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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)
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