Past Events

Speaker: Kurt Campbell, Deputy Secretary of State Moderator: Xiaobo Lü, Professor, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College The China Town Hall program is a two-part program from the National Committee on US-China Relations that provides a snapshot of the current U.S.-China relationship and examines how that relationship reverberates at the local level – in our towns, states, and nation. The webinar is broadcast across the US in different venues. This year's webinar will feature Kurt Campbell in conversation with…

Speakers:  Alan Adelson, Producer and Director Kate Taverna, Producer, Director, and Editor Madam Tran To Nga, French-Vietnamese Activist Carol van Strum, American Activist Moderator: Hoang Minh Vu, Postdoctoral

Speaker: Tao Guo, Columbia University / Central China Normal University (China) Time: March 29, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. The Warring States and Qin-Han period marked the establishment of the county and commandery system, during which the local administrative centers gradually shifted from counties to commanderies, moving from decentralization to centralization. This talk will examine the changes in the relationship between the central and local…

The Center for Ethnomusicology and the Computer Music Center at Columbia University invite you to a free performance and discussion with bela (they/them), a Paju, South Korea-born and Berlin-based performance artist and electronic musician. After their set, Ethnomusicology PhD student and freelance music journalist James Gui will moderate a discussion about their work. Location: 315 Prentis Hall (632 W 125th St, New York, NY) about bela Originally from Paju, South Korea, bela is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin. They are…

Speaker: Elena Obukhova, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization, McGill University Moderator: Yao Lu, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University What is the role of guanxi in China today? To answer this question, Professor Elena Obukhova examines the relationship between social networks and referral hiring. In the first study, she compares China and the US. In the second study, she explores differences between China’s provinces. This event is part of the 2023-2024 lecture series on “Labor Market Transformations in China" and is hosted by the Weatherhead…

Please join us for the latest convening of the the Borton-Mosely Distinguished Lecture Series, jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Harriman institute, involving leading experts Yun Sun and Sergey Radchenko who will reflect upon these critical geopolitical developments in conversation with Professors Andrew Nathan and Alexander Cooley. Speakers:  Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and Co-Director China, East Asia, Stimson Center Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Opening Remarks: Andrew…

China’s digital governance has provoked concerns from observers that the government has fully embraced the direction of “Big Brother” envisioned by George Orwell in 1984. Governing Digital China, a forthcoming book by Professor Daniela Stockmann (Hertie School) challenges this totalitarian top-down paradigm, arguing that China’s digital governance is radically different in practice. Columbia World Projects, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is pleased to invite you to this conversation between Professor Junyan Jiang (Columbia) and Stockmann, which will dig into the divide between…

Registration for virtual attendance is required, and can be found here. Unicode is everywhere and nowhere at once. Since its invention in 1993 by lucrative American companies, including Xerox, Apple, and Microsoft, Unicode has been the global standard for information exchange, enabling the transfer of data across the world by converting more than a hundred and fifty world scripts into standardized bits and bytes. Its spread throughout the world is so expansive, its technical complexity so elaborate, and its integration into…