Past Events

Speaker: Hyangjin Lee, Professor, Rikkyo University Moderator: Jungwon Kim, King Sejong Associate Professor of Korean History In the COVID era, audiences have been isolated by border closures, and fear of infection has been manifesting in an old form of prejudice—discrimination and xenophobia. But against these odds, Korean dramas have been spreading empathy and a sense of global community. The ongoing popularity of Crash Landing on You, the most watched Netflix series in Japan in 2020, challenges anti-Korean sentiments. Squid Game, Netflix’s most…

The Earl Hall Auditorium will be available for quiet study space during the day from Tuesday, May 3 through Thursday, May 12. Tea and snacks will be available throughout the day. Please see the times below for when the study space is available. Tuesday, 5/3 open 9am-6pm Wednesday, 5/4 open 9am-9pm Thursday, 5/5 open 9am-2pm, Earl Hall Dodge Room open 3pm-9pm Friday, 5/6 open 3pm-9pm Saturday and Sunday, 5/7 & 5/8, open 12pm-8pm Monday, 5/9 open 9am-9pm Tuesday, 5/10 open 2pm-6pm Wednesday…

Chinese food has been at the center of increasing anti-Chinese (Asian) sentiment since the advent of COVID-19. As the exceptionally high rate of Chinese takeout restaurants forced to close in 2020 indicates, the pandemic has reinforced a long-held racist view of Chinese food as unhealthy and unhygienic. This panel addresses how we can help to solve this problem by incorporating cooking and eating as a critical teaching component in Asian and Asian-American history classes. More specifically, it will ask what…

Policemen served a pivotal role in the politics of the Mao era, yet we know little about these important historical actors. Wang's paper draws upon rich archival records of police work reports to county authorities in western China from 1949 and 1963 to examine everyday practices of policing. In particular, Wang looks at the reported operation of a county police department in dealing with population movement and household registrations, which served as foundations for executing policies related to social order,…

Earl Hall, 2980 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Schiff Room Need to vent or talk something out? Need some space just to breathe? We are creating open space for students, for whatever they need it to be. We invite you to come as you are, where you can talk a peer counselor, drink some tea, or just relax. We hope to see you there. Stop by Breathing Space May 4-6 from 3-6pm. More info Contact Information Tessa McGowan 2128545714 tjm2180@columbia.edu

Join the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 2pm EDT for the sixth annual GSAS Master's SynThesis! The annual GSAS Master’s SynThesis competition is an opportunity for MA students from across the Arts and Sciences to showcase their research and presentation skills in a relaxed and collegial environment. Master's students will present their thesis research to a general audience in under three minutes using a single slide. Selected by a faculty and…

Guest speaker: Professor Nathan Shockey, Associate Professor of Japanese, Bard College Thursday, 5 May 2022 at 6:00PM EST This talk explores how unread books and destroyed books generated symbolic value in the age of modern Japan’s mass-market publishing revolution. Drawing from my monograph, The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media (Columbia University Press, 2020), the talk examines bookseller trade magazines and the transformation of library systems, archiving, and indexing practices around the Great Kanto…