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February 2025
Essentials of Teaching 4: Assessment & Feedback (In-Person)
Join the CTL for a workshop for graduate students focused on giving you tools to assess students accurately, efficiently, and encouragingly. In this workshop, you will learn approaches for assessing student learning and providing feedback that encourages students to focus more on their improvement and less on bottom line scores. We will introduce tools to help streamline and standardize assessment and feedback, while helping students better understand what is valuable in the topic and discipline. Breakout groups during this session…
Find out more »Amdo Lullaby: An Ethnography of Childhood and Language Shift on the Tibetan Plateau – A Book Talk by Shannon Ward
Speaker: Shannon Ward, Assistant Professor, Department of Community, Culture & Global Studies, University of British Columbia Moderator: Lauran Hartley, Associate Research Scholar and Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, WEAI; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Based on fifteen months of field research in Amdo, Tibet, this talk examines the forces leading to language shift to Mandarin in a region historically characterized by linguistic diversity. The talk analyzes oral histories from the region alongside children's everyday talk to demonstrate…
Find out more »Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930
In this talk, Anri Yasuda will discuss her book, Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese LIterature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 (Columbia Univeresity Press, 2024), which examines how the literary writers attemtped to balance an engagement with lived realities and the pursuit of more beautiful ideals. The talk will focus on how literature's capacity to depict the world as it appears to be, alongside visions of the world as it might otherwise be, constituted a formative tension for the novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916).…
Find out more »CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
We invite current Columbia graduate students with questions about maintaining an inclusive teaching environment and all other aspects of pedagogy to drop by office hours on Fridays from 2:00–4:00 pm. We also welcome conversations about CTL fellowships, programs, services, job market preparation, and making progress in the Teaching Development Program (tdp.ctl.columbia.edu). No appointment is necessary; you can join us in-person in 212 Butler Library, or via Zoom. To join office hours via Zoom, email CTLgrads@columbia.edu to obtain the link. If you can't make office hours but…
Find out more »China Institute: Calligraphy and Music Meetup
Step into a world where tradition meets artistry, and ancient culture resonates with the busy life in New York City! China Institute in America cordially invites you to this monthly program for a mesmerizing evening of traditional Chinese music and the enchanting world of calligraphy. Listen to the performance of the unique Chinese instruments, and feel the charm of Chinese music combined with practicing Chinese calligraphy with a master calligrapher. Take the chance to interact with our calligrapher, musicians and…
Find out more »From the Countryside to the City, Life Today in Chengdu
Speaker: Ning Yuan, writer, founder of a clothing brand, Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (2024-2025) Moderator: Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Ning Yuan is the author of several widely circulated works of fiction, owns a bookstore in Chengdu, has a clothing line made of natural fibers, and has led in the redevelopment of a village in Sichuan that was devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Ning Yuan will introduce her various activities as…
Find out more »China Institute: Film screening of Lloyd Lee Choi’s Same Old
China Institute in America is thrilled to present a special screening of SAME OLD, the award-winning short film by Lloyd Lee Choi. Premiering at the 75th Cannes Film Festival, it has won multiple awards, including 1st place at the HBOmax APA Visionaries Awards. This gripping film vividly portrays one fateful night in the life of a New York City delivery driver, brought to life by Limin Wang. The feature adaptation is currently in post-production. His latest short, CLOSING DYNASTY, won…
Find out more »CTLGrads Journal Club
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. Register here. The…
Find out more »EALAC Spring Open House
The EALAC Department will be holding the annual Spring Open House on Wednesday (2/26) from 4:15-6:15pm. Please come by for a break from your studies, have some food, and relax with your EALAC colleagues! For those of you interested in EALAC and considering major or minor declarations, please join us for food and relaxation, and also bring any questions you might have about our program. You will have the chance to discuss all aspects of our programs, and you will…
Find out more »Left to Live and Die: Resource Security and the Biopolitics of Land Stockpiling in China
Speaker: Ross Doll, Lecturer, Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley Discussant: Nick R. Smith, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies Program, Architecture Department, Urban Studies, Barnard College Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work Beginning in 2007 the Chinese state used liberalizing policy and funding to encourage the expansion of large-scale grain farming. Despite this support, many of the new farms have financially struggled and folded. Drawing on…
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