Past Events

Looking for a supportive place to try out instructional approaches? This Practice Teaching session (formerly known as “Microteaching”) will pair you with a trained peer facilitator and a group of 3-4 other graduate students. Together, you and your fellow participants will take turns delivering short (<10 min.) samples of instruction to each other. After each teaching sample, your facilitator and your peers will offer structured feedback to support your teaching. Whether you are currently teaching at Columbia or not, all…

Speaker: Hajni Elias, University of Cambridge Time: April 19, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. This talk, based on my manuscript of the same title, examines the artistic tradition of Southwest China in the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 C.E.), with a focus on the geographical area of present-day Sichuan province. The ‘ancient art of Sichuan’ exhibits notable differences from the artistic traditions in other parts of…

Speaker: Paul Nadal, Assistant Professor of English and American Studies, Princeton University Moderator: Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, Visiting Scholar, WEAI, Columbia University; Denise Cruz, Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University This paper reinterprets Asian American literature as a literature concerned with the art and practice of logistics, the set of contingent space-making techniques undergirding the global distribution of commercial goods. Comparing two pre-1965 Asian American texts, Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart (1946)…

Speakers: Yu Pei-Yun, Author; Professor and Chair, Graduate Institute of Children's Literature, National Taitung University Zhou Jian-Xin, Illustrator; Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Institute of Children's Literature, National Taitung University Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Discussant: Lin King, Translator; Program Coordinator, WEAI, Columbia University A discussion centered around the historical graphic novel series, The Boy From Clearwater, on the life of Tsai Kun-lin (1930-2023), who was imprisoned for ten years during…

Speaker: Wang Feng, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work This lecture is a book talk tracking China’s spectacular ascendance to material abundance and its underlying driving forces. This event is part of the 2023-2024 lecture series on “Labor Market Transformations in China" and is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and cosponsored by Columbia's China Center for Social…

Speaker: Daniel Stephens, University at Buffalo Discussant: Elizabeth Edenberg, CUNY Baruch Spurred partly by recent attempts to ethically assess various negative effects of the attention economy, philosophers have begun to pay more attention to the role that attention plays in our ethical lives. This has included some more general discussion of the ethics of attention. In this talk, I add to this recent discussion by outlining a proposal for a comprehensive ethics of attention. On my proposal, an ethics of attention includes norms…

Speaker: Gerald L. Curtis, Director – WEAI Japan Research Program, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Special Research Scholar Discussant: Takako Hikotani, WEAI Research Associate, former Gerald L. Curtis Visiting Professor of Political Science In conversation with Professor Takako Hikotani, Professor Curtis will discuss the prospects for political change, the significance of Prime Minister Kishida's state visit to the US, and the challenges facing the US-Japan alliance in an ever more tense and complicated international environment, among other issues. This event is hosted by…