Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join for a lecture with: Joshua Walker, President and CEO, Japan Society Moderated by: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University About the Speaker: Dr. Joshua W. Walker is the new President of Japan Society. Previously Global Head of … [Read more...]
The Emotional Topography of the Zainichi Memoryscape: Korean Ghettos in Postwar Japan Revisited
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join for a lecture with: Sayaka Chatani, Assistant Professor of History, National University of Singapore Moderated by: Kim Brandt, Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University A Korean ghetto existed in every large Japanese city in the early postwar period, and up … [Read more...]
Japan’s Diplomacy in 2030
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: Noriyuki Shikata, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in Beijing Commentator: Gerald Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Columbia … [Read more...]
People, Animals, and Island Encounters: A Pig’s History of the Pacific
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join for a lecture with: Jordan Sand, Professor of Japanese History, Georgetown University Moderated by: James Gerien-Chen, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University The event will be a talk on “transpacific empires,” a new research interest of … [Read more...]
Workshop on Political Change and Policy Change in Japan
JASSA Event Please join us for a lecture with: Satoshi Machidori, Professor of Law, Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law Harukata Takenaka, Professor of political science, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo Moderated by: Takako Hikotani, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign … [Read more...]
