In an era marked by geopolitical rivalry, technological disruption, economic fragmentation, and heightened global uncertainty, the need for deep, context-sensitive knowledge of regions and societies has never been greater. Yet area studies today in Europe and the US face renewed questions about their intellectual form, institutional location, and relevance within increasingly abstract disciplinary frameworks and more results-driven policy-science approaches.
Focusing on China and Russia as countries of concern — and drawing on the expertise of Panteion’s Department of International and European Studies, Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Harriman Institute and of colleagues from European academic and policy institutions — this Columbia–Panteion conference brings together area specialists, disciplinary scholars, and policy analysts to examine how Greece/Europe and the United States understand, analyze, and respond to the challenges these actors pose to the contemporary world system. Anchored in the growing partnership between Columbia University and Panteion University, including the forthcoming Dual Master’s Degree linking the M.Sc. in Global China and the M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia, the conference positions this collaboration as a laboratory for rethinking the roles of area studies, the disciplines, and the policy sciences for the twenty-first century.
Participants attending both conference days in person will be entitled to a Certificate of Attendance.
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