WEAI Senior Research Scholar Elizabeth Wishnick (second from right) met in July 2016 with Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a member of a delegation of eight scholars from the United States. The group met with policymakers and scholars to discuss issues in cross-straits and U.S.-Taiwan relations. Since 2002, Professor Wishnick has been a research scholar at WEAI. A … [Read more...]
Eugenia Lean meets with Taipei Mayor and with Columbia Alumni in Taiwan
In July 2016, Eugenia Lean, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Associate Professor of Chinese History at Columbia University, met with the Mayor of Taipei, Ko Wen-je, at his office to discuss further cooperation between Taipei and the Columbia community. In Taipei, the Board of the Columbia Alumni Association of Taiwan also hosted welcome dinners for … [Read more...]
Myron L. Cohen’s Photographs and Research to be Exhibited at the Taipei City Hakka Cultural Center
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that the Taipei City Hakka Cultural Center will create an immersive exhibit of the anthropological photos and research of Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and former Institute director. Opening on August 28 and running through November 2016, the exhibit will introduce visitors to a … [Read more...]
Myron L. Cohen to Receive 2016 Chinese Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and former Institute director, will receive the 2016 Chinese Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award from the Shanghai Society of Anthropology. Professor Cohen, who earned his PhD from Columbia in 1967 and has taught at the University since 1966, … [Read more...]
Read Gerald L. Curtis’s Keynote Speech “The US and Japan in a Turbulent Asia”
Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University, gave the keynote speech at a May 13, 2016 symposium in Japan that celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School. Titled "The United States and Japan in a Turbulent Asia," Professor Curtis's speech addressed how East Asia’s … [Read more...]
