A fair share of Top Picks! Enjoy and share your story.

REMINDERS

September 27: Cartoons for a New Gilded Age

PICKS

September 29
10 – 11 a.m.
NYC Media Lab | Graduate School of Journalism | Engineering
Reality Jamming
Reality Jamming saturates, misinforms, or otherwise jams what would otherwise be reliable sources of truth people can digitally encounter. Co-organized by Susan McGregor, assistant director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and Chris Wiggins, associate professor of applied mathematics. A discussion with Joan Donovan, media manipulation research lead at Data & Society; Matt Jones, James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization; Jonathan Albright, research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism; and Sam Thielman, journalist at Talking Points Memo. RSVP here. The New School, Hoerle Lecture Hall. (Data and Society, Just Societies)

October 4
4 – 5 p.m.
Department of Sociomedical Sciences | Office of Institutional Advancement | Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
Does Equality Have a Future in America?
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times op-ed columnist, will give the 10th Anniversary Benrubi Lecture in the History and Ethics of Public Health. Reception to follow. RSVP here. Vagelos Education Center, Auditorium, Room 201. (Just Societies)

October 6
8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Columbia Business School
2017 Social Enterprise Conference – Leaders Taking a Stand: Social Impact in Turbulent Times
In turbulent times, who are the business leaders who are stepping up to the challenge and leading by example? This year’s conference brings together leaders who actively use their platform to drive change in education reform, the refugee crisis, job creation for the formerly incarcerated, and climate change. Purchase tickets here. Lerner Hall, Auditorium. (Just Societies)

5 – 7 p.m.
LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
Opening Reception: Revolt, Defiance and Resistance in Prints
An exhibition of prints that challenge, resist, revolt and defy. Featuring the work of Polly Apfelbaum, Barnaby Furnas, Ellen Gallagher, Kara Walker, and Tomas Vu-Daniel (artistic director). This exhibition showcases how printmaking continues to be a vehicle to share, protest, and critique contemporary culture. Dodge Hall, LeRoy Neiman Gallery. (Just Societies)

October 7
CUMC
Velocity: Columbia’s Ride to End Cancer
In celebration of P&S’ 250th anniversary year, velocity is a ride to end cancer. There are opportunities to ride, volunteer, or celebrate with cyclists at the Finish Line Festival at the Fort Washington Armory on the CUMC campus, where there will be live music, food, and drinks. Learn more here. 216 Fort Washington Ave, Armory Track and Field Center. (Precision Medicine)

10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Open House
Tour a lab, participate in hands-on earth science demonstrations, and learn from world-renowned researchers about their latest discoveries. This event is free (suggested donation here) and open to the public. Register here. 61 Route 9W, Palisades. (Climate Response)

October 10

5 – 8 p.m.
Columbia Entrepreneurship | Fundação Lemann | Nasdaq Educational Foundation | SIPA
Democratizing Education: The Future of Global Ed Tech
EdTech Founders panel will discuss how innovative ideas, entrepreneurs, and progressive policy makers are disrupting antiquated school systems across the globe. Panelist include Kago Kagichiri, CEO and co-founder of Eneza Education in Kenya; César Wedemann, CEO of QEdu in Brazil; Pranav Kothari, co-founder of Mindspark in India; Miriam Altman, CEO and co-founder of Kinvolved in the US; and moderated by Denis Mizne, director of Fundação Lemann. Reception to follow. RSVP here. Casa Italiana. (Data and Society, Global)

Ongoing

October 12 – 26: Cinema Of Resistance: A Film Series Curated By Nora Philippe

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

Jeannette Wing, Safwan Masri, digital storytellers, and other Columbia thought leaders, along with this year’s World Leaders Forum: it’s harvest time at Columbia! Enjoy and share your story.

September 19
4:30 – 6:30 p.m.
CUMC | SIPA | International Research Institute for Climate and Society
Compelling Priorities for Global Health
A World Leaders Forum program with University Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs; Elizabeth Cameron, senior director for global biological policy and programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative; and Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Moderated by Wilmot James, former shadow minister of health in South Africa. Keynote by Tedros Adhanom, director general of the World Health Organization. Casa Italiana. Registration required here to join the waitlist. This event will also be livestreamed here. (Global)

As it has been since 2003, Columbia is hosting heads of state and other leaders during the UN General Assembly through the World Leaders Forum. Check out the full program here.

REMINDERS

September 18: Writing a New Story Together: Confronting Mental Health Disparities with Community Partnerships
September 18 – 19: International Conference on Sustainable Development
September 19 (3): 1. The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick 2. Understanding Charlottesville: White Nationalism and American Society Past, Present, and Future 3. Windows on Death Row Exhibit: Opening Event
September 26: Complex Issues: South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s

PICKS

September 20
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy | Data Science Institute | Columbia Business School
Using Data for Good: What Does It Mean?
For this Data, Ethics, and Decision-making speaker series, Jeannette M. Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute, will discuss her vision for the Institute and the definition and practice of using data for good. RSVP here. Uris Hall, Room 301. (Data and Society)

September 21
1 – 2 p.m.
Maison Française | Columbia European Institute
Transforming the Eurozone?
Pierre Moscovici, EU commissioner for economic and financial affairs, taxation, and customs, will discuss the EU economic outlook. Joined by Adam Tooze, director of the Columbia European Institute. RSVP here. Buell Hall, East Gallery. (Global)

September 23
10 a.m.
Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab
Story I/O (Input/Output)
An interactive symposium exploring new forms and functions of storytelling. Participants will help design and prototype immersive storytelling simulations for understanding and care. Featuring Maggie Breslin, co-director of the Patient Revolution; Rita Charon, founder and executive director of the program in Narrative Medicine; Nicholas Fortugno, Chief Creative Officer of Playmatics; Desmond Patton, assistant professor at the School of Social Work; and Lance Weiler, founding member and director of the Digital Storytelling Lab. There is a short application required to participate. Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Lantern. (Arts and Ideas, Data and Society)                 

September 27
6 –  9 p.m.
Cartoons for a New Gilded Age
During the original Gilded Age, political cartoonists such as Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler held up a mirror to the foibles, if not corruption, of the political class. In this new Gilded Age of Trump, cartoonists Tom Toro, R. Sikoryak, and Emily Flake join New Yorker cartoon editor Emma Allen for a discussion of contemporary cartoon satire. RSVP here. Butler Library, Room 523. (Arts and Ideas, Just Societies)

October 3
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Maison Française
Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly
In his new book, Safwan M. Masri, executive vice president for Global Centers and Global Development, traces Tunisia’s history of reform in the realms of education, religion, and women’s rights. Masri will be joined in conversation by Steve Coll, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism. Buell Hall, East Gallery. (Global)

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

Fall is in full-swing! Check out what’s happening University-wide and our featured top Pick.

Enjoy and share your story.

September 18 – 19
Earth Institute | Center for Sustainable Development
International Conference on Sustainable Development
This years theme is The World in 2050: Looking Ahead for Sustainable Development. Moderated by journalist Femi Oke. Speakers include Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, president of Ghana; Juan Manuel Santos, president of Colombia; Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network; Chandrika Bahadur, president of the SDSN association; Kathy Calvin, president and CEO of the United Nations Foundation; among others. Register here. Columbia Law School. (Climate Response)

REMINDERS

September 13:Oral Histories: November 13 Terrorist Attacks in Paris and of September 11 in the US
September 18: Christiane Amanpour on Fake News and the Free Press and Writing a New Story Together: Confronting Mental Health Disparities with Community Partnerships
September 19: Jazzmobile, Community, and the Harlem Soundscape

PICKS
September 13
4 – 5:30 p.m.
Mailman
Public Health as a Public Good
A Grand Rounds with Dean Linda P. Fried; Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou, assistant professor of environmental health sciences; David Rosner, Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences; and Bhaven Sampat, associate professor of health policy and management. Participate using #DisruptiveThinking on Twitter. Allan Rosenfield Building, 8th Floor, Auditorium. (Just Societies)

September 19
2 – 3:30 p.m.
University Programs and Events | Center for Veteran Transition and Integration | GS
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick will join in conversation with Columbia alumnus, Michael K. Heaney, a Vietnam veteran who appears in the film The Vietnam War, and current undergraduate Mark Franklin, an Iraq/Afghanistan veteran who is President of Columbia’s Student Military Veterans organization. They will discuss the military-civilian divide that grew on American college campuses during the Vietnam War and what has changed today because of efforts to heal that rift. Introduction by President Lee C. Bollinger. Moderated by Dean of General Studies Peter Awn. Low Library, Rotunda. RSVP here.  (Just Societies)

5:30 – 7 p.m.
Office of University Life
Understanding Charlottesville: White Nationalism and American Society Past, Present, and Future
A conversation on what happened in Charlottesville, the conditions that gave rise to it, and the challenges for our communities in its wake. Featuring Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism and New Yorker contributor; Fred Harris, dean for social sciences and director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society; Jeremy Kessler, associate professor at the Law School; Stephanie McCurry, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History; and Van Tran, assistant professor of sociology; and moderated by Suzanne Goldberg, executive vice president for University Life. RSVP here. Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Cinema. (Just Societies)

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Columbia Law
Windows on Death Row Exhibition: Opening Event
The exhibit’s founders—editorial cartoonist Patrick Chappatte and filmmaker Anne-Frédérique Widmann—will take you behind the scenes on the exhibition and into death row through a 40-minute on-stage multimedia presentation. Includes a roundtable discussion with George Kendall (Law); Carine Williams (Law); Artist Ndume Olatushani, who spent 20 years on death row for a crime he did not commit; and David Herrington, one of Ndume Olatushani’s lawyers. Moderated by Bill Keller, editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project. RSVP here. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104. (Just Societies)

September 26
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Department of Art History and Archaeology | Center for Jazz Studies | Lenfest Center for the Arts | SoA | IRAAS | Wallach Art Gallery
Complex Issues: South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
Kellie Jones (art history and archaeology), will discuss her new book South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Farah Jasmine Griffin (English and comparative literature) will join in conversation. Introduction by Deborah Cullen, director and chief curator at the Wallach Art Gallery. Preceded by a special viewing of the Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and Modern Housing exhibition. Manhattanville, Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Lantern Room. (Arts and Ideas)

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

Welcome to Fall 2017 picks, now featuring a top Pick each week. Enjoy and share your story.

September 14
6:30 – 8 p.m.
SoA | SIPA | Teachers College | Mailman | GSAPP
A Cultural Plan for All New Yorkers
Tom Finkelpearl, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner, will discuss art, leadership, institutions, and how to create change at the scale of the city, including CreateNYC, the first-ever comprehensive cultural plan for NYC. A conversation by Arts Dean Carol Becker. Registration opens here on Wednesday, September 6. Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Lantern. (Arts and Ideas, Just Societies)

PICKS

September 6
5 – 7 p.m.
CUMC
Take Two Cartoons and Call Me in the Morning: The Fact and Fiction of Funny and Health
For this Narrative Medicine Rounds, attend a talk about the intersection of illness and humor by Esquire humor and cartoon editor Bob Mankoff. P&S Building, CUMC Faculty Club, 4th Floor.

September 8
6 – 8 p.m.
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library | Buell Center | Wallach Art Gallery
Living In America Exhibition: Opening Reception
Living In America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and Modern Housing tells a story of segregation, inequality, and aspiration­­––a story as old as the country itself, and one that continues to pose the question, “How to live in America, together?” The exhibition is on view September 9 through December 17. Lenfest Center for the Arts, Wallach Art Gallery. (Arts and Ideas, Just Societies)

September 11
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Mailman
Why Food Is a Public Health Issue
To connect the dots between the food system, public health, and health policy, Mark Bittman, former New York Times columnist and lecturer, is hosting a weekly lecture series on the food justice movement. The first event of the series features a conversation with Mailman Dean Linda P. Fried. Participate using #FoodJustice on Twitter. Vagelos Education Center, Room 201.

September 13
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Columbia Maison Française | Center for Oral History Research
Oral Histories: November 13 Terrorist Attacks in Paris and of September 11 in the US
Christian Delage, historian and filmmaker, will talk about a research program he led with the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Present (IHTP) that involved filming the testimonies of the women and men who lived through the terrorist attacks in Paris and St. Denis on November 13, 2015, in which 130 people were killed. Mary Marshall Clark, director of Columbia’s Center for Oral History Research, will talk about the September 11 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project, analyzing the role 9/11 played in New Yorkers’ lives and how these stories differ from their national media portrayals. Maison Française. (Arts and Ideas)

September 18
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Writing a New Story Together: Confronting Mental Health Disparities with Community Partnerships
For the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture series, Sidney Hankerson, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, will discuss an innovative community-focused approach to delivering mental health services. Hankerson has created a coalition of community leaders and academicians focused on transforming trusted community settings, like African-American Churches, into therapeutic spaces for people with mental health problems. RSVP here. Graduate School of Journalism. (Future of Neuroscience, Just Societies)

6 – 8 p.m.
Graduate School of Journalism
Christiane Amanpour on Fake News and the Free Press
This year’s Peter Zenger Lecture will be given by Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent and anchor of the network’s award-winning, flagship global affairs programme “Amanpour.” Limited seats are available for the public; email [email protected] to RSVP. Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall. (Global, Just Societies)

September 19
6 p.m.
Center for Jazz Studies | Music at St. Paul’s | Jazzmobile
Jazzmobile, Community, and the Harlem Soundscape
In response to the increasing inaccessibility of jazz performances in Harlem, Billy Taylor founded Jazzmobile in 1964, a not-for-profit arts organization that presents free, professional, live jazz concerts in order to bring jazz “back to Harlem.” Audiences listen to amplified jazz at historical sites in Harlem’s outdoors. The event features performances by Jazzmobile All Stars, keynote by Whitney Slaten, Ph.D. candidate in music, and a discussion with the audience. Email [email protected] to RSVP. St. Paul’s Chapel. (Arts and Ideas)

ONGOING

Sept 14  – April 26, 2018: 13 Forms of Uprising: 13 Seminars at Columbia

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