Past Events

Location: in-person at 918 IAB and on Zoom Speaker: Ying Jia Tan, Associate Professor of History, History Department, Wesleyan University Discussant: Paul Kreitman, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Please RSVP to modernchinasem@gmail.com to get a PDF of the paper for the seminar and/or the Meeting ID and password for Zoom participation.

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…

During this hands-on workshop, we will explore how to make the best use of Nikkei Telecom and other Japanese newspaper databases which received major system upgrades recently. Chiaki Sakai, our Japanese Studies Librarian, offers two identical sessions on Friday, March 22. The location will be Room 306 at Butler Library. Morning Session: 10 am - Noon Afternoon Session: 2 pm - 4 pm Highlight of this session will be receiving 7 extra login IDs/PWs to test Nikkei Telecom. You might be confused…

Where: 403, Kent Hall, Columbia University Keynote Speakers: Tian Yaqi, Researcher,  Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology Recent Archaeological Research on the City Yong of Qin Empire Chen Aidong, Assistant Researcher, Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology Archaeological Studies of the State Sacrifice of Qin in the Vicinity of the Great City Yong Commentators: Robin D.S. Yates, Mcgill University Terence N. D’Altroy, Columbia University Li Feng, Columbia University

Though the realm of the senses, movement, and the physical spaces in which we teach and learn may feel beyond the purview of our own instructional design and control, in fact, learning spaces and the bodies that inhabit them exert powerful influences on learning. This in mind, instructors can make intentional interventions to their pedagogical practices, classrooms, and syllabi to foster student learning and engagement (Hrach, 2021). What might it look like to intentionally engage this physical context of learning…

Speaker: Chizuko Ueno, Professor Emerita University of Tokyo, Chief Director of the Non Profit Organization, Women’s Action Network Moderator: Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor Emerita of History, Columbia University

Speaker: Denis Fred Simon, Distinguished Fellow, Institute of China-America Studies (ICAS); Former Executive Vice Chancellor, Duke Kunshan University Moderator: Xiaobo Lü, Professor, Political Science, Barnard College