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Marine veteran James Gasper, GS‘24, on how his Columbia experience empowered him to cultivate a unique GS path from Taiwan to India, and from BA to MA.

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Please join us in congratulating Peter Chen as one of the winners of the Étienne Balibar Prize in Cultural and Political Thought for his essay “The Logic of Race in Late Qing China: Revisiting Zhang Taiyan’s minzu zhuyi.”

A celebration of the winners will be held during the Three Catastrophes and the Remnant of Politics: Climate, War, Metaverse event on Thursday, October 19, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM. 

For more information on this event and to register, please visit this link. For more information on submissions for the 2023-2024 prize, please visit this link. 

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia is thrilled to announce the launch of a new colloquium series, the Critical Chinese Humanities Colloquium (CCH). The CCH encourages innovative and critical approaches to the study of Chinese humanities across established disciplinary, temporal, and regional boundaries. It seeks to open up a space for the exchange of ideas and methods to deepen our understanding of China, its past, present, and future, in critical dialogue with other parts of the world. We have curated a lineup of scholars who will share their most recent research and insights with our community and the general public.

The details for the two CCH events in the fall semester are as follows:

 

October 12, 2023, 6:00PM-7:30PM

Place: Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (first floor) 

Aspirations: China and the Global South—

The inaugural event of the Critical Chinese Humanities Colloquium

A special panel with Wang Hui (Tsinghua University), Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University), and Michael G. Hill (William & Mary), moderated by Lydia Liu (Columbia University)

Co-sponsors: The Weatherhead East Asian Institute

                       Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

                       The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities

                       Office of the Dean of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

November 9, 2023, 6:00PM-7:30PM

Place: Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (first floor)

The China That Could Have Been:

Rhetorical Learning and Political Thought of the Early Modern World

Speaker: Shoufu Yin (The University of British Columbia)

Co-sponsor: Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Both events are hybrid events, open to the public. Zoom webinar information will be provided soon on our website: https://www.columbiaucch.org/cch. We look forward to welcoming you to the CCH and embarking on this intellectual journey together!