Admission is free.
The talks are the sixth in the Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures sponsored by the University Seminars at Columbia. Since 1975, Gluck has taught at Columbia in the departments of History and East Asian languages and cultures, and as a member of the East Asian Institute. The Japanese and Their Modern History, a study of historical consciousness in modern Japan. She is the recipient of Columbia's Mark van Doren Award for teaching and the Great Teacher Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates. Gluck's lectures, supported by a bequest from the Leonard Hastings Schoff and Suzanne Levick Schoff Memorial Trust, will be published by Columbia University Press.