Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, gave a series of three lectures at Wuhan University in China from November 6 through 10, 2017. Professor Gluck presented the lectures "Modernity in Common: Japan and World History," "How Change Happens in Japan: A Grand Unified Theory of Japanese History," … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen Discusses the State of the Vietnam War in 1967 on C-SPAN3
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, discussed the state of the Vietnam War in 1967 on a C-SPAN3 forum on November 11, 2017. Professor Nguyen joined historian Mark Atwood Lawrence of the University of Texas at Austin to take viewer calls and answer tweets about the war in Vietnam, … [Read more...]
Nov. 10 Event: “Repressing Revisionism in Vietnam, 1956-1960:” Audio and Photos
Audio and photographs are now available from the November 10, 2017 event "Repressing Revisionism in Vietnam, 1956-1960." During the standing-room-only event, Peter Zinoman of the University of California, Berkeley discussed his next book project, which surveys the intellectual schisms and literati debates in the backdrop of state repression of the arts in the Democratic … [Read more...]
“China Knowledge and Library Sources: A Lecture Marking the 115th Anniversary of the Chinese Library at Columbia University”
Lecture "China Knowledge and Library Sources: A Lecture Marking the 115th Anniversary of the Chinese Library at Columbia University" Wang Yuguang, Professor, Department of Information Management, Peking University Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library; Affiliated Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute Monday, November … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Takes Part in the International Conference “Order and Disorder: Critical Reflections on Japanese Studies”
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, took part in the international conference "Order and Disorder: Critical Reflections on Japanese Studies," which was held at Cornell University on October 27 and October 28, 2017. A gathering of former students and colleagues of Cornell University professor … [Read more...]
