133000
DTSTAMP:20191003T172759Z
CREATED:20190917T162928Z
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SUMMARY:“Ocean of Milk\, Ocean of Blood: a Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of Qing Empire”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nMatthew King\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Religious Studies \nUniversity of California\, Riverside \nModerated by: \nGray Tuttle\, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures \nColumbia University \n  \nAfter the fall of the Qing and Tsarist empires\, amid nationalist and socialist upheaval\, Siberian\, Mongolian\, and Tibetan Buddhist monks in the frontiers of the Soviet Union and Republican China faced a chaotic and increasingly uncertain world. Drawing on ten years of research into otherwise lost Buddhist monastic writing produced during Asia’s first socialist revolution\, Matthew King reveals an unexplored landscape of countermodern Buddhisms that briefly flourished in Asia’s heartland before a wave of state violence arrived in 1937. Who were made invisible in the invention of national peoples\, territories\, histories\, and religions that directed such violence? How does contemporary scholarship on modernization in Asia and on transnational Asian religions reproduce such erasures? Attending to hybrid\, countermodern movements\, King shows\, displaces contact with European tradition as the primary trope for understanding twentieth-century Asian religiosity. \nMatthew King is Associate Professor of Transnational Buddhism and Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University of California-Riverside. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 10\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\nAddress\n\nKent 403 \n1140 Amsterdam Ave. \nNew York\, NY 10027 \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/ocean-of-milk-ocean-of-blood-a-mongolian-monk-in-the-ruins-of-qing-empire/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T133000
DTSTAMP:20190906T161531Z
CREATED:20190829T164403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190906T161531Z
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SUMMARY:“Alternative Food Movement in China”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nCaroline Merrifield (Ph.D.\, Anthropology\, Yale University\, 2018) \nindependent scholar \nModerated by: \nDorothy Ko\, Professor of History \nBarnard College \n  \nA huge component of Dr. Merrifield’s field research was studying food provisioning – she served as an informal apprentice to the head of procurement at a farm-to-table restaurant in Hangzhou. She will talk about the restaurant’s supplier network and foodshed within the larger context of the alternative food movement and the cultural politics of food in China. Why is food a potent site for social organizing? Why are food safety scandals so anxiety-producing – and why might food be occasioning new forms of social connection and solidarity? Finally\, she will share her understanding of food as a method (rather than a topic/object); the sensory\, affective\, and material properties of food can afford unexpected insight into memory\, history\, and politics. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nCaroline Merrifield received an MPhil and a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Yale University\, and an AB from Harvard College in Social Studies. Her research investigates food sourcing arrangements in China’s alternative food movement\, which has emerged against a background of urgent public concern over food safety. In this research\, food is a crucial site for investigating problems of moral consensus-making in a time of Chinese “moral crisis.” Caroline’s work engages with theories of kinship\, moral economy\, trust and risk\, agrarian change and urbanization\, taste and flavor\, and the state. She is currently preparing a book manuscript based on her dissertation project\, Eating Against the Grain in Late Socialist China.      \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 10\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\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/alternative-food-movement-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191009T140000
DTSTAMP:20191009T131051Z
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SUMMARY:China-Korea Relations
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\nJoin us for a lecture with: \nYang Xiyu\, Senior Fellow\, \nChina Institute of International Studies \nModerated by: \nStephen Noerper\, Korea Society Senior Director for Policy; Research Scholar\, \n Weatherhead East Asian Institute \n  \nSenior analyst Yang Xiyu\, Senior Fellow at China’s Institute of International Studies\, joins Society Senior Director Stephen Noerper for a discussion of China’s role on the Korean Peninsula\, its relations with South Korea\, recent meetings between Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\, and China’s commitment to denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. An experienced diplomat\, Yang was the inaugural director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s Office for Korean Peninsula Issues. \n  \nThis is a Center for Korean Research Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 9\, 2019 \n12:00 PM \nAddress\n\nThe Korea Society \n350 Madison Avenue\, 24th Floor \n  \nThis event is cosponsored by The Korea Society.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/china-korea-relations/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191008T173000
DTSTAMP:20190923T195735Z
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SUMMARY:“Citizen Newspaper Advertisements in Contemporary South Korea: Analogue Protest Media in the Age of the Internet”
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\nOlga Fedorenko\, Associate Professor\, Seoul National University \nModerated by: \nTheodore Hughes\, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities and Director of The Center for Korean Research\, Columbia University. \n  \nAs South Korea geared for the thirteen weeks of protests that would eventually impeach the corrupt president Park Geun-hye (2013-2017)\, it also witnessed a proliferation of a new kind of activist image. They were full- or half-page opinion advertisements in the mainstream newspapers\, paid with individual citizens’ donations coordinated via civic organizations or social media. During the first month of protest\, over a dozen of such ads—by alumni associations\, churches\, and other civic groups—appeared just in the two biggest left-leaning dailies. It was puzzling to encounter those newspaper ads in twenty-first-century South Korea\, where newspaper readership had plunged years ago and wi-fi and smartphones are ubiquitous. Often the ads reproduced the slogans from the downtown demonstrations\, but their most striking visual element was the printed names of the ad donors\, which appeared in small font as a background—sometimes up to eight thousand of them. This paper explores the performative efficacy of such activist images. Specifically I argue that it was the spatial presence of the words on the newspaper page\, particularly of the citizen donors’ names—their embodied visuality— that made those ads a locally meaningful protest practice. My analysis foregrounds the physical presence of analogue media in space and teases out its implications for protest. Exploring the symbiosis of the digital and analogue that powered those citizens’ ads\, the paper contributes to the scholarly conversation on how the Internet has remediated traditional media locally and globally. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nTuesday\, October 8\, 2019 \n4:00 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; Columbia Alumni Association\, Korea; the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/citizen-newspaper-advertisements-in-contemporary-south-korea-analogue-protest-media-in-the-age-of-the-internet/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191005T180000
DTSTAMP:20190906T162245Z
CREATED:20190906T162245Z
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SUMMARY:”Urbanization and China: Understanding Impacts\, Projecting Future ”
DESCRIPTION:GSAPP and School of Social Work Event\n  \nPlease join us for a Forum with: \nDeborah Davis\, Professor Emerita of Sociology \nYale University \nJane Duckett\, Professor of Politics \nUniversity of Glasgow \nPeilei Fan\, Professor of Urban Planning \nMichigan State University \nQin Gao\, Professor of Social Work \nColumbia University \nShi Li\, Professor of Economics \nBeijing Normal University \nJustin Remais\, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences \nUniversity of California\, Berkeley \nAlan Smart\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology \nUniversity of Calgary \nJeremy Wallace\, Associate Professor of Government \nCornell University \nYa Ping Wang\, Professor of Urban Studies \nUniversity of Glasgow \nWeiping Wu\, Professor of Urban Planning \nColumbia University \n  \nAs part of the celebration of WEAI’s 70th Anniversary\, the 2019 Urban China Forum explores the impact of China’s sweeping urbanization on the country’s economic growth\, environment and land resources\, urban form and lifestyle\, social fabric and welfare\, and population and health. The magnitude and scope of change occurring through China’s urbanization are unprecedented\, with impacts on nearly all facets of the society. As a field of enquiry\, urbanization also provides a conceptual container for the study of populations and the natural and built environment within spatial concentrations of human habitation and exchange. Recognizing the breadth of urbanization research\, we acknowledge the multidisciplinary nature of discourse and bring together scholars in an integrated forum of dialogue. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary Event. \nRegister here. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 05\, 2019\n9:00 AM – 6:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nAvery Hall 1st Floor\, Wood Auditorium \n1172 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia Global Centers-Beijing
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/urbanization-and-china-understanding-impacts-projecting-future/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T174500
DTSTAMP:20191216T151342Z
CREATED:20190909T201327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T151342Z
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SUMMARY:”Colloquium on Global Hồ Chí Minh”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nPham Quang Minh\, Rector and Professor\, Department of International Studies \nVietnam National University \nDo Quang Hung\, Professor\, Department of Political Science \nVietnam National University \nTran Viet Nghia\, Associate Professor and Director of the Office for the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities \nVietnam National University \nPham Hong Tung\, Professor and Director\, Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science \nVietnam National University \n  \nOutside Vietnam: \nLien-Hang T. Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia \nColumbia University \nOlga Dror\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, College of Liberal Arts \nTexas A&M University \nFellow \nNational Humanities Center (2019-2020) \nPierre Asselin\, Professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations\, Department of History  \nSan Diego State University  \nAlec Holcombe\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History \nOhio University \n  \nHeld on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Hồ Chí Minh\, this international colloquium will interrogate Hồ’s role in the formation of modern Vietnam and explore the country’s position in world affairs in the 20th Century. Participants will share their new multi-lingual and multi-archival research and past works on the life\, career\, and legacy of Hồ Chí Minh. This colloquium also serves to announce a new partnership between Columbia University and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Hanoi. \n  \nClick here to read our report of the event. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event. \n  \nNo registration required. \nEVENT DETAILS \n\nOctober 04\, 2019\n9:30 AM – 5:45 PM\nSchedule\n9:30 AM – 10:00 AM    Comments by Co-Organizers\, Professors Pham Quang Minh and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen \n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM    Panel 1: Hồ and the Imperial Powers \nDo Quang Hung\, Professor\, Department of Political Science at Vietnam National University \nAlec Holcombe\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History at Ohio University \n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM    Lunch break \n1:00 PM – 3:30 PM    Panel 2: Hồ in the Global Cold War\, 1945-1969 \nPham Quang Minh\, Rector and Professor\, Department of International Studies at Vietnam National University \nTran Viet Nghia\,  Associate Professor and Director of the Office for the Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vietnam National University \nPierre Asselin\, Professor and Dwight E. Stanford Chair in American Foreign Relations\, Department of History at San Diego State University \n3:30 PM – 3:45 PM    Coffee break \n3:45 PM – 5:45 PM    Hồ’s Global Legacy \nPham Hong Tung\, Professor and Director of the Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Science at Vietnam National University \nOlga Dror\, Associate Professor\, Department of History\, College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University and Fellow at the National Humanities Center (2019-2020) \n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \nCosponsored by: Department of History\, Columbia University; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University; and the University of Social Sciences and Humanities\, Vietnam National University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/workshop-on-global-ho-chi-minh/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191004T180000
DTSTAMP:20191121T200706Z
CREATED:20190829T163933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191121T200706Z
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SUMMARY:”Disinformation and Elections in East and Southeast Asia: Digital Futures and Fragile Democracies”
DESCRIPTION:New York Southeast Asia Network and School of Journalism Event\n  \nPlease join us for a Workshop co-organized by: \nSheila Coronel\, Columbia Journalism School\, \nColumbia University \nDuncan McCargo\, Department of Political Science\, \nColumbia University \nJonathan Corpus Ong\, Department of Communications \nUniversity of Massachusetts\, Amherst \nMargaret Scott\, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service \nNew York University \n  \nA recent series of elections in Cambodia\, Indonesia\, Malaysia\, Thailand\, the Philippines and indeed across Asia has highlighted the salience of digital media in political campaigns and insidious modes of electoral manipulation. This two-day workshop aims to gather evidence into the operations and impact of digital disinformation in the context of recent Asian elections. \nThe conference approaches Asia as a site in which disinformation in various digital and analog forms have not only deep local histories but also radical acceleration and innovation the likes of which have little to no precedent in advanced liberal democracies in the West. Many Asian countries lead in both scale and intensity of technological adoption and use while serving as “laboratories” for testing and experimentation by Big Tech firms\, with minimal oversight and accountability to the potentially grave consequences of algorithmic tweaks\, the dispersed labor of content moderation\, and new platform rollouts. Thus we seek to develop a framework that examines the social and political ramifications of this process beyond the region. \nThe two-day event aims for interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to thinking through issues of disinformation that draw from areas of sociology\, politics\, media and communication studies\, journalism studies\, critical legal studies\, information science\, and anthropology. \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event. Co-sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and the New York Southeast Asia Network \nClick here to download the event program as a PDF. Click here to download event poster as a PDF.  Please register here. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 3 \n4 PM – 5:30PM. PLENARY PANEL – Asian Histories and Architectures of Political Disinformation. Sahana Udupa\, Cherian George and Camille Francois. Moderated by Sheila Coronel. \n  \nOctober 4 \n9:30 AM. PANEL 1 – Digital Armies and Organized Violence. Ross Tapsell and Ihsan Ali-Fauzi. Moderated by Margaret Scott. \n10.45 AM. PANEL 2 – State-Sponsored Propaganda and Its Digital Artilleries. Duncan McCargo\, Mary McCoy and Chiaoning Su. Moderated by Jonathan Corpus Ong. \n1 PM. PANEL 3 – Influencer Operations and Networked Disinformation. Indah S. Pratidina and Joshua Uyheng. Moderated by Duncan McCargo. \n2.15 PM. PANEL 4 – Securing Election Integrity. Netina Tan\, Jonathan Corpus Ong and Ross Tapsell. Moderated by Sheila Coronel. \n  \nAddress\n\nSchool of Journalism\, Pulitzer World Room \n2950 Broadway\, 3rd Floor \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/disinformation-and-elections-in-east-and-southeast-asia-digital-futures-and-fragile-democracies/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191002T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191002T210000
DTSTAMP:20190916T154720Z
CREATED:20190916T135909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190916T154720Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: "The Stateless Diplomat"
DESCRIPTION:The Armenian Center Event\nPlease join us for a film screening : \nMimi Malayan\, fimmaker \nJoin us for a screening of “The Stateless Diplomat\,” which tells the story of Diana Apkar\, A 19th century Armenian writer living in Japan who became the de facto ambassador of the short-lived First Armenian Republic. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker\, Apkar’s great granddaughter Mimi Malayan. \n  \nAbout the filmmaker: \nMimi Malayan was born and raised in San Francisco for the first decade of her life. Her family then moved to Europe\, the Asian sub-continent and Brazil. Mimi returned to the U.S. to attend George Washington University\, where she majored in French Language and Literature. She received her Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of California and went on to practice her trade for 20 years\, focusing her professional career on urban parks\, plazas and playground design in the San Francisco Bay Area. After finding a box of papers dedicated to Diana Apcar in her uncle’s apartment in 2002\, Mimi discovered another interest—uncovering her great-grandmother’s life story. Wanting to share it with as many people as possible\, Mimi produced the film\, The Stateless Diplomat.\nThis is a Arts and Culture event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 2\, 2019\n7:00 PM – 9:00 PM\nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/film-screening-the-stateless-diplomat/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191001T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191001T173000
DTSTAMP:20191025T203309Z
CREATED:20190911T142344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T203309Z
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SUMMARY:”The Role of United States-educated Students in China’s United States Policy during the Republican Period: A Case Study of Wellington Koo”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute event\nJin Guangyao\, Professor\, Department of History\, and Director\, International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization\, Fudan University \nModerated by: \nEugenia Lean\, Director\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \n  \nUnited States-educated students had an impact on China’s foreign policy-making during the Republican era\, especially with respect to China’s United States policy.  Wellington V. K. Koo was an eminent example of this group. In 1912\, Koo\, with a newly awarded doctorate from Columbia University\, returned to China and was appointed President Yuan Shikai’s English interpreter and a secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, thus launching his career as a diplomat. He served as ambassador to the United States\, Britain\, and France\, as well as Chinese Representative in the League of Nations and the United Nations. He was also appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs by both the Peking and the Guomindang governments. His career encompassed almost all important events of diplomacy during the Republican period. This talk aims to shed light on the roles Koo played in shaping China’s United States policy. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nJin Guangyao is a professor in the Department of History\, and also the director of the International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization at Fudan University. Professor Jin was a visiting scholar at Columbia University (1997-1998). Professor Jin’s main research focuses on the history of China’s foreign relations\, especially the diplomatic history of Republican China\, and recently on the history of contemporary China\, especially the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai and the Sent-Down Youth Movement. His academic works includes “A Biography of Wellington Koo”\, “A History of the Republic of China”\, Volume 10 (co-author)\, “Educated Youth Tribe: 10000 Shanghai People in Huangshan Mount” (co-author). He also edited “Wellington Koo and Chinese diplomacy ” and “The Diplomacy in the Period of the Northern Warlords” (eds.). He published dozens of papers in Chinese Social Science\, Historical Researches and other academic journals. \n  \nClick here to read about the full event.  \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nOctober 01\, 2019\n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: C. V. Starr East Asian Library \n  \nThis event is also affiliated with the China Now Music Festival. For a full schedule of events\, please visit: https://www.barduschinamusic.org/china-now-music-festival. 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/19079/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190930T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190930T130000
DTSTAMP:20191212T203327Z
CREATED:20190917T160404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191212T203327Z
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SUMMARY:“Tibetan Studies in Europe: From Philology to Social History (in between and from below)”
DESCRIPTION:Modern Tibetan Studies Event\n \nBerthe Jansen\, Junior Professor of Tibetan Studies\, Institute for Indian and Central Asian Studies\,  \nLeipzig University \n  \nModerated by: \nLauran Hartley\, Tibetan Studies Librarian\, \nC.V. Starr East Asian Library \n  \nIn this talk Berthe Jansen will speak about the recent past and the more recent developments in Tibetan Studies in Europe. She will argue that the combination of (typically European) philological methods with the broader field of social history holds great potential\, and will give some examples of this from her own research. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nBerthe Jansen is junior professor of Tibetan studies at the Institute for Indian and Central Asian Studies\, Leipzig University. She is the author of The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet (2018)\, published at the University of California Press. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event and part of the Modern Tibetan Studies at 20 Lecture Series. \n  \nNo registration required. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 30\, 2019\n11:30 AM – 1:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\n420 W 118th St\, New York\, NY 10027 \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/tibetan-studies-in-europe/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T153000
DTSTAMP:20190919T170045Z
CREATED:20190829T163031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190919T170045Z
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SUMMARY:“China's Unfolding Romantic Revolution”
DESCRIPTION:School of Social Work Event \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nMelissa Schneider\, LCSW and author of: \nThe Ugly Wife is a Treasure at Home: True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China \nModerated by: \nQin Gao\, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work; Director\, China Center for Social Policy\, \nColumbia University \n  \nImagine a world where nobody says “I love you\,” sex is a mystery until the wedding day\, and romance has nothing to do with the serious business of marriage. Then fast-forward a mere sixty years\, to a place where teenagers hold hands in public\, young parents go out for dates—by themselves—on Valentine’s Day\, and grandmas dream of having “that spark” with someone before they die.  This is…China? Join Melissa Schneider\, author of The Ugly Wife Is a Treasure at Home: True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China\, as she brings us inside the mainland’s unfolding romantic revolution. From the early communists who taught budding cadres to “search for their beloved” to today’s “modern parents” who permit teen dating\, the story of romantic love in China is full of surprises. But as China’s mistresses and ugly wives\, matchmakers and leftover men can attest\, the social changes taking place over the last ten to fifteen years are utterly unprecedented. The mainland’s romantic revolution is here\, but will it really have the power to reshape marriage in China?  Join us as Melissa Schneider\, LCSW and CSSW ’06 alum\, shares her findings from two years of interviewing in Shenzhen\, China\, on a quest to answer this very question.  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nMelissa Schneider\, LCSW\, is a couples’ therapist and wellness consultant with a keen interest in the long-term factors that predict relationship stability and happiness. She moved to Shenzhen\, China two days after her own wedding\, where she grew curious about the unfamiliar dynamics underpinning love and relationships on the mainland. She interviewed forty-eight people born after the rise of the communist party and published their stories in The Ugly Wife is a Treasure at Home: True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China. She has given talks about relationship science and Chinese social trends at Oxford University’s China Centre\, Carnegie Mellon University\, Albert Einstein College of Medicine\, and the Asian American Bar Association\, has appeared on the Freakonomics podcast and Business Insider\, and her book has been used in courses at Oxford\, John Hopkins\, and the University of Hong Kong. Ms. Schneider has a Masters in Clinical Social Work degree from the Columbia University and lives in Jersey City with her husband and toddler twins. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 25\, 2019\n2:00 PM – 3:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: China Center for Social Policy
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/chinas-unfolding-romantic-revolution/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T103000
DTSTAMP:20190916T203901Z
CREATED:20190916T203841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190916T203901Z
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SUMMARY:World Leaders Forum: Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad\, Prime Minister of Malaysia
DESCRIPTION:World Leaders Forum Event\nPlease join us for an address by: \nTun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad\, Prime Minister of Malaysia \n\nIntroduction by: \nVishakha N. Desai\, Vice Chair\, Committee on Global Thought\, Senior Advisor for Global Affairs; Senior Research Scholar \nSchool of International and Public Affairs \nModerated by: \nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia\,  \nDepartment of History \n\nThis World Leaders Forum program features an address with a focus on the rule of law and multilateralism by Dr. Mahathir Mohamad\, Prime Minister of Malaysia followed by a question and answer session with the audience. \n\nAbout the Speaker: \nH.E. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003. During this period he opened up the country to foreign investments\, reformed taxation\, reduced trade barriers\, oversaw the privatisations of numerous state-owned enterprises and created a world-class physical infrastructure. He also sought to bridge Malaysia’s ethnic divide by increasing general prosperity. In 1991\, he launched the New Development Policy\, which emphasised industrial and commercial development and the elimination of poverty. Under Tun Dr. Mahathir’s leadership\, Malaysia developed into one of the most prosperous and dynamic economies in Southeast Asia\, with a burgeoning industrial sector\, an expanding middle class and enhanced quality of life. In 1995\, the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) initiative was introduced to make Malaysia a global player in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry. Malaysia also played a more active role in the international arena\, acting as the voice for developing nations in Asia and Africa. Always with one eye on the future\, Tun Dr. Mahathir unveiled Vision 2020 in 1991\, a blueprint for Malaysia’s journey towards becoming a developed economy and a mature democracy by the year 2020. In 2015\, Tun Dr. Mahathir decided to come out of his political retirement and spearheaded a campaign to oust Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak from office. Tun Dr. Mahathir and several like-minded political leaders had formed Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) in which he is the chairman. Other political parties opposed to the Prime Minister had also rallied around him and elected Tun Dr Mahathir to be the chairman of Pakatan Harapan (Coalition of Hope) as well as naming him as the Prime Minister designate if they won the 14th general election. \nOn 9th May 2018\, the result of the 14th Malaysian General Election declared the Pakatan Harapan as the winner. Tun Dr Mahathir wins sworn in as the 7th Prime Minister the following day. \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n\nClick here to register. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 25\, 2019\n9:30 AM – 10:30 AM\n\nAddress\n\nRotunda\, Low Memorial Library \n\nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/world-leaders-forum-tun-dr-mahathir-mohamad-prime-minister-of-malaysia/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190924T130000
DTSTAMP:20191025T201701Z
CREATED:20190905T130420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191025T201701Z
UID:18880-1569324600-1569330000@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:“New Directions in Tibetan Studies Research in China”
DESCRIPTION:Modern Tibetan Studies Event\n \nGyelmo Drukpa (Chi. Zhou Hua)\, Senior Researcher\,  \nChina Tibetology Research Center \nFormer Director\, \nChina Tibetology Press \n  \nModerated by: \nPema Bhum\, Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, \nColumbia University  \nIn this talk\, Gyelmo Drukpa will discuss the history of Tibetan Studies in China\, the current state of related research departments and academic fields\, as well as new research findings and directions. \nAbout the Speaker(s): \nGyelmo Drukpa (Chi. Zhou Hua) is a leading historian of Tibet. His book\, Concise History of Tibet (Tib. Bod kyi lo rgyus gleng ba’i gtam) was first published in Tibetan language in 1995. Its third edition\, expanded and updated\, was published in 2017. His expertise in Tibetan history\, especially highlighting understudied regions such as Amdo and Kham\, are key elements of his pioneering research and publications. In his Compilation of Essays (Tib. Rgyal mo ’brug pa’i che rtsom phyogs bsgrigs)\, he wrote extensively about the history of Minyak\, Sumpa\, among many other topics. Gyelmo Drukpa also served a key role as deputy director of the most recent publication of the comparative edition of the Kangyur and Tengyur. Among other high-ranking titles\, he is also a serving member of the China Tibetology Research Center’s Academic Committee. His lectures at various universities both nationally and internationally are highly regarded. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event and part of the Modern Tibetan Studies at 20 Lecture Series. \n  \nNo registration required. \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 24\, 2019\n11:30 AM – 1:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/new-directions-in-tibetan-studies-research-in-china/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary,Lecture Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190923T183000
DTSTAMP:20190917T143114Z
CREATED:20190905T160807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190917T143114Z
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SUMMARY:“The Elite Uneducation & Imposed Nonage”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join for a lecture with: \nChenjian (C.J.) Li\, University Chair Professor \nPeking University \nModerated by: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science  \nColumbia University \n  \nThe speed of a fleet is decided by the slowest ship; the direction of a fleet is decided by the leading ship. While education is essential in any society\, education at leading institutions is critical for fostering generations of leaders beyond making a living. The rapid changing places such as China are particularly yearning for leaders who have a deep understanding of humanities\, cultures and science\, who have far-sighted vision\, who are equipped with rational\, critical and creative thinking capability\, and who possess characters of perseverance and determination. The presence or absence of such leaders affects the future of China and the world. \n  \nIn this talk\, the situation of leading educational institutions in China will be objectively discussed. The philosophical as well as mechanistic aspects of education reform will be analyzed. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Panels and Lectures event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\n September 23\,  2019 \n04:00 PM-05:30 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/18911/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190920T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T153000
DTSTAMP:20190912T185103Z
CREATED:20190903T135731Z
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SUMMARY:“Revolutionary Routine: Grassroots Sources on Work\, Family\, and Private Life in Maoist China"
DESCRIPTION:East Asia Languages and Cultures Department Event\n\nPlease join us on Friday with: \nZhang Letian\, Professor \nSchool of Social Work\, Fudan University \nLi Tian\, Assistant Professor \nCCSLD Research Center\, Fudan University  \n  \nPlease join us on Saturday with: \nAminda Smith\, Associate Professor \nDepartment of History\, Michigan State University \nFabio Lanza\, Professor of History \nUniversity of Arizona \nJeremy Brown\, Associate Professor \nDepartment of History\, Simon Fraser University \nYinghong Cheng\, Professor of History \nDelaware State University \nYiching Wu\, Associate Professor\,  \nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Toronto \n  \nThis multi-day workshop brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to undertake intensive reading and discussion of selected ‘grassroots sources’ from the Fudan Social Life Data and Research Center. Through systematic readings of family letters\, personnel dossiers\, private diaries\, work notes\, and work unit archives\, we explore questions of how the routines of political Maoism were enacted\, mediated\, and performed in the most mundane settings of Maoist society. Unavailable to scholars until recently\, the CCSLD sources draw attention to the the most basic social structures—the workplace\, the school\, and the family—as crucial historical sites of structure and agency. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Workshops\, Conferences and Symposia event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 20-21\, 2019\n9:30 AM – 11:35 PM\n1:45 AM – 3:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute and ACLS-Luce Foundation
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/revolutionary-routine-grassroots-sources-on-work-family-and-private-life-in-maoist-china/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T213000
DTSTAMP:20190911T134115Z
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SUMMARY:"The Far East Sound in Jamaica"
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Chinese Literature and Culture and The Center for Ethnomusciology Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nAndrew F. Jones\, Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Chinese \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, University of California at Berkeley \n  \nThis lecture by Andrew Jones revolves around a cohort of Hakka Chinese entrepreneurs\, record producers\, and studio musicians who played an outsized role in shaping Jamaica’s most important cultural export\, reggae music. Chinese-Jamaican producers like Clive Chin and Herman Chin-Loy not only recorded and marketed some of the first examples of the vastly influential and innovative genre of studio remixes known as dub music\, but also contributed to the rise of a new and historically plangent subgenre in reggae called the “far east sound.” \nThis presentation will explore how “China” sounded in the seemingly unlikely setting of a newly independent Afro-Caribbean island nation\, and what this genre of music might tell us about imperial history\, migrations of labor and capital\, music technology\, and the sonic shaping of a postcolonial “home.” \nAbout Speaker: \nAndrew F. Jones\, Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese at the Department of East Asian Languages+Cultures at University of California\, Berkeley\, teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture. His research interests include music\, cinema\, and media technology\, modern and contemporary fiction\, children’s literature\, and the cultural history of the global 1960s. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 19\, 2019\n7:30 PM – 9:30 PM\nAddress\n\nDodge Hall\,  Room 622 \n2960 Broadway \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture\, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-far-east-sound-in-jamaica/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T193000
DTSTAMP:20190918T173455Z
CREATED:20190911T145343Z
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SUMMARY:"Eurasia and China's Belt and Road Initiative: Potential Impact\, Potential Disputes\, and How to Address Them"
DESCRIPTION:European Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nKeynote Speaker Bruno Maçães\, \nSenior Fellow\, Hudson Institute \nFellow\, Renmin University\, \nauthor of The Dawn of Eurasia: On the Trail of the New World Order \nLanxin Xiang \nProfessor of International History and Politics \nGraduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva \nDirector \n Center of One Belt and One Road Security Studies\, China National Institute for SCO International Exchange and Judicial Cooperation\, Shanghai \nNargis Kassenova \nSenior Fellow\, \n Program on Central Asia\, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies\, Harvard University \nModerated by: \nAlexander Cooley\, Director \nHarriman Institute\, Columbia University \n  \nSpeakers will discuss the expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) across Eurasia and the risks of conflict and dispute that the promoters of the Initiative might have to address. \n  \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences and Symposia event. \nPlease register here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 19\, 2019\n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM\nAddress\n\nBarnard Hall\, James Room\,  4th Floor \n3009 Broadway \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University’s Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies\, Harriman Institute\, Institute of Social and Economic Research and Policy\, Columbia Global Centers | Instanbul\, and Istanbul Policy Center-Stiftung Mercator Initiative at Sabanci University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/eurasia-and-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-potential-impact-potential-disputes-and-how-to-address-them/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190916T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190916T133000
DTSTAMP:20191025T200211Z
CREATED:20190829T140021Z
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SUMMARY:Reenacting Homecoming: Early Memoirs of Tibetan Exile Life and the Writing of History
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa\, Assistant Professor\, Department of English \nVillanova University \nModerated by: \nLauran Hartley\, Tibetan Studies Librarian\, C.V. Starr East Asian Library \nColumbia University \n  \nEvent Description: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa will give a brief talk on literature produced by Tibetans in the 1960s -70s and its relation to place. She will discuss literature as a logbook of events where the function of memory was not simply to recollect\, but to attempt to recover\, and to recreate the meaning of place. During the last part of her talk\, she will read from her memoir and poems. \n  \nBios of participants: \nTsering Wangmo Dhompa is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Villanova University. She is the author of three collections of poetry: My Rice Tastes Like the Lake\, In the Absent Everyday and Rules of the House (all from Apogee Press\, Berkeley).  Dhompa’s first non-fiction book\, Coming Home to Tibet was published  the US by Shambhala Publications in 2016. \nLauran Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University and occasionally serves as Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan Literature for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.  She is also co-editor of Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press\, 2008). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 16\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Modern Tibetan Studies Program
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/modern-tibetan-literature-in-english/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T200000
DTSTAMP:20190912T132350Z
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SUMMARY:Film Screening “Royal Cafe”
DESCRIPTION:Modern Tibetan Studies Event\n  \nPlease join us for a film screening of “Royal Cafe” with: \nTenzin Dasel\, Paris-based filmmaker \nAnn Tashi Slater\, writer  \n  \nJoin us for a screening of the film\, Royal Cafe\, followed by a discussion with the Paris-based filmmaker\, Tenzin Dasel\, and writer Ann Tashi Slater. About the film: A young Swiss born Tibetan woman staying in Paris abandons her humdrum life to pursue her dream of becoming a filmmaker. In the process\, she discovers Royal Cafe\, a small Sri Lankan eatery near the metro La Chapelle area that happens to serve Tibetan food and is frequented by exile Tibetans in Paris. As she passes time in the café\, looking for inspiration and cast for her film\, Her own life unfolds alongside the desires\, disappointments and loneliness of her fellow diners. Royal Cafe eschews stereotypes of Tibetans living in exile to portray the simple realities of their lives. \nAbout the Speaker(s): \nBorn in Mysore\, India\, Tenzin Dasel attended Upper Tibetan Children’s Village School in Dharamshala\, India. She went on to study fashion design in New Delhi Polytechnic then moved to France in 1999 to continue her fashion studies at Mjm Graphic design in Strasbourg\, Studio Berçot in Paris. She completed her masters in Fashion at L’Institut Français de la Mode (IFM) supported by a French family. She has worked as an assistant designer for the Parisian luxury bag brand\, Jerome Dreyfuss\, and has experience with other well known fashion brands such as Isabel Marant and Ann Demeulemeester in Antwerp. Her first short film\, called Seeds (2009)\, was shot in Delhi\, India with an 8mm camera without any filmmaking experience. Royal Cafe is her second film\, co-directed with the young French director\, Rémi Caritey\, without any budget.    \nAnn Tashi Slater has been published by The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, AGNI\, Catapult\, Granta\, and the HuffPost\, among others. Her writing appears in Women in Clothes (Penguin) and American Dragons (HarperCollins). She writes often on subjects related to Tibet; her work includes a novel based on her Tibetan family history and a memoir about a pilgrimage to reconnect with her Tibetan roots. A longtime resident of Tokyo\, she teaches Comparative Literature at Japan Women’s University. (www.anntashislater.com) \n  \nThis is an Arts and Culture Event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\n September 13\, 2019\n6:00 PM – 8:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: The Weatherhead East Asian Institute
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/film-screening-royal-cafe/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T140500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T153500
DTSTAMP:20190829T171722Z
CREATED:20190828T185027Z
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SUMMARY:“Situating Late Qing Science and Technology in a Global Context”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nShellen Wu\, Associate Professor \nUniversity of Tennessee\, Knoxville  \nModerated by: \nEugenia Lean\, Director\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history\, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture \nColumbia University \n  \nProfessor Wu will offer a book talk on her book Fueling China’s Entry Into the Modern World Order\, 1860-1920. She will discuss the challenges of writing about late Qing science in a global context including issues of sources and conceptual questions including how to move beyond certain preconceptions/misconceptions about science when studying science in China. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Wu is particularly interested in imperialism\, the global ascendance of science\, and how changes in the uses and exploitation of natural resources affected the modern Chinese state and society. Her first book\, Empires of Coal: Fueling China’s Entry into the Modern World Order\, narrates the history about how Chinese views of natural resource management underwent a major change as a result of the late Qing engagement with imperialism and science. Each chapter addresses a different facet of this change in worldview and as a whole demonstrate that by the end of the nineteenth century China and the West had converged in a crucial measure of modern\, industrialized states: the theory and exploitation of natural resources\, particularly fossil fuels. Part of Dr. Wu’s research on the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen and his China expeditions appeared in the American Historical Review. “The Search for Coal in the Age of Empires: Ferdinand von Richthofen’s Odyssey in China\, 1860-1920\,” The American Historical Review\, Vol. 119\, No. 2 (April 2014)\, 339-362. She is currently working on a second book on the rise of geopolitical discourse in twentieth century China. Her book project traces the historical roots of geopolitical discourse in China and connects Chinese geopolitical concerns to the global circulation of ideas on agricultural development\, land settlement\, and frontiers. For the 2016-2017 academic year\, Dr. Wu is the Pforzheimer Fellow at the National Humanities Center. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 13\, 2019\n2:05 PM – 3:35 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/situating-late-qing-science-and-technology-in-a-global-context/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190913T133000
DTSTAMP:20191217T150313Z
CREATED:20190909T142809Z
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SUMMARY:”The Anti-Extradition Protests in Hong Kong: Voices from a Faceless Movement”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nJoshua Wong (left) and Kai Ping “Brian” Leung (right) discuss the anti-extradition bill protest movement in Hong Kong.\n  \nClick here for a write-up and video of the event. \n  \n\n  \nPlease join for a panel discussion with: \nJoshua Wong\, Hong Kong student activist and politician \nSecretary General  \nPro-democracy movement Demosistō \n\nKai Ping (Brian) Leung\, Graduate student \nUniversity of Washington\, Department of Political Science \n  \nThe talk will focus on the “Anti-Extradition Law Movement” in Hong Kong as the discussants try to analyze the following themes: the structural cause of the movement\, why the movement has been so resilient\, and the international status of Hong Kong vis-a-vis the world and China.  \n\nAbout the Speakers: \nJoshua Wong is a student activist. He is the secretary-general of pro-democracy party Demosistō. Time Magazine named him one of the 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014. Fortune Magazine named him one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders of 2015.” \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event. \n\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 13\, 2019 \n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n\nThis event is open to Columbia University ID holders and accredited members of the press. Media must RSVP with their names and outlets to Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu. \n\nAddress\n\nJerome Greene Hall\, First Floor \n435 West 116th street \nNew York\, NY 10027 \n\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by the Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School\, The Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program\, and the Human Rights Institute at Columbia University. 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-anti-extradition-protests-in-hong-kong-voices-from-a-faceless-movement/
CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190909T133000
DTSTAMP:20191025T193033Z
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SUMMARY:“Producing Poverty and Prosperity in Southeast Asia: Methodological and Empirical Reflections”
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n \nJonathan Rigg\, Professor of Geographical Sciences \nUniversity of Bristol \nModerated by: \nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia\, Department of History \nColumbia University \n\nWhy has aggregate economic expansion in Southeast Asia so often been accompanied by individual and community decline? How do we explain the persistence of poverty in the context of growing wealth? These are old questions but they have not been adequately answered\, let alone resolved; they remain pertinent and vital at national and individual levels. In this talk\, Professor Rigg will bring together work from across Southeast Asia to argue that illuminating this puzzle requires that we go beyond explanations rooted in the political economy of inequality and instead pay attention\, first\, to academic questions of methodology and academic framing and\, further\, to empirical issues linked of trans-local relations and emergent articulations of deprivation. He does this by connecting land reclamation in Singapore with sand mining in coastal Cambodia\, livestock-raising in peri-urban Hanoi with maize cultivation in upland Houaphan\, isolation in Flores with integration in Luang Prabang\, and vulnerable farming in Khon Kaen with precarious industrial work in Ayutthaya. Each of these pairings opens up a different view onto the issue of the co-production of wealth and poverty across the Southeast Asian region. \n\nAbout the Speaker: \nJonathan Rigg holds a professorship in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol in the UK. Until this year\, he was Director of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on agrarian conditions and transformations in Asia\, and since the early 1980s he has conducted fieldwork in Thailand\, Laos\, Vietnam\, Sri Lanka and Nepal. Over more than 30 years\, he has worked on rice variety selection strategy\, rural livelihoods\, rural-urban relations\, migration and mobility\, disaster preparedness\, and climate change resilience. This year he has published three books that reflect his interests: More than rural: textures of Thailand’s agrarian transformation (Hawaii University Press); People and Climate Change: Vulnerability\, Adaptation\, and Social Justice (edited with Lisa Reyes Mason) (Oxford University Press); and The Asian smallholder: transformation and persistence (edited with Eric Thompson and Jamie Gillen) (Amsterdam University Press). \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nSeptember 9\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n\nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/producing-poverty-and-prosperity-in-southeast-asia-methodological-and-empirical-reflections/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190716T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190716T210000
DTSTAMP:20190829T173212Z
CREATED:20190716T140438Z
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SUMMARY:A Discussion on Chinese Classics with Professor Wei Shang\, Professor Lihua Yang\, and Professor Chunying Li
DESCRIPTION:Discussion\nPlease join Wei Shang\, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at Columbia University\, and Lihua Yang\, Professor of Philosophy at Peking University for a discussion on Chinese classic literature. The panel will focus on the essence and wisdom of Chinese classic literature and its modern significance. Chunying Li\, Associate Professor at the International Confucian Academy of China University of Political Science and Law\, will moderate the panel discussion. \nThis event is part of the 2019 Columbia Beijing Summer East Asian Series\, in celebration of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th anniversary\, and it is also the second event of the Gei Hai Zi Series Fifth Anniversary Series. \n\nAbout the Speakers \nProfessor Wei Shang is the Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University and is also on the faculty of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He specializes in pre-modern Chinese literature and culture\, especially fiction and drama of the Ming and Qing dynasties. His research interests also include print culture\, book history\, and intellectual history of the same era. From 1978 to 1988\, Professor Shang received his B.A. and M.A. from Peking University. From 1988 to 1995\, he received his PhD from Harvard University. He has joined the Columbia faculty since 1997. His book Rulin waishi and Cultural Transformation in Late Imperial China (Harvard University Press\, 2003) addresses the role of ritual and fiction in shaping the intellectual and cultural changes of the eighteenth century. He is also the author of Chapter 4 of The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature II: “The Literati Era and Its Demise (1723-1840).” \n\n\nLihua Yang is a professor of philosophy\, Ph.D. supervisor\, and associate dean at the Graduate School of Peking University. Yang’s research interests mainly include the history of Chinese philosophy\, Confucianism\, and Taoism. In recent years\, Yang has mainly focused on Song-Ming philosophy and Wei-Jin philosophy. Yang has published several monographs\, i.e. Fifteen Lectures on Chinese Philosophy (Peking University Press\, 2019)\, Fifteen Lectures on Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism (Peking University Press\, 2015)\, A History of Chinese Confucianism (the Song-Yuan part\, Peking University Press\, 2011)\, On Guo Xiang’s Commentary of Zhuangzi (Peking University Press\, 2010)\, Qiben & Shenhua: Commentary on Zhang Zai’s Philosophy (Peking University Press\, 2008)\, and The Innominate Joint – The Development of Taoist Methods of Immortality Through Concepts of Internal Alchemy (Peking University Press\, 2002). He has translated five books\, including On Wang Bi’s Commentary of Laozi\, The Discourse of Race in Modern China\, The Collected Works on History of Thought in Sung Dynasty\, The Life and Thought of Chang Hsüeh-ch’eng\, and The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making\, with more than forty academic publications. \nAbout the Moderator\nChunying Li is an associate professor and master supervisor at the International Confucian Academy of China Univerisity of Political Science and Law. She received her PhD in philosophy at Peking University. Her research focuses on the history of Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism. \n\nTuesday\, July 16\, 2019; 7:00 – 9:00 PM\nColumbia Global Centers | Beijing\nNo. 26\, 1F Core Plaza\, 1 Shanyuan Street\nZhongguancun\, Haidian District\, Beijing\nRegistration required. \n  \nAgenda\n6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.  Registration \n7:00 p.m. – 7:10 p.m.  Opening \n7:10 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.  Lecture by Professor Wei SHANG \n7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.  Panel Discussion \n8:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.  Q&A \nCo-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing\, Moveable Type\, and CITIC Press.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-discussion-on-chinese-classics-with-professor-wei-shang-professor-lihua-yang-and-professor-chunying-li/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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