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Murray Rubinstein, Senior Research Scholar at WEAI discusses "Non-Governmental, Person-to-Person Modes of Cross-Strait Interaction, 1987-2012" for the Weatherhead Forum in Taipei. (May 2, 2012)

WEAI announces ANU-CU, a new research partnership with the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University

WEAI is excited to announce the new undergraduate Global Scholars Program for Summer 2012

Listen to the audio recording of Jian Zhixiang’s lecture on "Tribal Politics in the Borderlands: Oral History Among the Kazakh in Xinjiang" (March 27, 2012)

Listen to the audio recording of Ma Rong’s lecture on "De-politicizing Ethnicity: A New Approach to Ethnic Relations in 21st Century China" (March 26, 2012)

Listen to the audio recording of Phelim Kine and Matt Wells’s lecture on "China in Africa: Trouble in the Mines" (February 27, 2012)

Video of the roundtable discussion featuring Charles Armstrong, Jeong-Ho Roh, Sue Mi Terry, and Joel Witt, moderated by Curtis Milhaupt on Leadership Succession in North Korea: Regional and Global Implications (February 14, 2012)

Tibetan language and literature professor Françoise Robin (INALCO, Paris) and Modern Tibetan Studies professor and film expert Robbie Barnett discuss literature and film with critically- acclaimed director Pema Tseden for Tibetan Cinema Today: A Film & Lecture Series. (February 2, 2012)

The 2012 Undergraduate Discussion Series featured Social Networking and Political Participation in East Asia. Topics ranged from the influence of social networking during natural disasters to the impact of social media across the border of North and South Korea. (January- March 2012)

Professor Charles Armstrong's analysis on the future of North Korea after Kim Jong-il (December 19, 2011)

Read Professor Gerald Curtis' speech upon receiving the first annual Marshall Green Award by the Japan-American Society (December 7, 2011)

Bi-khim Hsiao delivers most recent lecture in WEAI series on "Leadership Change in East & Southeast Asia." Videos, photos, and summary now online (November 28, 2011)

Videos from the fall 2011 Weatherhead Forum in Beijing now online  (November 1, 2011)

Video and photos of Oct. 7 program on Japan's Role in Managing the Global Economy" with Minister Motohisa Furukawa now online (October 12, 2011)

How a high school teacher applied new knowledge from an Institute-sponsored trip to China into her classroom (10/1/2011)

WEAI to host lecture series in Beijing with Columbia Global Centers and Renmin University (9/27/2011)

Video of Professor Gerald Curtis' lecture, Crisis and Response: The Tōhoku Disaster and What It Means for Japan's Future," now online (9/27/2011)

Albert J. Weatherhead III, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist and Visionary Dies (9/21/2011)

Weatherhead Undergraduate Training Grant recipient reflects on his time in Vanatu(9/12/2011)

Meet the 2012 Class of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute MARSEA degree program (9/02/2011)

Now accepting submissions for 2011 undergraduate East and Southeast Asia photo exhibit (8/172011)

Robert Immerman, WEAI senior research scholar and director of the Professional Fellows program, passes away  (7/26/2011)

A Personal Essay: Professor Gerald Curtis recounts his trip to Japan's Tōhoku region after the March 11 disaster now online  (7/19/2011)

Videos from WEAI symposium in Hong Kong now online (5/22/2011)

Listen to 4/28 lecture on "The Political Imagination in Asia Beyond Electoral Democracy" (4/28/2011)

Videos from "Columbia Goes Global: The Next 50 Years" all-day conference now online (4/20/2011)

At WEAI overseas symposium, Ronald Arculli says Hong Kong is missing out on China investments (3/23/2011)

Video of presentations by Columbia's Japan specialists and medical faculty on 3/11 earthquake now online  (3/22/2011)

Audio of CKR colloquium "U.S. North Korean Relations: Where Do We Go From Here?" with Joel Wit now online  (2/9/2011)

WEAI Fellows teach new, global courses this spring; new seminar on modern Taiwan open to public (January 18, 2011)

Mahasarakham University in Thailand bestows Honorary Doctorate on Duncan McCargo, WEAI Research Affiliate (December 22, 2010)

Complete coverage of Professor Charles Armstrong's analysis on the flare up between North and South Korea (December 8, 2010)

Dr. David Ho delivers a lecture on "Combating HIV/AIDS in China"(November 17, 2010)

Internet, Censorship and Political Participation in China" - 2010 CHINA Town Hall (November 5, 2010)

WEAI presents lunchtime series on Japanese society in the 20th century
(October 29, 2010)

Podcast available of "North Korea, The Next Generation: Implications of the DPRK Party Delegates' Conference" (October 6, 2010)

WEAI presents panel on Internet, Censorship and Political Participation in China" (September 28, 2010)

Gerald Curtis delivers annual lecture on Japanese Politics, Political Turmoil in Tokyo"
(September 20, 2010)

Department of Education reaffirms Columbia University as a National Resource Center on East Asia (September 1, 2010)

 

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