Photographs and audio are now available from the February 24, 2015 event “East Asia's Changing Security Environment and Japan's Response.” The event featured a lecture by Hitoshi Tanaka, Chairman of the Institute for International Strategy at the Japan Research Institute; Senior Fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange; and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School … [Read more...]
February 4 Event: “Chinese Dreams and Chinese Nightmares, 1989 to 2014”
Photographs and audio are now available from the February 4, 2015 event "Chinese Dreams and Chinese Nightmares, 1989 to 2014." The standing-room only event featured a lecture by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine. Professor Wasserstrom's lecture was moderated by David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and … [Read more...]
Fellowship Report: Junjie Jiang
Columbia University senior Junjie Jiang describes her research on Phoenix, a work by contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing, and the Weatherhead Undergraduate Summer Training Grant that made it possible. For more information regarding fellowships, please click here. Junjie Jiang WEAI Undergraduate Training Grant Fellowship Report 09/04/14 I am a senior in East … [Read more...]
December 3 Event: “The West: East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the December 3, 2014 event “East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective: What History Is, Knows, Does: The West.” The event, co-sponsored by the Department of History, featured Eelco Runia, University of Groningen, Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, and Harry Harootunian, Senior … [Read more...]
November 18 Event: “China: East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective:” Photos and Audio
Photographs and audio are now available from the November 18, 2014 event “East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective: What History Is, Knows, Does: China.” The event, co-sponsored by the Department of History, featured Viren Murthy, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History at Columbia University, and Harry … [Read more...]
