Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, appeared on BBC World News on December 27, 2017 to discuss the recent finding of South Korea's Foreign Ministry that a 2015 deal with Japan to compensate forced World War II sex slaves failed to meet the needs of the victims. https://youtu.be/rapmaxpCUl4 … [Read more...]
Newsweek Japan Features Cover Story on Carol Gluck’s “War Stories” Discussion Group
Newsweek Japan devoted its December 12, 2017 cover story to a special discussion group at Columbia University on "War Stories: Memory and History" that is led by Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought. Participants in the discussion group included 20 undergraduate and graduate students from Columbia College, Columbia … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Presents Lecture Series at China’s Wuhan University
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, gave a series of three lectures at Wuhan University in China from November 6 through 10, 2017. Professor Gluck presented the lectures "Modernity in Common: Japan and World History," "How Change Happens in Japan: A Grand Unified Theory of Japanese History," … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Takes Part in the International Conference “Order and Disorder: Critical Reflections on Japanese Studies”
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, took part in the international conference "Order and Disorder: Critical Reflections on Japanese Studies," which was held at Cornell University on October 27 and October 28, 2017. A gathering of former students and colleagues of Cornell University professor … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Discusses the Impending End of Japan’s Heisei Era with the Asahi Shimbun
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, was interviewed on August 30, 2017 in Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper on the impending abdication of Emperor Akihito and the accompanying calendrical change in the name of the era, which, under the current emperor, has been known as the Heisei … [Read more...]
