BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WEAI - Weatherhead East Asian Institute - ECPv6.17.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:WEAI - Weatherhead East Asian Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WEAI - Weatherhead East Asian Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T133000 DTSTAMP:20200130T210756Z CREATED:20200110T151941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T210756Z UID:21404-1581422400-1581427800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Workshop on Political Change and Policy Change in Japan DESCRIPTION:JASSA Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nSatoshi Machidori\, Professor of Law\, \nKyoto University’s Graduate School of Law \nHarukata Takenaka\,  \nProfessor of political science\,  \nNational Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo \n  \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\,  \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nComments by: \nHikaru Yamagishi\, PhD candidate\, Yale University \n  \nJapanese politics is known for its stability. But in the past twenty years\, there has been dramatic transformation both in the policy-making process and policy itself. What is the driving force of these changes? How has policies changed (or not changed) due to the changes in the policy making process? And most importantly\, would these changes enable Japan to deal with the demographic and geopolitical challenges it faces in the years ahead? This workshop will provide an opportunity to hear from Professors Satoshi Machidori and Harukata Takenaka are the two leading experts of Japanese politics in Japan. Brief presentations by both scholars will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Takako Hikotani\, then a Q&A session with the audience. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nSatoshi Machidori is Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law. Earned his PhD in political science after doing graduate work at Kyoto University and taught at schools including Osaka University before arriving at his present post. Specializes in comparative political studies and American politics. His works include Seitō sisutemu to seitō soshiki(Party Systems and Party Organizations) and Daigisei minshushugi: “Min’i” to “seijika” o toinaosu (Representative Democracy: A Reconsideration of the Public Will and Politicians). \n  \nHarukata Takenaka is professor of political science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy\, with a particular focus on Japanese political economy. His research interests include democracy in Japan\, and Japan’s political and economic stagnation since the 1990s. He is currently working on aborted democratization in prewar Japan\, the politics of Japan’s financial crisis since the 1990s and the role of the Japanese Senate (House of Councilors) in postwar Japanese politics. \nHe received a B.A. from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of Senze Nihon ni okeru Minshuka no Zasetsu [Aborted Democratization in Prewar Japan]\, (Bokutakusha\, 2002)\, and the co-editor of Akusesu Kokusai Seijikeizai [Access to International Political Economy]\,(Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha\, 2003). \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 11\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Suntory Foundation URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/workshop-on-political-change-and-policy-change-in-japan/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T160000 DTSTAMP:20200207T171320Z CREATED:20200203T162024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T171320Z UID:21797-1581345000-1581350400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:From Lhasa to Darjeeling to America: Tibetan American Memoir Writing DESCRIPTION:Modern Tibetan Studies Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nAnn Tashi Slater\, \nJapan Women’s University \nDiscussant: \nRiga Shakya\, \nColumbia University \n  \nAuthor 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 to her discovery of her Tibetan family’s rich history. Slater’s story provides intimate glimpses of the personal and political connections between Tibetan societies in Darjeeling and Lhasa at the turn of the 20th century. After the reading\, she will talk about her family history\, her Tibetan American identity\, and exploring the self through writing.  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nAnn Tashi Slater’s work has been published by The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, Catapult\, AGNI\, Granta\, and the HuffPost\, among others. Her writing also appears in American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices (HarperCollins) and Women in Clothes (Riverhead). She writes often on subjects related to Tibet and her Tibetan family history. Current projects include a memoir about a mother-daughter pilgrimage to her ancestral homeland that explores identity and family legacy\, dialogue across generations and borders\, and the responsibility of individual and collective memory. A longtime resident of Tokyo\, Slater is Professor of American Literature at Japan Women’s University. You can view her website here. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 10\, 2020 \n2:30 PM-4:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors: Diasporic Asian American Writers Series\, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/21797/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T133000 DTSTAMP:20200205T143626Z CREATED:20200110T151239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T143626Z UID:21394-1581336000-1581341400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Xi Jinping’s long-term strategic vision and its implication for the American position in the world DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nHao SU\, Professor\, Department of Diplomacy; founding director of the Center for Strategic and Peace Studies\, \nChina Foreign Affairs University. \n  \nModerated by: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, \nColumbia University \n  \nSince the modern times\, the world has undergone three waves of globalization. The first wave started from 500 years ago\, with the European countries connecting the world by means of the opening of new sea-routes\, the great discoveries of geography and the establishment of global colonial system. This is a linear globalization based on power. The second wave started at the end of WWII. The establishment of a series of US-led international institutions linked the world into a systematic international society. This is a flat globalization based on institutions. Nowadays\, the third wave of globalization is under way. The rise of emerging newly-economies from the developing world and the effect of economic globalization have brought about a trend of re-balance for the world economic pattern. This will be a tridimensional globalization based on governance. Facing the advent of this trend\, the Chinese government has proposed the “Belt and Road Initiative”\, in order to propel the network construction of both worldwide partnerships and regional integration\, with the purpose of promoting the realization of global governance. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nProfessor SU was awarded his B.A. in history and M.A. in international relations by Beijing Normal University and a Ph.D. in international relations by China Foreign Affairs University. He took advanced study in the School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London in 1993-1995; and was a Fulbright scholar in the Institute of War and Peace Studies of Columbia University\, and in the Institute of East Asia Studies of the University of California at Berkeley in 2001-2002. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University\, Sweden\, in 2004; at Bond University\, Australia\, in 2014; and Department of Politics of LUISS University\, Rome\, in 2015. \nHe was acting chairman of the Department of Diplomacy\, director of China’s Foreign Relations Section\, general secretary of the East Asian Studies Center\, and director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies at China Foreign Affairs University. He is the president of the Beijing Geopolitical Strategy and Development Association\, a member of the Chinese Committee for Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council\, a board member of the China Association of Arms Control and Disarmament\, the Pacific Society of China\, the China Association of Asian-African Development Exchange\, and the China Association of China-ASEAN. His specialties are China’s foreign and security policy\, strategic studies\, international relations in the Asia-Pacific region\, and East Asian integration. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 10\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/xi-jinpings-long-term-strategic-vision-and-its-implication-for-the-american-position-in-the-world/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T140000 DTSTAMP:20200210T144336Z CREATED:20200110T151632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T144336Z UID:21400-1581328800-1581343200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Nationalism and Populism around the world: Is Japan an exception? DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a panel discussion with: \n  \nMark Lilla\, Professor of Humanities\, Department of History\, Columbia University \nNadia Urbinati\, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory\, Columbia University \nJack Snyder\, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations\, Columbia University \n Kiyoteru Tsutsui\, Professor of Sociology\, University of Michigan \nMasayuki Tadokoro\, Professor of International Relations\, Keio University\, Tokyo\, Japan \nSatoshi Machidori\, Professor of Law\, Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law \n  \nModerated by: \nAlexander Stille\, San Paolo Professor of International Journalism\, Columbia University \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\, Columbia University \n  \nNationalism and populism have been on the rise around the world\, with the two trends often coinciding and reinforcing one another. Japan seems to be an exception to this trend: while nationalism seem to be on the rise\, Japan has not experienced a rise of populism as we see in other Western countries. Is this observation correct? If so\, why is Japan different? Or\, is a rise of populism likely in Japan in the coming years? This event will bring together experts from different disciplines at Columbia\, as well as leading scholars from Japan. In the morning session\, Mark Lilla and scholars from Columbia will present about the developments around the world. Then we will turn to Japan in the afternoon session and discuss whether populism is likely to rise in Japan. \nAbout the Speakers: \n\n\nSatoshi Machidori is Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law. Earned his PhD in political science after doing graduate work at Kyoto University and taught at schools including Osaka University before arriving at his present post. Specializes in comparative political studies and American politics. His works include Seitō sisutemu to seitō soshiki(Party Systems and Party Organizations) and Daigisei minshushugi: “Min’i” to “seijika” o toinaosu (Representative Democracy: A Reconsideration of the Public Will and Politicians).\n\nMasayuki Tadokoro is Professor of International Relations at Keio University\, Tokyo\, Japan. Born in Osaka\, he attended Kyoto University and the London School of Economics. Previously he was a professor at the National Defense Academy. In 1988-89\, he stayed in Washington D.C. a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies\, and in 1991 he taught for a semester as Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary field is international political economy\, but he works also on Japanese foreign and security policy. His publications in English include\, “After the Dollar?”\, International Relations of the Asia Pacific 10:3 (2010); and “Why did Japan fail to become the ‘Britain’ of Asia”\, in David Wolff et al.\, eds.\, The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective (Brill\, 2007). He also edited with David Welch and Yoshihide Soeya\, Japan as a ‘Normal Country’?: A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World\, (Toronto U.P. 2011).\n\nKiyoteru Tsutsui is Professor of Sociology\, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies\, and Director of the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research on globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Social Forces\, Social Problems\, Journal of Peace Research\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018)\, and a co-edited volume (with Alwyn Lim) Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (Cambridge University Press 2015). He has been a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship\, National Science Foundation grants\, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship\, the Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship\, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010\, 2013\, 2019)\, Human Rights (2017\, 2019)\, Asia and Asian America (2018\, 2019)\, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018)\, and Political Sociology (2019).\n\n\n\n\nMark Lilla\, Professor of Humanities\, specializes in intellectual history\, with a particular focus on Western political and religious thought. Before moving to Columbia in 2007 he taught in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and at New York University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books\, he is the author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017)\, The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (2016)\, The Stillborn God: Religion\, Politics\, and the Modern West (2007)\,The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2001)\,and G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993). He has also edited The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001) with Ronald Dworkin and Robert Silvers\, and The Public Face of Architecture (1987) with Nathan Glazer. He is currently writing a book titled Ignorance and Bliss\, and another on the history of the idea of conversion.\n\nJack Snyder (Ph.D.\, Columbia\, 1981) is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia. His books include Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War\, with Edward D. Mansfield; From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict; Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition; The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914. He is editor of several books including Human Rights Futures (Cambridge University Press\, August 2017)\, with Stephen Hopgood and Leslie Vinjamuri; Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance\, with Alexander Cooley\, and Religion and International Relations Theory.  His articles include “The Modernization Trap\,” Journal of Democracy\, April 2017\, on populist nationalism\, and “The Cost of Empty Threats; A Penny\, Not a Pound\,” American Political Science Review\, August 2011\, with Erica Borghard. Professor Snyder is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and editor of the W. W. Norton book series on World Politics. Professor Snyder received a B.A. in Government from Harvard in 1973 and the Certificate of Columbia’s Russian Institute in 1978.\n\nNadia Urbinati (Ph.D.\, European University Institute\, Florence\, 1989) is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought and was a co-editor with Andrew Arato of the academic journal Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization.\nShe has been a member of the School of Social Sciences of the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton University\, and a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship in the University Center for Human Values\, Princeton University. She is permanent visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore de Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant’Anna of Pisa (Italy)\, and taught at Bocconi University (Milan)\, SciencesPo (Paris) and the University UNICAMP (Brazil).\nShe is the winner of the 2008-9 Lenfest/Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2008 the President of the Italian Republic awarded Professor Urbinati the Commendatore della Repubblica (Commander of the Italian Republic) “for her contribution to the study of democracy and the diffusion of Italian liberal and democratic thought abroad.” In 2004 her book Mill on Democracy (cited below) received the David and Elaine Spitz Prize as the best book in liberal and democratic theory published in 2002.\nProfessor Urbinati is the author of Me The People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard University Press\, 2019); The Tyranny of the Moderns (Yale University Press 2015); Democracy Disfigured: Opinion\, Truth and the People (Harvard University Press\, 2014); Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (University of Chicago Press\, 2006)\, and of Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government (University of Chicago Press\, 2002). She has edited Carlo Rosselli\, Liberal Socialism (Princeton University Press\, 1994); Piero Gobetti\, On Liberal Revolution (Yale University Press\,2002). She co-edited several books\, in particular: with Monique Canto-Sperber Le socialism libéral: Une anthologie; Europe-États-Unis (Éditions Esprit 2003); with Alex Zakaras\, John Stuart Mill’s Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment (Cambridge University Press\, 2007); with Stefano Recchia\, A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini’s Writings on Democracy\, Nation Building and International Relations (Princeton University Press\, 2009); with Steven Lukes\, Condorcet’s Political Writing (Cambridge University Press\, 2012); with Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti\, Hans Kelsen’s On the Worth and Values of Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2013);  with Lisa Disch and Mathijs van de Sande\, The Constructivism Turn in Political Representation (Edinburg University Press\, 2019).\n\n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 10\, 2020 \n10:00 AM-2:00 PM\n10:00 AM-11:30 AM Morning Session \n1:00 PM-2:30 PM Afternoon Session \n  \nADDRESS\n\nBuell Hall\, East Gallery \n515 West 116th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Japan Chair\, Suntory Foundation and Columbia Journalism School URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/nationalism-and-populism-around-the-world-is-japan-an-exception/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T150000 DTSTAMP:20200206T143028Z CREATED:20200203T170238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200206T143028Z UID:21810-1581076800-1581087600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Korea-Japan Relations: Looking Back\, Looking Forward DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\nUniversity 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 United States\, as well as a recent New York Times piece\, examines signs of progress\, possible offramps and continuing challenges. \nFree for Columbia affiliates. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nPlease RSVP here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFriday\, February 7\, 2020\n12:00 PM \nADDRESS\n\nThe Korea Society\n350 Madison Avenue\, 24th Floor\n \nCosponsored by: The Korea Society; The Columbia Alumni Association\, Korea URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/korea-japan-relations-looking-back-looking-forward/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T133000 DTSTAMP:20200129T205530Z CREATED:20200127T203124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T205530Z UID:21731-1581076800-1581082200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nKiyoteru Tsutsui\, Professor of Sociology\, \nUniversity of Michigan \nDiscussant: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, \nColumbia University \n  \n  \nWhy have the three most salient minority groups in Japan – the politically dormant Ainu\, the active but unsuccessful Koreans\, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin – all expanded their activism since the late 1970s despite the unfavorable domestic political environment? Professor Tsutsui’s investigation into the history of activism by the three groups reveals that a key factor was the galvanizing effects of global human rights on local social movements. Drawing on interviews and archival data\, he documents the transformative impact of global human rights ideas and institutions on minority activists\, which changed the prevalent understanding about their standing in Japanese society and propelled them to new international venues for political claim making. The global forces also changed the public perception and political calculus in Japan over time\, catalyzing substantial gains for the minority movements. Having benefited from global human rights\, all three groups repaid their debt by contributing to the consolidation and expansion of international human rights principles and instruments. The in-depth historical comparative analysis offers rare windows into local\, micro-level impact of global human rights and contributes to our understanding of international norms and institutions\, social movements\, human rights\, ethnoracial politics\, and Japanese society. \nAbout the Speaker: \nKiyoteru Tsutsui is Professor of Sociology\, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies\, and Director of the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research on globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Social Forces\, Social Problems\, Journal of Peace Research\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018)\, and a co-edited volume (with Alwyn Lim) Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (Cambridge University Press 2015). He has been a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship\, National Science Foundation grants\, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship\, the Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship\, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010\, 2013\, 2019)\, Human Rights (2017\, 2019)\, Asia and Asian America (2018\, 2019)\, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018)\, and Political Sociology (2019). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures Series event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 7\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nKent Hall\, Room 403 \n1140 Amsterdam Ave \n  URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/rights-make-might-global-human-rights-and-minority-social-movements-in-japan/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T173000 DTSTAMP:20200204T141110Z CREATED:20200110T164627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T141110Z UID:21455-1580918400-1580923800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Education to Win the Next Generation DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us 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  \nEvent Description: \nThis third seminar is subsequent to the first seminar on analysis of progresses and challenges of the Chinese education system\, and the second seminar on a personal experience in the recent years of educate reform in China and US. Here Prof. Li will discuss forward-looking issues in this field. He will provide evidence and argument on the key questions of Principled Engagement vs. Decoupling in education field in fostering the next generation of leaders who have deep understanding of humanity and science\, critical thinking ability\, global vision\, moral fabric and courage\, who will lead China to an open and democratic society and a responsible member of the global village. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Chenjian Li is currently the University Chair Professor\, Peking University. Dr. Li attended Peking University for his undergraduate education\, and Peking Union Medical College for training in medicine.  He received his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from Purdue University\, USA; postdoctoral training at the Rockefeller University. Dr. Li was an assistant professor and associate professor at Weill Medical College of Cornell University\, and then Alex and Shirley Aidekman Endowed Chair Professor of Neurology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU.  Dr. Li embarked on a new journey to Peking University in 2013. Between 2013 and 2019\, he completed his tenure as the Vice Provost of Peking University\, Executive Dean of Yuanpei College\, and Professor and Associate Dean of School of Life Sciences. Dr. Li’s scientific research focuses on exploring the molecular and cellular basis of higher brain functions\, the mechanisms of neurological diseases and cancer therapy.  His laboratory pioneered methods of generating transgenic animal models for these studies. For his leading role in this line of research\, Dr. Li received C.H. Lee Scholar Award and National Service Award (USA). After he moved to Peking University\, Dr. Li continued to serve as a standing member of the National Institute of Health Study Section for Neurological Diseases (CDIN)\, USA until 2017. Dr. Li is also devoted to education development and reforms\, ranging from high school\, undergraduate\, graduate and medical student education.  For his excellent teaching\, he received a student voted “Best Teacher Award” in 2015 at PKU\, world-wide Chinese Biological Investigator Society “Outstanding Teacher Award” in 2016\, and faculty-voted “Zheng Changxue Award” and “Excellence in Teaching” in 2019 at PKU. Dr. Li studied literature\, history and bio-medicine. He remains an active writer. His translation of “What do you care what other people think?” (Richard P. Feynman)\, published by the Chinese Social Science Publisher in 1999\, won a Chinese National Book Award in 2000. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures Series event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 5\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/education-to-win-the-next-generation/ CATEGORIES:Lecture Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200205T133000 DTSTAMP:20200124T162445Z CREATED:20200110T150815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200124T162445Z UID:21390-1580904000-1580909400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Ôe\, Africa\, and Mr. Delchef: Non-Aligning Japan DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nChristopher Hill\, Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature\,  \nUniversity of Michigan \nModerated by: \nKim Brandt\, Research Scholar\,  \nWeatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \n  \nŌe Kenzaburō’s 1964 novel A Personal Matter begins with the protagonist looking at a map of Africa.  What does this opening scene have to do with the novel’s intrigue\, which involves a baby\, Soviet nuclear tests\, and a peculiar Balkan diplomat?  The beginnings of an answer are in Ōe’s work with the Tokyo-based Committee for African and Asian Writers and his contributions to its magazine\, Asia-Africa Bulletin\, which connect his most famous novel to a less known concern with the decolonization of Asia and Africa.  Professor Hill argues that A Personal Matter outlined a new way of understanding Japan’s positionality in the postwar world. In Ōe’s view\, the role of the Japanese state in the U.S.-Soviet confrontation defined Japanese intellectuals’ Sartrean “situation”—the position in which they had to act—but did not limit the non-aligned alliances with other parts of the world that they could imagine for themselves and the country.  On the contrary\, imaginative non-alignment and situated ethical and political action\, including opposition to atomic weapons\, supported each other.   \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 5\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/oe-africa-and-mr-delchef-non-aligning-japan/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T203000 DTSTAMP:20200203T170034Z CREATED:20200203T170005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T170034Z UID:21808-1580842800-1580848200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Youth Peace Conference: A Peace-Talk with twenty students from Korea - Our Vision and Role for Peace DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\n  \nKoreaFocus and NYU Freedom for North Korea are collaborating with PeaceCorea\, the NGO registered under the Korean Ministry of Unification and will host a youth peace conference on February 3rd and 4th. PeaceCorea and NYU will host twenty students from Korean universities and graduate schools in this event. Student Representatives from each group will present their visions and ideas of how youth can play roles in contributing to peace in the Korean Peninsula\, East Asia\, and the world. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 4\, 2020 \n7:00 PM-8:30 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nNew York University (NYU) \nKimmel Center for University Life\, Room 909 \n 60 Washington Square S \n  \nCosponsored by: Korea Focus; PeaceCorea; NYU Freedom for North Korea URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/youth-peace-conference-a-peace-talk-with-twenty-students-from-korea-our-vision-and-role-for-peace-2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T200000 DTSTAMP:20200124T161100Z CREATED:20200123T195846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200124T161100Z UID:21664-1580841000-1580846400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Splicing cultures: Xiaolu Guo on novels and filmmaking\, in conversation with Carol Gluck DESCRIPTION:Maison Francaise and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination Event\nPart of the Institute at the Maison Series \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nXiaolu Guo\, Writer-In-Residence\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; \nAdjunct Associate Professor\, East Asian Languages and Cultures\, \nColumbia University \nModerated by: \nCarol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History\, \nColumbia University \n  \nXiaolu Guo presents her work in words and film\, and draws connections to her own life\, in conversation with Carol Gluck. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nXiaolu Guo is a British Chinese novelist\, essayist and filmmaker. Her memoir\, Nine Continents\, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2017. She was an inaugural fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris in 2018-19\, where she was Abigail R. Cohen Fellow. She is currently a writer in residence at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, a visiting fellow at the SOF/Heyman\, and a visiting professor in EALAC\, ICLS\, and the School of the Arts. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures Series event. \nPlease register here.  \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 4\, 2020 \n6:30 PM-8:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nMaison Française East Gallery\, Buell Hall \nColumbia University \n515 West 116th Sreet \n  \nCosponsors:  Maison Francaise and Institute for Ideas and Imagination as part of the Institute at the Maison series. \nOther co-sponsors are the Office of the EVP for Arts and Sciences\, Columbia College\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, EALAC\, Department of English\, School of the Arts\, and Society of Fellows and Heyman for the Humanities. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/splicing-cultures-xiaolu-guo-on-novels-and-filmmaking-in-conversation-with-carol-gluck/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T173000 DTSTAMP:20200131T153511Z CREATED:20200110T150415Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T153511Z UID:21384-1580832000-1580837400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:US-China-Japan Trilateral Relations and the East Asian Order DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nRyo Sahashi\, Associate Professor of International Relations\, \nInstitute for Advanced Studies on Asia\, The University of Tokyo \nCommentator: Gerald Curtis\, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science \nColumbia University \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\,  \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nThe trilateral relationship among China\, Japan and the United States has generally been stable\, and it explained the regional order in East Asia since the 1970s. The trilateral relationship has been stabilized primarily by the stability of the US-China and US-Japan relations\, and secondly by the fact that American preponderance has been maintained and the commitment to Asia is certain\, with the remaining two parties formulating strategies on the basis of that balance of power. Although Japan-China relations have been repeatedly confronted and approached politically over time\, they have not shaken the trilateral relationship to that extent. Also\, in the area of regionalism\, the role of the United States has gradually become more important and contributed to the stability of order. \nNow\, however\, the fundamental conditions of the trilateral relationship are changing because of a shift in the balance of power\, a loss of confidence on American diplomacy\, and the overwhelming importance of the Chinese economy. Relations between the United States and China are described as an era of competition\, or as an era of confrontation. How will a change in the relationship between Japan\, the United States and China affect the order of Asia? What does good Japan-China relations mean? Is the Japan-U.S. relationship still strong?  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Sahashi specializes on international politics in East Asia. His recent book is In a Search for Coexistence: the United States and Two Chinas during the Cold War (Tokyo: Keiso\, 2015). In English\, he recently edited Looking for Leadership: The Dilemma of Political Leadership in Japan (Tokyo and New York: Japan Center for International Exchange\, 2015)\, and wrote on the impact of rising China on Asian order\, Japan’s security policy and Japan-Taiwan relations. Now he is writing his next book on US-China competition and leading two group studies on the alliance and order after the end of the Cold War.  \nConcurrently\, he serves as Research Fellow\, Japan Center for International Exchange. He frequently contributes to NHK\, Nikkei\, Asahi Shimbun\, Mainichi Shimbun\, Yomiuri Shimbun and other major media outlets.  \nDr Sahashi has taught at Kanagawa University as professor until March\, 2019 and has been Visiting Associate Professor\, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center\, Stanford University and Shigeru Yoshida Chair\, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He joined University of Tokyo with tenure from April\, 2019\, and concurrently\, Associate Professor\, Future Vision Research Institute\, the University of Tokyo.  \nHe also served as adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Sasakawa Peace Foundation\, Tokyo Foundation-German Marshall Fund of the United States Partnership Fellow\, and Guest Researcher for First Special Committee Research Office\, House of Councilors. He is the member of UK-Japan 21stCentury Committee. \nHe received his B.A. from International Christian University and his Ph.D. from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He also studied at Department of Political Science\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 4\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/us-china-japan-trilateral-relations-and-the-east-asian-order/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T140000 DTSTAMP:20200203T184342Z CREATED:20200110T145026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T184342Z UID:21379-1580817600-1580824800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Italy and China’s MoU on the Belt and Road DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nDUE TO TRAVEL COMPLICATIONS\, THE SPEAKER WILL PRESENT REMOTELY. \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nMichele Geraci\, Former Undersecretary of State\, \nItalian Ministry of Economic Development \nModerated by: \nMaria Adele Carrai\, Associate Research Scholar\,  \nWeatherhead East Asian Institute;  \nMarie Curie Fellow\,  \nKU Leuven School of Law \nItaly was the first G7 country to sign the MoU with China on the One Belt One Road. It has attracted lots of criticism both from part of the domestic political parties and from Italy’s traditional allies in Europe and the US. Mr. Michele Geraci has been the main promoter of this MoU\, as a mean to boost trade since Italian exports to China and investment flows have lagged those of other European peers. Debt Trap\, selling of national assets and national security were mentioned as areas where Italy should be careful\, but with so many other countries joining\, formally or not the BRI\, the Italian government and Mr. Geraci have felt the need that more proactive trade promotion activity towards China was needed\, leaving unchanged its Atlantic and European alliances \nAbout the Speaker: \nMichele Geraci is former Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development\, responsible for Trade and Investment and the main promoter of MoU on Belt&Road between Italy and China (from FT: www.tinyurl.com/yx38cytx ). Prior to that\, he had lived for ten years in China where he analyzed the Chinese economy and held finance and economics teaching roles in various universities\, including Nottingham\, NYU-Shanghai and Zhejiang University. Prior to moving to China\, Mr. Geraci was an Investment Banker in the City of London and an Electronic Engineer for over 20 years. Immediately before taking his role as undersecretary\, he was named as a choice among four nominees for Italy’s Prime Minister. He is a frequent guest on major international media and has been awarded Italian Knighthood honor by Italian President Mattarella. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan. \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 4\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-2:00 PM\n\nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: European Institute at Columbia University\, Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/italy-and-chinas-mou-on-the-belt-and-road/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200203T200000 DTSTAMP:20200203T165802Z CREATED:20200203T165802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T165802Z UID:21806-1580752800-1580760000@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Youth Peace Conference: A Peace-Talk with twenty students from Korea - Our Vision and Role for Peace DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\n  \nKoreaFocus and NYU Freedom for North Korea are collaborating with PeaceCorea\, the NGO registered under the Korean Ministry of Unification and will host a youth peace conference on February 3rd and 4th. PeaceCorea and NYU will host twenty students from Korean universities and graduate schools in this event. Student Representatives from each group will present their visions and ideas of how youth can play roles in contributing to peace in the Korean Peninsula\, East Asia\, and the world. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMonday\, February 3rd\, 2020 \n6:00 PM-8:00 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Sreet \n  \nCosponsored by: Korea Focus; PeaceCorea; NYU Freedom for North Korea URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/youth-peace-conference-a-peace-talk-with-twenty-students-from-korea-our-vision-and-role-for-peace/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200130T200000 DTSTAMP:20200117T160932Z CREATED:20200114T214747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200117T160932Z UID:21541-1580407200-1580414400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Critical Global Studies: What\, Why\, and How DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join for an informal conversation with graduate students in East Asian\, European\, and transnational history with: \nJie-hyun Lim\, Sogang University\, Seoul \nDirector\,  Critical Global Studies Institute \n  \nModerated by: \nCarol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History\, Columbia University  \n  \nProfessor Lim\, a renowned historian of East Asia and Eastern Europe\, is the Founding Director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He is a visiting professor in January-February at Columbia. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nPizza will be served.   \nPlease register here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJanuary 30\, 2020 \n6:00 PM-8:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/critical-global-studies-what-why-and-how-an-informal-conversation-with-graduate-students-in-east-asian-european-and-transnational-history-with-professor-jie-hyun-lim/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200129T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200129T190000 DTSTAMP:20200430T162445Z CREATED:20200106T184624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T162445Z UID:21348-1580315400-1580324400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:"In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam\," an evening with author Daniel Weiss DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \n \nFeaturing \nDaniel Weiss\, CEO and President \nMetropolitan Museum of Art \n  \nModerated by: \nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia \nColumbia University \n  \nDaniel Weiss’s In That Time tells the story of the American experience in Vietnam through the life of Michael O’Donnell\, a bright young musician and poet who served as a soldier and helicopter pilot. O’Donnell wrote with great sensitivity and poetic force\, and his best-known poem is among the most beloved of the war. In 1970\, during an attempt to rescue fellow soldiers stranded under heavy fire\, O’Donnell’s helicopter was shot down in the jungles of Cambodia. He remained missing in action for almost three decades. Weiss will talk about O’Donnell life and legacy on the 50th anniversary of his death and the war in Vietnam more generally. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDaniel Weiss\, President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, previously served as Professor of Art History and Dean of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences at John Hopkins University as well as President of Lafayette College. He is author of In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam with PublicAffairs. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nRegistration required. Register here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJanuary 29\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-5:00 PM Wine and Cheese\n5:00 PM-6:00 PM  Main event \nIntroduction by Lien-Hang Nguyen \nBook talk by Daniel Weiss \nDiscussion with audience \n6:00 PM-7:00 PM  Book signing and reception with light refreshments and drinks \n  \nADDRESS\n\nJournalism School\, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall  \n2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY 10027 \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Department of History\, Center for American Studies\, Society of Fellows\, the Heyman Center for the Humanities URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/in-that-time-michael-odonnell-and-the-tragic-era-of-vietnam-an-evening-with-author-daniel-weiss/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200128T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200128T140000 DTSTAMP:20200117T171855Z CREATED:20200116T152952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200117T171855Z UID:21579-1580216400-1580220000@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History DESCRIPTION:SIPA Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nLan Yan\, Author \nModerated by: \nDean Merit E. Janow\, Dean of Columbia SIPA and Professor of Professional Practice International Economic Law and International Affairs \nColumbia University \n  \nThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China\, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family’s history through early 20th Century to present day. \nThe history of the Yan family is inseparable from the history of China over the last century. One of the most influential businesswomen of China today\, Lan Yan grew up in the company of the country’s powerful elite\, including Zhou Enlai\, Deng Xiaoping\, and other top leaders. Her grandfather\, Yan Baohang\, originally a nationalist and close to Chiang Kai-shek and his wife\, Soong May-ling\, later joined the communists and worked as a secret agent for Zhou Enlai during World War II. Lan’s parents were diplomats\, and her father\, Yan Mingfu\, was Mao’s personal Russian translator. \nInspite of their elevated status\, the Yan’s family life was turned upside down by the Cultural Revolution. One night in 1967\, in front of a terrified ten-year-old Lan\, Red Guards burst into the family home and arrested her grandfather. Days later\, her father was arrested\, accused of spying for the Soviet Union. Her mother\, Wu Keliang\, was branded a counter-revolutionary and forced to go with her daughter to a re-education camp for more than seven years\, where Lan came of age as a high school student. \nIn recounting her family history\, Lan Yan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to present day\, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country. In telling her and her family’s story\, she serves up an intimate account of the history of contemporary China. \nAbout the Speaker: \nLan Yan was not allowed to enter higher education because her Communist family had been designated as counter-revolutionaries. In 1969\, she was sent to a re-education camp in Henan\, where her mother had been for a year. In 1977\, the year after the Cultural Revolution ended\, she enrolled at university. Exceptionally motivated\, she was awarded grants to study at the most prestigious universities in Europe and the United States. In 1991\, she joined the Gide Loyrette Nouel law firm based in Paris and became the first foreign woman to make partner. In 1998\, she returned to China to run the firm’s Beijing office. In 2011\, Lan Yan joined Lazard as managing director to lead its Chinese activities. Today\, she is the vice chairman of investment banking of Lazard and the chairman and CEO of Lazard Greater China (Beijing\, Hong Kong\, Taiwan). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJanuary 28\, 2020 \n1:00 PM-2:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1512 \n420 W 118th Street \n  URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-house-of-yan-a-family-at-the-heart-of-a-century-in-chinese-history-2/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T180000 DTSTAMP:20200129T213232Z CREATED:20200114T214309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T213232Z UID:21533-1579883400-1579888800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:A Global History of Victimhood Nationalism DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nJie-hyun Lim\, Sogang University\, Seoul \nDirector\,  Critical Global Studies Institute \n  \nModerated by: \nCarol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History\, Columbia University  \n  \nLim outlines ‘victimhood nationalism’ as a working hypothesis to explain competing national memories in the global memory space\, highlighting entangled histories across  postwar and contemporary Japan\, Korea\, Poland\, Germany\, and Israel. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJanuary 24\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-6:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/a-global-history-of-victimhood-nationalism/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191216T131500 DTSTAMP:20191206T141535Z CREATED:20191206T141344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191206T141535Z UID:20946-1576497600-1576502100@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Population Aging in China: Challenges and Strategies DESCRIPTION:Columbia Aging Center Seminar Series\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nYaoyin Zhu\, Visiting Researcher\, Columbia Aging Center\nVice President\, China National Committee on Aging \nRSVP: ColumbiaAgingCenter@cumc.columbia.edu \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 16\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:15 PM\nAddress\n\nAllan Rosenfield Building\, Room 440 \n722 W 168th Street \n  URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/population-aging-in-china-challenges-and-strategies/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191213T163000 DTSTAMP:20191210T145744Z CREATED:20191121T154837Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191210T145744Z UID:20781-1576227600-1576254600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Rethinking Craft in Postindustrial Society DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a Conference with: \nRabbit Goody\, Thistle Hill Weavers\nYuan Yi\, Columbia University\nJustin Squizzero\, The Burroughs Garret\nCarol Cassidy\, Lao Textiles\nPamela Smith\, Columbia University\nTimothy Oakes\, University of Colorado Boulder\nKaruna Miryam Dietrich Wielenga\, Azim Premji University\nJacob Eyferth\, The University of Chicago\nEugenia Lean\, Columbia University \nCraft has long been understood in terms of its adversarial relationship with mechanization and industrialization. In industrial society\, where people live surrounded by machine-made\, mass-produced commodities\, craft has been relegated to the realm of “tradition\,” which belongs to the disconnected past. However\, what does craft mean in a postindustrial society like today’s United States? When manufacturing\, the long-time opponent to craft\, no longer constitutes a major economic sector\, what is the role of craft and what can we gain from it? These questions become even more critical now when on the one hand\, artificial intelligence threatens to encroach on human territory\, and on the other hand\, the senses of localism\, ethical consumption\, and environmental consequences are higher than ever. This one-day conference proposes to take advantage of this crucial moment as an opportunity to rethink craft both as a mode of production and as a way of living. By bringing together practitioners and scholars from Asia and the United States\, it provides a venue for an interdisciplinary conversation about craft\, technology\, and the economy.  \nThis event is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th Anniversary Event and part of Science and Society in Global Asia series.\n. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 13\, 2019\n9:00 AM – 4:30 PM\nProgram details: \n9:30 – 9:45 Introduction \nYuan Yi\, Columbia University \n9:45 – 10:45 “Heavy Metal Weaving”: Between Craft and Mechanization \nChair: Yuan Yi\, Columbia University \nSpeaker: Rabbit Goody\, Thistle Hill Weavers \n10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break \n11:00 – 12:30 Made in USA\, Made in Laos: Handwoven Textiles \nChair: Pamela Smith\, Columbia University \nSpeakers: Justin Squizzero\, The Burroughs Garret \nCarol Cassidy\, Lao Textiles \n12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break \n1:30 – 3:00 State\, Craft\, and Intangible Cultural Heritage \nChair: Jacob Eyferth\, The University of Chicago \nSpeakers: Timothy Oakes\, University of Colorado Boulder \nKaruna Miryam Dietrich Wielenga\, Azim Premji University \n3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break \n3:15 – 4:30 Roundtable  \nModerator: Eugenia Lean\, Columbia University \n  \nPlease visit the conference website by clicking here for more information about this program. \n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Natalie Pretzer-Lin np2603@columbia.edu . \n*Your presence at this event indicates your willingness to appear in any photos or videos produced by Columbia and by pre-approved third parties. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/rethinking-craft-in-postindustrial-society/ CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T163000 DTSTAMP:20191205T190300Z CREATED:20191204T185824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T190300Z UID:20928-1576159200-1576168200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:New Directions in Chinese Contemporary Music DESCRIPTION:Columbia University Department of Music Event\nPlease join for a seminar with: \nWenjing Guo\, former Dean of the Composition Department\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music \nJianping Tang\, former Dean of the Composition Department\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music \nGuoping Jia\, Director of the Institute of Musicology\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music \nPing Chang\, Vice Dean of the Composition Department\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music \nDanbu Chen\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music \nModerated by: \nWeiya Hao\, Dean of the Composition Department\, \nCentral Conservatory of Music \nGeorg Friedrich Haas\, Professor of Music\, Composition\, \nColumbia University \n  \nThe Department of Music at Columbia is taking advantage of the extraordinary presence in New York City of a group of composers from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing\, China\, to present a seminar at Columbia on “New Directions in Chinese Contemporary Music.” In this talk\, five composers associated with the Central Conservatory of Music will present their work and take questions. \nTheir work will be performed on December 13\, 2019\, at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium: \nCentral Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra of Beijing\nFriday\, December 13\, 2019\, 8:00 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage \nThis performance is the Carnegie Hall debut of the Central Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra of Beijing. Central Conservatory President Feng Yu\, also in his Carnegie Hall debut\, will conduct works for modern symphony orchestra and traditional Chinese instruments by eight distinguished Chinese composers. There will be six U.S. premieres and two composers\, Danbu Chen and Weiya Hao\, will have works performed at Carnegie Hall for the first time. \nComposer Ye Xiaogang (photo credit: George Lewis)\nCentral Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra of Beijing\nFeng Yu\, Conductor\nYa Dai\, Bamboo Flute\nLinfeng Fan\, Bamboo Flute\nJingli Zhang\, Marimba\nQiang Zhang\, Pipa\nYang Zheng\, Sheng \nWorks by Danbu Chen\, Guoping Jia\, Jianping Tang\, Ping Chang\, Weiya Hao\, Wenchen Qin\, Wenjing Guo\, and Xiaogang Ye \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 12\, 2019\n2:00 PM-4:30 PM \n  \nAddress \nButler Library\, Room 523 \n535 W 114th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/new-directions-in-chinese-contemporary-music/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191207T170000 DTSTAMP:20191203T174642Z CREATED:20191126T172739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191203T174642Z UID:20895-1575640800-1575738000@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:ephemera: science and technology: Collections on Modern China at Columbia’s Starr Library DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a workshop with: \nJim Cheng\, Columbia University\nLisa Claypool\, University of Alberta\nLaurence Coderre\, New York University\nDon J. Cohn\, Independent Collector\nFa-ti Fan\, SUNY Binghamton\nYi Gu\, University of Toronto\nEugenia Lean\, Columbia University\nYing Qian\, Columbia University\nSigrid Schmalzer\, UMass\, Amherst\nChengzhi Wang\, Columbia University\nDanping Wang\, Columbia University\nChuan Xu\, Columbia University \n  \nThis workshop brings together scholars working on history of science and technology\, visual culture and art history\, to examine a body of materials from the “Ephemera Collection on Chinese Science\, Technology\, Law\, and Society”\, housed at Columbia’s Starr library.  What kinds of questions can we ask of ephemera items\, such as pamphlets\, slides\, posters and exhibition catalogues? How do these material objects rescued from “the dustbin of history” challenge conventional understandings of science and technology? How can they help us understand science and technology as practice and experience in Republican and Mao-era China? The workshop begins with an introduction to the collection\, proceeds with focused reading sessions led by scholars\, and ends with a round-table discussion. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th anniversary event and part of the Science and Society in Global Asia series. \nNo registration required. \n\nEVENT DETAILS\n\n Friday\, December 6\, 2019\n2:00 PM – 6:00 PM\nSaturday\, December 7\, 2019\n9:00 AM – 5:00 PM \n  \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nSchedule\n\nFriday\, December 6\, 2019\n14:10 – 14:25 Opening Remarks\nJim Cheng and Eugenia Lean (Columbia University) \n14:25 – 14:55 Introduction of the Collection\nChengzhi Wang (Columbia University) \n14:55 – 15:45 Reading Session One \nLisa Claypool (University of Alberta) \n16:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break \n16:00 – 16:50 Reading Session Two\nFa-ti Fan (SUNY\, Binghamton) \n16:55 – 17:45 Reading Session Three\nDanping Wang (Columbia University) \nSaturday\, December 7\, 2019\n9:30 – 10:20 Reading Session Four\nSigrid Schmalzer (UMass\, Amherst) \n10:20 – 10:35 Coffee Break \n10:35 – 11:25 Reading Session Five\nYi Gu (University of Toronto) \n11: 30 – 13:00 Lunch \n13:00 – 13:50 Reading Session Six\nYing Qian (Columbia University) \n13:50 – 14:10 Coffee Break \n14:10 – 15:00 Reading Session Seven\nChuan Xu (Columbia University) \n15:00 – 15: 15 Coffee Break \n15: 15 – 17:00 Round Table\nLaurence Coderre (New York University)\nFa-ti Fan (SUNY\, Binghamton)\nEugenia Lean (Columbia University)\nSigrid Schmalzer (UMass\, Amherst)  \n  \nCosponsored by: C.V. Starr Library and Center for Science and Society \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/ephemera-science-and-technology-collections-on-modern-china-at-columbias-starr-library/ CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary,Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191206T131500 DTSTAMP:20191118T150609Z CREATED:20191112T144611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T150609Z UID:20636-1575633600-1575638100@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Social Psychological Wellbeing of Left-behind Children in Rural China: Myths\, Concerns\, and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Study DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nShenyang Guo\, Frank J. Bruno Distinguished Professor of Social Work Research\, \nBrown School of Social Work\, Washington University in St. Louis  \nModerated by: \nQin Gao\, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work\, \nColumbia School of Social Work \n  \nThe year 2018 symbolized the 40th anniversary of China’s launch of the economic reform and open-the-door policies. The 40-years’ rapid economic development has made China the second largest economy in the world\, and brought about dramatic social changes in the country as well. One direct effect of the reforms was the creation of the so-called “left-behind children” who live in the rural areas while their parents moved to the cities for better economic opportunities. About 61 million children are estimated to be left-behind children. There are growing concerns among child-protective groups about the wellbeing of these children\, because this is a vulnerable subpopulation who lacked attachment\, warmth\, affection\, and care at a crucial age of development. \nIn this talk\, Prof. Shenyang Guo will introduce the “Let’s Be Friends—Shaanxi” project which aimed to assess and improve the social information processing skills of left-behind children. The project focused on children at ages 8-10\, a crucial age span for children’s socialization and development. Using a rich set of measures and rigorous analytical methods\, the study finds that left-behind children did not fare worse than other children. Of the 30 outcome variables examined\, only four show significant differences; the remaining 26 variables are not statistically significant with mixed findings about directions of the differences. Prof. Guo concludes that the outcomes of left-behind children may not be as bad as non-scientific news reports demonstrate\, though further research is very much needed. \n  \n  \nShenyang Guo is Frank J Bruno Distinguished Professor at Brown School of Washington University in St. Louis\, and the Yangtze-River Chaired Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is the author of numerous research articles in child welfare\, child mental health services\, welfare\, and health care. He is the author/co-author of Propensity Score Analysis\, Survival Analysis\, and Structural Equation Modeling. He has expertise in applying advanced statistical models to solving social welfare problems and has taught graduate courses that address survival analysis\, hierarchical linear modeling\, growth curve modeling\, propensity score analysis\, and program evaluation. In addition\, Guo is the Editor of Sage Publications’ Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences Series\, serves on the editorial board of Social Service Review\, and is a frequent guest reviewer for journals seeking a critique of advanced methodological analyses. Guo is a fellow of American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare\, and a fellow of Society of Social Work and Research. At Washington University in St. Louis\, Guo is Assistant Vice Chancellor for International Affairs – Greater China. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 2019-2020 Lecture Series event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 6\, 2019\n12:00 PM-1:15 PM \n  \nAddress \nSchool of Social Work\, Room C05 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nCosponsored by China Center for Social Policy URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/social-psychological-wellbeing-of-left-behind-children-in-rural-china-myths-concerns-and-evidence-from-a-randomized-controlled-study/ CATEGORIES:Lecture Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T133000 DTSTAMP:20200113T173611Z CREATED:20191010T141517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200113T173611Z UID:19967-1575547200-1575552600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Reporting Asia: Tibet DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nEdward Wong\, Diplomatic Correspondent \nThe New York Times \nModerated by: \nGray Tuttle\, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University \n  \n \n  \nAbout the Speaker \nEdward Wong is a diplomatic and international correspondent for The New York Times who reports on foreign policy from Washington\, D.C. He has spent most of his 20-year career with the Times abroad\, reporting for 13 years from China and Iraq. As Beijing bureau chief\, he ran the Times’ largest overseas operation. Edward began reporting for the Times in 1999 and worked for four years on the metro\, sports and business desks before going overseas. His first posting was to Iraq to cover the American invasion and civil war\, from 2003 to 2007. He then reported from China for nine years. He has traveled across Asia on assignments\, including to North Korea\, Afghanistan and Myanmar. Edward received the Livingston Award for his coverage of the Iraq War and was on a team of Pulitzer Prize finalists. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University from 2017 to 2018 and taught international reporting at Princeton University as a Ferris Professor of Journalism in 2017. He is an associate at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Edward graduated with honors from the University of Virginia\, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature. He has dual master’s degrees in journalism and international studies from the University of California at Berkeley. He was born in Washington\, D.C.\, and grew up in Alexandria\, Va. \nThis event is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s 70th Anniversary Event and part of the Reporting Asia Lecture Series. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 5\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n**Please note this event was rescheduled from November 15** \nAddress\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Natalie Pretzer-Lin np2603@columbia.edu . \n*Your presence at this event indicates your willingness to appear in any photos or videos produced by Columbia and by pre-approved third parties. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/reporting-asia-tibet/ CATEGORIES:70th Anniversary END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T133000 DTSTAMP:20191118T150145Z CREATED:20191024T142904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T150145Z UID:20355-1575374400-1575379800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Inner Asian Islam in Qianlong-era Beijing DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \n David Brophy\, Associate Research Scholar\, \nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University; \nLecturer in Modern Chinese History\, University of Sydney \n  \nModerated by: \nEugenia Lean\, Director\, \nWeatherhead East Asian Institute; \nAssociate Professor of Chinese history\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. \n  \nIn the mid-eighteenth century\, following the Qing conquest of Xinjiang\, a new community of Muslims came into being in the Inner City of Beijing\, residing around a mosque close to the Forbidden City. Like other representatives of newly-incorporated subject populations in the capital\, these Muslims became members of the Qing banner system. At the same time\, they kept up contact with Xinjiang\, and served as intermediaries between Islamic Inner Asia and the court. Drawing on recent archival and manuscript research\, this talk examines the religious life of this community\, and the place of Islam in the high Qing vision of universal emperorship. \n  \n  \nDavid Brophy is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and a Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Sydney. He studies the social and political history of China’s northwest\, particularly Xinjiang\, and its connections with the Islamic and Russian/Soviet worlds. After finishing his PhD at Harvard in 2011\, Professor Brophy spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World\, at the Australian National University. His book Uyghur Nation: Reform and Revolution on the Russia-China Frontier (Harvard University Press\, 2016) is about the politics of Uyghur nationalism between Xinjiang and the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century. Most of Professor Brophy’s new research engages with the Manchu-language archive on Qing China’s eighteenth-century expansion. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 3\, 2019\n12:00 PM-1:30 PM \n  \nAddress \nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/inner-asian-islam-in-qianlong-era-beijing/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191202T203000 DTSTAMP:20191114T150050Z CREATED:20191114T143645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T150050Z UID:20697-1575311400-1575318600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:From Criminalization to Liberation: Organizing Migrant Asian Sex Workers Across Oceans DESCRIPTION:Center of the Study of Ethnicity and Race Event\nJoin us for a discussion organized by Red Canary Song: \nKK de la Vida \nChanelle Gallant \nElene Lam \nElena Shih \nKate Zen \nModerated by Yin Q \nIntroduced by Mae Ngai \nHow might treating migrant sex work as labor rather than as a problem change policies\, transform communities and create new futures? \nThis conversation centers theories and practices that emerge from organizing with Asian sex worker communities embedded in complex migration networks that span East Asia\, Southeast Asia\, and North America. The dominant anti-trafficking discourse in relation to migrant sex work reinforces policing and surveillance networks\, stigmatizes sex workers\, and isolates migrants\, with the result that it often harms those who it is meant to “save.” \nAlthough multiple models of policing sex work\, including global anti-trafficking effortas full criminalization (in the US)\, buyer criminalization (the Swedish model)\, legalization (in the Netherlands)\, and full decriminalization (as in New Zealand)\, currently compete in activist\, governmental\, and policy-making circles\, they all disproportionately affect migrant sex workers. Understanding these policies\, discourses and their power within contemporary governance also requires revisiting racialized and gendered histories that must be traced back to Cold War geopolitics and earlier. \nBased on research and organizing in China\, Hong Kong\, Thailand\, the Philippines\, Canada\, and the United States\, the speakers here insist that we think of sex work alongside rather than in contrast to other forms of work\, shifting from criminal to labor law frameworks. The implications of migrant sex work organizing go beyond policy\, suggesting new ways for transnational communities\, arranged by differences of privilege based on language\, education\, immigration and citizenship status\, race\, gender\, sexuality\, and forms of sex work\, to imagine futures beyond criminalization and toward liberation. This panel will be followed by a Q & A and then a series of small breakout group discussions. \nThis event is organized by Red Canary Song\, a community group based in NYC focused on migrant and Asian sex worker rights. Learn more at redcanarysong.org and @redcanarysong \nAbout the Participants \nKK de la Vida is a member of Red Canary Song & pilipinx shifterhood collective Walang Hiya\, building bridges between NYC & Visayas\, Philippines. A graduate of anthropology from Barnard College\, Asian Cultural Council grantee in dance\, bodyworker\, herbalist & performance artist\, KK explores moving bodies in shifting techno-ecologies. \nChanelle Gallant is a co-founder of Migrant Sex Workers Project\, a grassroots group of migrants\, sex workers\, and allies who demand safety and dignity for all sex workers regardless of immigration status based in Canada. She has been a grassroots feminist organizer for nearly 2 decades and is on the national leadership team of Showing Up For Racial Justice. She writes about justice and sex\, most recently in the collection Pleasure Activism. She can be found online at www.chanellegallant.com \nElene Lam is a community organizer and human rights defender. Elene is the Executive Director and a Founder of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) and Migrant Sex Workers Project in Canada.\, She holds a Master of Social Work and a Master of Law\, with a specialization in Human Rights. She is currently a Ph.D. student at McMaster University where she is researching the harms associated with anti-trafficking initiatives. Elene has been actively engaged in work related to human rights\, violence against women\, migration\, gender\, and sex work justice for more than 20 years. \nMae M. Ngai\, Professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies\, is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in questions of immigration\, citizenship\, and nationalism. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia in 1998 and taught at the University of Chicago before returning to Columbia in 2006. Ngai is author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America The Tape Family and the Origins of the Chinese American Middle Class. \nElena Shih is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Her first book\, Manufacturing Freedom\, Rescue\, Rehabilitation\, and the Slave Free Good is based on 40 months of ethnographic research with the anti-trafficking\, sex worker\, and migrant worker right’s movements in China\, Thailand\, and the US. \nYin Q is a BDSM educator/writer\, media producer\, sex worker rights activist\, and mother of two fierce girls. As an alumni of Barnard College\, Yin’s work has centered on uplifting stories of women\, queer\, and trans people\, as relevant in their web series\, Mercy Mistress\, and the short video documentary Yang Song: Fly in Power. Yin is currently an artist in residence at PS1MoMa. \nKate Zen is a coder\, artist\, and organizer. She’s the co-founder and interim director of Red Canary Song\, a grassroots collective of Asian and migrant sex workers in Flushing\, Queens. Previously\, she was part of Butterfly and the Migrant Sex Worker Project in Toronto. She worked on policy communications for the Global Network of Sex Work Projects in the UK\, organized with Streetwise and Safe and the Red Umbrella Project\, helped the editorial teams of $pread Magazine and Tits and Sass\, and served on the Board of SWOP-USA and Maggie’s Toronto. She also organized with street vendors and domestic workers\, working within the Chinatown community as a youth to cofound the Chinatown Literacy Project. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nDecember 2\, 2019\n6:30 PM-8:30 PM \n  \nAddress\n\nJerome Greene Hall\, Room 701 (Case Lounge) \n435 W 116th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Department of History\, the Department of Sociology\, the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought\, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Studies\, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights\, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/from-criminalization-to-liberation-organizing-migrant-asian-sex-workers-across-oceans/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191125T220000 DTSTAMP:20191016T195308Z CREATED:20191016T195308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T195308Z UID:20162-1574712000-1574719200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Part III: What is Law when East meets West: The Lessons of the Ming Sung Umbrella Factory Case in the Shanghai International Mixed Court DESCRIPTION:University Seminar\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nMadeleine Zelin\, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies \nHistory and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments\, Columbia University \n  \nThis is event is part three of a this year’s Schoff Memorial Lecture Series entitled\, “China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century.” \nLaw was central to China’s early twentieth century transformation from empire to republic. This transformation not only uprooted the foundations of political life. It demanded the fashioning of a new and uniquely Chinese legal modernity in the shadow of Western extrater-ritorial privilege. In order to understand the ways in which law devel-oped on contested ground in places like early twentieth century China\, it may be useful to look at seemingly small struggles that reveal the larger processes at work. In these three lectures we will examine just such a struggle. In the first lecture we will see how the idea of the company was naturalized within a Chinese moral universe and came to represent law as the source of western power. In the second\, we will trace the resurrection of the customary realm as it challenged the hegemony of law on the books and the notion that before the arrival of Europeans China had no private law. Finally\, in the third lecture we will take a position as observers to the struggle between Chinese custom and the arrogance of Western legal universality at extraterritorialy’s premier forum\, the Shanghai International Mixed Court. \nMadeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Stud-ies and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Beginning with her first book\, The Magistrates Tael\, Zelin’s work has focused on the intersection of formal and informal institutions in the economic\, political and legal development of Chi-na. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China was awarded the 2006 Allan Sharlin Memo-rial Prize of the Social Science History Association\, the 2006 Fairbank Prize of the Association for Asian Studies and the 2007 Humanities Book Prize of the International Convention on Asian Studies. Zelin served many years as director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and as Director of Columbia University’s East Asian National Re-source Center. Outside the university she has worked to promote understanding of China in the US and as an integral part of teaching and research in the social sciences\, in roles including Co-Di-rector of the Luce Foundation-AAS Project on Emerging Fields in Asian Studies-Economic History\, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Committee for US China Relations. She is an avid New York amateur flutist. \nNo registration required. \nMore details regarding the Schoff Memorial Lecture Series.\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 25\, 2019 \n8:00 PM-10:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nFaculty House\, 2nd Floor \n64 Morningside Drive \n  \nCosponsored by: Columbia University Press Event URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/part-iii-what-is-law-when-east-meets-west-the-lessons-of-the-ming-sung-umbrella-factory-case-in-the-shanghai-international-mixed-court/ CATEGORIES:Lecture Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T130000 DTSTAMP:20191115T194013Z CREATED:20191115T193649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191115T194013Z UID:20722-1574338200-1574341200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:The Third Wave of Globalization and China's Diplomacy in the Context of New Pattern of Geopolitics DESCRIPTION:Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Event\n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nHao Su\, Director of Center for Strategic and Peace Studies and Professor \nDepartment of Diplomacy\, China Foreign Affairs University \nModerated by: \nPeter Clement\, Visiting Senior Research Scholar \nArnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies; \nAdjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs \nColumbia University \n  \nSince the modern times\, the world has undergone three waves of globalization. The first wave started from 500 years ago\, with the European countries connecting the world by means of the opening of new sea-routes\, the great discoveries of geography and the establishment of global colonial system. This is a linear globalization based on power. The second wave started at the end of WWII. The establishment of a series of US-led international institutions linked the world into a systematic international society. This is a flat globalization based on institutions. Nowadays\, the third wave of globalization is under way. The rise of emerging newly-economies from the developing world and the effect of economic globalization have brought about a trend of re-balance for the world economic pattern. This will be a tridimensional globalization based on governance. Facing the advent of this trend\, the Chinese government has proposed the “Belt and Road Initiative”\, in order to propel the network construction of both worldwide partnerships and regional integration\, with the purpose of promoting the realization of global governance. \n\n\nDr. Hao Su is a distinguished professor in the Department of Diplomacy and founding director of Center for Strategic and Peace Studies at the China Foreign Affairs University (CFAUO). He was chairman of the Diplomacy Department\, director of China’s Foreign Relations Section\, general secretary of East Asian Studies Center\, and director of Center for Asia-Pacific Studies within this university. He is also president of the of Beijing Geopolitical Strategy and Development Association\, member of Chinese Committee for Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) and Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC); board members of China Association of Arms Control and Disarmament\, Pacific Society of China\, China Association of Asian-African Development Exchange\, and China Association of China-ASEAN. He received his B.A. in history and M. A. in international history from Beijing Normal University and his Ph.D. in international relations from China Foreign Affairs University. He took his advanced study at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London in 1993-1995; and was a Fulbright scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies\, Columbia University\, and the Institute of East Asia at the University of California at Berkeley\, in 2001-2002. He was a senior research fellow or guest professor at the Center for Non-proliferation Studies\, Monterey Institute of International Studies\, in 2000\, the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden in 2004\, the Faculty of Society and Design of Bond University in Australia in 2014\, the Department of Politics at LUISS University in Italy in 2015\, the Department of Politics and Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan in 2017\, and at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2019. His specialties in diplomatic history of China\, China’s foreign and security policy\, strategic studies and regional security\, international relations in the Asia-Pacific region\, and East Asian integration. \n\n\n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lecture and Panels event. \n  \nAdvance registration via the Columbia/SIPA Calendars \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 21\, 2019\n12:10 PM – 1:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1302 \n420 West 118th Street \n  URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-third-wave-of-globalization-and-chinas-diplomacy-in-the-context-of-new-pattern-of-geopolitics/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191118T220000 DTSTAMP:20191016T195244Z CREATED:20191016T195208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T195244Z UID:20158-1574107200-1574114400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Part II: Local Knowledge\, Legal Transplants and the Struggle over Limited Liability DESCRIPTION:University Seminar\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nMadeleine Zelin\, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies \nHistory and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments\, Columbia University \n  \nThis is event is part two of a this year’s Schoff Memorial Lecture Series entitled\, “China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle for a Chinese Legal Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century.” \nLaw was central to China’s early twentieth century transformation from empire to republic. This transformation not only uprooted the foundations of political life. It demanded the fashioning of a new and uniquely Chinese legal modernity in the shadow of Western extrater-ritorial privilege. In order to understand the ways in which law devel-oped on contested ground in places like early twentieth century China\, it may be useful to look at seemingly small struggles that reveal the larger processes at work. In these three lectures we will examine just such a struggle. In the first lecture we will see how the idea of the company was naturalized within a Chinese moral universe and came to represent law as the source of western power. In the second\, we will trace the resurrection of the customary realm as it challenged the hegemony of law on the books and the notion that before the arrival of Europeans China had no private law. Finally\, in the third lecture we will take a position as observers to the struggle between Chinese custom and the arrogance of Western legal universality at extraterritorialy’s premier forum\, the Shanghai International Mixed Court. \nMadeleine Zelin is Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Stud-ies and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Beginning with her first book\, The Magistrates Tael\, Zelin’s work has focused on the intersection of formal and informal institutions in the economic\, political and legal development of Chi-na. The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Enterprise in Early Modern China was awarded the 2006 Allan Sharlin Memo-rial Prize of the Social Science History Association\, the 2006 Fairbank Prize of the Association for Asian Studies and the 2007 Humanities Book Prize of the International Convention on Asian Studies. Zelin served many years as director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and as Director of Columbia University’s East Asian National Re-source Center. Outside the university she has worked to promote understanding of China in the US and as an integral part of teaching and research in the social sciences\, in roles including Co-Di-rector of the Luce Foundation-AAS Project on Emerging Fields in Asian Studies-Economic History\, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Committee for US China Relations. She is an avid New York amateur flutist. \nNo registration required. \nMore details regarding the Schoff Memorial Lecture Series.\nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 18\, 2019 \n8:00 PM-10:00 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nFaculty House\, 2nd Floor \n64 Morningside Drive \n  \nCosponsored by: Columbia University Press Event URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/part-ii-local-knowledge-legal-transplants-and-the-struggle-over-limited-liability/ CATEGORIES:Lecture Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T180000 DTSTAMP:20191024T150254Z CREATED:20190911T140206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T150254Z UID:19070-1573747200-1573754400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Japan’s Russia policy under the Abe Administration: Why Tokyo does not share Washington's threat perception DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nJames Brown\, Associate Professor \nDepartment of Political Science\, Temple University Japan Campus \nPeter Clement\, Visiting Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor \nArnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies\, Columbia University \n  \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy \nColumbia University \n  \nOn most international issues\, Japan’s foreign policy broadly tracks that of its U.S. ally. However\, there are exceptions. The clearest current example is Japan’s Russia policy under the Abe administration. While the U.S. National Security Strategy presents Russia as a revisionist power that presents a challenge to U.S. values and interests\, Japan’s National Security Strategy highlights no concerns about Russia’s behaviour and stresses that “it is critical for Japan to advance cooperation with Russia in all areas”. Moreover\, while Washington has progressively tightened sanctions on Russian businesses and officials since 2014\, Tokyo has announced an 8-point economic cooperation plan and has rolled out the red carpet for many individuals under Western sanctions. What accounts for this stark difference in approach? In part\, it is due to Prime Minister Abe’s personal determination to resolve the territorial dispute with Russia before the end of his time in office. However\, Japan’s current policy towards Russia is also shaped by underlying security concerns. Threatened by North Korea and China\, and increasingly worried about the endurance of the U.S. security commitment to the region\, Japanese strategists have judged that positive relations with Russia are essential for national security.  \n  \n  \n James D.J. Brown is an associate professor of Political Science at Temple University\, Japan Campus. Professor Brown’s current research focuses on Russian-Japanese relations\, with particular regard to the territorial dispute over the Northern Territories/Southern Kurils. He also continues to work on the relationship between energy and foreign policy. Further to these topics\, he has previously published research on the Soviet-Afghan War\, media reporting of the Syrian conflict\, and Edward Said’s Orientalism. He was the winner of the Political Science Association’s award for the best article published in Politics in 2010. Professor Brown received his PhD International Relations\, University of Aberdeen\, PGDip Russian Language\, University of Glasgow\, MRes Political Research\, University of Aberdeen\, MSc International and European Politics\, University of Edinburgh and BA (Hons.) Philosophy and Politics\, University of York. His previous academic appointments include Visiting Post-Doctoral Research Fellow\, Hosei University (2012-2013)\, Teaching Fellow\, University of Aberdeen (2010-2011)\, Teaching Assistant\, University of Aberdeen (2008-2010). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lecture and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 14\, 2019\n4:00 PM – 6:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1302 \n420 West 118th Street \n  URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/japans-russia-policy-under-the-abe-administration-why-tokyo-does-not-share-washingtons-threat-perception/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T133000 DTSTAMP:20191107T172528Z CREATED:20191107T172516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T172528Z UID:20565-1573732800-1573738200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Social Movement and Changing Identity in Hong Kong DESCRIPTION:China Center for Social Policy Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nXiaogang Wu \, Chair Professor at the Division of Social Science and the Division of Public Policy \nHong Kong University of Science and Technology \nColumbia University \nNumerous studies have shown that the national identity has declined over time in Hong Kong\, especially since 2008. The decline is particularly prominent among young generated and highly educated groups. The identity politics is often intertwined with social movement in recent years. Based on the longitudinal data of the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD) in 2013 and 2015\, respectively\, Professor Wu investigated the impact of social movement in reconstructing participants’ identity. Results from fixed – effect models show that participation in the Occupy Central has led to stronger local identity and weaker national identity.  These findings shed new lights on the theory of identity formation. \nAbout Speaker: \n\n\n\nXiaogang Wu is Chair Professor at the Division of Social Science and the Division of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)\, and Director of the HKUST Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER). His research interests include social inequality and mobility\, education\, gender and family\, urban sociology\, survey\, and quantitative methods.  Professor Wu has been the PI of the two longitudinal urban household data collection projects: “Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics (HKPSSD)” since 2011\, and “Shanghai Urban Neighborhood Survey” (SUNS) since 2015.  He is currently leading a research team to study various issues in the two cities. He is currently visiting sociology department at NYU in Fall\, 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Lecture and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nNovember 14\, 2019\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n  \nAddress\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/social-movement-and-changing-identity-in-hong-kong/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR