April brings its usual (unusual) top-shelf programming, starting with Japanese music. There’s no business like shō business… Write event stories here.
REMINDERS
March 21: Woman and City: A Conversation with Wang Anyi
March 22: Seizing Tomorrow’s Global Market Opportunities
March 23: Global Health and Health Systems
March 24: Sustaining Peace Conference 2016: A New Vision of Women, Peace, and Security, Launch Event: Curious Journalist’s Guide to Data, and Copy Write: The Author Survival Guide
PICKS
March 26
4 p.m.
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies | Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives
Glories of the Japanese Music Heritage: Ancient Soundscapes Reborn
The 11th Annual Concert of Japanese Heritage Instrumental Music includes classical and contemporary works inspired by paintings and poetry. Featuring Hitomi Nakamura (hichiriki), Takeshi Sasamoto (ryūteki), Mayumi Miyata (shō), Hidejirō Honjō (shamisen), Fuyuhiko Sasaki (harp & kugo), Columbia Gagaku Instrumental Ensemble, and others. Register here. Miller Theatre.
April 1
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Earth Institute | GSAPP | Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
Designing for Life and Death: Sustainable Disposition and Spaces of Remembrance in the 21st Century Metropolis
The environmental toll of traditional burial and cremation, changing social norms, and spatial limitations within our rapidly growing cities demand alternative mortuary designs that change the way we honor our deceased. See the list of interdisciplinary speakers here. Register here. Low Library, Faculty Room.
1 – 6 p.m.
Center for Contemporary Critical Thought | Maison Française | Columbia Global Centers | Paris
The EU Refugee Crisis and the Future of Europe
An interdisciplinary discussion among lawyers, political and social scientists, and historians on refugee and asylum law and rights today. Including Alexander Aleinikoff, Huo Global Policy Initiative Research Fellow; Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History; and Ayten Gundogdu, assistant professor of political science at Barnard. Moderated by Seyla Benhabib, senior scholar in residence at the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. RSVP here. Maison Française, Buell Hall, East Gallery. (Just Societies, Global)
6:30 p.m.
GSAPP Alumni Association
Displacements: Forced Migration in the 21st Century
Panelists from the global policy, human rights, and design communities who are actively addressing challenges presented by forced migration. Featuring Jürgen Chrobog, former German diplomat; Leslie Thomas ’91GSAPP, executive and creative director of Artworks Projects; Don Weinreich ’81CC ’85GSAPP, partner at Ennead Architects. Moderated by Sean Anderson, associate curator in the department of architecture and design at the MoMA. Purchase tickets here. Three Sixty, 10 Desbrosses Street. (Global, Just Societies)
April 4
12 – 2 p.m.
Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Feminist to the Core
This series features new ways of seeing the texts that are at the heart of the Columbia experience. A lecture on Karl Marx by University Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, world-renowned scholar and founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Maison Française, Buell Hall.
April 5
6 – 8:30 p.m.
Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York | CBSACNY Healthcare Committee
The Business of Building a Pioneering Precision Medicine Initiative
Geneticist David Goldstein, director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine (IGM), and Tom Maniatis, director of IGM’s Precision Medicine Initiatives, will discuss IGM and its related University-wide Precision Medicine Initiative. Jon R. Cohen, senior vice president at Quest Diagnostics, will moderate. Purchase tickets here. Cooley LLC, 1114 Avenue of the Americas. (Precision Medicine)
April 6
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Zuckerman Institute | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture
Learning from Experience: How Our Brains Remember the Past and Shape Our Future
Psychologist Daphna Shohamy will discuss how parts of the brain work together to support learning and what these processes mean for memory and decision-making. Graduate School of Journalism, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor. RSVP here. (Zuckerman Institute and the Future of Neuroscience)
April 8 – April 9
Heyman Center | SoA | Center for Justice | Columbia School of Journalism | IRAAS
The Wire – The Conference
Why is The Wire such an object of multi-disciplinary inquiry? How has it inspired other forms of collaboration among creators and consumers, community activists, and academics across disciplines? List of speakers and schedule here. Purchase tickets here. Teachers College, Horace Mann Hall, Cowin Center. (Public Square)
April 11
1 – 5:30 p.m.
Center for Research on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Psychiatric, Neurologic, and Behavioral Genetics
The Search for Genetic Origins of Human Behavior: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications
Geneticists and other scholars will discuss the topic in the context of gender identity and violent behavior. Conference schedule here. To register, e-mail [email protected] by March 28. Faculty House. (Precision Medicine, Zuckerman Institute and the Future of Neuroscience)
6 p.m.
Columbia Global Reports
How to Save the Middle East
How did the world’s most tolerant region become the least harmonious place on the planet? A discussion with Nicolas Pelham, Middle East correspondent for The Economist and author of Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism In the Middle East, and Professor Safwan M. Masri, executive vice president of the Global Centers. Moderated by Nicholas Lemann, director of Columbia Global Reports. Pulitzer Hall, World Room. (Global)
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