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…

Three Seasons is a Sundance award winning feature film shot in Vietnam about the past, present, and future of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) during the postwar period known as Đổi Mới (New Life). The film won the Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award and Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival and was Vietnam's official submission for the 72nd Academy Award for Best International Film. The film will be presented in its original theatrical 35mm format. Writer and Director: Tony…

Want to practice a new in-class activity or just get some more practice before teaching in your classroom? Join peers in a Microteaching Practice session where you will divide into groups of 3-4 with a facilitator and take turns delivering short 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 graduate students looking to practice teaching are…

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…