Past Events

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…

I Can't Even Read One Word': Women's (il)literacy and The Unmaking of the Chinese Peasant Class Speaker: Britta Ingebretson, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Chinese, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University Discussant: Leta Hong Fincher, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Dinner will be provided at 6:30p and the talk will begin at 7:00 pm. This seminar will be presented both in-person at 918 IAB and on zoom. Please RSVP to modernchinasem@gmail.com to get A PDF of the paper prior…

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: Boqun Zhou, University of Hong Kong Time: October 20, 2023 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. Shi 勢 stands as one of the most pivotal concepts in early Chinese strategic thinking. It encompasses a spectrum of interconnected meanings in Warring States philosophical texts, spanning from configuration/situation” and “positional advantage” to “power” and ultimately “potential.” Recent advances in paleographic scholarship have unveiled the original meaning of shi as “to set…

What Is Asia? International Conference Where: Hybrid, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and remote To register, please visit the conference website, or send an email to whatisasia@usc.es Registration for attendees (free) will remain open until October 22.