Past Event Category: Harvey Goldberg Center
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May 1Selçuk Esenbel, Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies & Center for East Asian Studies Event
Sheldon Lubar Faculty Commons, Law School, 7th floor Room 7200
“‘Twilight Diplomacy’ and the Japanese Mirror of the Ottoman Turkish World: Yamada Torajirō’s Illustrated Observations of Turkey” Selçuk Esenbel, Emerita Professor of History, Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey A discussion centered on Yamada Torajirō’s 1911 book Toruko Gakan, Illustrated Observations of Turkey, the Meiji Japanese “Mirror” of the Ottoman Turkish world, and the multi-religious culture in …
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Oct 24The Harvey Goldberg Memorial Lecture: A World Safe for Autocracy? Domestic Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy, and the Future of the International Order
George L. Mosse Humanities Building Curti Lounge (#5233)
Speaker: Jessica Chen Weiss, Cornell University Description: Beneath Xi Jinping’s grand slogans of a “Chinese dream” and a “shared future for humankind,” there are internal tensions, debates, and interests that compete to shape China’s approach to the world. Through the lens of domestic politics, nationalism, and regime insecurity in China, Weiss will examine the evolving …