Columbia Gone Global: Jerry’s Picks 16.13 April 6 – April 20

Columbia’s Gone Global…and Multidisciplinary….Write event stories here.

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

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!

 

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