Past Events

Speaker: Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, University of Washington Title: “A Deep History of Human Activity in the Jiuzhaigou National Park” Time: 4:30-6:30 PM EST Venue: Zoom For attendance information, please visit www.tangcenter-columbia.org

Speaker: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia, University of British Columbia Dr. Pasang Sherpa will discuss her latest research on community-based approaches to co-creating knowledge and solutions in working towards collective survival on warming planet. This project builds on her previous research on the human dimensions of climate change in the Himalayas and long-term ethnographic study of the Sherpa community at home and in the diaspora. Dr. Sherpa uses ethnographic methods to study everyday concerns of Himalayan…

Columbia University Taiko is proud to present this year's annual Taiko Festival featuring groups from across the East Coast including kaDON, Soh Daiko, OMNY Taiko, Casual Fifth, and more. Come feel the rhythms of taiko drums, eat good food, and celebrate our tenth anniversary as a taiko ensemble! Doors will open at 4:00pm. Performances will begin at 5:00, followed by an intermission, and will resume performing around 6:55pm. Event Contact Information: Kay Evans (425)516-9881 kue2102@barnard.edu

Kevin Rudd, former Australian Prime Minister, will discuss his new book, On Xi Jinping: How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World (Oxford University Press, September 2024). Ambassador Rudd’s book argues that there have been large shifts in China’s ideological worldview under Xi Jinping, creating a new form of “Marxist-Leninist Nationalism” which informs Beijing’s approach to politics, economics, and foreign policy. Speakers The Hon. Kevin Rudd served as Australia’s 26th Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs, before…

Featuring: Yumiko Murakami, General Partner, MPower Partners Fund L.P. Moderator: David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University Talking Points: - Japan is a shrinking country with a demographic crisis - Japan is leading the global trend of demographic tsunamis - A technology (AI/digitization) tsunami is also hitting Japan and the world - How a double tsunami (demography/technology) can create economic opportunities for Japan - Key success factors include (1) innovation, (2) reskilling, and (3)…

This event will be hosted in hybrid format. RSVP to attend in person. Register for the Zoom meeting. It is generally accepted that the early history of Buddhist modernism is largely connected with the regions of Asia that experienced prolonged European colonization (Ceylon) or earlier than others embarked on the path of reforms along the European model (Japan). In his presentation, Nikolay Tsyrempilov will demonstrate how the late 19th-century Mongol-speaking Buddhists of the Russian Empire began to develop modernist ideas in response to vigorous…

Speaker: Vanessa Hope, Film Producer and Director Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University From the film’s promotional materials: “With unprecedented access to Taiwan’s then sitting head of state, director Vanessa Hope investigated the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan. Thorough, incisive and bristling with tension, Invisible Nation is a living account of Tsai’s tightrope walk as she balances the hopes and dreams of her nation…

Lasting from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, the Mao era is often misunderstood as a time of “isolation” and “closing off from the world.” On the contrary, as I demonstrate in this study, Mao’s China was a place seething with new international connections and rapidly evolving visions of the world and China’s place in it. These connections, moreover, were not limited to the socialist world but…