Past Events

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…

Learn about and engage with backward design: a scalable, end-in-mind approach to instruction that will help you effectively plan an activity, a class session, or an entire course. In this workshop for graduate students, we will discuss how to use previously-determined and described learning objectives as part of the backward design approach to drive assignments, feedback, and in-class activities for students. Prior to this session, participants are expected to have completed a 20-minute module on Canvas. To get started on…

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…

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. Learn more about what you can expect in…

Speaker: Ann Tashi Slater, author Moderator: Lauran Hartley, Director, Modern Tibetan Studies Program, WEAI, Columbia University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, EALAC Ann Tashi Slater contributes to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Tin House, Guernica, AGNI, Granta, and many others. Her work has been featured in Lit Hub and included in The Best American Essays. In her Darjeeling Journal column for Catapult, she explores her Tibetan family history and bardo, and she blogged for HuffPost about similar topics. She presents and teaches workshops at Princeton, Columbia, Oxford, Asia Society,…

Speaker: Wei-Ting Yen, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Moderator: Qin Gao, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work Wei-Ting Yen examines how South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore, three developmental states, adopted distinct medical resource strategies during the early phase of COVID-19. She argues that differences in pre-crisis industrial coordination capacity shaped whether and how states prioritized test kits, masks,…

Speaker: Tristan Brown, Associate Professor of History and the S.C. Fang Chinese Language and Culture Career Development Chair, MIT Moderator: Eugenia Lean, Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures; Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, Columbia University Tristan Brown discusses his forthcoming project, “Crossing the Frozen Frontier: Ice, Climate, and Warfare on the Ming and Qing Norther Frontiers.” This article intervenes in both environmental and military history by examining how the seasonal freezing of rivers and terrain across the Ming and Qing dynasties’ northern…

Join the Qalam Pakistan Initiative and the Department of History for a book talk by Shayan Rajani (Michigan State University) featuring discussant Pier Mattia Tommasino (Columbia University). Leaving Legacies is a fresh account of the individual in early modern South Asia. A gendered practice carried out by men, leaving legacies involved assembling three kinds of material traces: monuments, books, and sons. This book shows that a concern for the individual self was not an exclusively western phenomenon. Rather, the practice of leaving…