On October 3 and 4, 2014, Columbia University hosted the Fifth Annual Consortium for Asian and African Studies (CAAS) Symposium "Asia and Africa Across Disciplinary and National Lines." The symposium featured presentations on Asian and African research by graduate students and professors from Columbia and from many of its fellow consortium members Institut National des Langues … [Read more...]
October 14 Event “Japan: East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the October 14, 2014 event "East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective: What History Is, Knows, Does: Japan." The event, co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Japan Study Student Association, featured Narita Ryuichi, Japan Women's University, Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia … [Read more...]
Professor Gluck Receives Graduate Student Mentoring Award
On May 13, 2013, Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, was awarded the 2012-2013 Graduate Student Mentoring Award for faculty in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). The Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC) instituted this award in 2004 to commemorate excellence in the mentoring of PhD students. The award is a student initiative; selections were made … [Read more...]
Professor Gluck Receives Order of the Rising Sun
On October 4, 2006, Professor Carol Gluck was presented with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon at the Japanese Consulate in New York City. Among those who came to celebrate this achievement were her sons, William and Thomas, her husband, Peter, and many of her colleagues, friends, students and admirers. During the Conferment Ceremony, Ambassador … [Read more...]
