A Lion’s share of selects as we head into Commencement season! For news on class day speakers, stay tuned to Jerry’s Picks. Write event stories here.

REMINDERS

April 25: Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us and Science of Jazz!
April 28 – 29: Listening Through Time And Place: An Interactive Oral History Exhibit and #StartupColumbia Festival
May 4: Narrative Medicine Rounds: George Yancy
 
PICKS

April 27
1 – 5:30 p.m.
SIPA | Center on Global Energy Policy
2016 Columbia Global Energy Summit
Examine key issues and questions at the intersection of energy policy, financial markets, the environment, and geopolitics. Speakers include SIPA dean Merit E. Janow; Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund; Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy; Todd Stern, special envoy for climate change at the US Department of State; and Laurence Tubiana, special representative for the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. Register here. Low Library, Rotunda. (Climate Change)
 
4:15 p.m.
Harriman Institute
Book Talk: The Democracy Promotion Paradox, By Lincoln Mitchell
Lincoln Mitchell ’96CC, national political correspondent for the New York Observer and former SIPA faculty member, will discuss his new book, The Democracy Promotion Paradox. International Affairs Building, Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room. (Global)

April 28 – 29
Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality | Department of History
Women’s History in Motion
A conference in celebration of the life and work of Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History. Includes Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History; Deborah Gray White, distinguished professor of history and of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University; and Daniel Katz, vice president for academic affairs at the Metropolitan College of New York. View program and schedule here. Jerome Green Hall, Room 103.

May 13
10 a.m.
Heyman Center for the Humanities | Society of Fellows in the Humanities | Department of Art History and Archaeology | Alliance Program
Art and the Monetary
Consider intersections of the artistic and monetary worlds from the 18th century to the present, and examine the mutual concern for consumption, valuation, circulation, materiality, authenticity, and imitation that emerged from both artistic and economic spheres. Includes Emerson Bowyer, Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Frick Collection; Maggie Cao, fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities; and Marc Shell, Irving Babbit Professor of Comparative Literature and professor of English at Harvard. View conference program here. Common Room, 2nd floor. (Public Square)

May 16 
6 p.m.
SIPA | Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center | Impact Investment Initiative | Entrepreneurship Program
The Startup Checklist: Book Talk with David S. Rose
Rose ’83BUS, entrepreneur, Inc. 500 CEO, and New York Times best-selling author, will discuss his latest book The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business. You’ll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases. Followed by a book signing. Register here. International Affairs Building, Room 1501.

For RSVP, ticket availability, and other details, follow the links. We always appreciate hearing from you about future events!

Microgravity music, O.J. and us, our global digital future, our genomic past, race and medicine, global money, and oral histories – Columbia’s table is well set for the weeks ahead.

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REMINDERS
 
April 20: The Humanities and Public Life
April 25: Science of Jazz!
April 28 – 29: #StartupColumbia Festival
 
PICKS

April 22
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Columbia Journalism School | Film Fridays
O.J.: Made in America
View an upcoming episode of ESPN’s O.J.: Made in America. Followed by a discussion with Ezra Edelman, director and producer, who will talk about this defining cultural tale of 20th-century America, one that centers around two of our country’s greatest fixations: race and celebrity. Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall. (Public Square)

April 25
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
SIPA | Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
Global Digital Futures Policy Forum 2016
Examine the future of, and critical issues associated with, the digital economy, data, Internet governance, civic tech, and cyber security. Featuring thought leaders from SIPA, business, law, engineering, journalism, and influential policy makers, entrepreneurs, legal experts, technologists, and corporate executives from around the world. Including SIPA dean Merit E. Janow; Arati Prabhakar, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and Kenneth Prewitt, special advisor to the president. Program and registration here. Italian Academy. (Global, Data and Society)

3:30 – 5 p.m.
Committee on Global Thought
Global Think-in on the Past, Present, and Future of the Global Monetary System 
Moments of financial crisis force rediscovery of a disconcerting fact: the world’s most important currencies are generated globally, beyond their state boundaries. Discussion includes Adam Tooze, director of the European Institute and CGT member, and Perry G. Mehrling, professor of economics and CGT member. Moderated by Katharina Pistor, director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation. Register here. Maison Française, Buell Hall, East Gallery. (Global)

6:15 – 7:45 p.m.
School of Professional Studies
Too Much of a Good Thing: How Four Key Survival Traits Are Now Killing Us
Lee Goldman, executive vice president and dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and Medicine, will discuss his latest book on how the key protective traits that once ensured our species’ survival are now the leading global causes of illness and death. RSVP here. Pulitzer Hall, World Room.

April 28
5 – 8 p.m.
Oral History Master of Arts
Listening Through Time And Place: An Interactive Oral History Exhibit
An interactive, multimedia pop-up exhibit, curated by the students and faculty of the OHMA program looking at how oral histories help deepen our understanding of how communities resist, change, and grow. Includes stories of the survivors of the 1994 New York subway bombing, immigrant activists, the Black Gotham Experience, and the world of Santería. Union Theological Seminary, the Social Hall. (Public Square, Just Societies)

May 4
5 – 7 p.m.
School of Professional Studies
Narrative Medicine Rounds: George Yancy
A discussion with George Yancy, professor of philosophy at Duquesne University. Author of Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms: Scholars of Color Reflect, Yancy works in the areas of critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, and philosophy of the black experience. CUMC Faculty Club, Physicians and Surgeons Building, 4th floor. (Just Societies)

7 – 8 p.m.
Maison Française | Air France
Density and Lightness: An Exploration of Microgravity Through Virtuosic Solos
Performance by Elizabeth Weisser, violist with the Talea Ensemble, will bring listeners on a journey showing how our sense of gravity, or lack thereof, exists in several aspects of music. RSVP here. Maison Française, East Gallery, Buell Hall.

For RSVP, ticket availability, and other details, follow the links. We always appreciate hearing from you about future events!

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REMINDERS
 
​April 11: ​How to Save the Middle East, Dying in America, and Opening Reception and Exhibition: A Body in Fukushima
April 12: Chaos or Curvilinearity: Digital Architecture and Deformations of the Africanist Grid in the Late Work of John Coltrane
April 18: Media and Democracy in Brazil: Under Challenge
April 19: Imagining the World: Unexplored Global Collections at Columbia
April 20: The Humanities and Public Life

SNEAK PEAK

April 28 – 29
Columbia Entrepreneurship | Data Sciences Institute | Columbia Technology Ventures
#StartupColumbia Festival
A two-day conference that brings together the Columbia entrepreneurial community in celebration of innovation, entrepreneurship, and the creation of new ventures. This year’s speakers include Evan Spiegel, founder of Snapchat; Iqram Magdon-Ismail, founder of Venmo; Raney Aronson-Rath ’95JRN, executive editor of PBS Frontline; and Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, founder of MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group. Purchase tickets here. View program schedule here.

PICKS

April 12
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Earth Institute | Columbia Law School | SIPA
Governor Cuomo’s Goal of 50% Renewables by 2030: What Will it Take?
The principal architect of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s program, Richard Kauffman, chairman of energy and finance in the State of New York, will discuss how it will be achieved. Including Sergej Mahnovski (Con Edison) and Anne Reynolds (Alliance for Clean Energy of New York). Moderated by Michael B. Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. RSVP here. Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 104. (Climate Change)

April 15
6 p.m.
Graduate School of Journalism
Hearst Digital Media Lecture: Meredith Artley in conversation with Cory Haik (Mic) & Dao Nguyen (BuzzFeed)
Meredith Artley, editor-in-chief of CNN Digital and this year’s Hearst Digital Media Lecturer, Cory Haik, chief strategy officer at Mic, and Dao Nguyen, publisher at BuzzFeed, will discuss the proliferation of platforms and the new breed of creative storytelling. Reception to follow. RSVP required at [email protected]. Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall. (Data and Society, Public Square)

April 19
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.  
Maison Française | SOA | Center for Korean Research | Alliance Program
Film/Panel Discussion: International Tourism
How does a dictatorship exhibit itself to the tourists visiting it? What kind of narration, actors, and staging does it summon? A screening of International Tourism (2014), which questions the way North Korea fabricates its images, between politics, mythology, and imagination. Followed by a discussion with Aline Caillet, visiting professor in film and media studies, Steve Erickson, and Theodore Hughes, associate professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities. Maison Française, Buell Hall, East Gallery. (Global, Public Square)

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Center on Global Energy Policy | SIPA Energy Association | SIPA Consulting Club
Women, Energy, and Economic Empowerment
While the benefits of clean, renewable, and sustainable energy are well understood, we must also ask ourselves: clean energy for whom? Keynote speech by Rachel Kyte, CEO and special representative of the UN Secretary General for Sustainable Energy for All. Featuring Richenda Van Leeuwen (UN Foundation), Kathleen O’Dell (Deloitte Consulting), Ellen Morris (SIPA), Minoru Takada (Executive Office of the Secretary-General). Moderated by Cheryl Wilson, Energy Policy Analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. West 43rd Street, Columbia Club, Alexander Hamilton, Room 15. (Global, Climate Change, Just Societies) 

April 25
6:30 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Science of Jazz!
Michael Shadlen, professor of neuroscience, Chris Washburne, director of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, and David J. Heeger, professor of psychology and neural science at NYU, will lead an interactive improvisational lecture and explore the connections between jazz and the brain. Purchase tickets here. Lincoln Center, Varis Leichtman Studio, 5th floor. (Zuckerman Institute)

For RSVP, ticket availability, and other details, follow the links. We always appreciate hearing from you about future events!

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SNEAK PEAK

April 28 – 29
Columbia Entrepreneurship | Data Sciences Institute | Columbia Technology Ventures
#StartupColumbia Festival
A two-day conference that brings together the Columbia entrepreneurial community in celebration of innovation, entrepreneurship, and the creation of new ventures. This year’s speakers include Evan Spiegel, founder of Snapchat; Iqram Magdon-Ismail, founder of Venmo; Raney Aronson-Rath ’95JRN, executive editor of PBS Frontline; and Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, founder of MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group. Purchase tickets here. View program schedule here.

REMINDERS
 
April 5: The Business of Building a Pioneering Precision Medicine Initiative
April 6: Narrative Medicine Rounds: Rachel Aviv and Learning from Experience: How Our Brains Remember the Past and Shape Our Future
April 7: 19th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum
​April 11: The Search for Genetic Origins of Human Behavior: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications and ​How to Save the Middle East
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PICKS

April 6
9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Data Science Institute 
Data Science Day at Columbia University
Demos​ and lightning talks by​ Columbia researchers ​presenting their latest work in data science. Keynote by Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalks Labs and former deputy mayor of economic development and rebuilding for the City of New York. Includes David Madigan, executive vice president for A&S and dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Kathy McKeown, director of the Institute for Data Sciences; and Jason Healey, scholar at SIPA and founding director at the Atlantic Council in charge of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Network reception to close. To purchase tickets and view program schedule, visit here. Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Auditorium. (Data and Society)

April 8
1:30 – 5 p.m.
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art | Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro
Global Latin America Conference
What is the future of Latin American art history, literary, and cultural studies? And how is globalization shaping our inquiry? Multi-disciplinary scholars will examine these questions and others. Includes Professors Maja Horn, chair of the department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures; Graciela Montaldo, director of graduate studies in the department of Latin American and Iberian cultures; Alexander Alberro, art history and department chair at Barnard. Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501. (Global, Public Square)

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. Check out the related article in Columbia Magazine here. (Just Societies, Public Square)

April 11
6:15 – 7:30 p.m. 
SPS
Dying in America
A lecture by Marcia Angell, senior lecturer in the department of global health and social medicine at Harvard and former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. RSVP here. Kent Hall, Room 413.

6 – 8 p.m.
Columbia University Libraries
Opening Reception and Exhibition: A Body in Fukushima
Photographs by William Johnston of Eiko Otake, dancer and choreographer, performing in the area surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. On view now through June. Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Reading Room.

April 12
7 p.m.
Center for Jazz Studies
Chaos or Curvilinearity: Digital Architecture and Deformations of the Africanist Grid in the Late Work of John Coltrane
Michael Veal (Yale) explores John Coltrane’s  jazz, giving us a way of understanding the structures of this unconventional music with a language of spaces, shapes, and surfaces, while remaining true to the Africanist heritage at the core of the music. To RSVP, e-mail [email protected]. Dodge Hall, Room 622.

April 18
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro
Media and Democracy in Brazil: Under Challenge
Journalists will discuss the relationships between the media, the public, and government, and assess the state of free speech in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America. Speakers include Ricardo Gandour, visiting scholar (journalism); Dr. Agnès Callamard, director of Global Freedom of Expression; Carlos Lauría, senior program coordinator of the Committee to Protect Journalists; Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Trauma in Journalism. Opening remarks by Thomas Trebat, director of the Global Center in Rio. RSVP here. Pulitzer Hall, World Room. (Global, Public Square )

April 19
5:30 – 7 p.m.
Columbia University Libraries
Imagining the World: Unexplored Global Collections at Columbia
View a sampling of the rare and the unusual in Columbia’s Global Studies collections, including books, manuscripts, maps, photos, posters, scrolls, sheet music, stamps, and typescripts encompassing more than 19 languages. Keynote speech by Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam. Items on view now through June 24. Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Chang Octagon. (Global)

April 20
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Center for American Studies| Jack Miller Center
The Humanities and Public Life
A conversation between Roosevelt Montás, associate dean and director of the Core Curriculum at Columbia College, and Dan-el Padilla, fellow in the Society of Fellows and lecturer in classics. Moderated by Casey N. Blake, director of the Center for American Studies. Butler Library, Room 523. (Public Square)

For RSVP, ticket availability, and other details, follow the links. We always appreciate hearing from you about future events!