Recent Events

2009 Symposium in Beijing

“Columbia and China: Past and Future”
Sunday, May 31
1:00 – 8:30 PM
Treasury Ball Room,
Westin Financial Street
Beijing, China

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2009 Symposium in Tokyo

“Columbia and Japan: A Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute”
Wednesday, June 3
10:15 AM– 7:45 PM
Quarante B Room
Academy Hills, Roppongi
Tokyo, Japan

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2009 Symposium in Seoul

“Global and Local Korea: Korean Studies in a Changing World”
Wednesday, June 10
6:00 – 10:00 PM
Orchid Junior Ballroom
Westin Chosun Hotel
Seoul, Korea


For a complete listing of all upcoming events, please visit our calendar

NEWS

Professor Andrew Nathan talks to World Focus about ethnic clashes in China

 

In China’s autonomous province of Xinjiang, more than 150 people have been reported killed and more than 800 injured in violent clashes between the ethnic Muslim Uighur population and the Han Chinese. 

The rioting that started in the provincial capital of Urumqi spread to the town of Kashgar and is now being called some of the worst ethnic violence in China in decades. 

Andrew Nathan joined Martin Savidge of World Focus on July 6 to discuss who the Chinese Uighurs are and what the riots may mean. 

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Papers published from a WEAI-sponsored conference in honor of Henry Dewitt Smith II


The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to announce that a publication has resulted from the May 2007 conference in honor of Japanese history Professor Henry DeWitt Smith II. Papers from the conference, some of which are written by WEAI faculty members Greg Pflugfelder and Kim Brandt, appear as a special issue of Impressions, the journal of the Japanese  Art Society of America. The title of the issue is "Pictures and Things: Bridging Visual and Material Culture in Japan.”

The 2007 event was sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, and the Hiroshi Nitta Fund.

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Weatherhead East Asian Institute Undergraduate Photography Exhibition Fall 2009



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Established in 1949, Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute is a world-renowned interdisciplinary center for research, teaching, and publishing on modern and contemporary Asia, covering China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Korean peninsula, and the countries of Southeast Asia; in recent years the scope has expanded to include Tibet and Inner Asia. The Institute is affiliated with Columbia's Schools of Business, Law, International and Public Affairs, Arts and Sciences, and Barnard College, bringing together over 50 full-time faculty, a diverse group of visiting scholars and professionals, and students from the United States and abroad.

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