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October 2025
LC 2: Into the Unknown: Teaching Futures and Uncertainty (for grads)
CTLgrads Learning Community - Into the Unknown: Teaching Futures and Uncertainty (Session 2) - for graduate students As teachers, we can sometimes feel pressure to present the world as certain, conclusive, and neatly structured. But global challenges like climate change, political divisiveness, and technological disruption remind us that the future is inherently uncertain—and that normative debates about what should be done are unavoidable. This two-part Learning Community explores how we can recognize and harness uncertainty in ways that are productive rather than…
Find out more »CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
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…
Find out more »Radio in the Global 1980s: From Amateur Writing to Labor Organizing
For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Oct. 23 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
Find out more »Slow Tech Dragon: A Balanced Assessment of China’s Economic Trajectory
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business are pleased to announce the Sixteenth Annual N. T. Wang Distinguished Lecture: “Slow Tech Dragon: A Balanced Assessment of China's Economic Trajectory,” featuring Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and moderated by Thomas J. Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations; Director, China and the World Program, Columbia University. China is increasingly viewed as an emerging high-tech superpower…
Find out more »Care Lineages: Care in Your Discipline (for Graduate Students)
How is “care” conceptualized (or ignored) in your field? What practices, ethics, or traditions shape how care is enacted in your discipline’s pedagogical and research spaces? Where do you see room for supporting these? Is there any need to disrupt, expand, or reimagine these? If so, how might that be done? This session invites teaching fellows to explore how their discipline has historically conceptualized, embodied, or excluded care—whether through its methodologies, ethical commitments, or relational practices—to inform their own pedagogical…
Find out more »Colors and Shapes in Chikudō gafu: Visual Dimensions of Edo-Period Sinitic Poetry
Yoshitaka Yamamoto Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University Calligraphy and painting albums were all the craze in early nineteenth-century Japan. Literati of various social backgrounds collected poems and paintings brushed by othre literati and put them into blank accordion books or albums. Against the backdrop, commercial publishers produced multicolor, woodblock-printed calligraphy and painting albums that showcased works by renowned contemporary Japanese scholars and artists. This presentation will examine some of the paintings, Sinitic poems,…
Find out more »Erotic Novellas as an Early Modern Reading Tradition: Emotion, Materiality, and Literacy
Speaker: Xiaoqiao Ling, Arizona State University Speaker bio: Xiaoqiao Ling, Associate Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University, specializes in late imperial Chinese literature with a focus on performance texts, vernacular fiction, print culture, and reading practices. She has published in both Chinese and English on topics including fiction and drama commentary, legal imagination in literature, and memory and trauma in 17th-century China. She is the author of Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019) and…
Find out more »Learning by Observing (for Graduate Students)
Observing faculty or peers teaching can be a powerful way to expand your awareness of teaching techniques, train your attention on student learning, and generate reflection about your own instructional approaches. But how can you ensure that an observation leads to all these benefits? This workshop will provide participants with a model for conducting online or in-person observations of teaching that focus on learning objectives, student engagement, and insights about the observer’s own teaching development. While the session will be…
Find out more »CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
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…
Find out more »November 2025
Teaching with AI Clinic: Engaging Students with Primary Materials
A 75-minute hands-on clinic for Columbia faculty, postdocs, and graduate students This session will consider approaches to using AI to help students discover, understand, and draw on source materials for research-based assignments. Participants in this clinic will get hands-on experience interacting with AI agents designed for this, and consider modifications that would be desirable for teaching in their own discipline. This is one of six Teaching with AI Clinics being offered this week. No preparation or experience with AI necessary.…
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