Past Events

Speaker: Satoru Mori, Professor, Keio University Moderator: Ayumi Teraoka, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute Speaker's Bio: Satoru Mori is the professor of contemporary international politics at the Faculty of Law, and the deputy director of the Keio Center for Strategy at Keio University. Professor Mori is currently undertaking research on U.S. strategy in Asia, U.S. defense innovation and its implications for U.S. allies, and the history of U.S. defense strategy during the Cold War. He is a former Japanese Foreign Ministry official and…

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business are pleased to announce the Fourteenth Annual N.T Wang Distinguished Lecture “China’s Prosperous Middle Class and Consumption-Led Growth: Catching up with the West?” featuring Terry Sicular, Professor of Economics, Western University  and moderated by Qin Gao, Professor and Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work. In recent years China has called for the pursuit of the interconnected goals of ‘common prosperity’…

Speaker: Sabine Mokry, PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Political Science Department and an associate researcher at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Moderator: Daniel Suchensky, Columbia University WEAI For more information on this event, and to register to attend, please visit the website

We invite current Columbia graduate students with questions about teaching to drop by office hours on Fridays from 2:00–4:00 pm. We also welcome conversations about CTL fellowships, programs, services, job market preparation, and making progress in the Teaching Development Program (tdp.ctl.columbia.edu). No appointment is necessary; you can join us in-person in 212 Butler Library, or via Zoom. To join office hours via Zoom, email CTLgrads@columbia.edu to obtain the link. If you can't make office hours but want support, you can request an individual consultation at http://bit.ly/ctl-gradconsult…

We invite current Columbia graduate students with questions about teaching to drop by office hours on Fridays from 2:00–4:00 pm. We also welcome conversations about CTL fellowships, programs, services, job market preparation, and making progress in the Teaching Development Program (tdp.ctl.columbia.edu). No appointment is necessary; you can join us in-person in 212 Butler Library, or via Zoom. To join office hours via Zoom, email CTLgrads@columbia.edu to obtain the link. If you can't make office hours but want support, you can request an individual consultation at http://bit.ly/ctl-gradconsult…

Speaker: Daryl Yeap, Independent Researcher Discussant: Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Chair in the History of the United States and East Asia, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Moderator: Jim Cheng, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Where: School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027 For more information on this event, and to register to attend, please visit the website

Speaker: Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame Moderator: Amy Freedman, Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at Pace University, WEAI, Columbia University Where: School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027 For more information on this event, and to register to attend, please visit our website

Location: Hybrid | Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (first floor) (Directions) Zoom: Registration Event Co-Sponsor(s): Institute for Comparative Literature and Society This event is free and open to the public. Speaker Shoufu Yin is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. His recent projects and publications explore three directions of inquiry: (1) rewriting Sinitic intellectual and literary histories with a focus on seemingly formulaic official documents; (2) rethinking global intellectual history and political thought through the lens of Manchu and…