Past Events

Registration: To register to attend this event online, please register HERE. Speaker: Juan Chen, Professor of Social Policy, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Moderator: Qin Gao, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social Work This lecture examines local governance quality in the context of China’s new-type urbanization and estimates its impact on residents’ life satisfaction using national household survey data collected in 40 carefully selected sampling sites undergoing rural-urban transition. This event is part of the 2022-2023 lecture series…

Friday, October 28, 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm Schermerhorn 614 Choosing and developing a research topic is challenging. Join this workshop with the GSAS Writing Studio to complete a series of interactive exercises to help clarify your ideas and discuss strategies to turn your interests into a compelling thesis topic. Students across MA programs will work together and gain perspectives from multiple disciplines. Register here.

We invite current Columbia graduate student with questions about teaching to drop by office hours anytime today 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…

Please join EALAC PhD students in a PhD application workshop on Friday, October 28 at 3 PM on Zoom. Deadline for applications to the EALAC PhD programmes is December 8, 2022. In this session, we will go over some of the important materials for PhD applications, and answer any questions you may have. This is a good opportunity to start thinking about your application before the EALAC department application workshop in November. Please reach out to Kimberly Martinez (kem2238@columbia.edu) for…

Registration: To register to attend this event in-person, please register HERE. *Please note that non-CUID holders need to show proof of their primary series and one booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines. To register to attend this event online, please register HERE. Speakers: Thomas Christensen, James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations; Director, China and the World Program, Columbia University Shang-Jin Wei, N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Junyan Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of…

CTLgrads Learning Community: “Would You Ever Teach This?” Difficult Knowledge and Inclusive Teaching in the Classroom (Session 2) - for graduate students  This two-part, multidisciplinary Learning Community is designed to reflect on how to deal with difficult knowledge in today’s classroom. “Difficult knowledge” — contents which cause students to analyze social trauma (Britzman 1998) — has progressively moved to the foreground of pedagogical discourse, as it interests every discipline. However, there still is some skepticism towards difficult-knowledge issues, which are often…

China is the world’s largest emitter of heat-trapping gasses by far. The Chinese government has ambitious policies to fight climate change, including a pledge to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. China leads the world in deployment of renewable energy and electric vehicles, but also in coal consumption and the construction of coal-fired power plants. Last summer, China suffered a heat wave that several meteorologists described as the worst in recorded history, anywhere. CGEP Inaugural Fellow David Sandalow and a team of co-authors…