UPCOMING EVENTS
"China's Science and Technology Talent Pool: Competitive Advantage or Critical Problem?"
Denis F. Simon, Professor, Penn State School of International Affairs
Cong Cao, Senior Researcher, The Levin Institute, State University of New York (SUNY)
Monday, November 9, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required
Co-sponsored by Columbia University’s Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening
"An Appeal for Our Cultural Relics"
and other sketches
1990s Tibetan TV
comedy sketches
Written by Phuntsog Tashi
Tues., November 10, 2009
7:10 PM - 9:30 PM
Kent Hall, Rm. 522D
No reservation required. Open to all if space allows.
For more information on all film screenings, click HERE
Brown Bag Lecture
"Japanese Politics from Tanaka to Hatoyama (via Koizumi)"
Margarita Estevez-Abe, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required
For a complete listing of all upcoming events, please visit our calendar
NEWS
Helen Siu of Yale University kicks off new WEAI series with a talk on "Hong Kong’s Sinking and Shrinking Middle Class in a Rising Asia"
Having grown up in Hong Kong and professionally matured in the United States, Yale University Professor of Anthropology Helen Siu sees herself comfortably situated “at the margins,” a condition that similarly reflects Hong Kong in relation to Chinese society.
On October 28, Siu kicked-off “Hong Kong: Social Transformations,” a new Brown Bag Lecture Series from the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, with a presentation on “Hong Kong’s Sinking and Shrinking Middle Class in a Rising Asia.”
To read more, click here
Undergraduate Photo Exhibit on East and Southeast Asia now online
Click here to view the slideshow
Click here to learn more about the exhibit
Jonathan Pollack examines "
As part of Weatherhead East Asia Institute’s “North Korea and a Changing Northeast Asia” brown-bag series, Pollack, Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the Naval War College, lectured on “China’s Strategic Debate over North Korea: How Real? How Far? To What End?”
