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Asia Pacific Affairs Council Event  

Movie Screening: "Hiding"
Documentary
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Lerner Hall, Room C555

No registration required.
Co-sponsored by APAC and LiNK

 

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Modern Tibetan Studies Talk

"The Contemporary Art Scene in Tibet"
Jigme
, General Secretary of the Tibetan Artists Assocation, Lhasa
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Kent Hall, Room 403

No registration required.

 

 

4

Center for Korean Research Colloquium  

"The (Dis)ability of Representation: Korean literature and film during the Pacific War"
Moon Im Baek, Associate Professor, Department of Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University
Thursday, November 4, 2010
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Kent Hall , Room 403

No registration required. Please note that the lecture will be in Korean.
For more information, please contact ckrinfo@columbia.edu.

 

 

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Program Series: Health and Welfare in East Asian Societies

"Health Professionals in East and Southeast Asia: A Career Guide for Undergraduates"
Peter J. Donaldson, President, Population Council
Sarah Hanck, Asia Program Manager, HealthRight International
Rachel T. Moresky, Director, International Emergency Medicine & sidHARTe Program, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and College of Physicians & Surgeons
David P. Roye, Jr., M.D., Director, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian; St. Giles Foundation Professor of Pediatric Orthopedics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Moderated by:
Michael Gusmano, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Monday, November 8, 2010
5:30 PM – 6:45 PM
Lerner Hall, Broadway Room

No registration required.
Co-Sponsored by CU Global Bridges and the Southeast Asian League

 

 

9

Program Series: Health and Welfare in East Asian Societies

"Social Welfare in China: Policy and Practice"
Catherine Keyser, Associate Professor of Political Science, Drew University
Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
David P. Roye, Jr., M.D., Director, Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian; St. Giles Foundation Professor of Pediatric Orthopedics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Moderated by:
Myron Cohen, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building , Room 918

No registration required.

Co-sponsored by the APEC Study Center

 

 

10

Brown Bag Lecture

"Politics by Other Means? Tensions Within and Beyond the Khmer Rouge Tribunal"
Duncan McCargo, Adjunct Research Affiliate, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Professor of Southeast Asian Politics, University of Leeds
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building , Room 918

No registration required.

 

 

11

Brown Bag Lecture

"When A Billion Chinese Jump: Why the World's Worst Environmental Crisis is Forcing Beijing onto a New Path of Development"
Jonathan Watts, Asia Environment Correspondent, The Guardian; Former President,
Foreign Correspondents' Club of China
Thursday, November 11, 2010
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building , Room 918

No registration required.

Co-sponsored by the APEC Study Center and Earth Institute China 2049

 


13

China Institute Conference  

"Commemorating the Century of Cao Yu's Birth"
Wan Fang, Deputy Chair, Beijing Association of Theater
Fei Chunfang, Professor of English and Drama; Director, Center for American Studies, East China Normal University
Kent Paul, theater director
Saturday, November 13, 2010
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center (map)

Registration required. Please click here to register.
Please note, Symposium will be conducted in Chinese.

Co-sponsored by the Renwen Society at China Institute

 

 

15


Program Series: Health and Welfare in East Asian Societies

"The History and Current State of HIV/AIDS in China"
Dr. Gao Yaojie
Monday, November 15, 2010
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918

No registration required.
For more information, please contact apaclist@gmail.com

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Asia Pacific Affairs Council Discussion  

"Energy and Environmental Issues in China & The Institutional Response"
Dr. Stephen Hammer and Prof. Orville Schell
Monday, November 15, 2010
7:00 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918

No registration required. Light refreshments will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Consilience: Journal of Sustainable Development

 

 

 

16

Brown Bag Series: New Angles on Japanese Society in the 20th Century

"Making '1968' in Japan: The Political Alchemy of Violence"
William Marotti, Associate Professor, Department of History, UCLA
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building , Room 918

No registration required.

Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and the Center on Japanese Economy and Business
For more information on the New Angles Brown Bag Lecture Series, please click here

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Undergraduate Inititiative Event

"Photography in East Asia: Portfolio Presentations and a Conversation to follow with Lois Conner and Leilei Meng"
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Kent Hall, Room 403

No registration required. Refreshments will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Columbia University Photography Society

 

 

 

17


Program Series: Health and Welfare in East Asian Societies

"Combating HIV/AIDS in China"
David Ho, Director and CEO, Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center; Irene Diamond Professor, The Rockefeller University
Moderated by:
Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University Wednesday, November 17, 2010
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building , Room 1512

Registration required.
To register, visit http://davidho.eventbrite.com/

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Asia Pacific Affairs Council Internship Panel  

Please join members from APAC as they discuss their past experiences finding and participating in internships in Asia.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
6:00 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918

No registration required. Light refreshments will be served.


 

19-20

WEAI Conference  

"The Story of the Stone and The Tale of Genji in Modern China and Japan: Issues in Media, Technology, Gender, and National Identity"
Weihong Bao, Columbia University
Kimberly Besio, Colby College
Patrick Caddeau, Princeton University
Lewis Cook, Queens College
Charo D'Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Emmerich, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jonathan Hay, New York University
Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia
Ling Hon Lam, Vanderbilt University
Lydia Liu, Columbia University
Melissa McCormick, Harvard University
Keith McMahon, University of Kansas
Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia
Satoko Naito, University of Maryland
Shang Wei, Columbia University
Satoko Shimazaki, University of Colorado, Boulder
Haruo Shirane, Columbia University
Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University
Sarah Thompson, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sophie Volpp, University of California, Berkeley
Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College
Martin Woesler, Harvard University
I-Hsien Wu, The City College of New York
Judith Zeitlin, University of Chicago
Friday and Saturday
November 19-20, 2010
For a full schedule, please click here
Kent Hall , Room 403

No registration required.
For more information, please contact Lu Xiong at lx2127@columbia.edu.
Co-sponsored by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

 

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Brown Bag Series: New Angles on Japanese Society in the 20th Century

"Japan Circa 1959: The High-Growth Economy and the Social Effects of Television"
Yoshikuni Igarashi, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
International Affairs Building , Room 918

No registration required.

Co-sponsored by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business
For more information on the New Angles Brown Bag Lecture Series, please click here

 

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