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REMINDERS
 
March 16: Community Brain Expo: A Celebration of Science and the Brain and Bill Griffith, A to Z
March 23: Global Health and Health Systems
March 24: Sustaining Peace Conference 2016: A New Vision of Women, Peace, and Security
 
PICKS
 
March 21
6 – 8 p.m.
Weatherhead East Asian Institute | Heyman Center for the Humanities | Columbia Law and multiple other sponsors
Woman and City: A Conversation with Wang Anyi
Wang Anyi, author of The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, is widely considered one of the most prominent and prolific women writers of contemporary China. A discussion moderated by Lydia H. Liu, Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities. Introduction by Eugenia Lean, director of the Weatherhead Institute. Register here. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104.

4 – 6 p.m. 
Presidential Scholars in Neuroscience | Center for Science and Society | Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Imag(in)ing Sex in the Brain
Feminist scholars from neuroscience, philosophy, and cultural and media studies will discuss how sex and gender appear in brain images. Speakers include , professor of humanities, media studies, and critical and visual studies at the Pratt Institute; Vanessa Bentley, doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati;  , scientific assistant at the Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies in Technische Universität Berlin; and Gina Rippon, professor and chair of cognitive neuroimaging at the Aston Brain Centre in Aston University. Buell Hall, Maison Française. (Zuckerman Institute)

March 22
6:15 – 8 p.m.
SIPA | Richman Center | Center for Global Enterprise
Seizing Tomorrow’s Global Market Opportunities
What forces will be shaping global business? How can future leaders prepare to manage their organizations? A discussion with  , co-founder and chairman of the Center for Global Enterprise and former chairman, CEO, and president of IBM. Featuring Shelly Lazarus ’70BUS, former chairman and CEO of Ogilvy and Mather; , former undersecretary of commerce and director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark office; , president of Point72 Asset Management; and Chris Caine, president and co-founder of the Center for Global Enterprise and CEO of Mercator XXI. Moderated by Thomas Friedman, journalist and international bestselling author. Register here. Uris Hall, Room 301. (Global)

March 24
6 – 8 p.m.  
Columbia School of Journalism | Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Launch Event: Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data
The launch of a research project led by Tow Fellow Jonathan Stray. Explore where data comes from, how to analyze it, and how to communicate your results. A panel discussion with Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research New York City; Mark Hansen, director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation and professor of journalism at Columbia Journalism School; Scott Klein, assistant managing editor at ProPublica. RSVP required here. Brown Institute for Media Innovation. (Data and Society, Public Square)

​6:15 p.m.
Columbia Law School | Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts
Copy Write: The Author Survival Guide
Brad Meltzer ’96LAW, bestselling author, will deliver the 29th annual Horace S. Manges Lecture. He will discuss how he uses his law degree to publish books, make TV shows, and survive rejection, including anecdotes about how Columbia Law School influenced his writing career—and which Columbia Law School professors he has hidden as characters in his books. RSVP required here. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104.  (Public Square)

​March 29
9:15 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Heyman Center for the Humanities | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race | Center for Justice
​Mobility and Confinement: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Incarceration in America
Addresses a wide range of complex issues around mass incarceration, such as economic mobility and poverty, the detention of migrants and refugees, the regulation of drug trafficking and the war on drugs, and the war on terror. See discussants and program here. Heyman Center, Common Room, 2nd floor.  (Just Societies, Global)

​March 31
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Center for the Study of Social Difference | Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council
Keywords: Choice
An interdisciplinary examination of the word “choice.” Featuring Rachel Adams, director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference; Ester Fuchs, director of Urban and Social Policy Concentration; Maya Sabatello, assistant professor of Clinical Bioethics; Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law; Josef Sorett, associate director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and assistant professor of religion and African-American studies. Barnard College, Altschul Hall, Lehman Auditorium. (Public Square)

6 p.m.
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
​Patrick Ball: Seeing the Forest
Using four databases with lists of victims of the Syrian conflict, researchers at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group have estimated the total number of people killed in Syria from 2011 to 2015. This talk will explain how the estimate was made, how the likely true patterns of violence are substantially different from the patterns that can be observed directly, and what the difference means for quantitatively understanding the Syrian war and conflict in general. RSVP to [email protected] by March 24. Pulitzer Hall, Brown Institute for Media Innovation. (Data and Society, Just Societies)

7 p.m.
​Center for Jazz Studies
Harlem Is Nowhere Is Now Here: Locating the Lost Photographs of Ralph Ellison and Gordon Parks
Jean-Christophe Cloutier will explore the photographic history behind the writing of one of Ralph Ellison’s most influential essays Harlem Is Nowhere (1948) and the collaboration with Gordon Parks, world-renowned photographer, that shaped each artist’s conception of black invisibility. Introductory performance by students and faculty of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. RSVP to [email protected]. Prentis Hall, Room 101.  (Public Square, Just Societies)

7 – 9 p.m.
Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Jesse Jackson and Cornel West
A public discussion with Jesse Jackson, American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and two-time U.S. presidential candidate, and Cornel West, political intellectual, professor of philosophy and Christian practice at Union Theological Seminary. Miller Theatre. (Just Societies)

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