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March 2023
The Craft of Japanese Boatbuilding with Douglas Brooks
The Center for Science and Society, the Donald Keene Center, and the History department kindly invite you to join us on the evening of March 20, 2023 from 5:00-7:00 PM in Kent 403 for a lecture and Q&A with Douglas Brooks, a master craftsperson, who has spent the past 30 years studying, recording, and teaching the craft of Japanese boat building. His work, and that of his students, is on display at museums and libraries around the country. For further details about the event…
Find out more »Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China – A Book Talk with Jérôme Doyon
Speaker: Jérôme Doyon, China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow, Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Working for the administration remains one of the most coveted career paths for young Chinese. Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China seeks to understand what motivates young and educated Chinese to commit to a long-term career in the party-state and how this question is central to the Chinese regime’s ability…
Find out more »Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium
The Office of the Provost and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) invite the Columbia community to the Celebration of Teaching and Learning Symposium, occurring on Tuesday, March 21 and Thursday, March 23, to celebrate the ways that faculty and graduate students are transforming their courses and pedagogies. Learn more and register here. Program details can be found below. Participants may attend any or all portions of the event. Tuesday, March 21, 2023 Celebrating Teaching Transformations at Columbia: A Faculty Panel…
Find out more »The Coup and the Camp: Myanmar’s Revolution and the Plight of the Rohingya
Wed, March 22, 2023 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM NYU Wagner 295 Lafayette Street Mulberry Conference Room New York, NY 10012 Registration Information: To attend the event in person, please register here. To attend the event online, please register here. NOTE: This event will be in person and online. Event Information: In this talk, Prasse-Freeman discusses his ongoing fieldwork from Cox's Bazar refugee camps and the Thai/Burma border, exploring the effects of the ongoing revolution on the enduring issue of…
Find out more »Book Talk: The Buddhist Dream Tale
Francisca Cho, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Georgetown University Moderated by Seong Uk Kim, Il Hwan and Soonja Cho Assistant Professor of Korean Culture and Religion, Columbia University Tuesday, March 22, 2022 5:00 PM ET Registration required Co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Research and Weatherhead East Asian Institute Abstract: Kim Manjung’s Kuunmong, or Dream of the Nine Clouds, was written by a scholar-official and he turned to the Buddhist trope that “life is nothing but a dream” in order…
Find out more »An Introduction to CKS Library Resources and Study/Research Programs
March 22, 2023 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM 918 International Affairs Building Speakers: Samedy Suong, Deputy Director, Center for Khmer Studies Sivleng Chhor, Head Librarian, Center for Khmer Studies Moderator: Eve Zucker, CKS President and WEAI Adjunct Research Scholar Located in Cambodia, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) promotes research, teaching and public service in the social sciences, arts and humanities in Cambodia and the Mekong region. CKS fosters research and international scholarly exchange by programs that increase understanding…
Find out more »Last Day to Drop Class: Arts; GSAPP; SEAS
Last Day to Drop Class: Architecture, Arts, SEAS graduate & undergraduate Architecture, Planning & Preservation, School of Engineering & Applied Science (Graduate), School of Engineering & Applied Science (Undergraduate), School of the Arts
Find out more »Last Day to Pass/Fail
Climate School, Columbia College, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering & Applied Science (Graduate), School of Engineering & Applied Science (Undergraduate), School of General Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, School of Professional Studies, School of the Arts
Find out more »Japan’s Borderless Empire: A Roundtable on Eiichiro Azuma’s In Search of Our Frontier
REGISTER This roundtable discussion will center on Eiichiro Azuma’s In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire (UC Press, 2019), which was recently translated into Japanese by Mariko Iijima. Professors Azuma and Iijima, David Ambaras, and Martin Dusinberre will discuss what the book’s reception shows about the state of global Japanese studies in the US and Japan. They will address such questions as: To what extent are research agendas within English - and…
Find out more »Sinomania in 1950s Czechoslovakia: Socialist Realism with Chinese Characteristics
March 27, 2023 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 918 IAB Speaker: Olga Lomová, Professor, Department of Sinology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague Moderator: Ying Qian, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University Discussant: Christopher Harwood, Senior Lecturer in Czech, Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center, Harriman Institute, Columbia University For some time Olga Lomová have been interested in how China had been imagined in Central Europe since late 19th century. This talk discusses…
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