Christopher Laing Hill (Northwestern University Press, 2020) For information from the publisher, please click here. An open-access digital version is available here. Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, … [Read more...]
REMOTE WORKSHOP – Bombay and Indian Ocean Urbanism Conference
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Event Please join us for a conference with: Anupama Rao, Barnard History and MESAAS, Columbia University Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University Nancy Um, State University of New York at Binghamton Mustansir Dalvi, Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai Debjani Bhattacharyya, Drexel University Sheetal … [Read more...]
CANCELLED – Japan’s Global Moment in the G-Zero World
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join for a lecture with: Joshua Walker, President and CEO, Japan Society Moderated by: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University About the Speaker: Dr. Joshua W. Walker is the new President of Japan Society. Previously Global Head of … [Read more...]
Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Edited by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia (Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in … [Read more...]
Feb. 20 Event: “Growing Pains in the Chinese Social Security System-The Eighth Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture:” Video and Photos
Video and photographs are now available from the February 20, 2018 Eighth Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture "Growing Pains in the Chinese Social Security System" The special lecture was presented by Hanming Fang, Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His talk was moderated by Shang-Jin Wei, the N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese … [Read more...]
