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October 2023
China’s Prosperous Middle Class and Consumption-Led Growth: Catching up with the West?
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’…
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‘The Construction of China’s National Interest between top-down rule and societal debate’ – with C&WP fellow Sabine Mokry
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
Find out more »Making the Most of Mentorship (for Postdocs & Graduate Students)
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…
Find out more »CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
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…
Find out more »As Equals: The Oei Women of Java – A Book Talk By Daryl Yeap
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
Find out more »The Global Cascade of Repression Against Transnational Activism
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
Find out more »The China That Could Have Been: Rhetorical Learning and Political Thought of the Early Modern World
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…
Find out more »Microteaching Practice (for Graduate Students)
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…
Find out more »CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
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…
Find out more »Hepu and the Maritime Silk Road
Speaker: Francis Allard, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Time: November 10, 2023 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. Located on the northern shore of the Beibu Gulf in southern China, the site of Hepu is enjoying a surge of interest among those who study the history of the so-called Maritime Silk Road. Matching early texts which mention Hepu as a Han period port from which merchants traveled to…
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