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.

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