The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to share a December 6, 2016 video in which Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, discusses the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor and the Politics of Memory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbZaNhk2ym4& Please click here to watch the video on … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Paul Kreitman
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Kreitman, who earned his PhD from Princeton in 2015, specializes in environmental history, global history, commodity history, and histories of science and technology. In the following Q & A, Professor Kreitman discusses his scholarship and … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Lien-Hang Nguyen
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Nguyen, who earned her PhD from Yale and previously taught at the University of Kentucky, specializes in the study of the United States in the world, with spatial focus on Southeast Asia and … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Speaks at November Events on Shared and Divided Memories in the Global Age and on Turkey in the World
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke at the symposium "The Location of Europe: Shared and Divided Memories in the Global Age," which was held from November 28 through November 30, 2016 at the Palace Herrenhausen in Hanover, Germany, and convened by the European University Viadrina. The … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Victor Louzon, 2016-18 INTERACT Postdoctoral Scholar
Victor Louzon is the 2016-2018 International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT) Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Dr. Louzon holds his PhD from Sciences Po. He received his undergraduate training at SciencesPo, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales(Paris), and the University of British Columbia … [Read more...]
