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

Haruo Shirane has been selected as the first recipient of the prestigious NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies. The prize recognizes Shirane, professor of Japanese literature and culture at Columbia University, for outstanding achievement in Japanese studies (defined as the fields of Japanese history, literature, linguistics, folklore, ethnology, and environmental studies) and for major contributions to the development of Japanese scholarships overseas. NIHU consists of the National Museum of Japanese History, National Institute of Japanese Literature, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, and National Museum of Ethnology. Earlier this year Shirane was awarded the 26th Yamagata Banto Prize, Osaka’s International Cultural Award.

To read the full announcement, please visit: https://www.nihu.jp/en/publication/nihu_magazine/42