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December 2025
Dispossession and Countermovement in the Longue Durée: Agricultural Collectivization, Urbanization, Nostalgia
The Modern China Seminar invites you to its fourth and final meeting of the Fall 2025 semester on Thursday, December 4 at 918 IAB (International Affairs Building) and on Zoom (see link below). As usual, the discussion will go from 7-9 PM, with dinner available at 6:35 PM. "Dispossession and Countermovement in the Longue Durée: Agricultural Collectivization, Urbanization, Nostalgia" Speaker: Professor Jesse Rodenbiker, Department of Geography, Rutgers Discussant: Professor Nick R. Smith, Architecture and Urban Studies, Barnard If you plan to attend, please RSVP to modernchinasem@gmail.com by December 3 to receive a…
Find out more »Cham Living Archives and the Long Nineteenth Century
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 Dec. 4 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
Find out more »Day 1: Ocean of Song & Dance: Emerging Currents in Tibetan & Himalayan Performance Studies
Ocean of Song and Dance brings together scholars, artists, and practitioners to explore the shifting currents of song, dance, ritual, and theatre across the Tibetan and Himalayan worlds. Featuring a keynote address by Jamyang Norbu and panels on performance, gender, and identity, the program also includes live, immersive demonstrations and participatory workshops on ache lhamo, or Tibetan opera. The conference highlights performance at the intersections of tradition and innovation, the sacred and the secular, and the local and the global,…
Find out more »How did Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening end in the revival of totalitarian rule – with Prof. Pei Minxin
The transformative socioeconomic changes China has experienced since Deng Xiaoping launched "reform and opening" in 1979 have turned an impoverished society into a global superpower. But instead of a freer and more open society fully integrated into the existing liberal international order, economic modernization under one-party rule has only revived totalitarian rule and triggered an escalating geopolitical conflict with the U.S. Although this tragic and potentially catastrophic outcome is not inevitable, Deng's strategy to save the Chinese Communist Party…
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