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November 2020
Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers
Please join us for a lecture with: Jennifer Pan, Assistant Professor of Communication, Stanford University Moderated by: Yao Lu, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Columbia University What are the costs of the Chinese regime’s fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order, or “stability”? This book project shows how China has reshaped its major social assistance program, Dibao, around this preoccupation, turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance and repression. Novel datasets…
Find out more »Teaching Online with CourseWorks
Register here. Online teaching presents its own opportunities and challenges. Join us in exploring how to create community, support student engagement, and assess student learning in the online context using CourseWorks, Columbia’s learning management system. This workshop will give you an overview of the CourseWorks interface and highlight a toolset that will allow you to set up a course with clear expectations for students, create opportunities for a variety of assignment engagements, and nurture an environment that encourages a culture…
Find out more »After the US Presidential Election: Gauging the Results for Korea and Northeast Asia Register Now
Washington insiders Keith Luse, Executive Director of the National Committee on North Korea, and Frank Jannuzi, President and CEO of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, reflect on the results of the US Presidential election for Korea and Northeast Asia in conversation with Senior Director Stephen Noerper. Luse and Jannuzi, both longtime, former Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior staff members, opine on the impact by way of policy and personalities, as well as potential new initiatives. This event is co-hosted…
Find out more »Anti-Racism Speaker Series: Enobong Branch, PhD, Rutgers University
Join the Center for Research on People of Color for our first Anti-Racism Speaker Series event on November 5, 2020, 2:30 – 3:30PM. Register here. The event will feature Dr. Enobong (Anna) Branch, Senior Vice President for Equity and Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Her lecture, titled “First, Do No Harm”: Eugenics, Medicine and Devaluing Black Life, will be held virtually. Dr. Branch’s research examines the roots and present day underpinnings of racial and gender inequality, with particular focus…
Find out more »Let’s Use CLIO: To find Books & More (all materials you need for research!)
Register here. "Learn how to use CLIO, our library catalog, to save time while you are researching. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of the information ecosystem at Columbia University and de-mystify jargon you may have encountered. You will learn how to find: ebooks, databases, and research guides. There will also be techniques for troubleshooting for print resources and digital alternatives. This workshop is geared for beginners to research, but all are welcome. CLIO is a tool that should work…
Find out more »Vietnamese Folk Music Event: Ca trù
The traditional Vietnamese folk art – Ca trù singing was added to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding by UNSECO in 2009. Please join us to learn more about the history of ca trù singing and enjoy the performance from a seven-generation family in Hanoi, Vietnam. Date: November 5th, 2020 from 6:00PM- 8:00PM Sponsor: Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) Guest Speakers: Artist Nguyen Van Khue and Hanoi Ca Trù Thai Ha Ensemble Register…
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