Weatherhead East Asian Institute: Events

Calendar 2009

October

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31
Sept				Nov

Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening

"Chinngji Sihan" (Genghis Khan)
Fathers of the Nation: Chinese views of Mongolian heroes
Directed by Wang Wenjie
Tuesday, October 6, 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

Report Release

"Obama and North Korea: Next Steps"
A presentation of results from a report by Columbia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) and the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University on rebuilding dialogue and engagement with Pyongyang.
Joel S. Wit, Principal Author; Senior Research Scholar, WEAI
Robert Carlin, former Executive Director and Senior Policy Advisor at Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO); Senior Research Scholar, WEAI
Leon Sigal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project, Social Science Research Council
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
5:00-6:30 PM
IAB 918
Copies of the report will be distributed at the event. Refreshments will be served.
No reservation required.

Brown Bag Series, "North Korea and a Changing Northeast Asia"

"The United States and North Korea "
Charles Armstrong, The Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History; Director, Center for Korean Research, Columbia University
Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science; Director, Toyota Research Program, Columbia University
Evans J.R. Revere, President, The Korea Society
Dorothy Stuehmke, Former USAID Senior Advisor to U.S. - DPRK Food Aid Program
Thursday, October 8, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
IAB 918
No reservation required
For more information, click HERE

Conference

"New Media and Global Transformation"
Featuring:
Columbia University Professors Weihong Bao, Howard French, Lydia Liu, Benjamin Liebman and Timothy Wu
Mark Hansen, Duke University
Randy Kluver, Texas A&M University
Thomas LaMarre, McGill University
D. N. Rodowick, Harvard University
Guobin Yang, Barnard College
Friday, October 9, 2009
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Jerome Greene Hall, JG 104, Columbia University
Open to the public
For more information, please visit http://www.columbianewmedia.org/

Co-sponsored by the Shanghai Jiefang Daily Group and Columbia Law School's Centre for Chinese Legal Studies

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Social Event

Green Dragon Fall Social
Friday, October 9, 2009
1:00pm-2:30pm
IAB 918
Contanct apaclist@gmail.com for more information.

WEAI Undergraduate Photography Exhibition

Featuring recent photographs taken by Columbia University undergraduate students in East and Southeast Asia
Saturday, October 10, 2009 - Friday, October 30, 2009
SIPA, 4th Floor Mezzanine
Open to the public

Lecture Series:
"The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast Asia"

"Korea's Exit Strategy"
Doowon Lee, Professor, School of Economics, Yonsei University, WEAI Visiting Scholar
Monday, October 12, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
IAB 918
No reservation required
Co-sponsored by Columbia University's APEC Study Center
For more information, click HERE

Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening

"Mandukhai Tsetsen Khatun" (Queen Mandukhai)
Travelling Brides: Mongolian and Chinese views of Queens
Directed by Begziin Bawinnyam
Tuesday, October 13, 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

Microfinance in China: A Case Study of CFPA Microfinance
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
12:00pm-1:30pm
IAB 918
Contanct ykc2108@columbia.edu or apaclist@gmail.com for more information.
Co-sponsored by Asia Pacific Affairs Council and Microfinance Working Group

Modern Tibetan Studies Program Event

Open House and Buffet Lunch
with presentations by the leading Tibet experts in New York on their projects and on reasons for taking up Tibetan studies
Gene Smith, Director, Tibet Buddhist Resource Center
Pema Bhum, Director, Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library
Gray Tuttle, Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia University
Lauran Hartley, Tibetan Studies Librarian, Columbia University
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
IAB 918
Space is limited. Send an RSVP to tibetstudies@yahoo.com by Tuesday 10am if you want to attend.
For more information, contact Robbie Barnett, Director, Modern Tibetan
Studies Program, Columbia at rjb58@columbia.edu or 212 854 1725

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Center for Korean Research Event

"Translation and Its Postcolonial Discontents: Controversy Over Toma Seita's Reading of Kim Soun's Japanese Translation of Korean Poetry in Postwar Japan"
Serk-bae Suh, Professor, University of California, Irvine
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
403 Kent Hall
No reservation required.
Please visit http://www.keenecenter.org/content/view/100/126/#oct14 for more information.
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center

Brown Bag Series, "North Korea and a Changing Northeast Asia"

"China's Strategic Debate Over North Korea: How Real? How Far? To What End?"
Jonathan Pollack, Professor of Asian and Pacific Studies and Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the Naval War College
Monday, October 19th 2009
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
IAB 918
No reservation required.
For more information, click HERE

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lecture

Anti-Trafficking Policy and its Effects at Home and Abroad
Melissa Ditmore, Ph.D., inaugural Chair of the Advisory Board of the Sex Workers Project and boardmember of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects
Monday, October 19, 2009
5:00pm-7:00pm
IAB 1512
Contact apaclist@gmail.com for more information.
Co-sponsored by Asia Pacific Affairs Council and Gender Policy Working Group

Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening

"Budala gong mishi" (The Secret History of the Potala Palace)
A banned Tibetan-influenced view of history, 1989.
Directed by Zhang Yi
Tuesday, October 20, 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 Series, "North Korea and a Changing Northeast Asia"

"Kidnapping Politics"
Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science;
Director, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, October 22, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
IAB 918
No reservation required
For more information, click HERE

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Center for Korean Research Lecture

"Inside the Beehive: The Narratology of North Korean Comic Books"
Heinz Insu Fenkl, Professor, SUNY New Paltz
Thursday, October 22, 2009
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
403 Kent Hall
No reservations necessary.
For more information, please contact Professor Hughes at th2150@columbia.edu

Lecture Series:
"The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast Asia"

"The Great Crash of 2008 and China"
Ross Garnaut, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, former Australian Ambassador to China
Monday, October 26, 2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
IAB 918
No reservation required
Co-sponsored by Columbia University's APEC Study Center
For more information, click HERE

Modern Tibetan Studies Program Film Screening

"Amanisahan"
Women and Ethnicity: The Uighur nation through its musical tradition
Directed by Wang Xinjun
Tuesday, October 27, 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 Series, "Hong Kong: Social Transformations"

"Hong Kong's Sinking and Shrinking Middle Class in a Rising Asia"
Helen Siu , Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
918 IAB
No reservation required.
For more information, click HERE

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lecture

"Is Chinese Science Really an Exotic Subject?"
Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
6:00 PM
Kent Hall, Room 403
Co-sponsored by Columbia University's Colloquium on Science, Technology, Medicine and Society, the Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture as well as our friends at the Metropolitan New York Section of the History of Science Society; CUNY Liberal Studies Bioethics, Science and Society Lecture Series; and the New York Academy of Sciences Section for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Economic Meltdown and Geopolitical Stability – A Discussion of Asian Markets in 2010"

"A discussion of the National Bureau of Asian Research's new book: Strategic Asia 2009-10"
Ashley Tellis, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Roger Kubarych, Council on Foreign Relations
Steven Halliwell, River Capital Management (SIPA '69)
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
6:30 - 7:30 PM (followed by a cocktail and buffet reception)
The Columbia Club of NY (15 West 43rd Street)
To RSVP, please click here. (Please note that seating is limited).
Cost: $30, which includes the cost of a complimentary detailed Executive Summary of the book. (The book will also be on sale following the discussion).
Sponsored by The National Bureau of Asian Resarch, Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Brown Bag Lecture

"China and Energy Security in Central Asia"
Pan Guang, Director and Professor of the Shanghai Center for International Studies and the Academic Director of the Institute of Eurasian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science
Thursday, October 29, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
IAB 1219
No reservation required. Open to all if space allows.
Co-sponsored with the Harriman Institute

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Brown Bag Lecture

"Honorable Survivor - Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service"
Lynne Joiner, Emmy award-winning journalist
Thursday, October 29th
12:00 - 1:30pm
IAB 918
No reservation required. Open to all if space allows.
Co-sponsored by the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Korean Literature Translation Institute New York Forum

"Beyond Borders: Translating and Publishing Korean Literature in the U.S."
Heinz Insu Fenkl, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, SUNY New Paltz
Kyung Ran Jo, Writer
Jenny Wang Medina, Ph.D. Candidate, Modern Korean Literature, ColumbiaUniversity
Jenna Johnson, Senior Editor, Harcourt/Houghton Mifflin
Jennifer Crewe, Editorial Director, Columbia University Press
Jill Schoolman, Publisher, Archipelago Books
Jin Auh, Literary Agent, Andrew Wiley Agency
Friday, October 30, 2009
1:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Kent 403
No reservation required.
Please direct inquiries to mc3084@columbia.edu
Presented by Korean Literature Translation Institute; Co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University