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November 2018
March 2019
Photography of North Korea
AP’s lead North Korea photographer Wong Maye-E shares images of North Korea and its people, in conversation with Society senior director Stephen Noerper. Free for Columbia University students and faculty with registration. Register here. This program is a collaboration between the Korea Society and Columbia University’s Center for Korean Research.
Find out more »April 2019
On Music and Rites as Governmental Apparatuses in Late Imperial China: Qiu Jun’s Supplement to the Extended Meaning of The Great Learning, 1487
Malcolm Thompson (Harvard University) What were the tasks of governing, according to the operators of the late imperial Chinese state? What systems of organization existed for their achievement, and how should they be best managed? Based on a reading of Qiu Jun's (1421–1495) massive compendium of classics and historical commentaries, this talk will focus on one such task – the regulation of “sentiments” (qing) – and the problem of the correct relationship between the linked apparatuses devoted to it: Music (yue) and…
Find out more »Material Culture, Identity, and Statecraft in the State of Zhongshan, Warring States Period
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Find out more »The Dictatorship of Capital: Urban Redevelopment and the Question of Violence in Post-Authoritarian South Korea
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Hae Yeon Choo, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto This talk examines the relationship between democratic citizenship, capitalist profit-making, and violence. In particular, it focuses on an evictee protest against urban redevelopment in Yongsan, South Korea in 2009, resulting in a fatal police raid. Based on the parliamentary hearings, court documents, and oral history from protesters in the aftermath of what has been called the Yongsan…
Find out more »May 2019
Yangchuk Tso in Conversation: Contemporary Cinema and Pop Music
Yangchuk Tso, critically acclaimed Tibetan actress and contemporary singer, will speak on her experiences in film and television in China, reflect on contemporary Tibetan cinema and share thoughts on her own film making practice. After the presentations she will join Eveline Washul and Riga Shakya in a broader discussion on Tibetan cultural production in the 21st century. This event is sponsored by the Modern Tibetan Studies Program and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
Find out more »November 2020
Anti-Racism Speaker Series: Enobong Branch, PhD, Rutgers University
Join the Center for Research on People of Color for our first Anti-Racism Speaker Series event on November 5, 2020, 2:30 – 3:30PM. Register here. The event will feature Dr. Enobong (Anna) Branch, Senior Vice President for Equity and Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Her lecture, titled “First, Do No Harm”: Eugenics, Medicine and Devaluing Black Life, will be held virtually. Dr. Branch’s research examines the roots and present day underpinnings of racial and gender inequality, with particular focus…
Find out more »September 2024
General Secretary, President Tô Lâm of Viet Nam
A conversation with H.E. Dr. Tô Lâm General Secretary, President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Dorothy Borg Associate Professor of the History of American-East Asian Relations Columbia University students are invited to participate in a moderated question and answer session. This program is cosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Advanced registration is required for in-person attendance. Registration will remain open until Friday, September 20, at noon, or until…
Find out more »Water: Climate, River Life, and Spiritual Forms in South Asia
Date: Wednesday, September 25th, 2024, from 5:30-7:00PM Location: The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary Series: Religion and Climate Speakers: Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins University) and Jinah Kim (Harvard University) Moderator: Raffaella Taylor-Seymour (Columbia University) IRCPL’s Religion and Climate series is animated by calls to reimagine human relationships with and responsibilities to the environment in an age of planetary crisis. As the impact of climate change is increasingly but unevenly felt, religion is emerging as a site of epistemological doubt,…
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