Workshop "Field and Archive: An Historical-Anthropological Dialogue on Research, Ethics, and Knowledge" Manan Ahmed, Columbia University Myron L. Cohen, Columbia University Alex Novikoff, Fordham University Ying Qian, Columbia University Rune Steenberg, Columbia University 2:10 PM - 4:00 PM Kent Hall, Room 403 No registration required. Co-sponsored by the … [Read more...]
“Rights Gone Wrong on the City’s Edge: Evidence from Ho Chi Minh City”
Lecture "Rights Gone Wrong on the City's Edge: Evidence from Ho Chi Minh City" Erik Harms, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International & Area Studies, Yale University 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. Co-sponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network, the Southeast Asian Student Initiative (SEASI), and … [Read more...]
“Skirmish Season: Border Practices in the Sino-Indian Himalayas”
Modern Tibetan Studies Lecture "Skirmish Season: Border Practices in the Sino-Indian Himalayas" Tina Harris, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. Co-sponsored by the Modern Tibetan Studies Program and the Inner Asia Curricular Development Project … [Read more...]
Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Yi Wu (University of Hawaii Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China offers the first comprehensive analysis of how China’s current system of land ownership has evolved over the past six decades. Based on extended fieldwork in Yunnan Province, the author … [Read more...]
“Inheritance of Loss,” a Forthcoming Study of the WEAI, Receives AAS Subvention Award
We are pleased to announce that Yukiko Koga's forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Inheritance of Loss: The Political Economy of Redemption After Empire, has received a First Book Award subvention from the Association for Asian Studies. Professor Koga's book, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2016, explores how the current … [Read more...]
