• Korea-Japan Relations: Looking Back, Looking Forward

    Center for Korean Research Event University of Connecticut History Professor Alexis Dudden explores recent history and possible overtures in Korea-Japan relations in conversation with Korea Society Senior Director Stephen Noerper. Exploring trade and historical disputes, as well as well as Washington’s past and potential involvement, Dudden, author of Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea and the […]

  • Nationalism and Populism around the world: Is Japan an exception?

    Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a panel discussion with:   Mark Lilla, Professor of Humanities, Department of History, Columbia University Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory, Columbia University Jack Snyder, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan Masayuki […]

  • Xi Jinping’s long-term strategic vision and its implication for the American position in the world

    Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: Hao SU, Professor, Department of Diplomacy; founding director of the Center for Strategic and Peace Studies, China Foreign Affairs University.   Moderated by: Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University   Since the modern times, the world has undergone […]

  • From Lhasa to Darjeeling to America: Tibetan American Memoir Writing

    Modern Tibetan Studies Event Please join us for a lecture with: Ann Tashi Slater, Japan Women’s University Discussant: Riga Shakya, Columbia University   Author Ann Tashi Slater will read from "Mountains, Monasteries, and Myths: What I Discovered While Living in My Darjeeling Family Home" (Catapult). This piece looks at her journey from her American childhood […]

  • Workshop on Political Change and Policy Change in Japan

    JASSA Event Please join us for a lecture with: Satoshi Machidori, Professor of Law, Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law Harukata Takenaka,  Professor of political science,  National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo   Moderated by: Takako Hikotani, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy,  Department of Political Science, […]