Past Events

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 | 12:30 — 1:30 PM (Lunch will be provided) Room 640, Geffen Hall, Columbia Business School Register Featuring: Takashi Muraoka, Managing Partner, Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (IGPI) Moderator: David E. Weinstein, Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University Event Contact Information: Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School cjeb@gsb.columbia.edu

REGISTER Join the CTL for a workshop for graduate students focused on giving you tools to assess students accurately, efficiently, and encouragingly. In this workshop, you will learn approaches for assessing student learning and providing feedback that encourages students to focus more on their improvement and less on bottom line scores. We will introduce tools to help streamline and standardize assessment and feedback, while helping students better understand what is valuable in the topic and discipline. Breakout groups during this…

As part of the Columbia University Libraries ADEI (Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) awarded program,  "Affirming Queer Intimacies in Sinophone Cinema" will be held in Butler Library and the Lenfest Center for the Arts from Feb. 15-17, 2023. The program includes the screening of three critically acclaimed films of such leading independent filmmakers as Zi'en Cui, Popo Fan and Zero Chou, followed by panel discussions and roundtable dialogues with the directors. The events are jointly sponsored by the Columbia University…

Speaker: Alfred M. Wu, Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work This lecture examines the psychosocial impact of rural-to-urban migration on youth in China using a multisystemic resilience framework and discusses potential interventions to promote more sustainable and equitable urbanization. This event is part of the 2022-2023 lecture series on “Urbanization, Well-being, and Public Policy: China from Comparative Perspectives”…

REGISTER CTLgrads Learning Community: Making Sense of the Classroom: Strategies of Sensory Teaching and Learning (Session 2) - for graduate students  We tend to take for granted that learning takes place in a physical space and by use of our own physical bodies. Yes, we raise our hands to talk, read the words on the slide, and passively listen to lectures, but how can we actively leverage movement, the body, the senses, and even the physical spaces we inhabit to facilitate teaching and…

The Center for Jazz Studies presents a day-long symposium devoted to the histories, current activities, and possible futures of Asian American involvement with jazz. Featuring a mix of leading scholars and musicians, the symposium focuses on a group of musicians and projects that are rarely discussed in jazz studies or Asian American studies. While higher recognition is a sought-after goal, the invited participants are also interested in complicating notions of “jazz” and what it means to be an “Asian American”…