Monthly Archives: April 2018

All of Us? Jerry’s and Carolina’s Picks May 1 – 10

On-Campus, Off-Campus, Out in the World. From Turkish studies to Chinese expansion, our immigrant Founding Father to genomic medicine for all,  Columbians take on the biggest pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

May 4
10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies
İnaugural Event: Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies
Remarks by President Lee C. Bollinger and Güler Sabancı, founding chairman of the Board of Trustees. Followed by a panel discussion on Human Rights and Hybrid Regimes and then a reception. RSVP here. The Italian Academy. (Global Solutions, Just Societies)

REMINDER

April 30: Where Next on Climate? Conservative Prescriptions on Climate Change AND Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
May 2: From Ebola to Dinosaurs to 23andMe: Writing About the Science of Life
May 3: AI and Big Data in Government Policy
May 7: What Can Neuroscience Contribute to Economics?

PICKS

May 1 2
Sustainable Columbia
International Conference on Sustainable Cities
What is a sustainable city? What is the role of climate change in sustainable cities? Three universities —Fordham, Columbia, and NYU —are collaborating to answer such questions. Includes scholars, policymakers, business leaders, and advocates. Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, McNally Amphitheatre. (Climate Response)

May 2
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Columbia Global Reports
High-Speed Empire Book Launch
The launch of journalist Will Doig’s new book High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia. RSVP here. Shakespeare & Co, 939 Lexington Avenue. (Global Solutions)

May 4
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Journalism School | Tow Center for Digital Journalism | Knight First Amendment Institute
What Does Journalistic Autonomy Mean Anymore?
What does press freedom mean in an era of digital journalism? Mike Ananny, assistant professor at the University of Southern California, will give a talk based on his new book Networked Press Freedom. Followed by a response from Jameel Jaffer, founding director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, and a Q&A. RSVP here. Pulitzer Hall, The Brown Institute. (Data and Society)

May 6
3:30 – 5 p.m.
NYC Consortium | CUMC | Weill Cornell Medicine | NYC Health + Hospitals Harlem | New York-Presbyterian
Launch: All of Us Research Program
All of Us is a new research program from the National Institutes of Health and a key element of the Precision Medicine Initiative at Columbia. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, will kick off the program. Abyssinian Baptist Church. RSVP here. (Precision Medicine, Just Societies)

May 9
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Columbia Alumni Association
CAA Lunch and Learn: Public Health
With Julie Kornfeld, vice dean for education and associate professor of epidemiology at Mailman, who is responsible for integrating topics like climate change and the opioid epidemic into Columbia’s award-winning public health curricula. A talk followed by a Q&A. Purchase tickets here. Columbia University Club of New York, 30 W 44th Street, Spruce Suite, New York. (Global Solutions, Climate Response)

May 10
1 – 2 p.m.
Columbia Journalism School
Conversation with Award-Winning Author Isabel Wilkerson
Pulitzer Prize winner and author Isabel Wilkerson will be joined in conversation by Dean Steve Coll to discuss nonfiction writing. RSVP here. Pulitzer Hall, Stabile Student Center. (Just Societies, Arts and Ideas)

7 p.m.
Nevis Science Center
Alexander Hamilton: The Founding Father for the Rest of Us
Bob McCaughey, professor of history and Janet H. Robb Chair in the Social Science at Barnard, will explore why Hamilton has so much more resonance for Americans today than all the other Founding Fathers. RSVP here. Reception to follow at the Hamilton House at Nevis. Science Center at Columbia’s Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York, 136 S. Broadway. (Arts and Ideas)                        

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

Spring fling! Jerry’s and Carolina’s Picks April 25 – May 3

Late April’s calendar is jam-packed and undeniably relevant, especially for our Data and Society season. So, we weren’t that picky….Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

May 7
4:15 p.m.
Zuckerman Institute
What Can Neuroscience Contribute to Economics?
With Ernst Fehr, director of the UBS International Center of Economics in Society; Jacqueline Gottlieb, principal investigator at the Zuckerman Institute; Ifat Levy, associate professor of Comparative Medicine and Neuroscience at Yale University; and Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy. (The Future of Neuroscience)

 

REMINDER

April 24: Data for Good: Data Science at Columbia (Precision Medicine) AND Person Place Thing with ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr
April 25: Data Science and Public Health
April 26: Multilateralism – Towards a Discourse for our Times with the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins

PICKS


April 25
6:15 7 p.m.
University Programs and Events | President’s Office
The Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Prizes
This year’s award recipients are the Constitutional Court of Colombia and the European Roma Rights Center. Keynote address by Bassem Youssef, Egyptian comedian and satirist. Reception to follow. RSVP here. Low Library, Rotunda. (Global Solutions)

April 25
5:30 p.m.
Data Science Institute
Will GDPR Kill Data Science? — A Tutorial on GDPR and its Consequences
What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? What will it change for consumers and data scientists? What are the threats and opportunities for business? V. Abazi, assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the Centre for European Research in Maastricht; R. Berjon, implementation and data governance at The New York Times; and computer scientist Vishal Mishra will be in discussion. Schapiro CEPSR, Room 750, Costa Engineering Commons. (Data and Society)


April 26
6:15 8:45 p.m.
Maison Française
The Final Uprising Seminar: The Counterrevolution
How do we talk about counterrevolutions as a distinct form of uprising? A talk with Malcolm Gladwell, author and staff writer for The New Yorker; Bernard E. Harcourt, executive director of the Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights and founding director of the Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; and others. Faculty House, Presidential Suite, 3rd Floor. (Just Societies, Global Solutions)


April 27
6:30 8:30 p.m.
Journalism School Documentary Program | duPont-Columbia Awards
Film Fridays: Hell on Earth Screening and Q&A
Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of Isis documents the forces that plunged Syria into conflict and the Islamic State’s rise from the chaos, abetted by the West. Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Sebastian Junger and Nick Quested. The film won a 2018 duPont-Columbia Award and was produced with National Geographic Documentary Films. Pulitzer Hall, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor. (Just Societies, Global Solutions)
          

7 p.m.
Miller Theatre | While We Are Still Here
What We Remember
In the Face of What We Remember: Oral Histories of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue Chronicles the history of the renowned movers and shakers who lived, and live, in two of Sugar Hill’s most iconic apartment buildings. The film features the buildings’ elders sharing memories of their famous neighbors, such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Madam Stephanie St. Clair, Aaron Douglass, Thurgood Marshall, and others. Purchase tickets here. Miller Theatre. (Arts and Ideas)

April 30
6:15 8:15 p.m.
Center on Capitalism and Society | Heyman Center for the Humanities | Sociology Department
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
Richard Sennett, senior fellow at the Center on Capitalism and Society, discusses the relation between how cities are built and how people live in them–from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. Speakers include Nobelist Edmund Phelps, director of the Center on Capitalism and Society, and Shamus Khan, professor of sociology. Heyman Center, Second Floor, Common Room. (Global Solutions)

April 30
5 6:30 p.m.
Center on Global Energy Policy
Where Next on Climate? Conservative Prescriptions on Climate Change
With Glenn Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors under President George W. Bush; John Diamond, professor of economics at Rice University; and others. RSVP required here. This event will be livestreamed here. Pulitzer Hall, World Room. (Climate Response)

May 2
5 6:30 p.m.
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | Graduate School of Journalism
From Ebola to Dinosaurs to 23andMe: Writing About the Science of Life
A discussion with Carl Zimmer, author of thirteen books about science and columnist for The New York Times. Pulitzer Hall, World Room.

May 3
4 p.m.
Software Freedom Law | Center and Columbia Law School
AI and Big Data in Government Policy
Daniel J. Weitzner, director of MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative and formerly of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Paul Nemitz, principal adviser to the European Commission. Law, Jerome Greene Annex. (Data and Society)                 

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

Trick Your Brain? Jerry’s and Carolina’s Picks April 19 – 26

Or treat it as journalists, scholars, podcasters, artists, data scientists, and neuroscientists, and explore how to make a better world.

In addition, be sure to check out the talks below regarding the Columbia Protests of 1968.

April 27: May 68 Fifty Years Later: When? Where? What? And does it even matter?
April 27 – 28: Conference: New Perspectives on 1968: 50 Years After “The Revolution”
April 29: A Documentary Film on the Columbia Protests of 1968

 

 

 

 

April 24
6:30 – 9 p.m.
Mailman | ICAP
Person Place Thing with ICAP’s Wafaa El-Sadr
A live recording of Randy Cohen’s acclaimed podcast with special guest Wafaa El-Sadr, founder and director of ICAP. The event is part of ICAP’s year-long celebration of 15 years of empowering health around the world. Vagelos Education Center, Room 201. (Global Solutions)

REMINDER

April 18: Forced Migration and Justice
April 19: Can You Hear Me? A Conversation with Zoe Chace and Michael Barbaro AND 2018 Columbia Global Energy Summit

PICKS

April 19 20
The Center of Study for Social Difference
Frontiers of Debt in the Caribbean and Afro-American
Brings together scholars, journalists, activists, and artists from across these two regions in order to interrogate their contemporary re-emergence as sites of new forms of capital extraction and opposition to debt regimes. The conference includes panels entitled Indebted Bodies, Debts’ Toxins, and Beyond Life and Debt: Education at the Crossroads. April 19 opening reception for Puerto Rico Underwater: Five Artist Perspectives on Debt. (Arts and Ideas, Just Societies)


April 20
6 7 p.m.
Graduate School of Journalism
Investigating The Internet
Social platforms and big tech are powerful forces shaping the economy and society on a global scale. A Hearst Digital Media Lecture with Craig Silverman, Hearst Professional-in Residence and media editor of BuzzFeed News, about how journalists can bring accountability to the digital world. Pulitzer Hall, Jamail Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor. (Data and Society)

April 21
1 4 p.m.
Zuckerman Institute | BioBus | Columbia Neuroscience Outreach and Neuroscience Society
Saturday Science: Trick Your Brain
Students, families, and community groups explore the workings of the brain through hands-on activities and demonstrations with scientists. RSVP here. 605 West 129th Street, Greene Science Center, Education Lab. (The Future of Neuroscience)

April 24
4 5 p.m.
Precision Medicine Initiative
Data for Good: Data Science at Columbia
Distinguished Lecture in Precision Medicine with Jeannette Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and professor of computer science. (Off campus event) William Black Medical Research Building, 650 W. 168 St., Alumni Auditorium. (Data and Society)

April 25
4 5:15 p.m.
Mailman | Office of the Dean | Data Science Institute
Data Science and Public Health
A Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health with F. DuBois Bowman, chair and Cynthia and Robert Citrone-Roslyn and Leslie Goldstein Professor of Biostatistics, and Jeannette M. Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and professor of computer science. Allan Rosenfield Building, 8th Floor, Auditorium. (Data and Society)

April 26
1 2 p.m.
A World Leaders Forum with the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins
Program moderated by David Madigan, executive vice president for Arts and Sciences and the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Followed by a Q&A with the audience. Registration will open Tuesday, April 17 at 10 a.m. here. Low Library, Rotunda. (Global Solutions)                  

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

Hear and Now…. Jerry’s and Carolina’s Picks April 12 – 24

From genomics to global energy, free press to migrationconversations about justice touch every sphere. We have so much to learn!

April 19
12:30 5:30 p.m.
Center on Global Energy Policy
2018 Columbia Global Energy Summit
CGEP celebrates its 5th anniversary with its annual half-day forum. Panelists discuss key issues at the intersection of energy policy, financial markets, the environment and geopolitics. Includes Jeannette Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute; Ruth DeFries, Denning University Professor of Sustainable Development; Avril Haines, senior researcher for Columbia World Projects; Jason Bordoff, founding director of CGEP among others. RSVP required here. This event will be livestreamed here. Low Library, Rotunda. (Climate Response)

VIP PICK

April 24
6 8 p.m.
School of the Arts
MFA Visual Arts 2018 Thesis Exhibition
A viewing and reception with Dean Carol Becker. The exhibition will run from April 22 through May 20. This event is invitation only. Please email Maggie Ress at [email protected] to invite prospects or donors. Lenfest Center for the Arts.  (Arts and Ideas)

REMINDER

April 10 – 11: Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age: Paradoxes of Connectivity and Belonging Conference
April 10: Columbia Revolt at 50: Remembering the Radical Film and its Moment
April 11: Climate Justice: From Brooklyn to Puerto Rico AND Hip-Hop Education: Propelling and Preserving the Movement
April 12: The Mysterious Case of Matter

PICKS

April 12
6 p.m.
Center for American Studies | Jack Miller Center
From “Inferno” To “Metamorphosis”: Building a Movement to End Mass Punishment
James Forman Jr., professor of Law at Yale, will deliver the first Robert A. Ferguson Memorial Lecture. Forman is the author of Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America and a leading critic of mass incarceration. Columbia Law School, Room 103. (Just Societies)

5 8 p.m.
Oral History Master of Arts
Hear and Now: An Interactive Oral History Exhibit
This program presents work aimed at recuperating silenced narratives and changing what capital-H History remembers. This multimedia and interactive exhibit is curated by the students, faculty, and activists of the Oral History MA program. Attendees are invited to bring their headphones and smartphones to engage with web-based exhibits. RSVP here. Union Theological Seminary, Social Hall. (Arts and Ideas)


April 13
6:30 – 9 p.m.
duPont-Columbia Awards | Columbia Journalism School Documentary Program
Film Fridays: The Post
A screening of Steven Spielberg’s The Post, followed by a Q&A with the screenwriters Josh Singer and Liz Hannah. Moderated by Lisa R. Cohen, director of the duPont-Columbia Awards. The Post follows the thrilling story behind the Washington Post’s publication of the Pentagon Papers, and it pulls the curtain back on the Washington Post’s ongoing race with the New York Times to publish. Pulitzer Hall, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor. (Arts and Ideas)

April 16
12  – 1 p.m.
See co-sponsors here
Social Justice and Genome Editing: Voices of the Sickle Cell Disease Community
Vence L. Bonham, senior advisor to the National Human Genome Research Institute director on Genomics and Health Disparities, will discuss a recent study that investigates the knowledge, values and opinions of the US sickle cell disease community about participation in genome-editing clinical trials and the future use of this technology in clinical care. (Precision Medicine, Just Societies)


April 18
4  – 5:15 p.m.
Mailman | Office of the Dean
Forced Migration and Justice
A Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health with Terry McGovern, chair of population and family health at CUMC and founder of the HIV Law Project; Michael Wessells, professor of clinical and population and family health; and Monette Zard, professor in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health. Allan Rosenfield Building, 8th Floor, Auditorium. (Just Societies)


April 19
10:30 a.m.  – 12 p.m.
Graduate School of Journalism
Can You Hear Me? A Conversation with Zoe Chace and Michael Barbaro
This American Life producer and reporter, Zoe Chace, and The Daily host and managing editor, Michael Barbaro, will be in conversation. Moderated by Daniel Alarcòn, executive producer of the podcast Radio Ambulante and assistant professor at the Columbia Journalism School. Pulitzer Hall, World Room. (Arts and Ideas)

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

What’s the Matter? Jerry’s and Carolina’s Picks April 5 – 17

From hip-hop to climate justice to the fundamentals of physics, this week’s Picks remind us that often April is the fullest month.

 

 

 

 

 

April 10 – 11
Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age: Paradoxes of Connectivity and Belonging Conference
Panelist will cover a broad range of conflict-related issues on migration in a digital age. See speaker list here. See list of cosponsors here. RSVP here. The Heyman Center, Second Floor, Common Room. (Data and Society, Just Societies)

REMINDER

April 2: Speaking Science to Power: The Importance of Facts in Decision-Making
April 3: The Global Poets Series with M. NourbeSe Philip and Tracy K. Smith
April 5: American Voter Project: One Person, One Vote in the US Today
April 6: Magazines and Politics, 2018

PICKS

April 5
10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
The Center for Spatial Research
The Art of Storytelling
This third annual Art of Data Visualization event includes Matteo Farinella, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience and a science illustrator; Jeremy White, graphics editor for The New York Times and adjunct professor at GSAPP; and others. RSVP here. Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium. (Data and Society)

April 10
6:30 – 9 p.m.
School of the Arts
Columbia Revolt at 50: Remembering the Radical Film and its Moment
Commemorating the 1968 campus anti-war protests, the SoA will screen Columbia Revolt, the documentary shot by members of the New York Newsreel. Includes a talk with former students and filmmakers. RSVP here. Lenfest Center for the Arts. (Arts and Ideas, Just Societies)

April 11
4 – 5:30 p.m.
Department of Epidemiology
Climate Justice: From Brooklyn to Puerto Rico
An Epidemiology Grand Rounds and Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture with Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of Uprose and co-chair of the Climate Justice Alliance. Allan Rosenfield Building, 8th Floor, Auditorium. (Just Societies, Climate Response)

6:30 pm
Columbia Community Scholars Dialogue
Hip-Hop Education: Propelling and Preserving the Movement
As hip-hop music approaches its 45th anniversary, three Columbia University Community Scholars  will explore how hip-hop education happens and how it is evolving, including the creation of more than thirty institutions focused on the legacy of hip-hop. RSVP here by April 6. Faculty House. (Arts and Ideas)

April 12
7 p.m.
Nevis Science Center
The Mysterious Case of Matter
A discussion with Gustaaf Brooijmans, professor of physics and researcher at ATLAS, a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN that is searching for new discoveries in the head-on collisions of protons of extraordinarily high energy. Followed by a Q&A. RSVP here. Science Center at Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York, 136 S. Broadway.

April 17
4 p.m.
The Zuckerman Institute
Integrating Brain and Behavior in Models of Decision Making
A talk considering the challenges of integrating neuroscience into models of decision-making behavior with Scott Huettel, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. This seminar is part of the Systems, Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Seminar Series at the Zuckerman Institute. Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 9th Floor. (Future of Neuroscience)

4 – 5:30 p.m.
Arts and Sciences Division of Social Science
Retreat from Equality: The Importance of Reconstruction and the Late Nineteenth Century to Understanding Persistent Racial Inequality, a lecture in the Just Societies Speaker Series by Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. RSVP here. Journalism School, Pulitzer Hall, Jamail Lecture Hall. (Just Societies)

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