February 2026
Asia’s Aging Security: How Demographic Change Affects America’s Allies and Adversaries
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 20 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »Paradoxes of Chinese Feminism: Transnational Social Movement, Party-State Authoritarianism, and the Regimatic Politics of Solidarity
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 24 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »The Special Collection of the Extensive Correspondence of Chin-Tang Lo
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 24 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
Find out more »A Conversation with Ambassador Do Hung Viet
"On the Future of the US–Viet Nam Partnership After the 14th Party Congress" You are invited to join Ambassador Do Hung Viet, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations, Professor Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, and Senior Advisor for Vietnam Thomas Vallely for a conversation on the outcomes of the 14th Party Congress and their implications for advancing US–Viet Nam partnership and cooperation. Ambassador Viet will discuss the overall objectives set out by the Congress, as well as new and…
Find out more »Diasporic Linkage Between Manchukuo and Korean State-formation
PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 12:00 PM…
Find out more »March 2026
“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »Becoming Ungovernable: Hill Peoples, Decentralized Resistance, and Buddhist Nationalism in Myanmar
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Mar. 3 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »Insider’s Lens: Two Decades of a Grassroots Fight for Education Equality in Western China
Speaker: Cicely Peng, Founder, Cicely Education Aid Charity Fund; Professional Fellow, WEAI, Columbia University Moderator: Xiaobo Lü, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University Eighteen years, 21 impoverished counties, and an 80% higher-education enrollment rate—behind these figures lies the raw reality of rural education in Western China. This talk draws on nearly two decades of speaker Cicely Peng's deep-dive observations and on-site volunteer work to facilitate a candid dialogue on the dilemmas of volunteer-based social work…
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »Civic Activism in South Korea: the Intertwining of Democracy and Neoliberalism
PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 12:00 PM…
Find out more »Taiwan’s Energy Security Dilemma
Speakers: Clara Gillispie, Senior Fellow for Climate and Energy, Council on Foreign Relations Joseph Webster, Senior Fellow, Global Energy Center, Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center Yu-Hsuan Yeh, MPA Candidate in Climate, Energy and Environment, Columbia University Discussant: Thomas Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations; Director, China and the World Program, Columbia University Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University In the event of a crisis, Taiwan is vulnerable to losing its energy…
Find out more »Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on March 10 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France – A Book Talk by Charles Keith
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on March 11 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »Beyond Consent: Structural Violence and the Myth of Safety in Contemporary Japan
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on March 20 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »Fragile Relations: Form, History, and Embodiment in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 12:00 PM…
Find out more »Decommodifying the Kisaeng: Women’s Waged Entertainment Labor in Korea’s Transition to Capitalism
PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 11:30 AM…
Find out more »Fuji: A Mountain in the Making — A Book Talk with Andrew W. Bernstein
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on March 24th for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »From Mao to Now: China’s 20th-Century Global Development Finance
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on March 24 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »The Future of China-Russia Relations — How Beijing Sees the Costs and Benefits of Friendship with Moscow
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Mar. 25 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
Find out more »Victimhood Nationalism: History and Memory in a Global Age – A Book Talk by Jie-Hyun Lim
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Mar. 25 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
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