Calendar 2009
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3
Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening
"Tsogt Taij" (Count Tsogt)
Nationalist history in 1940s Mongolia
Directed by Y. Tarich and M. Bold
Tuesday, November 3, 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
4
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Film Screening"Please Vote for Me"
A documentary by director Weijun Chen
Featuring a discussion with
Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of International Affairs, Law and Political Science, Columbia University
Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required
Further information and a trailer for the film can be found at http://www.pleasevoteforme.org/
Presented in conjunction with Professor Nathan's
Fall 2009 Introduction to Human Rights Course, V3001
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought
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Conference Series
Open to the public. To register click HERE
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Conference Series
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Lecture Series:
"The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast
Takatoshi Ito, Professor, University of Tokyo;
visiting professor at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business
Thursday, November 5, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required
Co-sponsored by Columbia University's APEC Study Center and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
For more information, click HERE
6
Modern Tibetan Studies Program Brown Bag Lecture
9
Brown Bag Lecture"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)
10
Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening
"An Appeal for Our Cultural Relics" and other sketches
1990s Tibetan TV comedy sketches
Written by Phuntsog Tashi
Tuesday, 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
12
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, November 12, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required
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Weatherhead East Asian Institute Special Lecture
"Japan and the United States in Afghanistan: A Dialogue"
Sadako Ogata, President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and Japan’s Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan
M. Ishaq Nadiri, Jay Gould Professor of Economics, New York University
Thursday, November 12, 2009
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
President’s Room, Faculty House
Registration required. Please click HERE to register.
Media must register with Dan Rivero at dr2260@columbia.edu
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Lecture Series:
"The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast
David E. Weinstein, Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University
Monday, November 16, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required
Co-sponsored by Columbia University's APEC Study Center and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School
For more information, click HERE
17
Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening
"Xizang Fengyun, Bod ljongs dus ‘gyur" (“Wind and Clouds over Tibet")
Late 1990s TV dramatized history of “liberation”
25 Part TV Series, CCTV, 2000
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
7:10 PM - 9:30 PM
522D Kent Hall
No reservation required. Open to all if space allows.
For more information on all film screenings, click HERE
18
Asia Pacific Affairs Council Brown Bag Lecture
"Socialism is Great!: A Worker's Memoir of the New China"
Lijia Zhang, Author
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required.
19
Asia Pacific Affairs Council Lecture
"2009 Climate Change Drama: Climate Change, the U.S. Senate and the Fate of Antarctica, Greenland and the East Coast of the U.S."
Rafe Pomerance, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State during the Clinton Administration, and representative at the Kyoto Protocol negotiations
Thursday, November 19, 2009
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required.
Co-sponsored by APAC’s Green Dragon and the SIPA Energy Association
20
WEAI Undergraduate Discussion Series
"A Breakfast with Piriya Khempon, Royal Thai Consul-General"
Mr. Piriya Khempon, Royal Thai Consul-General
Michael Buehler, Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Southeast Asian Studies
Friday, November 20, 2009
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
918 IAB
Breakfast will be served.
Spaces are limited and open to Columbia College, SEAS, GS and Barnard College undergraduate students only. Prior registration (with name, school, class year and UNI) is required at weaiundergrads@columbia.edu
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Center for Korean Research Lecture
"Korean Literature in an Age of Globalization"
Jongyon Hwang, Professor, University of Chicago
Friday, November 20, 2009
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM (PLEASE NOTE UPDATED TIME)
403 Kent Hall
No reservation required. Open to all if space allows.
24
Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening
"Lhasa wangshi,
Lha sa’i sngon byung gtam rgyud" (Old times in Lhasa)
Tibetan Contemporary Realism: local family TV dramas
Tibet TV, 2002
Tuesday, November 24, 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
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Lecture Series:
"The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast
Thomas Pepinsky, Assistant Professor of Government, faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University
Monday, November 30, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required
Co-sponsored by Columbia University's APEC Study Center
For more information, click HERE
