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November 2024
Southeast Asia’s Multipolar Future: Averting a New Cold War
Speaker: Thomas Parks, Vice President, The Asia Foundation Moderator: Ann Marie Murphy, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar; Professor and Director, Center for Foreign Policy Studies, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University In this event, Tom Parks will discuss his excellent new book, Southeast Asia’s Multipolar Future: Averting a New Cold War. The book argues that Southeast Asia is emerging as an open, autonomous region, where small and middle powers can maintain their sovereignty and shape the regional order. Despite new…
Find out more »Modern China Seminar
We'd like to invite you to the third meeting of Modern China Seminar for this semester on Thursday, November 7. Dinner will be provided at 6:35 pm and the talk will begin at 7:00 pm. This seminar will be presented both in-person at 918 IAB (International Affairs Building) and on Zoom. "Cultivating Kin and Kind" Speaker: Caroline Merrifield, Adjunct Professor, Department of Environmental Studies, New York University Discussant: Myron Cohen, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University If you plan to attend, RSVP to modernchinasem@gmail.com to get a copy of the paper at least one day…
Find out more »Tibetan Entrepreneurism in the Diaspora: A Roundtable
Moderator: Ms. Yanki Tshering, Founder and Executive Director of Accompany Capital (formerly Business Center for New Americans) Columbia University 2024 Rural Green Business Exchange Program Fellows Dawa Dolma, Tibetan Women's Micro-Entrepreneurship Project (wool production) Tenzing Palmo, Center for Pastoralism researcher supporting sheep-wool related business. Focused on Changtang (nomadic) area. Tashi Lhazom, Community-owned sustainable tourism project in remote area Tenzin Zomkyi Lama, Team member for the "Mountain Harvesting" project initiated by the Tibetan-led NGO Drokpo Nepal Gangchen Dolma, Business Analyst and Studio Manager of Tibetan architectural preservation…
Find out more »CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
We invite current Columbia graduate students with questions about maintaining an inclusive teaching environment and all other aspects of pedagogy to drop by office hours on Fridays from 2:00–4:00 pm. We also welcome conversations about CTL fellowships, programs, services, job market preparation, and making progress in the Teaching Development Program (tdp.ctl.columbia.edu). No appointment is necessary; you can join us in-person in 212 Butler Library, or via Zoom. To join office hours via Zoom, email CTLgrads@columbia.edu to obtain the link. If you can't make office hours but…
Find out more »A Deep History of Human Activity in the Jiuzhaigou National Park
Speaker: Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, University of Washington Time: November 8, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *This event will be held via Zoom. Please click on “Request Pre-circulated Paper” to register for the event. China’s tuigeng huanlin, or “Returning Farmland to Forest” program, has been widely praised as a major contributor to China’s dramatic increase in forest cover. To preserve the biodiversity found in the Jiuzhaigou National Park, and believing that the history of human impact inside the park was relatively…
Find out more »A Deep History of Human Activity in the Jiuzhaigou National Park
Speaker: Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, University of Washington Title: “A Deep History of Human Activity in the Jiuzhaigou National Park” Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST Venue: Zoom For attendance information, please visit www.tangcenter-columbia.org
Find out more »Ecologies of Care: Community Based Approaches to Climate Change Survival in the High Himalayas
Speaker: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia, University of British Columbia Dr. Pasang Sherpa will discuss her latest research on community-based approaches to co-creating knowledge and solutions in working towards collective survival on warming planet. This project builds on her previous research on the human dimensions of climate change in the Himalayas and long-term ethnographic study of the Sherpa community at home and in the diaspora. Dr. Sherpa uses ethnographic methods to study everyday concerns of Himalayan…
Find out more »Columbia University Taiko Festival
Columbia University Taiko is proud to present this year's annual Taiko Festival featuring groups from across the East Coast including kaDON, Soh Daiko, OMNY Taiko, Casual Fifth, and more. Come feel the rhythms of taiko drums, eat good food, and celebrate our tenth anniversary as a taiko ensemble! Doors will open at 4:00pm. Performances will begin at 5:00, followed by an intermission, and will resume performing around 6:55pm. Event Contact Information: Kay Evans (425)516-9881 kue2102@barnard.edu
Find out more »Book talk and Reception with former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister, will discuss his new book, On Xi Jinping: How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World (Oxford University Press, September 2024). Ambassador Rudd’s book argues that there have been large shifts in China’s ideological worldview under Xi Jinping, creating a new form of “Marxist-Leninist Nationalism” which informs Beijing’s approach to politics, economics, and foreign policy. Speakers The Hon. Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before…
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