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February 2026
The China COVID Project: Document History. Advance Analysis. Foster Collaboration
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 4 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
Find out more »Who Shapes Tomorrow’s Technology? China’s Innovation Ecosystem, AI Rivalry, and the Next Global Tech Order
Event Description: Technological leadership is increasingly central to economic competitiveness, national security, and global governance. China’s rapid development of innovation ecosystems—combined with intensifying U.S.–China competition in artificial intelligence and strategic technologies—has created profound challenges for policymakers around regulation, industrial policy, supply chains, and international cooperation. Join Dr. Clas Neumann, global technology executive and innovation strategist, for an in-depth business and policy discussion on how China’s innovation model operates, what is driving the U.S.–China AI rivalry, and how emerging technologies are…
Find out more »Independent Podcasting, Feminist Awakening, and Collective Feeling in a Changing China
Speaker: Qing Wang, co-founder and co-host of The Weirdo Podcast (不合时宜), Fellow at Asia Society Moderator: Qin Gao, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice; Acting Director of the Asian American Initiative; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education; Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work Over the past decade, podcasts have emerged as an important form of alternative media, offering intimate yet public spaces for storytelling, emotional exchange, and shared reflection, particularly…
Find out more »A Trio of Books from Taiwan: Ocean, Ecology, and White Terror
Speakers: Kaori Lai, author of Portraits in White Ian Rowen, author of A Taiwanese Ecoliterature Reader; Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Kyushu University Brian Skerratt, translator of Ecoliterature chapter and previous Literature from Taiwan (LiFT) story; Classical & Oriental Studies, Hunter College of CUNY Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University This event celebrates the publication of three newly translated works of Taiwanese literature, co-published by the National Museum…
Find out more »Feeling Political: Art as Public Sphere in the Cross-Strait Worlds
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 17 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »Forgotten Modernist: Lee Qoede, Muralism, and the Geopolitics of Memory
PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 12:00 PM…
Find out more »Sufficiency for All—Exploring Small-Scale, Low-Tech, Pro-Poor Initiatives
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 18 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »Asia’s Aging Security: How Demographic Change Affects America’s Allies and Adversaries
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 20 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »Paradoxes of Chinese Feminism: Transnational Social Movement, Party-State Authoritarianism, and the Regimatic Politics of Solidarity
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 24 for campus access. Names will be submitted…
Find out more »The Special Collection of the Extensive Correspondence of Chin-Tang Lo
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Feb. 24 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
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