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March 2023
Japan’s New Security Strategy and the Changing Geopolitics in the Indo Pacific
March 6, 2023 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Room 1501, International Affairs Building REGISTER Major changes that have occurred in the global political economy and in international politics in recent years have had a profound impact on nations all around the world. This is nowhere more evident than in the countries in the Indo-Pacific region and especially Japan. This conversation will address Japan's evolving foreign policy and its impact in the IndoPacific. SPEAKER: Sheila Smith is John E. Merow senior fellow…
Find out more »Daring to Struggle: China’s Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping
Speaker: Bates Gill, Executive Director, Center for China Analysis, Asia Society Moderator: Elizabeth Wishnick, Senior Research Scientist, China and Indo-Pacific Studies division, CNA, on leave from Montclair State University in 2022, Senior Research Scholar, WEAI, Columbia University In this talk, Dr. Bates Gill will discuss his new book, Daring to Struggle: China's Global Ambitions under Xi Jinping. The book, published by Oxford University Press in 2022, examines the fundamental motivations driving China's more dynamic, assertive and risk-taking approach to the world under Xi Jinping's leadership.…
Find out more »Morningside Only: ISSO New J-1 Faculty & Researchers Orientation
This ISSO sponsored event is for Morningside & Manhattanville Newly Arrived J-1 Faculty and Researchers at Columbia University. You are invited to our Newly Arrived J-1 Faculty and Researchers Orientation. These sessions are for those who have recently arrived. The orientation covers an overview of this visa status. ISSO strongly recommends you attend. Please have your DS-2019 and passport available. Registration is required. Space is limited. REGISTER Event Contact Information: ISSO
Find out more »Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in the Western Academy
Speaker: Jan Willis, Professor of Religious Studies Emerita, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Moderator: Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University: Through personal and practical anecdotes from her own life and teaching, Dr. Jan Willis describes in this talk how, over the course of fifty years, she both learned and taught Tibetan Buddhism in undergraduate academic settings in the West. Looking at the obstacles and challenges of teaching an “esoteric” religious…
Find out more »EALAC MA Career Workshop
Friday, March 10, 12 pm - 1 pm EST, Kent 403 Coffee and pastries will be served. We will have three speakers for the workshop: 1) Rachel Bernard, Director of GSAS COMPASS Graduate Career Development (Compass). Rachel will introduce the COMPASS services, which many of you are using. 2) Xun Zheng, a current PhD student in Japanese film and Media who was in our MA program from 2018 to 2020. Before re-joining the EALAC graduate program, Xun spent a year…
Find out more »Deadline to Apply for Virtual Columbia Summer Chinese Language
Immerse yourself in a full year of Chinese language during the summer term! This intensive virtual Chinese language program offers all levels of Chinese from elementary to advanced. Classes will be taught by the faculty from the Columbia Chinese Language Program who will offer live, highly interactive instruction. All four skills -- reading, writing, speaking an listening -- are emphasized and integrated into the curriculum. 8-Week Program: June 5, 2023 — July 28, 2023 4-Week Program (1st Semester Course): June…
Find out more »Spring Recess
Monday, March 13, 2023 to Friday, March 17, 2023 Academic Holidays: Most Administrative Offices Open; No Classes Held Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Climate School, Columbia College, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, School of Engineering & Applied Science (Graduate), School of Engineering & Applied Science (Undergraduate), School of General Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, School of Professional Studies, School of the Arts
Find out more »Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia
Wed, March 15, 2023 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM NYU Wagner, 295 Lafayette Street Mulberry Conference Room New York, NY 10012 Registration Information: To attend the event in person, please register here. To attend the event online, please register here. Event Information: Across Southeast Asia, as in many other regions of the world, politicians seek to win elections by distributing cash, goods, jobs, projects, and other material benefits to supporters. But they do so in ways that vary tremendously—both across and…
Find out more »Tang Center Series in Early China
March 18, 2023 12:30 - 1:30 PM Booth 212, Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02115 Come and chat about your ongoing or planned book projects and see if the Tang Center Series in Early China would make a good publication venue for them. Learn about our book proposal and review processes, as well as the many advantages of our groundbreaking series. Coffee and light refreshments will be served. Meet the Editors Professor Li Feng is a Professor…
Find out more »The Nanyang Was Not Southeast Asia: A Transnational Interpretation
Speaker: Shelly Chan, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz Moderator: Sau-Yi Fong, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Meaning the “South Seas” in Chinese, the Nanyang is often conflated with today’s Southeast Asia. While the conflation reflects scholarly concerns that the Nanyang seems China-centric in orientation, this talk argues that it is also a misrecognition. To take this view, one could note the irony of turning a sea-based concept such as the Nanyang into Southeast…
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