past events

November 14th, 2024, 6:10 - 7:40 PM ET

Rethinking the Circuits of Cold War Culture: International Dance Exchanges in Mao-Era China

Emily Wilcox (William & Mary; 2024 Guggenheim Fellow)

Kent Hall 403

October 10th, 2024, 6:10 - 7:40 PM ET

Chinese ‘Colonialism,’ Capital Accumulation, and the Belt and Road Initiative

YAN Hairong (Tsinghua University) & Barry SAUTMAN (HKUST)

Kent Hall 403

September 23rd, 2024, 6:10 - 7:40 PM ET

The Voice Extended: Cognitive and Comparative Approaches to Chinese Literature and Music 

Casey Schoenberger (Rice University)

Kent Hall 403

April 11th, 2024, 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET

The Digital Ideograph: An East Asian History of Unicode

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu (Washington University in St. Louis)

Kent Hall 403

March 7th, 2024, 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET

Global Literary Imaginaries: China and India

a panel with Gal Gvili (McGill University), Adhira Mangalagiri (New York University), Duncan M. Yoon (New York University), moderated by Anupama Rao (Columbia University)

Calder Lounge, Uris Hall

February 15th, 2024, 6:15 - 8:00 PM ET

Global Language Justice

a panel with Emily Apter (NYU), Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia), Irina Kalinka (Columbia), Lydia H. Liu (Columbia), Anupama Rao (Columbia), Charlotte Silverman (Columbia), moderated by Reinhold Martin (Columbia)

Heyman Center Common Room

November 28th, 2023, 6:00 - 8:00 PM ET

Contact Philology

Tamara Chin (Brown University)

Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room

November 9th, 2023, 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET

The China That Could Have Been: Rhetorical Learning and Political Thought of the Early Modern World

Shoufu Yin (University of British Columbia)

Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (Directions)

October 12th, 2023, 6:00 - 7:30 PM ET

Aspirations: China and the Global South

A special panel with Wang Hui (Tsinghua University), Mahmood Mamdani (Columbia University), and Michael G. Hill (William & Mary), moderated by Lydia Liu (Columbia University)

Calder Lounge, Uris Hall (Directions)