SIPA Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration Please join us for a lecture with: Nasir Uddin, Cultural Anthropologist based in Bangladesh and Professor of Anthropology, Chittagong University The Rohingyas, widely known as the world’s most persecuted ethnic minority, experienced an unprecedented brutality committed by Myanmar … [Read more...]
“Understanding the Rohingya Crisis: Racial and Religious Histories in Burma and the Responsibilities of Regional Neighbors in the Humanitarian Response”
Panel Discussion "Understanding the Rohingya Crisis: Racial and Religious Histories in Burma and the Responsibilities of Regional Neighbors in the Humanitarian Response" Francis Wade, Journalist and Author Mayesha Alam, Author Elliott Prasse-Freeman, Research Fellow at Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Tuesday, November 14, 2017 3:00 PM - 6:00 … [Read more...]
“Religion and the State in China: Restrictions, Revival, and Possibilities”
Panel Discussion "Religion and the State in China: Restrictions, Revival, and Possibilities” Nicholas Bequelin, East Asia Director at Amnesty International Sarah Cook, Senior Research Analyst for East Asia at Freedom House Moderated by: Robbie Barnett, Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program; Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Tibetan Studies, Columbia … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan Remembers Liu Xiaobo in Foreign Affairs Magazine
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote a July 13, 2017 article in Foreign Affairs titled "Remembering Liu Xiaobo: The West's Responsibility in Upholding His Legacy." Following the death of Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who had been jailed for the last eight years of his life, Professor Nathan discusses the … [Read more...]
Andrew J. Nathan writes in Foreign Affairs about Xu Zhiyong and the democracy movement in China
Andrew J. Nathan, the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, wrote the article "A China of Citizens: Xu Zhiyong's Quest for a Free China" in the January 13, 2017 edition of Foreign Affairs. In the article, Professor Nathan writes about democracy activist Xu Zhiyong, noting "Xu’s strategy involved using social media to draw attention to the … [Read more...]
