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12:00 pm
Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan
Please join us for a lecture with: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, University of Michigan Andrew Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Why have the three most salient minority groups in Japan - the politically dormant Ainu, the active but unsuccessful Koreans, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin - all expanded their activism […]
Find out more »Korea-Japan Relations: Looking Back, Looking Forward
University of Connecticut History Professor Alexis Dudden explores recent history and possible overtures in Korea-Japan relations in conversation with Korea Society Senior Director Stephen Noerper. Exploring trade and historical disputes, as well as well as Washington’s past and potential involvement, Dudden, author of Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea and the United States, as well as […]
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4:30 pm
“The Material Culture of Personal Adornment in Ancient China”
Speaker: Sheri Lullo, Union College Time: February 7, 2020 (4:30-6:30 PM) Location: Faculty House (*please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information) This presentation considers the increasingly wide range of toiletries, objects of adornment and personal items found in cosmetic boxes that were buried with middle and upper-ranking members of […]
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See Things as They Really Are: Poetry & the Bardo of Dreams
The Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar would like to invite you to the following talk: See Things as They Really Are: Poetry & the Bardo of Dreams Speaker: Dr. Dominique Townsend Abstract: What is the relationship between Tibetan poetic language and Buddhist awakening? Is the composition and enjoyment of poetry a distraction from Buddhist practice? In this talk I'll consider the […]
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