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Fall 2026 EALAC Course Catalog

Check out the most up-to-date list of EALAC courses for Fall 2026!

Study Chinese at Columbia in Summer 2026

EALAC will offer intensive Chinese language courses during Summer A (May 26–July 3) and Summer B (July 6–August 14). Summer Session registration is now open.

EALAC Language Chat Club!

Please click on the flyers for more information...

Dr. Leta Hong Fincher’s speech to The Carter Center, ‘Women and Resistance in China’

Click here to read the text of remarks given by Dr. Leta Hong Fincher (Research Associate, Weatherhead East Asia Institute & author of Leftover Women: The...

Professors Jungwon Kim and Ying Qian Receive Honorable Mentions for Prestigious Scholarly Awards

Professor Jungwon Kim’s book, Virtues that Matter: Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910), received an Honorable Mention for the First Book Prize...

​Congratulations to Professors Ling Yan and Yike Li on Receiving the 2025 NECLTA Teaching Innovation Award! 

Professors ​Ling Yan and Y​ike Li have been recognized by the New England Chinese Language Teachers Association (NECLTA) with the 2025 Teaching Innovation Award for their project “A...

Congratulations to Professor Lu Kou on Receiving the GS Honor Society Faculty Award!

Professor Lu Kou receives the GS Honor Society Faculty Award!

Congratulations to Emma Potts!

Emma Potts, EALAC alum named a 2025-2026 Fulbright Scholar.

NEWS

Events for week of 04/13/2026

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Mon 13th

Scrolling in China: A Look at Social Media, Podcasts, and Young People Today

April 13 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)

‘Foreign Agents: National Identity Politics and the Making of China’s External Others, 1895-Present’ with Yinan He

April 13 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)
Tue 14th
No Events Today
Wed 15th

US-PRC Defense Relations: Looking Back and Looking Forward

April 15 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)

Smuggling in the Straits of Melaka: Dissident Histories

April 15 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Institute of Fine Arts

Light of the Setting Sun — A Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Vicky Du

April 15 @ 8:00 pm - 9:45 pm
511 Dodge Hall
Thu 16th

Korean Messiah, with Jonathan Cheng and K.A. Tony Namkung

April 16 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)

Rebranding North Korea: Changes in the Consumer Culture and Visual Media

April 16 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
WEAI Conference Room (IAB 918)

The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Japan

April 16 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
403 Kent Hall
Fri 17th

Ghosts of the Present: Nationalism and the Sinitic Cosmopolitan in the Medieval South

April 17 @ 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
403 Kent Hall

CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)

April 17 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
212 Butler Library

Poongmul Workshop

April 17 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
413 Kent Hall
Sat 18th

Unveiling Digitizing Vietnam: Sino-Vietnamese Studies in the Age of AI

April 18 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
523 Butler Library
Sun 19th
No Events Today