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March 2026
LC1: Turning Values & Goals into Classroom Practice (for Grads)
CTLgrads Learning Community: Teaching with Intention: Turning Values and Goals into Classroom Practice (Part 1 of 2) How do your teaching values and goals show up in the classroom? How does your weekly teaching practice and preparation match your teaching philosophy? This two-part LC helps instructors translate their teaching values into concrete classroom practices through the medium of the lesson plan. In Session 1, participants surface and articulate core pedagogical values and goals, explore how these shape teaching choices, and identify…
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »Becoming Ungovernable: Hill Peoples, Decentralized Resistance, and Buddhist Nationalism in Myanmar
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 Mar. 3 for campus access. Names will be submitted for…
Find out more »When “Camera as Gun” is not a Metaphor: Violence in the Art & Life of Adachi Masao
Markus Nornes Professor of Asian Cinema, University of Michigan Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 6:00PM EST (preregister by Monday, 2 March) Columbia University, Kent Hall, Room 403 Preregistration required. Register HERE.
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »Insider’s Lens: Two Decades of a Grassroots Fight for Education Equality in Western China
Speaker: Cicely Peng, Founder, Cicely Education Aid Charity Fund; Professional Fellow, WEAI, Columbia University Moderator: Xiaobo Lü, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University Eighteen years, 21 impoverished counties, and an 80% higher-education enrollment rate—behind these figures lies the raw reality of rural education in Western China. This talk draws on nearly two decades of speaker Cicely Peng's deep-dive observations and on-site volunteer work to facilitate a candid dialogue on the dilemmas of volunteer-based social work…
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 »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »LC2: Turning Values & Goals into Classroom Practice (for Grads)
CTLgrads Learning Community: Teaching with Intention: Turning Values and Goals into Classroom Practice (Part 2 of 2) How do your teaching values and goals show up in the classroom? How does your weekly teaching practice and preparation match your teaching philosophy? This two-part LC helps instructors translate their teaching values into concrete classroom practices through the medium of the lesson plan. In Session 1, participants surface and articulate core pedagogical values and goals, explore how these shape teaching choices, and identify…
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