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February 2025
Unbounded by East or West—My Art and Design Journey – A Book Talk by Dazhou Wang
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…
Find out more »Essentials of Teaching & Learning 3: Active Learning (In-Person)
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…
Find out more »Practice Teaching (Microteaching) for Graduate Students (In-Person)
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…
Find out more »Feeling, Gender, Infrastructure
Miryam Sas Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature Professor of Film & Media, Japanese Arts University of California Berkeley Pre-registration required. Click here to register. Click here for the flyer.
Find out more »US-Japan Economic Relations Under the New Leaders
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,…
Find out more »Showcase Your Teaching Development – TDP Advanced Track (Grads)
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…
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 »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).…
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