Panel Discussion Featuring: Guangyao Jin, Professor of History Department and Director of International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University, China Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University Jim Cheng, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library Mary Marshall Clark, Director, Columbia Center for … [Read more...]
“Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan’s Modern History”
Brown Bag Lecture Book talk with Harry Harootunian, Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago; Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at New York University; Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University in dialogue with: Laura Neitzel, Academic Director for the Committee on Global … [Read more...]
“Garu Lobzang Sherap: A Tibetan Painter at the Qing Court”
Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Tsangwang Gendun Tenpa, Director and Chief Curator of the Chengdu Dargye Himalayan Art and Culture Museum Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Drawing on a range of Tibetan and Chinese historical sources, as well as images of several … [Read more...]
“Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism”
Brown Bag Lecture Book talk with Robert Eskildsen, Senior Associate Professor in the Department of History at International Christian University, Tokyo Moderated by: Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History, Columbia University In the spring of 1874 the Japanese government sent … [Read more...]
“Placing the Anthropocene: The Pacific Ocean in Planetary History”
Lecture Featuring Gregory T. Cushman, Associate Professor of International Environmental History, University of Kansas Moderated by Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University In its conventional form, the Anthropocene is a Eurocentric and terracentric concept that needs to be provincialized. What might a history of the Anthropocene look … [Read more...]
