Madeleine Zelin receives the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award

The EALAC department would like to congratulate Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, on receiving the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for her outstanding contributions and dedication to mentoring students within and outside the classroom. In 2019, Madeleine also had the honor of delivering the Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture, a series of three lectures on a topic of the faculty member’s choosing that will be published as a book by Columbia University Press. We are delighted to congratulate her for this well-deserved recognition and thank her for her continued service to our academic community.

Professor Seong Uk Kim receives the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Award

Seong Uk Kim has received the Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Grant Award, awarding him $15,000 towards his field research in Korea. The manuscript, “Evolving Tradition: revisiting the Buddhist-Confucian relationship in East Asia” (tentative), investigates the invention and reinvention of Korean Buddhism from the 17th to the 19th century, rethinking standard narratives of the Buddhist decline and decay during the period, and, at the same time, explores the meaning of such development within the broader East Asian context in terms of the Buddhist-Confucian relationship.

The University Seminars office & Columbia University Press are pleased to announce this year’s Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures to be given by Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

 

China Semi-Incorporated: The Battle For A Chinese Legal Modernity In The Early Twentieth Century

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019, 8 PM 

I: The “Company” Will Save Us: Utopian Visions of the Corporation in Late Qing China

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2019, 8 PM 

II: Local Knowledge, Legal Transplants and the Struggle over Limited Liability 

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2019, 8 PM 

III: What is Law when East meets West: The Lessons of the Ming Sung Umbrella Factory Case in the Shanghai International Mixed Court 

 

Location: Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10027

Please find attached a PDF version of the invitation or link to it here: http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019Schoff_Invitation_WEB.pdf