The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University is currently inviting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in modern/contemporary Japanese humanities specializing in Visual Culture, Film and Media, to start in September 2018. Demonstrated interest in comparative research and a deep knowledge of modern Japanese literature and … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Miki Kaneda, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music
WEAI welcomes Miki Kaneda, who is a visiting assistant professor in Columbia University's Department of Music. Dr. Kaneda's research focuses on transcultural crossings and the entanglements of race, gender, power, and colonial residues in experimental, avant-garde and popular music in the 20th and 21st centuries. Trained in musicology and ethnomusicology, she has published on … [Read more...]
“The Impact of the Trump Administration on the Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific: Japan’s View”
Lecture “The Impact of the Trump Administration on the Security Environment in the Asia-Pacific: Japan's View” Yoichi Kato, Senior Research Fellow, Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation; Former Security Correspondent and Bureau Chief, Asahi Shimbun American General Bureau Moderated by Takako Hikotani, Gerald L. Curtis Visiting Associate Professor of Modern Japanese … [Read more...]
“Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers”
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Author Lecture "Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers" Yoshikuni Igarashi, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Moderated by Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. ----- Soon … [Read more...]
Two Studies of the WEAI receive recognition from the Association for Asian Studies
We are delighted to share the news that two recent titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series, Christopher Rea's The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China and Federico Marcon's The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, have been recognized for their outstanding scholarship by the Association for … [Read more...]
