Past Events

Speaker: Wenkai He, Associate Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Moderator: Junyan Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University Registration: To attend this event in-person, please register HERE To attend this event online, please register HERE Contact Information Julie Kwan jk4371@columbia.edu

Speaker: Randall S. Jones Research Associate, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School; Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University (SAIS); Member Former Senior Counselor - East Asia and Head of Japan/Korea Desk, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Register: https://groups.gsb.columbia.edu/CJEB/rsvp_boot?id=58405

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…

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…

Jen Shyu will offer an inside look into her process behind research, composition, and improvisation that led to her three of her solo ritual-theater-music works: Solo Rites: Seven Breaths (2014) directed by Garin Nugroho; and Nine Doors (2017) and Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (2019), both directed by Alexandru Mihail. These works were inspired by 20+ years of study of traditional music and dance from five countries, including epic storytelling and East Coast shaman music from South Korea; music…

Speaker: Adam Schwartz, Hong Kong Baptist University Time: December 8, 2023 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. Among a recently published collection of Shāng dynasty oracle bones scientifically excavated from various deposits at Xiăotún village, Ānyáng, Hénán Province, there is a fragment of an ox scapulae inscribed with the previously unknown divinatory phrase yōu wáng 憂亡 ‘worry is gone.’  I propose, against current interpretations, to read the phrase as…

Speaker: Adam Schwartz, Hong Kong Baptist University Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. Among a recently published collection of Shāng dynasty oracle bones scientifically excavated from various deposits at Xiăotún village, Ānyáng, Hénán Province, there is a fragment of an ox scapulae inscribed with the previously unknown divinatory phrase yōu wáng 憂亡 ‘worry is gone.’  I propose, against current interpretations, to read the phrase as it is written and not as a mistaken…

Speaker: Lucie Lu (陆璐), Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2023 This event is a hybrid with both in-person attendees and an online audience. It is sponsored by the China and the World Program and co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Register:  here or https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3qXK6P6OSLG3gQS-OkDGgw. If you are attending in-person, please go to 'INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS BUILDING AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 420 W. 118TH ST., NEW YORK, NY 10027 ROOM 918'  Contact Information Daniel Suchenski ds3750@columbia.edu…