Past Events

Speakers:  Deborah Davis is professor emerita of sociology at Yale University and a visiting faculty member of the Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University. Terry Lautz, former vice president of the Henry Luce Foundation, is the author of Americans in China: Encounters with the People’s Republic. Chinese Encounters With America, published by Columbia University Press, tells the stories of twelve women and men whose experiences with the United States not only transformed their own lives but also influenced China’s quest to…

Are you interested in designing a syllabus for a course to meet the teaching challenges of today and tomorrow? Are you approaching the job market and looking to demonstrate how you approach teaching within your discipline by creating a syllabus? Apply to the 5-session Innovative Course Design Seminar to explore inclusive, evidence-based instructional design practices and create a learner-centered syllabus of your own design. This in-person seminar is presented as an in-person learning community in which participants give and receive…

Speaker: Matthew R. Augustine, Associate Professor of Modern Japanese and East Asian History, Kyushu University, Japan Moderator: Ruth Barraclough, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of History, Columbia University Historian Matthew R. Augustine will discuss his recently published book, From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia (a title in the WEAI "Studies" series), a comprehensive study of the dynamic and often contentious relationship between migration and border controls in…

Speaker: Sungik Yang, Assistant Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies (SHPRS), Arizona State University Moderator: Ruth Barraclough, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Modern Korean History, History Department; Director, Center for Korean Research, WEAI Sungik Yang is a political and intellectual historian of modern Korea, focusing on nationalism, historical memory, the history of democracy, and the content and dissemination of political ideology in Korea. His current book project examines the discursive hegemony of fascistic nationalism, anti-Westernism, and collectivism in Korea during the…

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…

Looking for a supportive place to try out instructional approaches? This Practice Teaching session (formerly known as “Microteaching”) will pair you with a trained peer facilitator and a group of 3-4 other graduate students. Together, you and your fellow participants will take turns delivering short (<10 min.) 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…

Speaker: Peter Banseok Kwon, Associate Professor of Korean Studies, Department of History, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Albany Moderator: Jungwon Kim, King Sejong Associate Professor of Korean Studies, EALAC, Columbia University Professor Kwon is the author of Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee (Harvard University Asia Center, 2024), which examines the origins and development of South Korea’s defense industry during Park Chung Hee’s rule and its impact on the nation’s socio-economic and…

What gets in the way of practicing care in your teaching? How do institutional norms (around productivity, grading, deadlines, authority, surveillance, or risk) reproduce harm or hinder access? What carceral or capitalist logics have you internalized, and how might you unlearn them? This session highlights the systemic barriers to care and fosters collective language for identifying and resisting those forces, with space for processing personal complicity and institutional constraints. About the Pedagogies of Care series This is the second of…