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April 2023
SCHOLARTalks
There is awe-inspiring research taking place at Columbia every day! Join us to celebrate this research and connect with your Columbia peers at SCHOLARTalks, an inaugural lightning talks program to highlight emerging faculty and scholar voices in research across all disciplines at Columbia University. The lightning talks will take place on Monday, April 17 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in Butler Library, room 523, followed by Q&A and a networking reception. The event will feature presentations by Wei Cai, Alissa Davis, Nicholas Deas, Chloé Samala Faux, Howard Nicholson, Edward…
Find out more »Celebrating The Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Join The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities for the New Book Series event honoring The Evening Hero by Marie Myung-Ok Lee. Marie Myung-Ok Lee will be joined by panelists Frances Cha, Denise Cruz, Lis Harris, and Dana Spiotta. Monday, April 17, 2023, 6:15 pm –7:30pm EDT | In person at the Heyman Center and online via Zoom. Registration required A sweeping, lyrical novel following a Korean immigrant pursuing the American dream who must confront the…
Find out more »Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts
April 18, 2023 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027 Speaker: Ethan Michelson, James and Noriko Gines Department Chair in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Professor in Sociology, Academic Director of the IU China Gateway, Indiana University Moderator: Yao Lu, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Using 'big data' computational techniques to scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Ethan Michelson reveals…
Find out more »Asian Development Bank’s Outlook for Developing Asia
REGISTER April 18, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM In person : ROOM 407, 420 W 118th Street, in the International Affairs Building ADB's Chief Economist Albert Park will host a discussion about the latest Asian Development Outlook publication. Dr. Park will focus on: The outlook for economic growth and inflation in developing Asia in 2023-24, including the effects of the PRC’s exit from its zero-COVID policy Risks to the outlook, from the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine to monetary tightening The…
Find out more »Understanding Qing Officialdom Through Big Data
Speaker: Cameron Campbell, Chair Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Moderator: Junyan Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Cameron Campbell will give a talk based on his historical database. He will present findings on the social origins, qualifications, and career dynamics of 19th century Qing civil officials that support, complicate and contradict the assumptions and stylized facts about the selection and promotion of officials that underpin much recent quantitative research on Qing social,…
Find out more »Stories of Marriage Migrant Women’s Cyclical Movements Between Vietnam and South Korea
April 19, 2023 1:10 PM - 2:25 PM Uris Hall at Columbia University, 3022 Broadway, Room 330, New York, NY 10027 Speaker: Hayeon Lee, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Modern Vietnamese Studies, WEAI, Columbia University Moderator: Seong Uk Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean Religions and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University Hayeon Lee will discuss her research about the lives and narratives of Vietnamese marriage migrant women to South Korea, based on three years of ethnographic field work. She will…
Find out more »Introduction to Advanced CTL Fellowships for Grad Students
Friday, April 21, 2023 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 212 Butler Library REGISTER The CTL’s Graduate Student Programs and Services team invites doctoral students who have engaged extensively with CTL offerings, as well as current and past fellows, to join us for the second of two information sessions we are offering this semester to explore additional paid fellowship opportunities at the CTL. This information session will focus on the following opportunities: Senior roles in the Lead Teaching Fellowship (LTF), Teaching Observation Fellowship (TOF), and Teaching Assessment Fellowship (TAF) The Teaching Consultant role…
Find out more »Screening and Talk of AKUTAGAWA: Modern Tales Retold in Traditional Japanese Puppetry
AKUTAGAWA is a stage portrait of Ryūnoske Akutagawa, influential modernist Japanese short story writer and author of Rashōmon. Told through stunning traditional Japanese and contemporary puppetry and an amalgam of five of his short stories (Rashōmon, Hell Screen (Jigokuhen), The Dragon, Toshishun and Kappa), AKUTAGAWA is a lush, visual exploration of the process of artistic creation. AKUTAGAWA is a collaboration by Japanese fifth generation master puppeteer Koryū Nishikawa V and puppeteer Tom Lee. Screening (1-3:30 pm): In-person only | Talk (3:30-5…
Find out more »The Earth Performance: Reenactment
For more information, please visit this link. On Saturday, April 22nd, Canal Projects is pleased to host a reenactment of Seung-taek Lee’s acclaimed Earth Performance (1989-1996). Co-produced with Governors Island Arts, Canal Projects is thrilled to be presenting the first US based iteration of Lee’s iconic Earth Performance, a work which mobilizes art as a sensory shared visual language that urges collective caretaking of our planet. The reenactment will be led by the collaborative duo, Korean-American artists: Ayoung Yu and Nicholas Oh.…
Find out more »Narratives of Civic Duty – A Book Talk by Aram Hur
Speaker: Aram Hur, Assistant Professor, Truman School of Government and Public Affairs; Co-Director, Institute for Korean Studies, University of Missouri Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University A 45-minute talk followed by Q and A, based on Dr. Hur’s recent book from Cornell UP, Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Studies of the WEAI). Dr. Hur’s book focuses particularly on the Koreas and Taiwan. This event is…
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