Jerry’s Picks 16.27 November 2 – November 10

Photos, drama, film, teaching, and a lecture with Dr. Williams, the new co-director of the Wellness Center supported by the Zuckerman Institute. The November 10 precision medicine event brings together genomics, data, and just societies.  From indigenous knowledge to biopolitics, hip hop stroke to human tribes, focus on the Columbia Now!

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REMINDERS

November 1: Thought Leader Series: Jelani Cobb on Race and the Presidency
November 2: Narrative Medicine Rounds: John Donvan and Caren Zucker and Domestic Policy in the 2016

PICKS

November 2
7 p.m.
Wallach Art Gallery
Focus On Urban Now
A conversation with photographer Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip de Boeck. Moderated by Giulia Paoletti, co-curator of The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa. Followed by a screening of Pungulume and The Tower: A Concrete Utopia. The gallery will be open for viewing at 5 p.m. and at the conclusion of the event. Reception to follow. Schermerhorn Hall, Room 612. (Global)

November 3–4
ILAS | CSER | Teachers College
Contributions to Indigenous Knowledge Education: Responding to New York Migration in NYC Schools
A discussion on the historical, political, and economic factors that compel migrants to move to the United States and their transnational ties between the two worlds. Speakers will examine linguistic and cultural diversity in education. Registration required here. Teachers College, 525 West 125th Street. (Just Societies)

November 3
1 p.m.
School of the Arts
Complex Issues: Sweat
A discussion of Sweat, a play by Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter. With David Henry Hwang, SoA faculty playwright. The Complex Issues series explores difference, visibility, and representation through recent work by Columbia faculty. Register here. Dodge Hall, Room 501. (Just Societies)

November 4
6 – 8 p.m.
Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity
Perspectives on Peace 2016: Award-winning Author and Journalist Sebastian Junger
In Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, Sebastian Junger, author and award-winning journalist, explores the human drive to belong to groups defined by purpose. Junger will be joined in conversation by Peter Coleman, director of the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution, and Beth Fisher-Yoshida, director of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program. RSVP here. Teachers College, Cowin Auditorium.
                   
November 10
5 – 7 p.m.
Center for the Study of Social Difference
Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture
Ruha Benjamin (African American studies, Princeton University) will give a lecture entitled Can the Subaltern Genome Code? Reimagining Innovation and Equity in the Era of Precision Medicine. Benjamin examines precision medicine within the broader big data phenomenon and examines how power and inequality shape what we know about human difference. Followed by a talkback and reception. Schermerhorn Extension, Room 754. (Precision Medicine, Data and Society, Just Societies)

6:30 – 8 p.m.
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Can Children Save the Lives of Their Parents in the Throes of Stroke?
For the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series, Olajide Williams, director of Acute Stroke Services at New York Presbyterian’s Comprehensive Stroke Center and new co-director of the Wellness Center in Manhattanville, will discuss an intervention called “Hip Hop Stroke” that targets inner city children as mediators in the chain of stroke recovery. Columbia Journalism School, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor. (Neuroscience)

ONGOING

September 7 – December 10: The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (Wallach Gallery)

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