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Mae Ngai delivered the Carole and Peter Ou Endowed Lecture, “The 1924 Immigration Act and its Afterlives,” at the University of Pennsylvania Asian American Studies symposium on “1924: Asian Exclusion and the Making of Immigrant America” on February 23.

Mae Ngai delivered the Carole and Peter Ou Endowed Lecture, “The 1924 Immigration Act and its Afterlives,” at the University of Pennsylvania Asian American Studies symposium on “1924: Asian Exclusion and the Making of Immigrant America” on February 23. Read more here.

The Renaissance Society of America awarded Pamela Smith an honorable mention for the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for her book, “From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Knowledge in the Early Modern World” (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

The Renaissance Society of America awarded Pamela Smith an honorable mention for the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for her book, “From Lived Experience to the Written Word: Reconstructing Knowledge in the Early Modern World” (University of Chicago Press, 2022). Read more here.

On February 1, 2024, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) hosted a gala dinner in commemoration of both the Year of the Dragon and its 75-year history as a pioneer in the study of East, Southeast, and Inner Asia.

On February 1, 2024, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) hosted a gala dinner in commemoration of both the Year of the Dragon and its 75-year history as a pioneer in the study of East, Southeast, and Inner Asia. The event brought together scholars, students, diplomats, business leaders, and artists from on and off campus, connected by a common interest in the region. U.S. Climate Envoy and former Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the gala’s keynote address. Read more here.

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik with John Kerry and Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

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