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.

A few special Commitment picks for June. Write your event stories here.

PICKS

June 9
1:30 – 4:45 p.m.
Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro | Engineering‎ | UNDP World Centre for Sustainable Development
Urban Bay: Eyes Wide Open Under Rio de Janeiro’s Ocean
The world premiere of Urban Bay, a documentary by Ricardo Gomes that highlights marine life close to urban coastal areas and discusses the proper management and conservation of oceans. Followed by a Q&A with Kartik Chandran, professor of environmental engineering‎; Nik Sekhran, director for sustainable development at the UNDP Bureau for Policy and Programme Support; Ricardo Gomes; and moderated by Layla Saad, deputy director at UNDP RIO+ Centre. Reception to follow. RSVP here. Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium. (Climate Response)

June 20
6 p.m.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
DocTalks: The Future of Personalized Cancer Care and Research
Leading Columbia scientists and clinicians  discuss the state of cancer care today and possibilities for the future. Hosted by Dean Lee Goldman and moderated by Stephen G. Emerson, director of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. See speakers here. Harold Pratt House, 58 East 68th Street at Park Avenue, New York City. Registration required here. (Precision Medicine)

June 29
1 – 3 p.m.
Wallach Art Gallery
Making Art Uptown
Join Uptown artists Maren Hassinger and Miguel Luciano for an afternoon of art making that explores creativity and self-expression. Families will be able to contribute to Hassinger’s artwork Fight the Power in an exercise that invites children and adults alike to experience empowerment through making art. No registration required. 615 West 129th Street in Manhattanville. (Arts and Ideas)

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

Commencement is May 17. See honorary degree recipients, CAA Alumni Medalists, and other honorees here. Below, some Commencement Picks.

With Commencement and the calming of University calendars, we’re taking a bit of a summer break. Remember to wear sunscreen and to keep picking your own Columbia events using the University events calendar and our Jerry’s Picks DIY Sources.

REMINDERS

May 9: Up for Air film screening
May 11: Space, Time, and Reality

SNEAK PEAK

June 2 – August 20
Wallach Art Gallery
Uptown
Inaugurating the first summer exhibition of the Wallach Art Gallery at its new home in the Lenfest Center for the Arts, Uptown presents a survey of contemporary artists who live and work in Harlem, El Barrio, Washington Heights, and all areas in between. Curated by Deborah Cullen, director and chief curator. 615 West 129th Street in Manhattanville.

CLASS DAY PICKS
Events with announced speakers listed below

May 13                                                          
4 – 6 p.m.                                             .
GSAPP
Speaker: Dean Amale Andraos. Tickets required. More information here. Morningside Campus, South Lawn.

May 15                                                    
5 – 7:30 p.m.
Engineering
Speaker: Kai Fu Lee ’83CC, venture capitalist and former president of Google Greater China. Tickets required. More information here. Morningside Campus, South Lawn.

May 16
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Columbia College
Speaker: Sheena Wright ’90CC ’94LAW, CEO and president of United Way of New York City. Tickets required. More information here. Morningside Campus, South Lawn.

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Nursing
Speaker: Kenneth A. Forde, Jose M. Ferrer Professor of Surgery Emeritus Columbia University and College of Physicians and Surgeons trustee. RSVP required. More information here. The New Balance Track and Field Center at The Armory, 216 Fort Washington Avenue at West 168th Street.

4 p.m.
Mailman
Speaker: Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme. Tickets required. More information here. 216 Fort Washington Avenue at West 168th Street, New Balance Track and Field Center at The Armory.

May 17
2 p.m.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Speaker: University Professor Wafaa El-Sadr, Mathilde Krim-amfAR Chair of Global Health. No tickets required. More information here. The Armory, 216 Fort Washington Avenue at West 168th Street.

May 18
3:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
SIPA
Speaker: David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. Tickets required. More information here. Morningside campus, South Lawn.

OUR PICKS

May 10
12 – 1:30 p.m.
Columbia Global
Human Slavery and Trafficking in Conflict Zone
A discussion with Lucy Usoyan, president of the Ezidi Relief Fund; Thomas Wheeler, senior policy advisor of development and human rights at the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations; James Cockayne, head of office at the United Nations University; and facilitated by David L. Phillips, director of program on peace-building and rights. International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118th Street, Room 1302. (Global)

May 10
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
CUMC | Health Science Library | National Library of Science | Knowledge Center
African Americans in Civil War Medicine
Many histories have been written about medical care during the Civil War, but the participation and contributions of African Americans as nurses, surgeons, and hospital workers has often been overlooked. A lecture by the distinguished historian and professor Margaret Humphreys. 701 W. 168 Street, Hammer Health Sciences Center, Knowledge Center, Lobby level.

May 11
4 – 5:30 p.m.
Data Science Institute
How the New Availability of Urban and Industrial Data are Impacting Our World from Public Safety to Jet Engines
A Data Science Institute-Industry-Innovation Seminar with Peter Marx, vice president of advanced projects and GE digital adjunct professor at USC. Marx will discuss how newly available data from cities and industry, from sensing and activities, and from transactions and services are driving change across our world. Schapiro Hall, Costa Engineering Commons, Room 750. (Data and Society)

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

The future is very much present in these semester–ending Picks. Enjoy and remember to share your story.
COMMENCEMENT PREVIEW

Commencement is coming with some great class day speakers! Check here for speaker information as they are announced.

REMINDERS

May 3: Narrative Medicine Rounds: Person Place Thing, A Conversation with Harriet A. Washington and Randy Cohen
May 4: Collaborating for Change: A New Vision of Climate Adaptation
May 9: Up for Air Screening

PICKS

May 2
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Center on Global Energy Policy
New York’s Renewable Energy Future
Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, will moderate a conversation with a group of distinguished speakers on the future of renewable energy in New York. Includes Richard Kauffman, chairman of energy and finance for New York, and Vijay Modi, professor of mechanical engineering and director of infrastructure programs at the Millennium Villages Project. Reception to follow. Registration required here. Livestreamed here. Faculty House. (Climate Response)

May 3
1 – 2 p.m.
SIPA
Change and Chaos in the New Digital Age
Jared Cohen, CEO of Jigsaw at Alphabet Inc., will talk about the new digital age, covering everything from global politics to economics to security. Followed by a fireside chat with Dean Merit E. Janow. RSVP here. International Affairs Building, Room 1501. (Data and Society)

5:30 – 8 p.m.
Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma
Telling Hard Stories: 2017 Dart Awards Celebration and Winners’ Roundtable
A reception, awards presentation, and roundtable discussion celebrating the 2017 Dart Award winners. Honorees will illuminate the questions of craft, ethics, and storytelling in their work, and explore innovative best practices in humane reporting on violence and tragedy. Featuring Jay Allison, editor and founder of Transom.org; Samantha Broun, reporter and producer at Transom.org; Erin Alberty, reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune; Rachel Piper, writer and digital editor at The Salt Lake Tribune; and moderated by Bruce Shapiro, executive director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Pulitzer Hall, World Room. (Global, Just Societies)

May 5
8:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.
SIPA | The Data Science Institute | Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
The 2017 Global Digital Futures Forum: A Fragmented Internet?
This year’s Global Digital Futures Policy Forum will focus on this tension between the internet and globalization. Keynote address by Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. RSVP here.  Italian Academy, Teatro. (Global)

8 – 10 p.m.
Astronomy Department
Public Lecture and Stargazing: Exoplanets Through the Ages
Intelligent life took around 3 billion years to emerge on the Earth, but is this “typical”? Could other intelligent civilizations evolve faster? Ruth Angus, postdoctoral researcher,  will discuss how we measure the ages of stars and what we can learn about the evolution of exoplanets (and life) when we do. Includes a Q&A session, astrophotography slideshows, and an observatory tour, followed by guided stargazing with telescopes (weather permitting). Pupin Hall. (Data and Society)

May 11
7 – 8 p.m.
Nevis Science Center
Space, Time, and Reality
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of space and time. Research in our era has pushed this further, even hinting at the quantum threads that may stitch the spacetime fabric together. Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics and director of the Columbia Center for Theoretical Physics, will discuss these ideas and visualize them. Reception to follow. RSVP here. Science Center at Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York, 136 S. Broadway.

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

Collaborating for change–from art and brain science to climate to the dynamics of race.

Enjoy and remember to share your story.

REMINDERS

April 26: Precision Medicine Forum: Harnessing the Power of the Genome to Meet Medicine’s Greatest Challenges
April 27: The Shock of Attention: Art, Science, Creativity, and Doubt and The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
April 28: Advances in Precision Medicine: Genetics

PICKS

April 24
7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
Part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series, University Professor Eric R. Kandel, Kavli Professor of brain science, will discuss his new book. Registration required here. Northwest Corner Building, Room 501. (The Future of Neuroscience)

April 28
12 – 2 p.m.
Heyman Center for the Humanities | The Society of Fellows
Fresh Air Children and the Problem of Race in America
Since 1877, Fresh Air programs from Maine to Montana have brought inner-city children to rural and suburban homes for two-week summer vacations. Tobin Miller Shearer (University of Montana) will discuss how the residents who hosted the children from the city perpetuated racial inequity rather than overturned it. Joined in conversation by Frank Guridy, associate professor. 2nd floor, Common Room. (Just Societies)

May 1
4:15 – 6:15 p.m.
Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience
Sound Studies and Auditory Neuroscience: New Perspectives on Listening
Part of the Seminars in Society and Neuroscience series, a discussion with Tim Griffiths, professor of cognitive neurology at Newcastle University; Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, director of the Music Cognition Lab at the University of Arkansas; and Ana Maria Ochoa, professor of music. Moderated by Nori Jacoby, presidential scholar in Society and Neuroscience. Reception to follow. Faculty House. (The Future of Neuroscience)

May 3
5 – 7 p.m.
CUMC
Narrative Medicine Rounds: Person Place Thing Conversation with Harriet A. Washington and Randy Cohen
Harriet A. Washington, award-winning medical writer and author of Medical Apartheid, will be interviewed by Randy Cohen, creator of the radio program, Person Place Thing. P&S Building, CUMC Faculty Club, 4th Floor. (Just Societies)

May 4
7 – 10 p.m.
The Earth Institute | Sustainable Development Capstone Workshop
Collaborating for Change: A New Vision of Climate Adaptation
A discussion about the most pressing issues pertaining to climate adaptation and collaborative, interdisciplinary solutions. Includes Steven Cohen, executive director of the Earth Institute; Shaun Martin, senior director of the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience for the World Wildlife Fund; Peter Marcotullio, professor of Urban Planning at CUNY; and more. Moderated by environmental journalist Andrew Revkin. Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104. (Climate Response)

May 9
6 – 8 p.m.
Physicians and Surgeons
Up for Air Screening
The film Up for Air follows five years in the life of Jerry Cahill, one of the oldest living patients battling cystic fibrosis, as he learns about the fragility of life and the power of self-discipline and community in prolonging it. Private film screening followed by a Q&A with Jerry Cahill and the film’s director, Artem Agafonov. RSVP here. P&S, William Black Medical Research Building, Alumni Auditorium, 1st floor.
For RSVP, ticket availability, and other details, follow the links. We always appreciate hearing from you about future events.

Everything under the warming sun! Enjoy and remember to share your story.

REMINDERS

April 18: Opening Reception – Invisible Cities: Moda Curates 2017
April 19: The Cyber Threat to our National Security and Privacy
April 20: Precision Medicine and Popular Media
April 21–22: Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Knowing and Certainty
April 22: Public Opening and Reception: 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition

SNEAK PEAK

May 11
7 – 8 p.m.
Nevis Science Center
Space, Time, and Reality
One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein revolutionized our understanding of space and time. Research in our era has pushed this further, even hinting at the quantum threads that may stitch the spacetime fabric together. Brian Greene, professor of physics and mathematics and director of the Columbia Center for Theoretical Physics, will discuss these ideas and visualize them. Reception to follow. RSVP here. Science Center at Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York, 136 S. Broadway.

PICKS

April 20
4 – 6 p.m.
Co-sponsors here
Despair is Not a Political Strategy: Leading Advocates Discuss Current Policy Campaigns to Protect New York’s Most Vulnerable
Community organizers focus on specific legislative targets that could buffer the impact of the new administration’s agenda. Featuring Katharine Bodde, policy counsel at the New York Civil Liberties Union;  Charlene Gossett Navarro, regional outreach manager at the New York Immigration Coalition; Yul San Liem, co-director of the Justice Committee; Jose Schiffino, Long Island popular education coordinator at the Rural and Migrant Ministry; and Pete Sikora, New York Communities for Change. Jerome Greene Annex. (Just Societies)

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
SEAS | Extreme Engineering
Space Medicine: Terrestrial Applications for Human Health, Performance, and Longevity
A talk by Smith L. Johnston, NASA’s aerospace doctor known as the “sleep doctor” for his work on identifying how to manage sleep in an effective way in spaceflight. Teachers College, Cowin Auditorium.

April 21
3 – 5 p.m.
Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Trump’s Emerging Strategy for Defeating ISIS and Al-Qaeda Across the Middle East
A talk on the emerging policy of the Trump administration toward the Middle East, with a particular focus on Trump’s approach to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Al-Qaeda, the war in Syria, Iran, and Yemen. Discussion with Colin H. Kahl, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Georgetown University, moderated by Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics and member of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. International Affairs Building, Room 1302. (Global, Just Societies)

April 26
5:30 p.m.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Precision Medicine Forum: Harnessing the Power of the Genome to Meet Medicine’s Greatest Challenges
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of  P&S leading Columbia scientists and clinicians present. Panelists includes Geneticist David Goldstein, director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine (IGM), and Tom Maniatis, director of IGM’s Precision Medicine Initiative. Moderated by Max Gomez, award-winning broadcast journalist.104 Haven Avenue, Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, Wu Auditorium, 2nd floor. Registration required here. (Precision Medicine)

April 27
4:30 p.m.
CUMC
The Shock of Attention: Art, Science, Creativity, and Doubt
Rita Charon, founder and executive director of the program in narrative medicine and professor of medicine, will present the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities. 650 West 168th Street, P&S Alumni Auditorium, 1st floor. (Arts and Imagination)

6 – 7:30 p.m.
Columbia Global Reports
The Global Novel: Writing the World in the 21st Century
What will 21st century fiction look like? In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch examines some of our most beloved writers, including Haruki Murakami, Elena Ferrante, Roberto Bolaño, and Margaret Atwood to better understand literature in the age of globalization. 1313 Madison Avenue, The Corner Bookstore. (Global, Arts and Imagination)

April 28
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative
Advances in Precision Medicine: Genetics
An inaugural conference bringing together fundamental and clinical researchers to discuss how changes in genetics and genomics are driving precision medicine. Speakers include David Goldstein, director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine (IGM); George Yancopoulos, president and chief scientific officer at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals; and others. Reception to follow. RSVP here. Alumni Auditorium, Physicians & Surgeons, 630 West 168th St. (Precision Medicine)

6 – 7 p.m.
Graduate School of Journalism
Melissa Bell: We Broke the News, Now Let’s Fix It
This year’s Hearst Digital Media Lecturer and publisher of Vox Media, Melissa Bell, will discuss the current media landscape. Reception to follow. RSVP is required at [email protected]. Pulitzer Hall, World Room.

May 1
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Knight First Amendment Institute | Tow Center for Digital Journalism
Disrupted: Speech and Democracy in the Digital Age
Free speech, the free press, and essential questions about democracy in the digital age. Welcome by President Lee C. Bollinger and Alberto Ibarguen, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation. Speakers include Nicholas Lemann, dean emeritus of Columbia Journalism School; Michael Oreskes, senior vice president for news and editorial director at NPR; Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute; Beth Simone Noveck, director of the Governance Lab; and keynote by Aryeh Neier, president emeritus of the Open Society Foundations. RSVP here. Italian Academy. (Just Societies, Data and Society)

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

The sense of smell is in the air this week, of course, and other Picks include Congressman Schiff on cybersecurity, two Wallach Gallery openings, programs on knowing, proving, and seeing, the neuroscience of movement and the dynamics of race and health  Enjoy and remember to share your story.

REMINDERS

April 11: The New York Premiere Film Screening of Light and Brazilian Democracy: Challenges and Perspectives (livestreamed here)
April 13: The Human Sense of Smell and Neutrinos are Us!
April 14: #StartupColumbia 2017 Festival  

SPECIAL PICK

April 22
3 – 6 p.m.
School of the Arts | Wallach Art Gallery
Public Opening and Reception: 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition
The first exhibition in the Lenfest Center for the Arts, the new home of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, will showcase the work of 29 student artists. Curated by Wallach director Deborah Cullen. Exhibition runs April 23 to May 21. 615 West 129th Street in Manhattanville.

PICKS

April 11 – 12
Columbia University Libraries
The Art of Data Visualization: Art or Knowledge?
Is data visualization art? Is it knowledge? Or is it some combination of the two (and more)? This two-day conference will explore these questions and showcase work from a range of data visualization practitioners. A keynote entitled Data Humanism will be given by Giorgia Lupi, author of Dear Data. Other topics include Conflict Urbanism: Visualizing Conflict Data Through Mapping and Spatial Analysis and Visualizing Social Interactions in Social Networks. Register here. For workshop locations and program visit here. (Data and Society)

April 13
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Mailman School of Public Health
Race, Racism, and Health in the Trump Era: Realities and Evidence-Based Projections
A seminar by David R. Williams, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health and professor of African and African American studies and sociology at Harvard. Williams developed the Everyday Discrimination Scale, one of the most widely used measures of discrimination in health studies. RSVP here. 722 West 168th St. 532, Allan Rosenfield Building. (Just Societies)

April 18
6 – 8 p.m.
Wallach Art Gallery | Critical and Curatorial Studies in Art History and Archaeology
Opening Reception – Invisible Cities: Moda Curates 2017
An exhibition taking viewers on a journey through various media—photography, film, and digital—as it examines the “relationship between representation and mediation” in works expressing “the imagined dreams, the hidden anxieties, and the real desires of contemporary culture.” Curated by Page Benkowski ’17GSAS, Taylor Fisch ’17GSAS, and Georgia Horn ’17GSAS. Exhibition runs April 18 to May 20 at the Morningside Campus location of the Wallach Art Gallery. Schermerhorn Hall, 8th floor. Tour with curators on April 27.

April 19
4 – 5:15 p.m.
Columbia Law | Center on Global Governance | Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security
The Cyber Threat to our National Security and Privacy
A discussion with congressman Adam Schiff, US representative for California’s 28th district and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Reception to follow. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103. (Data and Society, Just Societies)

April 20
5 – 7 p.m.
Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative
Precision Medicine and Popular Media
Precision Medicine—an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment, and lifestyle for each person—raises a myriad of cultural, political, and historical questions that the humanities are uniquely positioned to address. Discussion with Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, senior research scholar and medical anthropologist at Stanford school of medicine, as part of the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative series, Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture. Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge, Room 701. (Precision Medicine)

April 21 – 22
Center for Science and Society | Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Evidence: An Interdisciplinary Conversation about Knowing and Certainty
With leading Columbia faculty, academic scholars, public policy makers, non-governmental advocates, and media experts. Panelists will examine the use of evidence—from massive data sets to individual case studies. Registration required here. Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall. (Data and Society)

April 25
6:30 –  8 p.m.
Zuckerman Institute
The Neuroscience of Movement
Thomas M. Jessell, co-director of Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute and Claire Tow Professor of Motor Neuron Disorders, discusses the factors that regulate neuronal diversity and their clinical implications. Jessell will also provide examples of the way in which manipulation of the activity of neurons permits insight into the design of circuits involved in motor control. RSVP here. Faculty House. (Future of Neuroscience)

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