Professor Carol Gluck was interviewed by the BBC, Voice of America, Globo Brazil, and others about the new reign name, "Reiwa" announced in Japan on April 1. She also published a column on the subject in Newsweek Japan, April 9, 2019. Click here to read the column in Japanese. … [Read more...]
“The Other Japanese New Wave”
Lecture Featuring: Go Hirasawa Respondent: Peter Eckersall, Professor, CUNY Graduate Center Moderator: Takuya Tsunoda, Columbia University About the Speaker: Go Hirasawa is a researcher at Meiji-Gakuin University working on underground films and avant-garde art movements in 1960s and '70s Japan. His publications include Underground Film Archives (Japan, 2001) and … [Read more...]
“The Future of the US–Japan Alliance: Advancing the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific”
Lecture Featuring: H.R. McMaster, Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Bernard and Susan Liautaud Visiting Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, and the Former 26th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Opening Remarks: Merit Janow, Dean, School of International and Public A airs; Professor of … [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...]
“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...]
