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April 2023
Chinese Connections at Columbia: Untangling Mysterious “Dean Lung” Stories and Century-long Chinese Imagination
Speakers: Wu Huanyu, Associate Professor, School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University Jim Cheng, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Moderator: Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University The zoom lecture in Chinese language is intended to untangle the mysterious “Dean Lung” stories and examine century-long Chinese imagination in a larger backdrop of China-U.S. relations. The clarification and demystification of “Dean Lung” Chinese identity and stories through anthropological and sociological approach will shed…
Find out more »K-Waves (Hallyu) in the U.S.
Speaker: Young A Jung, Assistant Professor, Korean Studies Program, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George mason University Moderator: Seong Uk Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean Religions and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University Starting mid-2010s, Korean popular culture began to circulate outside Asian vicinities and expand its global fandom to the West, including South America, Europe, and the Middle East. The global expansion of the Korean popular culture fandom is mainly due to the advancement of streaming…
Find out more »China’s Rise, the War in Ukraine, and the Transformation of the East Asian Regional System
School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 707, New York, NY 10027 Show Map Speaker: Marcin Grabowski, Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations and Politics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University As a China specialist based in Poland (and formerly a visiting scholar at WEAI), Professor Marcin Grabowski will discuss how Eastern Europeans are analyzing the impact of China’s rise and the war in Ukraine…
Find out more »History and Development of the Library of Congress Tibetan Collection
Speaker: Susan Meinheit, Tibetan and Mongolian Specialist, Asian Division, Library of Congress Moderator: Kristina Dy-Liacco, Tibetan Studies Librarian, Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University With a career spanning 47 years at the Library of Congress, Susan Meinheit has had a pioneering role in the development, management, and conservation of the Library of Congress' vast Tibetan collection, one of the largest in the world. From her first LC position as a library clerk, it was through her area and language expertise -- combined…
Find out more »Film screening and discussion: The Shepherdess of the Glaciers
Register The documentary The Shepherdess of the Glaciers follows Tsering and her flock of goats and sheep over the course of a year in the Gya-Miru valley in the Far Northern Mountains of Ladakh, India. Tsering at 50 is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her herd, and the youngest in her village to drive her 350 goats and sheep in this region of the Himalayas, located between 4,000 and 6,000 meters above sea level. Surrounded by this dry and desolate…
Find out more »2023-24 TCSOL Certificate Program Info Session
The Certificate Program in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL), co-sponsored by the Center for International Foreign Language Teacher Education (CIFLTE) at Teachers College, Columbia University, the Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, and Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, provides state-of-the-art training in Chinese pedagogy. Developed and taught by a world-class team of experts, the program offers a cutting-edge curriculum that sets trainees on a fast and efficient track to gain the…
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