Lecture Featuring Gregory T. Cushman, Associate Professor of International Environmental History, University of Kansas Moderated by Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University In its conventional form, the Anthropocene is a Eurocentric and terracentric concept that needs to be provincialized. What might a history of the Anthropocene look … [Read more...]
WEAI Professors Eugenia Lean, Carol Gluck, Theodore Hughes, and Paul Kreitman Presenting at AAS-in-Asia in Seoul
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that faculty members Eugenia Lean, Carol Gluck, Theodore Hughes, and Paul Kreitman will be presenting at this summer's Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Asia Conference, which will be held in Seoul from June 24, 2017 to June 27, 2017. Full conference details are available here. Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Paul Kreitman
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Kreitman, who earned his PhD from Princeton in 2015, specializes in environmental history, global history, commodity history, and histories of science and technology. In the following Q & A, Professor Kreitman discusses his scholarship and … [Read more...]
“Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War”
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute - Japan Author Lecture Series "Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War" Lee K. Pennington, Associate Professor of History, United States Naval Academy Moderated by Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM International Affairs … [Read more...]
