WEAI Director Eugenia Lean was on leave for 2017-2018 at the Institute for Advanced Study and on a National Endowment of the Humanities fellowship and a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation fellowship.
WEAI professors Dorothy Y. Ko and Chün-fang Yü elected as Academicians of Academia Sinica. July 10, 2018
WEAI’s Takako Hikotani publishes the article “The Japanese Diet and Defence Policy-making” in International Affairs. July 9, 2018
WEAI professor Yao Lu receives Best Article Award from the American Sociological Association. July 9, 2018
WEAI professor Xiaobo Lü has been appointed to an Ann Whitney Olin Professorship in Barnard College. Barnard awards the Ann Whitney Olin Professorship to faculty members on the basis of scholarship, teaching, and other contributions to the academic community. July 1, 2018
WEAI professor John Phan is awarded an ACLS Grant for an international conference on “Contact Zones & Colonialism in China’s South.” June 12, 2018
WEAI professor Lydia H. Liu is elected to membership in the Institute for Advanced Study. May 15, 2018
WEAI professor Ying Qian receives a 2018-19 Global Humanities Project Grant. April 11, 2018
WEAI professor Qin Gao’s Columbia China Center for Social Policy holds its first international conference. April 6, 2018
WEAI professor Qin Gao co-authored (with Xian Huang) a new article titled “Does Social Insurance Enrollment Improve Citizen Assessment of Local Government Performance? Evidence from China” in the journal Social Science Research, Vol. 70 (February 2018). February 23, 2018
WEAI is named one of 2017’s Top Regional Studies Centers and Think Tanks by UPenn’s Lauder Institute. February 2, 2018
WEAI mourns the death of former Research Scholar Jayne Werner. February 2, 2018
Columbia’s International Students and Scholars Office spotlights Immerman Professional Fellow Jack (Sheng-Shin) Chu. February 1, 2018
The New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) receives a major new grant from the Luce Foundation. January 29, 2018
INTERACT Postdoctoral Scholar Victor Louzon publishes article in the Journal of Asian Studies. January 29, 2018
Two Studies of the WEAI receive 2018 award recognition from the Association for Asian Studies. January 23, 2018
WEAI professor Madeleine Zelin is re-elected to the International Society for Chinese Law and History’s Board of Directors. January 21, 2018
WEAI professor and director Eugenia Lean receives National Endowment for the Humanities grant. December 12, 2017
WEAI professor Theodore Hughes’ co-edited volume Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire, is named a Daesan Literary Translation Prize Finalist. November 15, 2017
The journal Asian Security features articles from WEAI conference on Southeast Asian Foreign Policy. November 11, 2017
WEAI professor Theodore Hughes is Awarded a 2018-19 Heyman Center Fellowship. October 31, 2017
WEAI professor Qin Gao makes video presentation to the UNDP about Universal Basic Income in China. October 26, 2017
WEAI mourns the death of former professor Adam M. McKeown. September 12, 2017
Learn how WEAI faculty and scholars spent summer 2017. September 8, 2017
WEAI professor Lydia H. Liu named the 2017-18 Frank M. Updike Memorial Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program. September 1, 2017
Eugenia Lean meets in Summer 2017 with Taipei’s mayor and Columbia alumni in Taiwan. August 2, 2017
WEAI congratulates Theodore Hughes on his promotion to full professor. July 6, 2017
WEAI Research Scholar Kristy E. Kelly receives Luce Foundation grant for Vietnam research. June 25, 2017
WEAI professors Eugenia Lean, Carol Gluck, Theodore Hughes, and Paul Kreitman are presenting at the AAS in Asia Conference in Seoul in June 2017. June 21, 2017
WEAI professor Charles K. Armstrong Receives 2017 President’s Global Innovation Fund Grant from Columbia University. June 1, 2017
The Center for Korean Research at WEAI and Columbia University Press announce a new Korean Studies Book Initiative. April 11, 2017
WEAI congratulates Qin Gao on her promotion to full professor. April 2, 2017
WEAI Visiting Scholar Yu-Jie Chen is cited in Wall Street Journal article on China’s attempt to draft a unified Civil Code of Law (WSJ subscription required). March 10, 2017
WEAI named one of the top ten Regional Study Centers by the University of Pennsylvania’s Lauder Institute. February 16, 2017
WEAI director Eugenia Lean elected a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. February 15, 2017
WEAI professor Carol Gluck delivers lecture “What the World Owes Comfort Women” at Washington University in St. Louis. November 3, 2016
WEAI professor Carol Gluck takes part in Chatham House conference “Challenge and Uncertainty in a Volatile World: Japan-UK Perspectives.” October 17, 2016
WEAI professor Myron L. Cohen to receive First Class Professional Medal in Hakka Affairs. September 10, 2016
WEAI professor Charles K. Armstrong delivers keynote address at SOAS – University of London. September 6, 2016
The Center for Korean Research receives Academy of Korean Studies grant. August 25, 2016
WEAI professor Theodore Hughes takes part in landmark Korean Literature workshop in Seoul. August 4, 2016
WEAI holds major Southeast Asia events in Indonesia and Singapore. July 19, 2016
WEAI professor Myron L. Cohen’s anthropology photographs and research to be displayed at the Taipei City Hakka Cultural Center. July 15, 2016
WEAI director Eugenia Lean visits the Taipei Mayor and Columbia alumni in Taiwan in Summer 2016. July 15, 2016
WEAI professor Myron L. Cohen to receive 2016 Chinese Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award. June 30, 2016
WEAI professor Carol Gluck chairs special roundtable “Horizons of Hope in Asia” at the Association for Asian Studies conference in Kyoto. June 24, 2016
WEAI professor Madeleine Zelin co-organizes first AAS workshop on Emerging Fields in the Study of Asia. June 6, 2016
WEAI professor Gerald L. Curtis delivers keynote address “The US and Japan in a Turbulent Asia” at the thirtieth anniversary celebration of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business. May 14, 2016
WEAI professor Carol Gluck Delivers the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Memorial Lecture at The Wilson Center. April 12, 2016
WEAI professors Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, along with Columbia University professor David Lurie, have recently co-edited the landmark book The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature. April 5, 2016
WEAI professor Carol Gluck delivered the keynote speech “Modernity in Common: Japan and World History” at the international conference “Every Picture Tells a Story: The Visualization of Japanese History” at the University of Oslo. March 8, 2016
WEAI professor Madeleine Zelin gives keynote speech at North Carolina State University on “Freedom and the Economy of Late Imperial China.” February 24, 2016
WEAI professor Carol Gluck gave keynote addresses at three symposia: “Rediscovering Northeast Asia” at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, January 23-24; “Internationalizing Japan Studies,” Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, January 30-31; and “Memory Regime Change in East Asia,” Waseda University, February 4. On February 2, Professor Gluck also presented a public lecture on “What the World Owes to the Comfort Women” at the Center for Women and Governance in Tokyo. February 15, 2016
WEAI professor Madeleine Zelin appointed to the Board of Directors of the The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH). February 15, 2016
WEAI professor Andrew J. Nathan speaks about the Chinese State at the International Conference on the Governance of China. January 28, 2016
WEAI professor Carol Gluck participated in the international symposium “Civilians at Stake: Mass Violence in Asia and Europe from 1931 to the Present” at Sciences Po. January 15, 2016
WEAI professor Theodore Hughes co-edits special issue of The Journal of Korean Studies. December 10, 2015
WEAI’s Lydia H. Liu appointed director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. November 23, 2015
WEAI professor Andrew J. Nathan presented the National Endowment for Democracy’s 2015 Lipset Lecture, “The Puzzle of the Chinese Middle Class,” at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C. October 27, 2015
WEAI’s Roberta Martin receives the 2015 Ronald G. Knapp Award for Distinguished Service to Asian Studies in New York State. October 15, 2015
WEAI invites Columbia Faculty & PhD Students to Apply for Workshops & Conferences Program. October 2, 2015
WEAI professor Carol Gluck chaired and participated in several panels at the Africa-Asia: A New Axis of Knowledge international conference at the University of Ghana, Legon from September 24-26, 2015. October 1, 2015.
WEAI director Eugenia Lean selected for Columbia’s 2015-17 Provost Leadership Fellows Program. September 10, 2015
WEAI professor Takatoshi Ito receives honorary doctorate from the Universidad de Chile. August 20, 2015
Read a Q&A with Shellen Wu, the author of the Study of the WEAI Empires of Coal. June 29, 2015
Read papers from the 5th Annual Consortium for Asian and African Studies (CAAS) conference, held in October 2014 at Columbia, here. June 4, 2015
WEAI professor Gregory M. Pflugfelder has launched an interactive educational resource about the history of the Japanese monster movie: “Growing Up With Godzilla.” April 29, 2015
Study of the WEAI Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development by Emily T. Yeh Receives the 2015 E. Gene Smith Book Prize from the AAS. January 21, 2015
Learn more here about the Oct. 3-4 CAAS Symposium: Asia and Africa Across Disciplinary and National Lines
Read about the “Beyond Modernity: Understanding Change in China” Conference in honor of Professor Madeleine Zelin here October 21, 2014
WEAI’s co-sponsored event with composer Chou Wen-chung is featured in The New York Times October 1, 2014
Read the report on the June 27, 2014 WEAI/SIPA event “Tension Reduction in Northeast Asia: A U.S. Experts Workshop” September 17, 2014
Professor Carol Gluck has been named the 2014-15 Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University
WEAI congratulates Jim Cheng, the C.V. Starr East Asian Library director, on being elected Vice-President/President-Elect of the Council on East Asian Libraries. May 5, 2014
WEAI Professor Eugenia Lean receives the 2013-14 Faculty Mentoring Award from the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. May 1, 2014
WEAI professor Gray Tuttle receives tenure. April 29th, 2014
WEAI mourns the loss of Peter Berton, a longtime friend of the Institute and an alumnus, who passed away on March 28, 2014. Our condolences are extended to his family, friends, and colleagues. March 28, 2014
Senior Research Scholar Murray Rubinstein has received the Hung-dah Chiu Memorial Award for best paper in history and the humanities for “The Evolution of Taiwan’s Economic Miracle 1945-2000: Personal Accounts and Political Narratives.” MARCH 6, 2014
INTERACT fellow Saskia Schaefer writes about her Indonesia election research on the WEAI blog February 27, 2014
WEAI professor Theodore Hughes receives the 2014 James B. Palais Book Prize JANUARY 22, 2014
