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October 2022
Pedagogy Workshop: How Can Technology Impact Learning? (In Person)
Technology has become a ubiquitous component of the higher education landscape, but there are still vocal debates about when we should use technology and why. So how can technology impact learning? During this pedagogy workshop we will engage with some of the literature examining technology’s role in supporting students’ learning and consider how technology can support and impede our desires to develop accessible learning experiences for our students. Participants will leave with considerations for choosing digital tools and engaging them intentionally…
Find out more »WEAI Event: Religion and Politics in Japan after the Abe Assassination
Registration: To register to attend this event in-person, please register HERE. *CU ID holders only. Speaker: Levi McLaughlin, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious studies, North Carolina State University Moderator: Daniel M. Smith, Gerald L. Curtis Visiting Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Columbia University Turmoil following the shocking murder of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzō on July 8, 2022 by a gunman who bore a grudge against the Unification Church (UC) has reinforced the fact that we…
Find out more »In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian’s Records of Buddhist Kingdoms
Matthew King is an Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies and Director of Asian Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a visiting scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for 2022-2023. His research examines the social history of knowledge in Buddhist scholastic networks extending across the Tibeto-Mongolian frontiers of the late Qing empire and its revolutionary ruins. Much of his published work has focused on encounters between Buddhist scholasticism, science, humanism, and state socialism in the 19th and early…
Find out more »WEAI Event: The State in the Rise of Fossil-Fueled Developmentalism
Registration: To register to attend this event in-person, please register HERE. *CU ID holders only To register to attend this event online, please register HERE. Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University Moderator: Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of 20th Century Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University How might a focus on the state deepen our understanding of the origins and challenges of the ongoing climate crisis? In this talk, I will introduce my recent book, Carbon…
Find out more »ICLS Graduate Colloquium – October
ICLS graduate students and affiliated faculty are invited to participate in the monthly ICLS Dissertation Colloquium. Before each 2 hour-long session of the colloquium, two students will circulate at least five days in advance a dissertation chapter or article, indicating in a reader’s note the areas in which they are seeking feedback. Participants are strongly encouraged to attend all sessions. On an ad hoc basis, those workshopping their writing may invite faculty and graduate students external to ICLS to participate…
Find out more »Vietnamese Language Chat Table
The Vietnamese Language Program and Columbia Vietnamese Students Association invite you to Vietnamese Language Chat Table. Come to practice Viatnamese informally with lecturers and students in the EALAC department and VSA members. No registration in advance.
Find out more »CTLgrads Office Hours (for Graduate Students)
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…
Find out more »Early China Seminar Lecture Series: “From Gansu to Stockholm: Combining Excavations and Collections to Explore Interregional Interactions in Neolithic Northwestern China”
Early China Seminar Lecture Series Title: “From Gansu to Stockholm: Combining Excavations and Collections to Explore Interregional Interactions in Neolithic Northwestern China” Speaker: Andrew Womack, Furman University Time: October 21, 2022 (4:30-6:30 PM EST) Venue: Faculty House *Please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information. **Please see Seminar Safety Guidelines for attendance information. More than 2000 years before the development of the historical Silk Road trade routes, people living in what is now northwestern China were participating in…
Find out more »Japan’s Local Imperialists: Expansive Ideas of Hometown and Empire within the Asia Pacific World
Registration: To register to attend this event in-person, please register HERE. *CU ID holders only To register to attend this event online, please register HERE. Speaker: Hannah Shepherd, Assistant Professor, Yale University Moderator: Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of 20th Century Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University This talk will offer a new approach to the idea of the local within and between empires. It looks at the regional associations that connected Japan's provincial migrants - both within colonial society abroad and…
Find out more »LC1: Difficult Knowledge & Inclusive Teaching (for grad students)
CTLgrads Learning Community: “Would You Ever Teach This?” Difficult Knowledge and Inclusive Teaching in the Classroom (Session 1) - 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 covered…
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