Past Events

This talk, deriving from one chapter of my current book project, examines an innovative mortuary practice developed during the Northern Wei period. Rather than concealing corpses in coffins, which was the predominant way of burying the dead in early China, residents at Northern Wei capital Pingcheng experimented with something unconventional— exposing the body on a funerary bed and placing the bed inside an architectonic chamber. I argue that this new way of burying the dead is a performative enactment of…

CTLgrads Learning Community - Beyond the Lecture-Essay Model: Learning Through Non-traditional Modalities (Session 2) - for graduate students Through the course of their academic, professional, and personal life, students will be exposed to a range of different modalities through which they learn about the world. Pedagogical research supports learning through a diversity of modalities, as it engages different learning types and has been proven to be an effective method for active learning. Non-traditional modalities include podcasts, field trips, creative writing, art…

Speaker: Dazhou Wang, Honorary President and Professor, School of Design, East China Normal University Discussant: Dake Zhu, Professor Emeritus, College of Humanities, Tongji University Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work In his new book, Chinese-American artist Dazhou Wang recounts his decades-long journey, tracing his experiences from youth in China to his education, life, and artistic creations after moving to the United States in the 1980s. As both a personal biography and a motivational…

Practice developing class activities that align with your learning objectives for students and incentivize all students to participate. Join the CTL for this workshop for graduate students focused on giving you strategies to better engage students in their own learning. In this workshop, we will discuss the evidence and efficacy of a variety of active learning strategies, and consider how these approaches can make our classrooms more inclusive. Prior to this session, participants are expected to have completed a 20-minute…

Looking for a supportive place to try out instructional approaches? This Practice Teaching session (formerly known as “Microteaching”) will pair you with a trained peer facilitator and a group of 3-4 other graduate students. Together, you and your fellow participants will take turns delivering short (<10 min.) 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…

Live Webinar US-Japan Economic Relations Under the New Leaders Thursday February 13, 2025, 7:00 - 8:15 PM ET Friday, February 14, 2025, 9:00 - 10:15 AM Japan Time Note: English (Japanese interpretation) Register Featuring: David Weinstein, Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University Keiko Ito, Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University Yasuyuki Todo, Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University Moderators: Takeo Hoshi,…

The Teaching Development Program (TDP), offers doctoral and MFA students a means to document and articulate their teaching development at Columbia. Completion of a track in the TDP is certified by the CTL and noted on transcripts for doctoral students in Arts and Sciences, SEAS, Mailman, Nursing, Social Work, Business, Journalism, and GSAPP – and for MFA students in the and School of the Arts. For more information, visit the TDP site at https://tdp.ctl.columbia.edu/. Students currently on the Advanced Track of the TDP…