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May 2026
Rethinking Orikuchi Shinobu
PARTICIPANTS: Eric Esteban (PhD Candidate, Yale University) Tianran Hang (PhD Candidate, Columbia University) Ekaterina Komova (Donald Keene Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University) David Lurie (Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature, Columbia University) Chelsea Ward (Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, Colgate University) Across the early and mid-20th century, Orikuchi Shinobu 折口信 夫 (1887-1953) published studies of traditional literature, religion, and culture that defined the field of minzokugaku 民俗学 (Japanese auto-ethnography) and shaped the development of academic studies of Japanese poetry,…
Find out more »TDP Preparing to Teach: Material Prep Session (for Grad Students)
In order to successfully complete a track in the Teaching Development Program (TDP), participants need to generate and annotate two important documents: a policy sheet and first day plan. The TDP Preparing to Teach: Material Prep Session is a new offering in the TDP, designed to help participants create these documents for the Preparing to Teach assignment (required for the successful completion of the TDP Foundational Track). Though first day plans and policy sheets are useful for TAs and instructors…
Find out more »Paleoethnobotany in the Chinese Bronze Age: Understanding Early Urbanization through Plant Remains
PRESENTED BY Xuexiang Chen ( 陈雪香 ) Professor of Archaeology, Shandong University (China) Visiting Professor, Yale University Urbanization during the Chinese Bronze Age was not merely a demographic aggregation, but a profound transformation of social organization and lifestyle. Drawing on two decades of archaeobotanical findings from major urban centers and secondary sites in the Central Plains and the Shandong region, this report re-examines the life of early cities through paleoethnobotanical evidence. As an archaeologist, Xuexiang Chen investigates the origin and…
Find out more »Living with Climate Change in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau
PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event). Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by Friday, May 15 for campus access. This international hybrid conference, supported by a grant from the Henry…
Find out more »Living with Climate Change in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau
PLEASE NOTE: For non-Columbia guests, registration is required to access the Morningside campus 24 hours prior to the event. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event). Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by Friday, May 15 for campus access. This international hybrid conference, supported by a grant from the Henry…
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