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April 2022
Leveraging Learning Spaces Seminar, Session 4 (for grad students)
Butler Library, 535 W. 114 St., New York, NY 10027 Room/Area: 212 Though the realm of the senses, movement, and the physical spaces in which we teach and learn may feel beyond the purview of our own instructional design and control, in fact, learning spaces and the bodies that inhabit them exert powerful influences on learning. This in mind, instructors can make intentional interventions to their pedagogical practices, classrooms, and syllabi to foster student learning and engagement (Hrach, 2021). What…
Find out more »Financial Cold War – A Book Talk
Speaker: James Fok, author of Financial Cold War: A View Of Sino-US Relations From The Financial Markets Moderator: Shang-Jin Wei, N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of International and Public Affairs James Fok will give a talk regarding the publication of his recent book, Financial Cold War, where he addresses internationalizing China’s capital markets: the geopolitical realities; China’s financial challenges: implications for the global financial sector; China-US geopolitical tensions: challenges for international financial institutions; and implications…
Find out more »Asian Development Bank’s Outlook For Developing Asia
With speakers: Albert Park, ADB Chief Economist Jenny McGill, Co-Director, SIPA Akbar Norman, Columbia University Moderated by: José Antonio Ocampo, Co-Director, SIPA TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2022 5:00 PM ET INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUILDING ROOM 1512
Find out more »Chinese History in the Age of Big Data
Digitization facilitates censorship in Chinese archives, but it also gives us new tools to study censorship and to renew the historian's craft. This talk explores the opportunities and challenges of studying twentieth-century Chinese history in the digital age. Drawing on archival statistics and metadata from several provincial collections, it begins by taking stock of the archival landscape in contemporary China: What has been made available (and not?). It then applies the latest digital methods to query the genre of "nianpu"…
Find out more »The Pictograph and a Pun: China’s Role as Rogue in Modern Intellectual Property
Seminar format: online. By examining two early legal cases featuring the alleged counterfeiting of Xiangmao Honey Soap, this talk shows how the Chinese language and linguistic practices in Chinese commercial culture often stymied Western manufacturers and import companies’ attempts to pursue and prosecute suspected Chinese copycats. Xiangmao soap was featured in the first ever trademark litigation trial in China held in 1889. In that trial, it became evident that the emerging global trademark regime was premised on an Orientalist understanding of…
Find out more »Spectral Belonging: Artisanal Reproduction of Landscape Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Tombs
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University This event will take place in person at the Heyman Center and virtually over Zoom. In 2001, five extravagant nineteenth century stone-carved tombs were excavated in Bayu Village of Dali County in Shaanxi Province, an inland region in northwest China. These underground eternal residences belonged to a well-off merchant and local elite family with sir name Li. The most stunning feature of the Li family tombs is their close replication of…
Find out more »Toward an Intellectual History of Vietnam – A Book Talk
Registration: To register to attend this event in-person, please register HERE. To register to attend this event online, please register HERE. Speakers: Martina Nguyen, Associate Professor of History, Baruch College Claire Edington, Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego Duy Lap Nguyen, Assistant Professor of World Cultures and Literatures Yen Vu, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University Moderator: Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia This event will be…
Find out more »Pandemic Changes: Cholera in Nineteenth Century Japan
Guest speaker: Professor William Johnston, John E. Andrus Professor of History, Wesleyan University Thursday, 28 April 2022 at 6:00 PM EST The ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 has a case fatality rate in the United States of approximately 1.6 percent—which is to say that around 16 of every 1,000 persons with the disease have died. Imagine a pandemic with a case fatality rate of 70 percent for untreated cases. In other words, 700 of every 1,000 persons who get the disease…
Find out more »Teaching Chinese to Young Learners
With speakers: Xiohan Zhao, Mandarin Program Coordinator Yanqing Liu, Kindergarten Mandarin Teacher Moderated by: Shan An, TCSOL Program Coordinator FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022 8:00 PM ET WEBINAR via ZOOM Click here for more information and registration.
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