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March 2024

The People vs. Agent Orange

March 28 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Speakers:  Alan Adelson, Producer and Director Kate Taverna, Producer, Director, and Editor Madam Tran To Nga, French-Vietnamese Activist Carol van Strum, American Activist Moderator: Hoang Minh Vu, Postdoctoral

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Local Administrative Centers and their Transitions during the Warring States and Qin-Han Period

March 29 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker: Tao Guo, Columbia University / Central China Normal University (China) Time: March 29, 2024 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. The Warring States and Qin-Han period marked the establishment of the county and commandery system, during which the local administrative centers gradually shifted from counties to commanderies, moving from decentralization to centralization. This talk will examine the changes in the relationship between the central and local…

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NOISE AND CRIES: Rewiring Traditional Voices and Rhythms with bela (굉음과 울음: 전통적 리듬과 목소리를 새로 엮기)

March 30 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

The Center for Ethnomusicology and the Computer Music Center at Columbia University invite you to a free performance and discussion with bela (they/them), a Paju, South Korea-born and Berlin-based performance artist and electronic musician. After their set, Ethnomusicology PhD student and freelance music journalist James Gui will moderate a discussion about their work. Location: 315 Prentis Hall (632 W 125th St, New York, NY) about bela Originally from Paju, South Korea, bela is a musician and a performance artist based in Berlin. They are…

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April 2024

Is Guanxi Changing? Referral Hiring and Social Networks in China

April 2 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Speaker: Elena Obukhova, Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization, McGill University Moderator: Yao Lu, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University What is the role of guanxi in China today? To answer this question, Professor Elena Obukhova examines the relationship between social networks and referral hiring. In the first study, she compares China and the US. In the second study, she explores differences between China’s provinces. This event is part of the 2023-2024 lecture series on “Labor Market Transformations in China" and is hosted by the Weatherhead…

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How Has the Ukraine War Changed the China-Russia Relationship?

April 2 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Please join us for the latest convening of the the Borton-Mosely Distinguished Lecture Series, jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Harriman institute, involving leading experts Yun Sun and Sergey Radchenko who will reflect upon these critical geopolitical developments in conversation with Professors Andrew Nathan and Alexander Cooley. Speakers:  Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and Co-Director China, East Asia, Stimson Center Sergey Radchenko, Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Opening Remarks: Andrew…

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Governing Digital China

April 4 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

China’s digital governance has provoked concerns from observers that the government has fully embraced the direction of “Big Brother” envisioned by George Orwell in 1984. Governing Digital China, a forthcoming book by Professor Daniela Stockmann (Hertie School) challenges this totalitarian top-down paradigm, arguing that China’s digital governance is radically different in practice. Columbia World Projects, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is pleased to invite you to this conversation between Professor Junyan Jiang (Columbia) and Stockmann, which will dig into the divide between…

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The Digital Ideograph: An East Asian History of Unicode

April 11 @ 6:00 pm

Registration for virtual attendance is required, and can be found here. Unicode is everywhere and nowhere at once. Since its invention in 1993 by lucrative American companies, including Xerox, Apple, and Microsoft, Unicode has been the global standard for information exchange, enabling the transfer of data across the world by converting more than a hundred and fifty world scripts into standardized bits and bytes. Its spread throughout the world is so expansive, its technical complexity so elaborate, and its integration into…

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CTLGrads Journal Club

April 12 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Are you interested in the research on teaching and learning and how to apply this research to your teaching practice? Join us for CTLGrads Journal Club, where we take a closer look at educational literature and resources. Each session, we’ll look at one reading and focus on how we can use the education research within it to inform our own teaching practices. This semester, we will be joined by colleagues from across the CIRTL Network for these sessions. The CTLGrads…

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Introduction to Advanced CTL Fellowships for Graduate Students

April 12 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

The CTL’s Graduate Student Programs and Services team invites doctoral students (and in some cases, MFA students at SOA) who have engaged extensively with CTL offerings, as well as current and past fellows, to join us for the second of two information sessions we are offering this semester to explore additional paid fellowship opportunities at the CTL. This information session will focus on the following opportunities: Senior roles in the Lead Teaching Fellowship (LTF), Teaching Observation Fellowship (TOF), and Teaching Assessment Fellowship (TAF) The Teaching Consultant role Fellowships through partnering departments in…

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Mainline Islam: Islamic Associational Life in Indonesia

April 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Speaker: Kevin W. Fogg, Associate Director, Carolina Asia Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Moderator: Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz, Visiting Scholar, WEAI, Columbia University; Denise Cruz, Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Indonesian Islam has a unique structure in its associational life, in the form of mass Islamic organizations. The most well-known of these, NU and Muhammadiyah, are frequently heralded by politicians and scholars as pillars of religious life and civil society…

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