Film Screening and Discussion "Border Politics, Wartime Documentary – Zheng Junli and Long Live the Nation(s) (1941)" Zheng Dali, Filmmaker Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia University 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Dodge Hall, Room 511 No registration required. "Long Live the … [Read more...]
“The Many Lives of Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu)”
Lecture "The Many Lives of Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu)" Cam Nguyen, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley Moderated by John Phan, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Kent Hall, Room 424 No registration required. Nguyen Du’s "The Tale of Kieu" has long been considered the most widely … [Read more...]
Lien-Hang Nguyen to Deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin – Madison
Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia at Columbia University, will deliver the Third Annual Judith Ladinsky Lecture at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on Friday, October 20, 2017. Professor Nguyen's lecture is titled "Rethinking the Tet Offensive Fifty Years Later." Although the Tet Offensive … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Hilary A. Smith’s “Forgotten Disease”
We are excited to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: Forgotten Disease: Illnesses Transformed in Chinese Medicine, published by Stanford University Press. The book's author is Hilary A. Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Denver. Around the turn of the twentieth century, disorders that Chinese … [Read more...]
“South-South II: Materiality and Embodiment in Greater Asia and Africa”
Conference "South-South II: Materiality and Embodiment in Greater Asia and Africa" Projit Mukharji, University of Pennsylvania Nina Sylvanus, Northeastern University Nadia Abu al-Haj, Columbia University Mehak Sawhney, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi Nimrod Ben Zeev, University of Pennsylvania Sukhalata Sen, Jawaharlal Nehru University Nina … [Read more...]
