Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Selçuk Esenbel, Emerita Professor of Modern Japanese History in the Department of History Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey Moderated by: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History Columbia University Dr. Esenbel will focus her talk on her recent book, Japan on the Silk Road. The book … [Read more...]
Alumni Profile: Trevor Menders
Trevor Menders is a 2018 graduate of Columbia’s East Asian Languages and Cultures Department and a former student worker at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He recently completed a year as a Fulbright Research Fellow in affiliation with Tokyo University of the Arts. Beginning in September he will be a Toshizo Watanabe Fellow at the Yokohama Inter-University Center for … [Read more...]
New Faculty Feature: Takuya Tsunoda
Takuya Tsunoda is assistant professor of Japanese film and media in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Since joining the Weatherhead East Asian Institute in January 2019, he has quickly become an invaluable member of the WEAI community, contributing insight into the nuances of contemporary Japanese film. An abridged version of this interview appears in the … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck delivers keynote address at conference on “Modern Japan in the Comparative Imagination”
Professor Carol Gluck gave a keynote address at an interdisciplinary conference on the comparative imagination in history-writing in Durham, UK. The conference, which was held at Durham University May 9-10, considered how modern Japanese history, literature, and art have been shaped by and understood through comparisons across national and cultural boundaries. Professor Gluck … [Read more...]
April 9 Event: “The Future of the US-Japan Alliance”
The Future of the US-Japan Alliance: Advancing the Vision of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific Featuring H.R. McMaster Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University Former 26th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs On April 9, … [Read more...]
