Weatherhead East Asian Institute: Events

Calendar 2008

October

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Brown Bag Lecture

"China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society"
Daniel A. Bell, Professor of Philosophy, Tsinghua University (Beijing)
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No Reservations Required
Co-Sponsored by the APEC Study Center

Brown Bag Lecture Series,
"Soldiers and Soldiering in Twentieth Century Japan"

"Swords and Canons: Constructing an Ethics of Violence in Early 20th Century Japan"
Christopher Goto-Jones, Professor of Modern Japan Studies, Leiden University
Monday, October 6, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No Reservations Required

Brown Bag Lecture

"The Cinema of Ang Lee"
Whitney Crothers Dilley, Associate Professor, Department of English, Shin Hsin University
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No Reservations Required

Conference, Africa/Asia Series on Governance

"Governance in the 21st Century: Challenges Ahead"
Brian Levy, Adviser, Public Sector Governance at the World Bank
John Coatsworth, Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No Reservations Required.
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Institute of African Studies

Brown Bag Series, "Reporting China"

"How the Media Handle Tibet"
Orville Schell, Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
Tseten Wangchuk, Senior Editor, Voice of America, Tibetan Service; Senior Research Fellow, Contemporary Tibet Studies Program, University of Virginia
Robert Barnett, Director of the WEAI Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Columbia University
Moderated by Adi Ignatius, Executive Editor, Time; Editor, Time Canada
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No Reservations Required
Co-Sponsored by the International Media and Communications Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs

APAC Lecture

"How Much Is Enough? China's Appetite for Energy"
Jonathan Sinton, China Program Manager at the International Energy Agency (IEA)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Refreshments will be provided

Brown Bag Lecture

"Colonial Memory in a Comparative Perspective: Africa and Southeast Asia"
Romain Bertrand, Senior Research Fellow, SciencesPo
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
No Reservations Required

Presented by the Alliance Program, the Institute of African Studies, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the APEC Study Center

Brown Bag Lecture

"China's Grand Return - Serving Africa, or Stripping It Bare?"
Howard French, Associate Professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism; former senior writer and bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa for The New York Times
Moderated by Mamadou Diouf, Director of the Institute of African Studies and Leitner Family Professor of African Studies
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No Reservations Required
Co-sponsored by the Institute of African Studies

Brown Bag Lecture Series,
"Soldiers and Soldiering in Twentieth-Century Japan"

"The Wound and the Bow: Honoring Injured Servicemen in Wartime Japan"
Lee Pennington, Assistant Professor of History, U.S. Naval Academy
Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No Reservations Required

For more information on the “Soldiers and Soldiering in Twentieth-Century Japan” Brown Bag Series, please click here

Reel China, the 4th Documentary Biennial—Day 1

2:00 PM–2:15 PM—Introductory Remarks: Gregory Mosher, Weihong Bao

2:15 PM–4:15 PM—Screening of "Bing Ai" (dir. Feng Yan)

4:30 PM-6:00 PM—Panel Discussion

8:00 PM–9:30 PM—Screening of "My Dear (Qin ai de)" (dir. Gu Yaping)

9:30 PM–10:00 PM—Q&A with Director Gu Yaping

Friday, October 24, 2008
Pupin Hall 301
No reservations required.
For more information, please visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/reel-china08.html or contact mf2597@columbia.edu with any questions.

Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Arts Initiative and the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and by NYU's Center for Religion and Media, and Cinema Studies Department at Tisch School of the Arts

Reel China, the 4th Documentary Biennial—Day 2

2:00 PM–3:00 PM—Screening of "Painting for the Revolution" (dir. Hu Jie)

3:15 PM–3:45 PM—Q&A with Director Hu Jie

4:00 PM–5:30 PM—Screening of "We are the … of Communism (Women shi gongchan zhuyi shenglüehao)" (dir. Cui Zi'en)

5:30 PM–6:00 PM—Q&A with Director Cui Zi'en

7:00 PM–8:30 PM—Screening of "Who is Hao Ran (Shei shi Hao Ran)" (dir. Yang Yishu)

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Pupin Hall 301
No reservations required.
For more information, please visit http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/reel-china08.html or contact mf2597@columbia.edu with any questions.

Co-sponsored by the Columbia University Arts Initiative and the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and by NYU's Center for Religion and Media, and Cinema Studies Department at Tisch School of the Arts

Brown Bag Lecture Series, "Reporting China"

"Chinese Lessons: Roadblocks on the Way to China's Superpower Status"
John Pomfret, Outlook Editor, Washington Post
Moderated by Howard French, Associate Professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism; former senior writer and bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa for The New York Times
Monday, October 27, 2008
12:00 PM-1:30 PM
International Affairs Building, Room 918
No Reservations Required
Co-Sponsored by the APEC Study Center and the International Media and Communications Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs

For more information on the “Reporting China” Brown Bag Series, please click here