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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190613T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190613T133000
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SUMMARY:“A Conversation with Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs\, Dr. Szu-chien Hsu - Taiwan’s response to the US Indo-Pacific Strategy”
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing: Szu-chien Hsu\, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan)\nModerated by: Andrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University\n\n\nDr. Hsu is the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) with responsibility for relations with the United States\, Canada\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. He was President of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2016 to 2018; associate research fellow at the Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica in Taipei from 2003 to 2017; and assistant research fellow at the Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University from 1998 to 2003. He also taught at Chinese Culture University in Taipei from 1997 to 1998\, and National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu from 2003 to 2017. Dr. Hsu received his B.A. in Political Science from National Taiwan University\, and M.A. and Ph.D in Political Science from Columbia University.\n\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\n\nNo registration required.\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu\n\n\nCo-sponsored by the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-conversation-with-taiwans-deputy-minister-of-foreign-affairs-dr-szu-chien-hsu/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190517T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190517T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T163914Z
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SUMMARY:"America in the World: A Tribute to Dorothy Borg"
DESCRIPTION:Conference\nThis conference is part of the New Directions in the Study of US-East Asian Relations under the Dorothy Borg Research Project and featuring the following panels: \n  \nRETHINKING AMERICAN EMPIRE \nCarol Gluck\, Moderator \nRyan Irwin:  Shifts in the intellectual underpinnings of the American empire \nWarren Cohen \nPaul Chamberlin:  World War II\, a war for empire \nBruce Cumings \nKatherine Epstein:  Was the US the greatest threat to world order in the 20th century? \nLloyd Gardner \n  \nUS-EAST ASIAN HISTORY\, THEN AND NOW \n             Lien-Hang Nguyen\, Moderator \nJennifer Miller: US-Japan Relations in the post-cold-war world \nMichael Schaller \nMeredith Oyen: US-China relations through the lens of migration and immigration politics \nTom Christensen \nCindy Ewing: New Perspectives on US-Southeast Asia relations \nRosemary Foot \n  \nMay 17\, 2019 \n10:00 am-5:30 pm \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nThis was a closed event\, not open to the public.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/america-in-the-world-a-tribute-to-dorothy-borg/
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190509T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190509T190000
DTSTAMP:20190829T173312Z
CREATED:20190412T133914Z
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SUMMARY:"TIANANMEN 30 YEARS LATER: A PORTENT OF CHINA’S AUTHORITARIAN FUTURE?"
DESCRIPTION:Conference\n  \nThe Overseas Press Club hosts conference at: \nClub Quarters\, 40 West 45th Street\, New York\, NY 10036 \nStarting at 12:30 p.m. \n  \nThirty years ago\, as of June 4\, the Chinese leadership made a crucial decision—it sent in the tanks to crush students demonstrating for greater democratic rights\, killing thousands. Come listen to the stories of those students who survived and how they have fought a 30-year shadow war against the Chinese government even though they sought refuge in Western democracies and Taiwan. We also will be joined by American correspondents who covered the event and have watched as the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping has gradually closed off the Chinese people’s access to the Western news media\, fearing that it might infect the people with foreign ideals and set the stage for future political stirrings. \nIt appears that President Xi is determined to prevent his people from ever again demanding greater political rights\, as they did that spring of 1989\, by instituting a sweeping crackdown on dissidents\, lawyers and religious leaders and imposing greater censorship of Chinese-state owned media as well as the Internet and social media. Experts will discuss how his government has detained roughly 1 million Uyghurs and Kazakhs in the western province of Xinjiang and used sophisticated facial recognition technology backed by Artificial Intelligence and Big Data tools to control them. Different provinces and cities are experimenting with social credit rating systems that will prevent wrong-thinking Chinese from getting jobs or getting on airplanes or high-speed trains. Is Xi using advanced technology to build the most sophisticated totalitarian state in history? \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by The U.S. Asian Law Institute at New York University; The Center for U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society/ChinaFile; and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University \n  \n  \nPanel 1: Covering the Event \nLunch\, 12:30 p.m. Dining Room\, 1st Floor \nWestern journalists tell their stories of covering the massacre. They also talk about how the Western media may have played a role in encouraging young protesters; and how now\, Xi is determined to prevent Western news from reaching his population. The Chinese leadership came to understand the power of ideas at Tiananmen and want to prevent any such stirrings from ever occurring again. \nPANELISTS: Carroll Bogert\, former Newsweek in Beijing; Adi Ignatius (invited)\, Dori Jones Yang\, Business Week.  \nMODERATOR: Susan Jakes\, ChinaFile\, former Beijing correspondent for Time. \n  \nPanel 2: Survivors Tell Their Stories \n1:30-2:50 p.m. Priestly Room\, 2nd Floor \nPANELISTS: Wu’er Kaixi\, Fang Zheng and Rose Tang. \nSurvivors tell their stories of what happened on June 4\, 1989 and how they and their families back home have been pursued by the Chinese government for 30 years. \nMODERATOR: William J. Holstein\, event chair\, former OPC president\, and editor of the OPC book\, “Has the American Media Misjudged China?”  \n  \nSpecial Presentation: The Mothers of Tiananmen Victims Demand Justice \n2:50 p.m. to 3 p.m.\, Priestly Room \nMothers of victims of the massacre continue to agitate for justice and compensation even in the face of continued harassment by authorities. \nSharon Hom\, Human Rights in China  \n  \nPanel 3: President Xi’s Effort to Remake Chinese Society \n3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. Priestly Room\, 2nd Floor \nPresident Xi Jinping has engaged in a major political crackdown and has re-inserted Communist Party authority into all spheres of Chinese society. He has virtually eliminated human rights lawyers\, tightened censorship of all forms of Chinese media\, prohibited dissemination of Western media\, intensified the ideological training of students\, and imprisoned Muslim populations in Xinjiang. \nPANELISTS: Jerome Cohen\, Wu’er Kaixi\, Andy Nathan\, Teng Biao \nMODERATOR: Sheryl WuDunn\, Pulitzer- and OPC-prize winner for China coverage for The New York Times. \n  \nPanel 4: Technology As a Tool of Control \n4:15 to 5:30 p.m.\, Priestly Room. \nIt was once thought that the Internet and other new types of technology would give more power to an emerging middle class. But Xi’s use of advanced technology may mean he is building the most sophisticated totalitarian state in human history. He has cracked down on the Internet and social media\, and employed networks of cameras and facial recognition technology to identify and track people. Other elements of his high-tech authoritarianism include AI/Big Data\, a DNA database\, and a social credit rating system. In some cases\, American companies are helping. \nPANELISTS: Human Rights Watch China expert Sophie Richardson\, and Christina Larson\, Associated Press science writer in Washington and former technology writer in China and author of a definitive article in the MIT Technology Review. \nMODERATOR: Rebecca Blumenstein\, The New York Times deputy managing editor\, former Beijing correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and a Pulitzer Prize winner \n  \nDrinks and Networking\, 5:30 to 7 p.m.\, Dining Room\, 1st Floor.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/tiananmen-30-years-later-a-portent-of-chinas-authoritarian-future/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190507T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190507T120000
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SUMMARY:"A Newly-Discovered Catalogue by Desi Sanggye Gyatso (1653-1705)"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\n  \nFeaturing Jampa\, Associate Research Librarian\, The Cultural Palace of Nationalities\, Beijing \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required. \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-newly-discovered-catalogue-by-desi-sanggye-gyatso-1653-1705/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190506T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190506T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171559Z
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SUMMARY:CKR Event: "Inventing Modern Sound Culture  The Transnational Recording Industry in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)"
DESCRIPTION:CKR Manuscript Workshop\n  \nFeaturing: Hye Eun Choi\, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow \nDiscussants:\nCharles Armstrong\, Columbia University\nKim Brandt\, Columbia University\nMichael Denning\, Yale University\nKeith Howard\, SOAS\, University of London \n  \nChoi’s manuscript\, tentatively titled “Inventing Modern Sound Culture The Transnational Recording Industry in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)\,” is the first book project that traces the birth of the Korean recording industry at the intersection of capitalism\, colonialism\, and globalized modern sound culture. Through an examination of government\, media\, and corporate sources\, Choi demonstrates that transnational record companies\, rather than colonial authority\, initiated the formation of the recording industry in the Japanese Empire in the early 20th century. That is\, utilizing funding\, technology\, and master recordings from the West\, the record companies sought profits in both Japan and its colonies. Their activities\, in turn\, helped expose Korean audiences to globally popular recorded music almost simultaneously with audiences in the Japanese metropole. In addition\, the record companies allowed Korean sound professionals to manage the production of Korean records due to their ability to create successful products in their own market. Therefore\, along with their Japanese counterparts\, these professionals produced Korean records in globally influenced yet locally inflected genres which were consumed across East Asia. Rather than approaching Korean sound professionals as a monolithic group of colonized subjects\, Choi pays close attention to the ways in which sound professionals of various educational backgrounds\, genders\, and social positions negotiated\, competed\, and cooperated to earn reputations in their fields and receive the financial rewards they desired. This dissertation thus foregrounds their individual agency in the modern transformation of sound culture in colonial Korea. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\nBy RSVP only – open only to graduate students and faculty for observation. Must RSVP at jk2857@columbia.edu to attend as an observer. \n  \nCo-sponsored by\nThe Academy of Korean Studies\, Seoul Korea; Columbia Alumni Association\, Korea; the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/manuscript-workshop-the-making-of-the-korean-recording-industry-1910-1945/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190503T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190504T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T173312Z
CREATED:20190411T183400Z
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SUMMARY:"Global May Fourth: One Hundred Years"
DESCRIPTION:A Conference at Columbia University\n \nFriday\, May 3 – 403 Kent \n6:00 PM – 7:30 PM \nIntroduction by Anatoly Detwyler and Ulug Kuzuoglu \nKeynote Speech by Bryna Goodman (University of Oregon) \n7:30 PM – 9:00 PM \nWine & Cheese Reception \n  \n  \nSaturday\, May 4 – Faculty Room\, Low Library \n9:00 AM – 9:15 AM \nWelcome & Introduction by Safwan Masri (Columbia University) \nOpening Remarks by Lydia H. Liu (Columbia University) \n  \n9:15 AM – 10:45 AM \nFirst Panel: The Great War and the May Fourth \nXU Guoqi (University of Hong Kong) \nGUO Shuanglin (Renmin University) \nDiscussant: Shang Wei \n  \n10:45 AM – 11:00 AM \nCoffee Break \n  \n11:00 AM – 1:00 PM \nSecond Panel: Global May Fourth \nUlug Kuzuoglu (Columbia University) \nMichael Gibbs Hill (William & Mary) \nChengzhi Wang (Columbia University) \nDiscussant: Marwa Elshakry \n  \n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM \nLunch Break \n  \n2:00 PM – 3:30 PM \nThird Panel: Labor\, Language\, and Life \nYurou Zhong (University of Toronto) \nGal Gvili (McGill University) \nDiscussant: Andrew Nathan \n  \n3:30 PM – 4:00 PM \nCoffee Break \n  \n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM \nFourth Panel: Critical Legacies \nViren Murthy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) \nPANG Laikwan (Chinese University of Hong Kong) \nDiscussant: Eugenia Lean \n  \nClick here for abstracts and the full program. \n  \nCosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, the Program in Chinese Literature and Culture\, the Huang and Lin Fund\, the Lian and Nie Fund\, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing\, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/global-may-fourth-one-hundred-years/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190502T133000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165813Z
CREATED:20190128T165037Z
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SUMMARY:“Labor Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China”
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nRachel Murphy\, Professor of Chinese Development and Society and Head of School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies\, University of Oxford \n  \nProfessor Murphy’s research examines transformations in China due to inter-related processes of industrialization\, urbanization\, demographic transition\, and marketization. She has conducted in-depth longitudinal ethnography and surveys across China. Her 2002 monograph offered one of the first analyses of the impact of return migration on rural China. She has also edited several books\, such as Chinese Citizenship: Views from the Margins; Media\, Identity and Struggle in 21st Century China. She is currently writing a book about the children of rural-urban labor migrants in two rapidly-urbanizing interior provinces\, which forms the basis of her talk. \n  \nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Columbia Population Research Center.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/labor-migration-and-social-development-in-contemporary-china/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190501T133000
DTSTAMP:20191007T195724Z
CREATED:20190315T142540Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T195724Z
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SUMMARY:"Yangchuk Tso in Conversation: Contemporary Cinema and Pop Music in Tibet"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\n\nFeaturing:  Yangchuk Tso\, Actress and contemporary singer-songwriter \nYangchuk Tso\, critically acclaimed Tibetan actress and contemporary singer\, will speak on her experiences in film and television in China\, reflect on contemporary Tibetan cinema\, and share thoughts on her own film making practice before engaging in a broader discussion on Tibetan cultural production in the 21st century with Eveline Washul and Riga Shakya. \n\n\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nYangchuk Tso is an award winning Tibetan actress and contemporary singer-songwriter based in Beijing and Xining. She has appeared in numerous films and television dramas. She is a graduate of the Central Academy of Drama’s directing program and is currently working on an ethnographic documentary film on a nunnery in Amdo\, Eastern Tibet. \n\n\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\n\nNo registration required.\nFor any press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu\n\n\n\nhttps://www.archive.weai.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Yangchuk-Tso.mp3
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-conversation-with-yangchuk-tso-negotiating-ethnicity-gender-and-language-rights-in-contemporary-tibetan-pop-music-and-cinema/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190429T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165813Z
CREATED:20190418T131431Z
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SUMMARY:Trump’s Indo-Pacific Strategy & the ASEAN and Chinese responses
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing: \nSpeaker: Dr. Amy Searight\, Senior Advisor and Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies \nRespondent: Dr. Andrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \nModerator: Dr. Ann Marie Murphy\, Professor\, Seton Hall University \nThe Trump administration has articulated a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ strategy as the new modus operandi for the United States’ policy on Asia\, but is it a useful organizing concept?   Please join Dr. Amy Searight for a discussion of the Trump administration’s ‘free and open Indo-Pacific” and the Southeast Asian response.  Dr. Andrew Nathan will provide a Chinese view of the ‘free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy in promises to be a stimulating discussion of an important topic. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu \nThis event is co-sponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/trumps-indo-pacific-strategy-the-asean-and-chinese-responses/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190429T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190429T133000
DTSTAMP:20191007T194428Z
CREATED:20190321T151439Z
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SUMMARY:"Sovereignty in China and the long Legacies of History"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing: Maria Adele Carrai\, Senior Researcher at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies – KU Leuven; Fellow at the Asia Center of Harvard University\nModerated by: Madeleine Zelin\, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History \n  \nA quest for sovereignty characterizes China’s modern history: charting an uninterrupted course since the nineteenth-century Opium Wars\, it reflects the country’s tortuous journey within the history of international law. The current territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas\, the reunification with Taiwan\, and the difficulties with the autonomous regions are all related to the most recent definition of China as a sovereign state\, and to the introduction of international law. During the nineteenth century\, Qing officials started to use sovereignty not only against the encroachment of Western powers\, but also to unite under one single sovereign authority the vast territory that was colonized and inscribed within a ritual geography in the course of the two previous centuries of imperial expansion. In a way\, the vast Qing multiethnic and multinormative empire continues to haunt the Chinese modern nation: the Chinese Communist Party’s endeavor\, as specified in the Constitution\, is still the reunification of the motherland. While remaining a hard-won prize after what has been rhetorically called the ‘century of humiliations\,’ more recently with the official codification of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence in 1954\, sovereignty has become the cornerstone of China’s foreign policy. How did these sovereign claims come about? When did they start\, and why? How are these claims different from or similar to those made in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, and what can the continuities and discontinuities in usage tell us about the current and future trajectory of China in international society? These are among the questions that the presentation will address. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\nNo registration required.\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu. \n \n \nhttps://www.archive.weai.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Maria-Adele-Carrai.mp3
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/sovereignty-in-china-and-the-long-legacies-of-history/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190428T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190428T210000
DTSTAMP:20190829T172950Z
CREATED:20190423T142031Z
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SUMMARY:"They are One Hundred Years Old"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special preview of this Tibetan documentary film\, introduced by Riga Shakya. After the film\, stay for a Q&A with the director\, Dukar Tserang\, and discussant\, Nelson Walker.\nFeaturing: \nDukar Tserang\, Nelson Walker and Riga Shakya \n  \nThey are One Hundred Years Old \nA Dukar Tserang Film \nIn his previous life\, he was her husband. In this life\, he is her grandson. He is the same person. In her previous life\, she was his wife. In this life\, she is his grandmother. She is the same person. They live under the same roof.This film shows the real life story of a Tibetan nomad family\, whose head of the family was reincarnated within the same household and leads two different lives with his “wife.” His wife cares for him just as before\, but there are also voices of dissent. In the new life in front of him\, he feels lost but he also has his own voice. This year\, their combined age is one hundred years old. \n  \nAbout the speakers: \nDukar Tserang is an independent filmmaker\, sound director\, composer\, screenwriter\, and director. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy\, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Tibetan Literature at Northwest Nationalities University in Lanzhou. He is Pema Tseden’s film partner and has been involved in the making of award-winning Tibetan films and theatrical movies throughout China. He established his own studio\, SoundFilm. \nNelson Walker has made numerous films including iThemba|Hope (Sundance Channel\, 2005)\, LUMO (PBS/P.O.V. 2007\, Student Academy Award® Winner)\, and Summer Pasture (PBS/Independent Lens 2012)\, which won a Peabody Award. Most recently\, Nelson was one of the Directors along with the late\, great Albert Maysles of the feature documentary IN TRANSIT (Winner\, Special Jury Mention\, Tribeca Film Festival 2015). Nelson is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University. \n  \n  \n511 Dodge Hall \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu \nThis event is co-sponsored Co-sponsored by:Modern Tibetan Studies\, Film and Media Studies\, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \nThis event is part of the Modern Tibetan Studies at 20 series.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/they-are-one-hundred-years-old/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190425T190000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165813Z
CREATED:20190417T164418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T165813Z
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SUMMARY:"Tibetan Literature in Translation: Pema Tseden’s Stories of Tibet"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with the translators of Enticement\, the first English-language anthology of short stories by Pema Tseden.\n \nAbout this Event\nPema Tseden is Tibet’s most prestigious filmmaker and an accomplished fiction writer. Enticement: Stories of Tibet translates his stories originally written either in Tibetan or in Chinese. His writing uses a variety of literary styles and sources ranging from traditional Tibetan oral tales to magical realism\, surrealism\, and the theater of the absurd to speak with empathy and humor about the Tibetan experience in the age of globalization. \nHe has released six major feature films to date winning prestigious awards in China\, Japan\, and Taiwan. His most recent film\, Jinpa\, won an award for best screenplay at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in 2018. \nThe discussion will include writer and scholar\, Pema Bhum\, translators of Enticement\, Michael Monhart and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani\, moderated by Lauran Hartley. \nParticipants\nPema Bhum is author of two Tibetan memoirs of the Cultural Revolution\, Six Stars with a Crooked Neck and Remembering Dorje Tsering. He was an associate professor of Tibetan Literature at the Northwest Nationalities Institute\, PRC\, and visiting assistant professor of Tibetan Language at Indiana University. At present\, he is director of Latse in New York City and Lecturer in Tibetan at Columbia University. \nMichael Monhart is an alumnus of the Tibetan Studies Department at Columbia University. In addition to his translation work\, he is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. \nPatricia Schiaffini-Vedani is one of the pioneers in the study of Sinophone Tibetan literature. Her volume Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change\, co-edited with Lauran Hartley\, was published in 2008. She teaches Chinese language and China and Tibet related courses at Texas State University. Dr. Schiaffini is also the President and Founder of Tibetan Arts and Literature Initiative\, an NGO devoted to training Tibetan teachers and promoting Tibetan-language education and literacy in China. \nLauran Hartley is Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University\, and also serves as an affiliated lecturer in Tibetan Literature for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her Ph.D. in Tibetan Studies from Indiana University and is co-editor of the book Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change. Her current research focuses on Tibetan literary production and intellectual discourse from the eighteenth century to the present. \nFree and open to the public. Please register here: https://bit.ly/2Pd02Um\nCo-sponsored by: Modern Tibetan Studies\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, and the Italian Academy at Columbia University.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/tibetan-literature-in-translation-pema-tsedens-stories-of-tibet/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190425T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190425T180000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165812Z
CREATED:20190128T165234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T165812Z
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SUMMARY:"Placing the Anthropocene: The Pacific Ocean in Planetary History"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\nFeaturing Gregory T. Cushman\, Associate Professor of International Environmental History\, University of Kansas \nModerated by Paul Kreitman\, Assistant Professor of Japanese History\, Columbia University \nIn its conventional form\, the Anthropocene is a Eurocentric and terracentric concept that needs to be provincialized. What might a history of the Anthropocene look like if we place the Pacific Ocean and its surrounding territories at its center? This keynote presentation will examine each of the major proposed starting points for the Anthropocene and their purported causes from the perspective of the Pacific Ocean and its surrounding territories—from late Pleistocene overkill to the atoll nuclear tests of the twentieth century. East Asia\, Australia\, and the Americas and Pacific Islands have all played unheralded roles in several historical trends typically associated with European-driven expansion. In any case\, we need to give careful attention to regional histories and their potential contribution to decentered global histories before making any firm decisions about the starting point\, root causes\, and potential meanings of this proposed “human epoch” of planetary history.  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nGregory T. Cushman is Associate Professor of International Environmental History at the University of Kansas (USA). His 2013 book Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (Cambridge University Press) won four international awards\, including the Jerry Bentley Prize in World History from the American Historical Association. In 2018\, it appeared in a revised Spanish translation (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos). He has published a range of articles in climate history\, the history of Indigenous peoples\, and history of science and technology. In 2015-17\, he received a prestigious Carnegie Fellowship and residential fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich to research the historical foundations of the Anthropocene\, which will result in two books: one on Debating the Anthropocene and another on the global history of humanity’s relationship with the lithosphere and mineral kingdom. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King  ak4364@columbia.edu \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/colonial-landscapes-and-seascapes-the-center-of-pacific-world-history/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190424T133000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171747Z
CREATED:20190218T215458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171747Z
UID:12707-1556107200-1556112600@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:CKR Event: "The Dictatorship of Capital: Urban Redevelopment and the Question of Violence in Post-Authoritarian South Korea"
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium\nFeaturing: Hae Yeon Choo\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, University of Toronto \n  \nThis talk examines the relationship between democratic citizenship\, capitalist profit-making\, and violence. In particular\, it focuses on an evictee protest against urban redevelopment in Yongsan\, South Korea in 2009\, resulting in a fatal police raid. Based on the parliamentary hearings\, court documents\, and oral history from protesters in the aftermath of what has been called the Yongsan disaster\, Hae Yeon Choo delves into how evictee protesters theorize the conditions of displacement and exclusion from urban space and citizenship as “the dictatorship of capital.” Situating the Yongsan Disaster in the socio-political context of South Korea\, Hae Yeon Choo calls attention to the social movement legacy of evictee movements and their increasing isolation and unexpected revitalization in post-authoritarian South Korea. By examining the voices of evictee activists\, this article sheds light on the limits of formal democracy and the vision of radical democracy based on the politics of “the have-nots.” \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nHae Yeon Choo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and is a 2018-2019 Deutsche Bank Member of Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton\, NJ). She is the author of Decentering Citizenship: Gender\, Labor\, and Migrant Rights in South Korea (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, a comparative study of three groups of Filipina women in South Korea: factory workers\, wives of South Korean men\, and hostesses at American military camp town clubs. Her current research project examines the politics of land ownership in contemporary South Korea\, delving into macro-level political contestations over land rights\, together with the narratives of people who pursue class mobility through real estate speculation. She has also translated Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider and Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Thought into Korean. \n  \n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-dictatorship-of-capital-urban-redevelopment-and-the-question-of-violence-in-post-authoritarian-south-korea/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190423T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190423T133000
DTSTAMP:20191007T193005Z
CREATED:20190301T170946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T193005Z
UID:12801-1556020800-1556026200@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals "
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing:  \nSebastian Veg\, Professor of intellectual history and literature of 20th century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris; Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong\nModerated by: Eugenia Lean\,  Director\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. \n  \nWhile China’s intellectuals throughout the twentieth century were defined in terms of their elite position and responsibility for the nation\, this role was profoundly challenged after the crackdown on the democracy movement of 1989. In its aftermath\, new groups of intellectuals emerged from grassroots society\, devoted to constituting alternative forms of knowledge outside the academy: amateur historians researching the Mao era\, amateur ethnographers using documentary films to investigate social issues\, grassroots lawyers working with disenfranchised groups to build rights-awareness\, and citizen bloggers and journalists challenging the state control of the public sphere. Although these groups have come under increasing pressure since 2012\, their ideas continue to inspire new dynamics in China’s society today. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nSebastian Veg is a Professor (directeur d’études) of intellectual history and literature of 20th century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS)\, Paris and an Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has written on Chinese intellectuals from May Fourth to the present\, the memory of the Mao era\, and the democracy movement in Hong Kong. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/minjian-the-rise-of-chinas-grassroots-intellectuals/
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190422
DTSTAMP:20190829T173312Z
CREATED:20190419T143948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T173312Z
UID:13137-1555632000-1555891199@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:The Cultural Turn in Arabic Literary Production
DESCRIPTION:Conference\nEvents will be held over the course of three days in Faculty House\, Garden Room 2 and Knox Hall\, Room 509. For a detailed schedule of events\, click here. \n  \n  \nSponsored by: Columbia University’s MESAAS Department\, Middle East Institute\, SoF/Heyman Center\, Executive Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Division of Humanities/ Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, and Arabic Studies Seminar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, the Program in Chinese Literature and Culture\, EALAC\, and ICLS; Dartmouth College; Brill Academic Publishers; Dr. Aziz Shaibani/Arab-American Educational Foundation \nIn Memory of Barbara Harlow (1948-2017) \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-cultural-turn-in-arabic-literary-production/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190420
DTSTAMP:20190829T171559Z
CREATED:20190103T121149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171559Z
UID:12986-1555632000-1555718399@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:“Languages & Scripts in China:  New Directions in Information and Communications History”
DESCRIPTION:Workshop\nFeaturing:  \nDavid Branner \nJanet Chen\, Princeton \nChloe Estep\, Columbia \nUlug Kuzuoglu\, Columbia \nFu-ming Lee\, Yale \nMårten Saarela\, Academia Sinica \nGina Tam\, Trinity \nJing Tsu\, Yale \nNathan Vedal\, Washington University \nJeffrey Weng\, Berkeley \nXiayu Xia\, Berkeley \nYurou Zhong\, University of Toronto \n  \nTo access the papers\, please RSVP to Ulug Kuzuoglu uk2123@columbia.edu \nView the full schedule here. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\nNo registration required.\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu. \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/languages-scripts-in-china-new-directions-in-information-and-communications-history/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190418T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190418T133000
DTSTAMP:20190829T165812Z
CREATED:20190403T140605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T165812Z
UID:12970-1555588800-1555594200@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"Time and Kinship: Rebirth and being in Burmese Buddhist Cosmology"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing: Naoko Kumada\, Research Fellow\, School of International Studies\, Nanyang Technological University \nModerated by: Zhaohua Yang\, Sheng Yen Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhism\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures \nBurmese Buddhists tell rebirth stories to explain where they came from and will go\, from previous life to the next in the cycle of rebirth. The ultimate goal of their existence is not for the cycle to continue but to end\, so as to attain nirvana. The Western modernist assumption of linear endlessly progressing time embedded in standard models of kinship in anthropology needs to be withdrawn to take into account the Burmese Buddhist experience and practice of kinship\, with its multiple concepts of time and multiple paths through which relatedness by blood and water unfold along cycles of rebirth. The Burmese case invites an anthropological inquiry into the concept of time\, and offers a critique of\, and alternative to\, the Western idea of teleological progress. \n\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\nNo registration required.\nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/time-and-kinship-rebirth-and-being-in-burmese-buddhist-cosmology/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190417T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171747Z
CREATED:20190311T133059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171747Z
UID:12843-1555516800-1555522200@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"China Under Xi Jinping: The First Term and the Future"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\n  \nFeaturing Li Weidong\, retired publisher of China Reform Magazine\, editorial member of “China Strategic-Analysis” \nModerated by Andrew Nathan Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nLi Weidong is the retired publisher of China Reform magazine. He is a member of the editorial committee of China Strategic Analysis\, a journal published in Chinese in the United States. Under the pen name “Hibernating Bear” (Dongmian xiong)\, he is a widely read and influential blogger and commentator. His 2013 blogpost called “The Road of Red Empire That Cannot Be Traversed” described the mentality of the Xi regime. \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required.\nFor any press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/china-under-xi-jinping-the-first-term-and-the-future/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190417T133000
DTSTAMP:20191007T193111Z
CREATED:20190329T201101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T193111Z
UID:12931-1555502400-1555507800@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"China's and Russia's Sharp Power: How Big a Threat?"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\n\nFeaturing: Christopher Walker\, Vice President for Studies and Analysis\, National Endowment for Democracy\n\nModerated by: Andrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Alexander Cooley\, Claire Tow Professor of Political Science and Director of The Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia\, Eurasia and Eastern Europe at Columbia University \nAbout the Speaker \n\nChristopher Walker is Vice President for Studies and Analysis at the National Endowment for Democracy. In this capacity\, he oversees the department that is responsible for NED’s multifaceted analytical work\, which includes the International Forum for Democratic Studies\, a leading center for the analysis and discussion of democratic development. The International Forum pursues it goals through several interrelated initiatives: publishing the Journal of Democracy\, the world’s leading publication on the theory and practice of democracy; hosting fellowship programs for international democracy activists\, journalists\, and scholars; coordinating the Network of Democracy Research Institutes\, a global think tank network; and organizing a diverse range of analytical initiatives to explore critical themes relating to democratic development. Prior to joining the NED\, Walker was Vice President for Strategy and Analysis at Freedom House. Prior to Freedom House\, he was a senior associate at the EastWest Institute\, and program manager at the European Journalism Network. Walker has also served as an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at New York University. He holds a B.A. degree from Binghamton University and an M.A. from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Walker has testified before congressional committees and appeared regularly in the media. His articles have appeared in numerous publications\, including the Wall Street Journal\, New York Times\, Washington Post\, Foreign Policy.com\, Barron’s\, The Far Eastern Economic Review\, Politico.com\, Journal of Democracy\, and World Affairs. He is co-editor with Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner of Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press\, March 2016).\n\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1219\nNo registration required.\nFor any press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu\n\n\nThis event is cosponsored by the The Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia\, Eurasia and Eastern Europe at Columbia University.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/chinas-and-russias-sharp-power-how-big-a-threat/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190415T173000
DTSTAMP:20190829T164032Z
CREATED:20190227T150345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T164032Z
UID:12795-1555344000-1555349400@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"Chinese Oral Histories at Columbia and Beyond: Lessons and Legacies for Now and Future"
DESCRIPTION:Panel Discussion\nFeaturing: \nGuangyao Jin\, Professor of History Department and Director of  International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization\, Fudan University\, China \nAndrew J. Nathan\, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University \nJim Cheng\, Director\, C.V. Starr East Asian Library \nMary Marshall Clark\, Director\, Columbia Center for Oral History Research \nYingwen Huang\, Chinese Materials Archivist\, Columbia Rare Book and Manuscript Library \nChengzhi Wang\, Chinese Studies Librarian\, C.V. Starr East Asian Library \n  \nHistorical source materials keep their scholarly value unabated with the passage of time. This is especially true of the Chinese Oral History Project collections at Columbia. The WEAI’s Chinese Oral History Project was officially started in 1958 by Prof. C. Martin Wilbur and Prof. Franklin Ho\, the project’s co-directors\, and lasted until the end of 1970s. As a result of the decades’ hard work of many scholars and the students at WEAI\, a great number of oral histories and archival collections of significant importance were created and acquired; Most of them have been preserved in the Columbia Libraries and made accessible to interested students and scholars from everywhere. WEAI’s Chinese Oral History Project leaders and scholars lent critical support to oral history initiatives of Academia Sinica in Taiwan; the WEAI’s project and the standardized approaches of oral history have inspired almost all China/Chinese-related oral histories scholars and practitioners across the world\, particularly recently in mainland China. Even today\, the Columbia Libraries continues processing the unprocessed archival collections associated with the WEAI’s project and improving the finding aids of many collections. And the digitization of the collections in collaboration with the Academy of China Social Sciences has been initially experimented\, as in the first-phase digitization of the Wellington Koo Papers. To better understand the history of WEAI and the institute’s significant contribution to the studies of modern China through the project\, at the 70th anniversary of WEAI it is fitting and useful to look back and reflect on the lessons\, legacies and issues surrounding the project\, the current status of the oral history creation\, production\, library collection and access at Columbia and in Greater China Area\, and the future directions of Chinese oral and public history development. \nThe roundtable is intended to introduce and analyze the special status of the WEAI’s Chinese Oral History Project situated in the oral history initiatives at Columbia and the movement across the country\, and in the China-U.S. relations from the cold war time. It also informs the current development and transformations of oral and public history projects in the Greater China Area in changed domestic and international environments. In addition\, it addresses the issues of library collection and research access of oral histories and related papers in the U.S. and China. \n  \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n  \nNo registration required. \nFor any press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/chinese-oral-histories-at-columbia-and-beyond-lessons-and-legacies-for-now-and-future/
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190414
DTSTAMP:20190829T171559Z
CREATED:20190401T202615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171559Z
UID:12954-1555027200-1555199999@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:Science and Society in Global Asia Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Science and Society in Global Asia Workshop\nFriday\, April 12 – Saturday\, April 13\, 2019 \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nOrganizers\nJohn Chen\, Dongxin Zou \nFaculty Sponsor\nEugenia Lean \nInstitutional Sponsors\nCenter for Science and Society\nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures\nWeatherhead East Asian Institute \n  \nWhat do connected histories of Asia offer science and technology studies (STS)\, and vice versa? How do encounters between heterogeneous and often asymmetrically empowered forms of knowledge push us to rethink the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized\, the modern and the traditional\, and the scientific and the “unscientific”? This workshop will further debates on decentering STS from Western contexts by featuring research that explores the plural\, syncretic\, and globalizing facets of the history of science and society across Asia. Building on a wide range of recent scholarship\, as well as past events at Columbia and elsewhere\, this workshop seeks new conceptual vocabularies that neither fully universalize nor fully provincialize the experiences of “East” or “West\,” but aspire to the genuinely global. \nWorkshop Program \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/science-and-society-in-global-asia-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190410T190000
DTSTAMP:20190829T163914Z
CREATED:20190408T160457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T163914Z
UID:13028-1554915600-1554922800@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"Gateway State: Hawai'i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire"
DESCRIPTION:Workshop\nFeaturing: Dr. Sarah Miller Davenport\, University of Sheffield \nModerator: Lien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University \n  \nFayerweather\, Room 513 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by Center for International History and Weatherhead East Asian Institute
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/gateway-state-hawaii-and-the-cultural-transformation-of-american-empire/
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190409T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190409T190000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171747Z
CREATED:20190403T142158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171747Z
UID:12975-1554831000-1554836400@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"The Future of the US–Japan Alliance: Advancing the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\n  \nFeaturing: H.R. McMaster\, Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow\, Hoover Institution\, Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow\, Freeman Spogli Institute\, Stanford University\, and the Former 26th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. \n  \nOpening Remarks: Merit Janow\, Dean\, School of International and Public Aairs; Professor of Professional Practice\, International Economic Law and International Affairs\, Columbia University \n  \nIntroduction: Richard Betts\, Leo A. Shifrin Professor of War and Peace Studies and Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies; Director\, International Security Policy Program\, Columbia University \n  \nModerator: Takako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\, Columbia University \n  \nHosted at Faculty House\, Presidential Ballroom \nRegistration and Columbia UNI required. Register here. \nThis event is off the record.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-future-of-the-us-japan-alliance-advancing-the-vision-of-a-free-and-open-indo-pacific/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190409T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190409T193000
DTSTAMP:20190829T163913Z
CREATED:20190405T133522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T163913Z
UID:13003-1554829200-1554838200@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"Infrastructure as Asset or Public Good"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\n  \nFeaturing Dr. Pon Souvannaseng\, Research Associate at the Global Development Institute\, University of Manchester \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\nNo registration required.\nFor any press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by New York Southeast Asian Network and Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/infrastructure-as-asset-or-public-good/
CATEGORIES:Archived Events
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190409T133000
DTSTAMP:20191007T193505Z
CREATED:20190131T162350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T193505Z
UID:12503-1554811200-1554816600@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"Garu Lobzang Sherap: A Tibetan Painter at the Qing Court"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing:  Tsangwang Gendun Tenpa\, Director and Chief Curator of the Chengdu Dargye Himalayan Art and Culture Museum \nModerated by Gray Tuttle\, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures \nDrawing on a range of Tibetan and Chinese historical sources\, as well as images of several important Tibetan thangka paintings\, Gedun Tenpa will discuss the life and artistry of Garu Lobzang Sherap (Sga-ru Blo-bzang-shes-rab)\, a prominent Tibetan thangka painter from Rebgong with close connections to the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722). Nestled in the Yellow River Valley region of the Sino-Tibetan frontier in present-day Qinghai Province\, Rebgong has long served as a religious and cultural center in the region traditionally known as Amdo. As an influential teacher in the late seventeenth-century\, Garu Lobzang Sherap traveled to both Peking and Lhasa to serve as instructor and for the purpose of propagating his painting techniques. His endeavors must be seen in the context of the spread of the Gelukpa School of Tibetan Buddhism which was also flourishing in this region at the time. In his case study\, the speaker offers evidence for the circulation of material objects and practices vis a vis “knowledge networks” that developed between religious teachers\, medical practitioners\, and artists based in the Sino-Tibetan frontier and their patrons (and students) both in the Manchu Court and in the Lhasa-based Ganden Phodrang Administration. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nTsangwang Gendun Tenpa (Tshangs dbang Dge ’dun bstan pa 苍王•耿登丹巴) is deputy director and chief curator of the Chengdu Dargye Himalayan Art and Culture Museum (Khrun tu’u Hi ma la ya’i rig gnas bshams ston khang 成都大吉喜马拉雅文化艺术博物馆). Trained as a painter\, he has been engaged since 2012 in the research of more than three thousand objects in the Dargye Museum. He is author of several publications\, including a book-length study of the gzi stone\, or Tibetan agate: Gzi dmar: Deng rabs Bod kyi lhug rtsom phyogs sgrig. [Red Agate: A Compilation of Contemporary Tibetan Essays]\, 2018. \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required.\nFor any press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/garu-lobzang-sherap-a-tibetan-painter-at-the-qing-court/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190408T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190408T203000
DTSTAMP:20190829T171747Z
CREATED:20190403T165020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190829T171747Z
UID:12981-1554748200-1554755400@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:"The Other Japanese New Wave"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\nFeaturing: Go Hirasawa \nRespondent: Peter Eckersall\, Professor\, CUNY Graduate Center \nModerator: Takuya Tsunoda\, Columbia University \nAbout the Speaker: \nGo Hirasawa is a researcher at Meiji-Gakuin University working on underground films and avant-garde art movements in 1960s and ’70s Japan. His publications include Underground Film Archives (Japan\, 2001) and Masao Adachi: Le bus de la révolution passera bientot près de chez toi (France\, 2012). Film series he organized include Koji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi (Cinematheque Française\, 2010)\, Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema\, 1960–1986 (The Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, 2012) and Throwing Shadows: Japanese Expanded Cinema in the Time of Pop (Tate Modern\, 2016). \n  \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu \n  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and Weatherhead East Asian Institute
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-other-japanese-new-wave/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20190405T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20190405T134500
DTSTAMP:20191007T193329Z
CREATED:20190128T164824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T193329Z
UID:12262-1554466500-1554471900@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:“China’s Invisible Crisis: How the Urban-Rural Human Capital Divide Threatens China’s Growth and Stability”
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nFeaturing Scott Rozelle\, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow; Co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies\, Stanford University \nProfessor Rozelle’s research on agricultural policy as well as the economics of poverty and inequality focuses on rural education\, health\, and nutrition. Rozelle received the 2008 Friendship Award in 2008\, the highest award given to a non-Chinese by the Premier of the PRC. In this talk\, he will begin with a deep understanding of middle-income trap and human capital inequality confronted by today China and a genuine acknowledgment of continued promotion of education by the Chinese government. He then will reveal the poor rural education program embedded in the rural children’s absence of learning and poor early-stage cognitive development and offer practical yet low-cost solutions based on his team’s prolonged filed research outcomes. \n  \nSchool of Social Work\, Room C06 \nNo registration required. \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the China Center for Social Policy at Columbia University.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/chinas-invisible-crisis-how-the-urban-rural-human-capital-divide-threatens-chinas-growth-and-stability/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190407
DTSTAMP:20191212T160225Z
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SUMMARY:"Tibetan Buddhism and Political Power in the Courts of Asia"
DESCRIPTION:Academic Conference\nThis international conference examined Tibetan Buddhism’s dynamic political role in history as a major catalyst in spreading the religion beyond Tibet’s borders to its Tangut\, Mongol\, Chinese\, and Manchu neighbors. This conference brought together scholars from multiple disciplines\, featuring Tsering Shakya (University of British Columbia) as the keynote speaker and panels on Political Legitimacy and the Birth/Spread of Empires; Militant Lamas and Magical Warfare; and Systems of Power and Control of Knowledge. \nThe conference was held in conjunction with the exhibition Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism\, on view February 1 through July 15\, 2019. \n  \n \n  \nSchedule of Events \n  \nKeynote Address \n  \nTsering Shakya (University of British Columbia) “Yellow Hats and Golden Countenances\, Tibetan Buddhism and Empire” \n  \n________________________________ \n  \nSession 1: Political Legitimacy and Birth/Spread of Empires \n  \nGendun Tenpa (Dargye Museum\, Chengdu) “Tsongkha Kingdom as Mediator between the Tibetan Empire and Tangut Xixia” \n  \nKurtis Schaefer (University of Virginia) “Scripture\, Politics\, and War in the Age of the Fifth Dalai Lama” \n  \nNancy Lin (UC Berkeley) “Two Models of Lay Buddhist Kingship at the Court of Miwang Polhané” \n  \nWen-shing Chou (Hunter College) “Visualizing Emperor as Guru: Kingship and Devotion in Qing-Dynasty China” \n  \nRespondent: Chris Atwood (University of Pennsylvania) \n  \n________________________________ \n  \nSession 2: Militant Lamas and Magical Warfare \n  \nBryan J. Cuevas (Florida State) “The Politics of Magical Warfare” \n  \nCarl Yamamoto (Towson University\, MD) “Vanquishing the Enemies of the Teachings: Tantra and Warfare According to Zhang Tselpa” \n  \nKarma Phuntsho (Loden Foundation\, Bhutan): “Mahākāla and Magic in the Making of Bhutan” \n  \nRespondent: Karl Debreczeny (Rubin Museum of Art) \n  \n________________________________ \n  \nSession 3: Systems of Power and Control of Knowledge \n  \nEveline Washul (Columbia University) “The Three Chol kha of Tibet: Sakya Narratives of Power after the Mongol Yuan” \n  \nWilliam Dewey (Rubin Museum of Art) “Tibetan Dynastic Politics and the Making of Taranatha’s History of Indian Buddhism” \n  \nLan Wu (Mount Holyoke College\, MA) “Paths to Knowledge: Beijing’s Yonghegong and Qing Mongolian Buddhists in the Eighteenth Century.” \n  \nRiga Shakya (Columbia University) “Entangled Objects: Gift\, Reciprocity and the Making of the Imperial Subject in 18th-Century Tibet” \n  \nRespondent: Gray Tuttle (Columbia University) \n  \n________________________________ \n  \nConcluding Remarks \n  \nPatricia Berger (UC Berkeley) \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/tibetan-buddhism-and-political-power-in-the-courts-of-asia/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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SUMMARY:"Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan's Modern History"
DESCRIPTION:Brown Bag Lecture\nBook talk with Harry Harootunian\, Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago; Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at New York University; Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \nin dialogue with: Laura Neitzel\, Academic Director for the Committee on Global Thought \nModerated by Carol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History\, Columbia University  \nFew scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights\, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian’s essays on Japan’s intellectual and cultural history from the late Tokugawa period to the present that span the many phases of his distinguished career and point to new directions for Japanese studies.\n\nUneven Moments begins with reflections on area studies as an academic field and how we go about studying a region. It then moves into discussions of key topics in modern Japanese history. Harootunian considers Japan’s fateful encounter with capitalist modernity and the implications of uneven development\, examining the combinations of older practices with new demands that characterized the twentieth century. The book examines the making of modern Japan\, the transformations of everyday life\, and the collision between the production of forms of cultural expression and new political possibilities. Finally\, Harootunian analyzes Japanese political identity and its forms of reckoning with the past. Exploring the shifting relationship among culture\, the making of meaning\, and politics in rich reflections on Marxism and critical theory\, Uneven Moments presents Harootunian’s intellectual trajectory and in so doing offers a unique assessment of Japanese history.\n\nAbout the Speaker:\nHarry Harootunian is Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago\, professor emeritus of East Asian studies at New York University\, and adjunct senior research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University. His books include History’s Disquiet: Modernity\, Cultural Practice\, and The Question of Everyday Life (Columbia\, 2000) and Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism (Columbia\, 2015).\n\nFor more about the book\, visit the Columbia University Press website.\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918\nNo Registration Required\nFor any press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King at ak4364@columbia.edu
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/uneven-moments-reflections-on-japans-modern-history/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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