Audio and photographs are now available from the March 29, 2018 event "Scales of History: Family History/Global History." The event featured distinguished scholar Shunya Yoshimi, Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies and Media Studies, University of Tokyo. Moderated by Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia … [Read more...]
Columbia’s Gregory Pflugfelder on Godzilla’s Global History
Advertisements for the new "Godzilla" are ubiquitous this summer. Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty member Gregory Pflugfelder is well acquainted with such images. Pflugfelder, a professor of Japanese history at Columbia University, has collected around five thousand posters and promotional materials for Godzilla films and other Japanese monster flicks. His archive of … [Read more...]
INTERACT fellow Saskia Schaefer discusses upcoming April 18 event on Islamic Urbanism in Jakarta and Istanbul
Saskia Schaefer, 2013 – 2014 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and part-time lecturer in Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, compares the dynamics between Islam and urbanism in Jakarta and Istanbul. On Friday, April 18, 2014, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Institute for … [Read more...]
