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April 2023
What Is Similar and What Is Different in Key, Emerging Indo-Pacific Strategies
April 11, 2023 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Hybrid: In person at WEAI, 420 W 118th Street, Room 918 in the International Affairs building, and online What Is Similar and What Is Different in Key, Emerging Indo-Pacific Strategies, in 918 at WEAI. Keynote: Former Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Kathleen Stephens, President and CEO, Korean Economic Institute Speakers: Dr. Tom Christensen, Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University Dr. Katrin Katz, Adjunct Fellow,…
Find out more »Crossing Rivers by Yakhide-Boat and Horsehead-Ferry: The Significance of Waterways in Pre-1959 Tibet
April 11, 2023 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918 Speaker: Diana Lange, Principal Investigator, University of Hamburg; and Visiting Professor, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin Moderator: Lauran Hartley, Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program and an Associate Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Professor Diana. Lange will speak on the significance of waterways for infrastructure, economy and socio-cultural life in pre-1959 Tibet. She…
Find out more »Perfect Spy: The Arc of Pham Xuan An’s Life from War to Peace
April 12, 2023 10:00 AM - 11:30 PM School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027 Speaker: Larry Berman, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis Moderator: Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Chair in the History of the United States and East Asia; Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University What goes on in the heart of a spy? Can a spy truly have friends? What makes a spy tick? How does a…
Find out more »The Translator Is Present: A Personal History of Erasure
Anton Hur, writer and translator Wednesday, April 12, 2023 7:30 – 9:00 PM ET 501 Dodge Hall 2960 Broadway New York, NY 10027 Anton Hur was born in Stockholm and currently resides in Seoul. He is a writer and the celebrated translator of Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny, Sang Young Park’s Love in the Big City, The Underground Village by Kang Kyeong-ae, Violets, I Went to See My Father, and The Court Dancer by Kyung-Sook Shin, Baek Sehee’s I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, and a number…
Find out more »Was Pandatsang Rapga [Not] a KMT Spy? Mobile Individuals and Static States in Inter-Asian Interactions
April 14, 2023 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027 Speaker: Tansen Sen, Professor of History and Director of the Center for Global Asia at NYU Shanghai, China, and Associated Professor of History at NYU Moderator: Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University In 1946 Pandatsang Rapga was identified as a Kuomintang (KMT) spy by the…
Find out more »Career Launchpad: Navigating the Job Market in Academia
Speakers: Dr. Sarah Yu, Dr. Dingru Huang, Dr. Sarah Chang Moderator: Dr. Yi Ren When: Friday, Apr 14, 2023 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Where: Zoom Meeting, Please register in advance for this meeting: https://upenn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocOyrrj4iGNe9_tgykSBBUDAL914hVAK5; You can also register by scanning the QR code in the poster. Please join the Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS) in this event that aims to provide useful tips and insights for job seekers in today's academia. It is…
Find out more »Telling “Dissident” Stories
Telling "Dissident" Stories Friday, April 14 1 PM - 2:30 PM 918 International Affairs Building Speakers: Yangyang Cheng, Research Fellow Yale Law School Alison Klayman, Dir. Al Wei Wei Never Sorry (2006) Colin Jones, Associate Research Scholar WEAI A conversation with journalists and documentarians about new media storytelling in China. Explores the complex narratives surrounding the figure of the Chinese "dissident" within the redrawn boundaries of the US-China relationship.
Find out more »Early China Seminar Lecture Series: “Yueling and Yueling Commentary during the Han in Light of Xuanquanzhi”
Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “Yueling and Yueling Commentary during the Han in Light of Xuanquanzhi” Speaker: Charles Sanft, University of Tennessee Time: April 14, 2023 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. **Please see Seminar Safety Guidelines for attendance information. The best-known text from Xuanquanzhi, a Han-era post near Dunhuang, is a set of yueling (monthly ordinances) dated to 5 CE and inscribed on a plaster wall within the site. Yueling generally are familiar from the…
Find out more »2023 NYPL World Literature Festival
We are excited to share with you the 2023 NYPL World Literature Festival, which runs April 17–30, 2023 and shines a spotlight on books and writers from around the world and reflects some of the many languages spoken in our diverse communities. Website: https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/world-literature-festival Celebrate NYC’s Immigrant Heritage Week (April 11–17) and join the Library through the end of the month and beyond to discover free author talks, programs, resources, book recommendations, and more for all ages. In particular, we…
Find out more »SCHOLARTalks
There is awe-inspiring research taking place at Columbia every day! Join us to celebrate this research and connect with your Columbia peers at SCHOLARTalks, an inaugural lightning talks program to highlight emerging faculty and scholar voices in research across all disciplines at Columbia University. The lightning talks will take place on Monday, April 17 from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in Butler Library, room 523, followed by Q&A and a networking reception. The event will feature presentations by Wei Cai, Alissa Davis, Nicholas Deas, Chloé Samala Faux, Howard Nicholson, Edward…
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