April showers bring May flowers! Rain is on the forecast for this week, so spend some time indoors with these on-campus events.

Today, there will be a symposium to honor Donald Keene, CC ’42, MA ’47, PhD ’49, University Professor emeritus, and one of the most celebrated scholars of Japanese culture in the world. He even has a Center of Japanese Culture named after him! After a brief stint lecturing at Cambridge, Keene began teaching at Columbia […]

On Wednesday night, Columbia’s Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture hosted Dr. Genshitsu Sen, the former Grand Master of the Urasenke school of the Japanese tea ceremony. Bwog, recognizing that there is such a thing as too much coffee, spent the evening in the audience at Casa Italiana, to learn about the Japanese tea ceremony, […]