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February 2020
“Formation of Postcolonial Korea through Family, Medicine, and the War Talk Series”
Please join us for a talk with: Soyoung Suh, Associate Professor of History and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Dartmouth University The talk series will explore how material, cultural, ideological, and political changes that took place during Korea’s transitions from Japanese empire to U.S. military occupation to postwar Korea influenced and were influenced by people’s lives; how these changes constructed multiple identities from gender, family, and class; and how indigenous and modern elements were selected and used in constructing these…
Find out more »March 2020
Microteaching Practice (for Graduate Students)
Want to practice a new in-class activity or just get some more practice before teaching in a classroom? Join peers in a Microteaching Practice session where you will divide into groups of 3-4 with a facilitator and take turns delivering short samples of instruction to each other. After each teaching sample, your facilitator and your peers will offer structured feedback to support your teaching. Whether you are currently teaching at Columbia or not, all graduate students looking to practice teaching…
Find out more »15th Annual Concert: Glories of the Japanese Music Heritage
To honor Sukeyasu Shiba (1935-2019), founder of Reigakusha, mentor to our mentors, and composer for heritage instruments the Columbia Gagaku Ensemble of New York and renowned visiting artists present great classics he loved as well as his own work in Part I. Part II celebrates the Women’s History Month with world premieres of Elizabeth Brown’s homage to composer-nun Isabella Leonarda (1620-1704) inspired by lyrics of Otomae (1086?-1169) and other pieces by Ayumi Shimonoto and Evelyn Troester DeGraf by imagining a…
Find out more »Midterm Date
Midterm Date Architecture, Planning & Preservation, Columbia College, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Journalism, Law School, School of Engineering & Applied Science (Graduate), School of Engineering & Applied Science (Undergraduate), School of General Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, School of Professional Studies, School of Social Work, School of the Arts
Find out more »Modern Japan Seminar
Welcome to the Spring 2020 Modern Japan Seminar. We invite you to join us for an exciting lineup of talks. 2/11 "Inventing the Kamikaze in Late-War Japan," Nick Kapur, Rutgers University-Camden Discussant: Ran Zwigenberg, Penn State University 3/9 "Radioactive Olympics,” Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut and Andy Marks, Columbia University Discussant: Emlyn Hughes, Columbia University 4/14 "'Hope Lights our Way:' The Olympic Games and Japan's Environment, 1940-2020,” Robin Kietlinski, LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York All…
Find out more »Blue-Water Horizon: One Thousand Years of the Sino-Southeast Asian Embrace
Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event Please join us for a lecture with: Eric Tagliacozzo, Professor of History Cornell University Moderated by: Lien-Hang Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia Columbia University This presentation takes a macro-historical look at how diasporas, trade, and networks developed in the “adolescence” of Sino-Southeast Asian contact, in the time-period roughly covered by the thousand years between 600 and 1600 CE. We know very little about the “infancy” of…
Find out more »“Formation of Postcolonial Korea through Family, Medicine, and the War Talk Series”
Please join us for a talk with: Yumi Moon, Associate Professor of History Stanford University The talk series will explore how material, cultural, ideological, and political changes that took place during Korea’s transitions from Japanese empire to U.S. military occupation to postwar Korea influenced and were influenced by people’s lives; how these changes constructed multiple identities from gender, family, and class; and how indigenous and modern elements were selected and used in constructing these new individual and collective identities…
Find out more »Spring Recess
Academic Holidays: Most Administrative Offices Open; No Classes Held
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