East Asia Languages and Cultures Department Event Please join us on Friday with: Zhang Letian, Professor School of Social Work, Fudan University Li Tian, Assistant Professor CCSLD Research Center, Fudan University Please join us on Saturday with: Aminda Smith, Associate Professor Department of History, Michigan State University Fabio Lanza, … [Read more...]
“Alternative Food Movement in China”
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: Caroline Merrifield (Ph.D., Anthropology, Yale University, 2018) independent scholar Moderated by: Dorothy Ko, Professor of History Barnard College A huge component of Dr. Merrifield’s field research was studying food provisioning - she served as an informal apprentice to the … [Read more...]
“China’s Unfolding Romantic Revolution”
School of Social Work Event Please join us for a lecture with: Melissa Schneider, LCSW and author of: The Ugly Wife is a Treasure at Home: True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China Moderated by: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work; Director, China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University Imagine a world where nobody … [Read more...]
“Situating Late Qing Science and Technology in a Global Context”
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: Shellen Wu, Associate Professor University of Tennessee, Knoxville Moderated by: Eugenia Lean, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture Columbia University Professor Wu will offer a book … [Read more...]
Student Profile: Andrew Wortham
Andrew Wortham is a graduate student of Anthropology at Columbia Teachers College, where his work is focused on emerging LGBT communities in China. He has received support from WEAI in various forms since 2016, including Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF) awards and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships, for Chinese language study to support his … [Read more...]
