Past Events

The Teaching Development Program (TDP) offers doctoral and MFA students a means to document and articulate their teaching development at Columbia. Completion of foundational or advanced tracks 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 or to register, visit the TDP site at https://tdp.ctl.columbia.edu/. Students currently in the…

Learn about the key terms, frameworks, and principles of inclusive teaching. Join the CTL for a workshop for graduate students focused on strategies and tools for including all of your students in the learning process. We will ask how instructors can create inclusive classroom environments that set up all students for success, as well as how instructors can help students learn through the diversity of experiences and perspectives they bring to the classroom. Prior to this session, participants are expected…

REGISTER FOR IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE REGISTER FOR ZOOM This event is free and open to the public. Registration Required Description This talk reflects upon China as a contested concept in the European humanities and their surrounding environments. In the first part, Professor Sachsenmaier will address the place of China in European scholarship, both as a subject of intellectual inquiry and as an institutionalized field. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, he will consider and compare the specific academic traditions and institutional…

Introduction: David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University Session 1: “The Last or Lasting Samurai? The Impact of Secondary Schools on Elite Formation in Early Development” (PDF) Presenter: Mari Tanaka, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo; Hitotsubashi University Coauthors: Hidehiko Ichimura, Yasuyuki Sawada, Yutaro Takayasu Discussant: Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University Moderator: David E. Weinstein Session 2: “Wage Spillovers across Sectors: Evidence from a Localized Public-Sector Wage Cut” (PDF) Presenter: Atsushi Yamagishi, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University Coauthor: Tsuyoshi Goto Discussant: Jiro…

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…

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…