Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke on the BackStory radio program about royalty in Japan. On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday, BackStory presented the May 13, 2016 podcast "Watch the Throne: America and Royalty" in which leading historians, including Professor Gluck, … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Talks with Slate About the Differing Ways Japan and the U.S. Remember World War II
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, talked with Slate in a May 11, 2016 article titled "How Japan and the U.S. Remember World War II." Following the news that President Obama will be the first American president to visit Hiroshima, Isaac Chotiner, a Slate contributor, conducted an interview … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Delivers the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Memorial Lecture at The Wilson Center
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, delivered the Fourth Annual Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Memorial Lecture at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., on April 12, 2016. Professor Gluck's lecture was titled "Present Pasts: The Politics of Memory in East Asia." Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (1948-2012), … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Gives Keynote Address at University of Oslo
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, 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 on March 8, 2016. … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Speaks at Multiple Events in Japan
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, gave keynote addresses at three symposia in early 2016: "Rediscovering Northeast Asia" at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, January 23-24, 2016; "Internationalizing Japan Studies," Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, January 30-31, 2016; and "Memory … [Read more...]
