New York Southeast Asia Network and School of Journalism Event Please join us for a Workshop co-organized by: Sheila Coronel, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia University Duncan McCargo, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Jonathan Corpus Ong, Department of Communications University of Massachusetts, Amherst Margaret Scott, Robert F. Wagner … [Read more...]
“Producing Poverty and Prosperity in Southeast Asia: Methodological and Empirical Reflections”
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Jonathan Rigg, Professor of Geographical Sciences University of Bristol Moderated by: Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Department of History Columbia University Why has aggregate economic expansion in Southeast Asia so often been accompanied by … [Read more...]
“Disinformation Crisis and Southeast Asia Elections: Behind the Scenes of Fake News Production and Fact-Check Interventions
Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Johnathan Corpus Ong, Associate Professor in Global Digital Media, UMASS Amherst. Moderated by Sheila Coronel, Dean of Academic Affairs, Columbia Journalism School. International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. Part of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute’s Reporting Asia Lecture … [Read more...]
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
Haydon Cherry (Yale University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor of colonial French Saigon by following the lives of six individuals—a prostitute, a Chinese laborer, a rickshaw puller, an orphan, an incurable invalid, and a poor Frenchman—and how … [Read more...]
Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Claire E. Edington (Cornell University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. To read the author Q&A, please click here. Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with … [Read more...]
