Past Events

We invite current Columbia graduate students with questions about teaching 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 at https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/my/ctlgrads. If you can't make office hours but want support, you can request an individual consultation at http://bit.ly/ctl-gradconsult or email us at CTLgrads@columbia.edu. Columbia University makes every…

Speaker: Professor Wu Jingping, Department of History, Fudan University Discussants:  Jim Cheng, Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Yingwen Huang, Chinese Processing Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Moderator: Chengzhi Wang, Chinese Studies Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Columbia educated Hu Shih, Wellington Koo and T. V. Soong served as leading Chinese diplomats during WWII. Based on studying Koo, Soong and Hu Papers, Prof. Wu Jingping reports his research findings on Chinese special diplomacy in…

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia is thrilled to announce the launch of a new colloquium series, the Critical Chinese Humanities Colloquium (CCH), a platform designed to foster thought-provoking discussions among faculty, students, and the wider academic community. The CCH encourages critical approaches and new methods and modes of inquiry to the study of Chinese humanities across established disciplinary, temporal, and regional boundaries. We have curated a lineup of scholars who will share their most recent…

Speaker: Dáša Pejchar Mortensen, Assistant Professor of History, Davidson College Moderator: Palden Gyal, PhD Candidate, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Thousands of villagers in Gyelthang in Southeast Kham participated in burning Buddhist texts, destroying the town’s central monastery, and denouncing local religious and political leaders during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Chinese official historical accounts generally downplay the extent of Tibetan involvement in the Cultural Revolution, but many elderly Tibetans’ oral narratives offer a very different perspective on this…

Are you interested in the research on teaching and learning and how to apply this research to your teaching practice? Join us for our CTLgrads Journal Club where we take a closer look at educational literature and resources. Each week we’ll look at one reading and focus on how we can use the education research within it to inform our own teaching practices. The CTLgrads Journal Club will be held online via Zoom from 11:40am–12:55pm on Monday 10/16, Tuesday 11/14, and Thursday…

Above and Below the Ground depicts the Indigenous women activists and punk rock pastors leading Myanmar’s first country-wide environmental movement. When the Myanmar army and a Chinese corporate giant force Indigenous Kachin people off their ancestral land to build the massive Myitsone Dam, grandmother Lu Ra stands her ground. We see her struggle to save the sacred confluence and build a movement, mentoring young female law student Hkawn Mai. A Kachin punk rock band made of pastors, BLAST, also takes action,…

Speaker: Ambassador Masafumi Ishii, Former Ambassador of Japan to Indonesia Discussant: Ann Marie Murphy, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar; Professor, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University Moderator: Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science; Director of Japan Research Program and Special Research Scholar, WEAI Over the next 10-20 years Indonesia will become an increasingly important player on the international stage. Masafumi ISHII, former Ambassador of Japan to Indonesia, will clarify the reasons for Indonesia's growing importance and discuss what…