The Picks address issues on many fronts: gender, race, refugees, culture, and the US presidency. 

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REMINDERS

October 26: The US Elections Through Foreign Eyes
October 27: Isidore I. Benrubi Lecture with US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
October 31: Global Think-in: Populisms Now

PICKS

October 26
6:30 p.m.
School of the Arts
Rebecca Solnit: City of Women
Rebecca Solnit, Mellon visiting artist and thinker, will be in conversation with Mabel O. Wilson (GSAPP) about City of Women, a feminist map from the book Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas that reimagines the New York City Subway system. Introduction by Dean Carol Becker and Timothy Donnelly, writing chair. Miller Theatre. (Just Societies)  

6 – 8 p.m.
Office of University Life
Reading Columbia: An Evening with Faculty Author Victor LaValle
For this inaugural event, Victor LaValle, professor and author, will discuss his latest novella, The Ballad of Black Tom, which explores themes of xenophobia and racism in 1920s New York City. Monica Miller  (Barnard, English) will moderate. Register here. Columbia Journalism School, Pulitzer Hall, World Room. (Just Societies)

October 27
2:30 – 6 p.m.
SIPA
Beyond Neutrality: The Humanitarian System at a Crossroads
This conference will feature two panels on Conformity, Impartiality, and Rights and Humanitarianism Between Charity and International Security. Moderated by SIPA lecturers Dirk Salomons and Susannah Friedman. It marks Salomons’ retirement and his contributions to the humanitarian policy field. See list of speakers here. Reception to follow. SIPA Kellogg’s Center, 15th floor. (Global Solutions, Just Societies)

6 – 7 p.m.
SIPA
Jake Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s Senior Policy Advisor in conversation with Dean Merit E. Janow
How would a Clinton administration approach US relations with Russia, China, and the Middle East? What would be its priorities in the first 100 days? Jake Sullivan, an American policymaker and the top foreign policy advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election campaign, will discuss some of the global challenges that will face the next US president. Italian Academy, Teatro. (Global)

November 1
6  – 7 p.m.
Columbia Journalism School
Thought Leader Series: Jelani Cobb on Race and the Presidency
Jelani Cobb, New Yorker author and newly arrived Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, discusses the current political scene and race at the end of the Obama era. Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall. (Just Societies)

November 2
5 – 7 p.m.
School of Professional Studies
Narrative Medicine Rounds: John Donvan and Caren Zucker
John Donvan, Emmy award–winning correspondent, and Caren Zucker, peabody Award–winning television news producer, will talk about their new book A Different Key: The Story of Autism and the seminal moments in the history of autism. CUMC Faculty Club, Physicians and Surgeons Building, 4th floor.

6 – 8 p.m.
SIPA
Domestic Policy in the 2016 Presidential Election: What’s at Stake?
Columbia experts will reflect on the stakes of the election from the perspectives of criminal justice, energy, education, social welfare, and urban policy, and what Clinton and Trump administrations might do differently in each of these domains. Opening remarks by Dean Merit E. Janow. Moderated by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (SIPA). International Affairs Building, Room 1501. (Just Societies)

ONGOING

October 13 – October 28: Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today (Film Series at Maison Française)
September 7 – December 10: The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (Wallach Gallery)

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

October’s calendar brims…we just couldn’t be that picky. So here’s a thinker’s dozen. Feed your head or fuel up for the October 21 fun run with President Bollinger. In corpore sano and all that….

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REMINDERS

October 17: Global Perspectives on the U.S. Presidential Election (livestream available here)
October 19: Lessons of Climate Resilience in New York City

PICKS

October 19
6:30 p.m.
Columbia Journal of Race and Law | Columbia Journal of Environmental Law
Environmental Justice: What’s Race Got to Do With It?
Panelists will discuss a range of issues related to water accessibility and the disproportionate siting of environmental hazards in communities of color across the nation. Includes Edward Lloyd, Evan M. Frankel Clinical Professor in Environmental Law; Steven McSloy, partner at Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP; and Kendall Thomas, director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture. Columbia Law School, Room 103. (Climate Response, Just Societies)

6:30 p.m.
Co-sponsors here
My City Book Club: A History of Housing in New York City
Richard Plunz, director of the Urban Design Lab, will discuss his landmark study, A History of Housing in New York City. He will be joined in conversation by David Burney (Pratt Institute School of Architecture) and Shola Olatoye (New York City Housing Authority). Reception and book signing to follow. Purchase tickets here. Museum of the City of New York.

October 20
6 – 8 p.m.
Oral History Master of Arts
Intersection | Prospect Heights: Dialogue in the Supermarket
How do we talk about, argue about, and even laugh and cry about gentrification? Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani will discuss her most recent public art and dialogue project in Prospect Heights, in which exhibitions were curated at the supermarket to encourage conversations around gentrification. Knox Hall, Room 509.

October 21
8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
CUMC Eighth Annual Steve Miller Medical Education Day
An annual event promoting medical education and humanism in medicine, paying tribute to the legacy of the late Steve Miller ’80CC, ’84P&S, former director of pediatric emergency medicine and director of pediatric medical student education. Featuring a grand rounds talk by Sheri Fink, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Ashley Elich at [email protected]. CUMC Alumni Auditorium, 1st floor.

1 – 2 p.m.
Columbia Data Science Institute | Department of Biomedical Informatics
Paul D. Clayton Lecture: DJ Patil, The White House Chief Data Scientist
DJ Patil, deputy chief technology officer for data policy and chief data scientist in the Office of Science and Technology Policy, will answer questions about President Obama’s Data Science Initiative and its articulation with precision medicine. Roy And Diana Vagelos Education Center, Wu Auditorium. (Data and Society, Precision Medicine)

2 – 5:30 p.m.
The Italian Academy | Office of the Dean of Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences | Public Books | Office of the President
The Global Book Review
Editors and critics from around the world will discuss how the Internet has—and has not—created a global readership. Keynote by James Wood, staff writer and book critic at The New Yorker. RSVP here. The Italian Academy. (Global)

1 – 6 p.m.
The Walther Collection | Department of Art History and Archaeology | Wallach Art Gallery
Beyond the Frame: Contemporary Photography from Africa and the Diaspora
International scholars, curators, artists, and cultural producers will be in discussion. View program and speakers here. Followed by a reception at the Wallach Art Gallery, which will be open for viewing The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa. Register here. Schermerhorn Hall, Room 501.

8 p.m.
Astronomy Department
Surviving the Age of Misinformation
Marking the the 25th anniversary of the first World Wide Webpage, David J. Helfand will discuss the origin of misinformation and illustrate how to survive in the misinformation age. The lecture includes a Q&A session, astrophotography slideshows, and an observatory tour, followed by guided stargazing with telescopes (weather permitting). Pupin Hall. (Data and Society)

October 25
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Mailman | The Paley Center for Media
Calderone Prize in Public Health Lecture
This year’s prize will be awarded to Mary Bassett, commissioner of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Bassett currently leads a comprehensive strategic plan to address how New York City will contain the global outbreak of the Zika virus. Reception starts at 10:30 a.m. The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street.

October 26
6 – 7:30 p.m.
European Institute | Columbia Journalism School
The U.S. Elections Through Foreign Eyes
What is it like to cover the U.S. presidential race? How do foreign correspondents explain our political system to the rest of the world? A discussion with Dame Babou (African Time Radio), Matthew Bishop, (The Economist); Maria Cristina Ramirez (La Prensa Panama); Weifeng Ni (BBC). International Affairs Building, Room 1512. (Global)

October 27
4 – 5 p.m.
Center for History and Ethics in Public Healthcare
Isidore I. Benrubi Lecture with U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
Whitehouse will give a lecture entitled Manufacturing Doubt: The Industry Playbook for Undermining Science and Thwarting Regulation. Reception to follow. Register here. CUMC Alumni Auditorium, 650 West 168th Street, Black Building. Private dinner at 6 p.m. at the CUMC Faculty Club. RSVP to dinner here [email protected].

October 31
6:30 – 8 p.m.
The Committee on Global Thought
Global Think-in: Populisms Now
A global think-in about populism with John Judis, editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, on the U.S; Federico Finchelstein, professor of history at the New School, on Latin America; Xiaobo Lü, professor of political science at Barnard College, on China; Nadia Urbinati, professor of political theory, on Europe; and Lawrence Liang, co-founder of Alternate Law Forum. Moderated by Carol Gluck, chair of the Committee on Global Thought. Register here. Columbia Journalism School, Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall. (Global)

ONGOING

October 13 – October 28: Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today (Film Series at Maison Française)
September 7 – December 10: The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (Wallach Gallery)

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

Climate in NY urban design and at the White House, free choice and neuroscience, global perspectives on refugees, the US election, and thoughts on investment bubbles from the new Zhang Professor of Economics. What’s on Columbia minds? Lots! Be like Adeline, and write your event stories here.

FEATURED EVENT STORY

Adeline Ortiz Reports on the Latino Vote Event
“Despite our growing population and economic power, Latinos continue to be largely ignored by political candidates, including our current Presidential candidates, who see immigration as the only issue that concerns us.” Read more here>>

REMINDERS

October 11: Pulitzer Winners: Exposing Injustices Around the World
October 13: Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture and Person Place Thing Podcast

GLOBAL SERIES
Over the next two weeks, Columbia Global Centers are offering programs in New York that share unique regional perspectives on topical issues. RSVP required. The first three:  

October 13: Strengthening Refugee Access, Equity, and Inclusion: Developing a New Framework
October 17: Global Perspectives on the U.S. Presidential Election
October 18: Student Engagement at the Columbia Global Centers

PICKS

October 11
9:45 – 11 a.m.
Center on Global Energy Policy
Brian Deese, Senior Advisor to President Obama
A discussion of President Obama’s climate agenda and the future of the Paris Agreement. Following Deese’s remarks, Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, will moderate a discussion. Registration is required here. Faculty House. (Climate Response)

October 13
6 – 8 p.m.
Center for Science and Society | Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience Program
The Idea of Freedom of Choice in Neuroscience and History
Neuroscientists and behavioral economists have been collecting evidence that the human brain is often quite poor at making choices. Where does this leave us, in an age when choice has become a proxy for freedom? Sophia Rosenfeld (Yale); Sheena Iyengaar (Columbia Business School); and David Barack (Columbia presidential scholar) will be in discussion. Fayerweather Hall, Room 513. (The Future of Neuroscience)

October 19
6 – 7:15 p.m.
Earth Institute | MPA-ESP Program
Lessons of Climate Resilience in New York City
Steven Cohen, executive director of the Earth Institute; Curtis Cravens, senior advisor for coastal resiliency at the New York City mayor’s office of recovery and resiliency; George Deodatis, chair of the department of civil engineering and engineering mechanics; Kate Orff, director of the urban design program; and Adam Sobel, professor of earth and environmental sciences will discuss how New York City – and other cities like it – can take steps to become stronger and more resilient in the face of climate change. See full list of speakers here. Reception to follow. Low Library, Rotunda. (Climate Response)

October 19
6 p.m.
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Zhang Professorship Inaugural Lecture: “Bubbles in Assets and in Art”
Celebrate the establishment of the Charles and Lynn Zhang Professorship of Economics with a lecture by its first incumbent José A. Scheinkman. Hosted by David B. Madigan; Dean James J. Valentini, and Economics Chair Donald Davis. RSVP by Wednesday, October 12, to Maryellen Titani at [email protected]. The Italian Academy.

ONGOING

October 13 – October 28: Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today (Film Series at Maison Française)
September 7 – December 10: The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (Wallach Gallery)
September 13 – June 2017: Tomo Mori: Concierto Encircling (Wallach Gallery/Miller Theatre)

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

Tour a lab, “radioactive” with WKCR, join a live studio audience for a podcast, or explore precision medicine or mass incarceration – Pick your own Columbia adventure. Details below.

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REMINDERS

October 5: Narratives in the Body: Why One Story and Not Another?

PICKS

October 8
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Open House: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Tour a lab, participate in hands-on earth science demonstrations, and learn from world-renowned researchers about their latest discoveries. Free and open to all. Register here. 61 Route 9W, Palisades, New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

October 9
6 p.m.
Miller Theatre
WKCR’s 75th Anniversary Concert
Celebrate the 75th anniversary of WKCR-FM, Columbia’s non-commercial student-run radio station. Featuring performances by Henry Grimes and the George Coleman quartet, including George Coleman (tenor sax), George Coleman, Jr. (drums), Rick Germanson (piano), and John Webber (bass). Purchase tickets here. Miller Theatre.

October 10
6:15 – 8:15 p.m.
Center for Justice | Center for the Study of Law and Culture | Heyman Center for the Humanities | Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Invisible Men: Panel Discussion Celebrating Flores Forbes’ new book
Flores Forbes, associate vice president for strategic policy and program implementation and a former leader in the Black Panther Party, will read from his new book Invisible Men: A Contemporary Slave Narrative in the Era of Mass Incarceration. Including a discussion with Kendall Thomas, director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture, and Glenn E. Martin, criminal justice reform advocate. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103. (Just Societies)

6 – 7 p.m.
Columbia Journalism School
Pulitzer Winners: Exposing Injustices Around the World
Featuring Sheila Coronel, director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism; Alissa Rubin of the New York Times, who gave voice to Afghan women forced to endure unspeakable cruelties; and Yannis Behrakis, Reuters’ chief photographer for Greece and Cyprus, part of the Pulitzer-Prize winning team documenting the flight of refugees from Syria. Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall. (Global, Just Societies)

October 13
5 – 7 p.m.
Center for the Study of Social Difference | Center for Science and Society
Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture
Under the Precision Medicine Initiative, Columbia explores questions that precision medicine raises in law, ethics, the social sciences, and the humanities. Aditya Bharadwaj (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) will discuss the local and global dimensions of precision medicine. Schermerhorn Hall Extension, Room 754. (Precision Medicine, Global)

6 – 7:30 p.m.
CUMC Office of the Dean
Person Place Thing Podcast
A live taping of WAMC Public Radio’s Person Place Thing podcast with Randy Cohen, host and author of The Ethicist column in the New York Times Magazine from 1999 to 2011. Featuring Jonathan F.P. Rose, urban renewal pioneer and developer, discussing his new book The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life. Music by classical guitarist João Kouyoumdjian. Followed by a book signing with Rose. RSVP here. CUMC, Allan Rosenfield Building, Hess Commons.

ONGOING

October 13 – October 28: Filming at the Borders: Migrating to Europe Today (Film Series at Maison Française)
September 7 – December 10: The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (Wallach Gallery)
September 13 – June 2017: Tomo Mori: Concierto Encircling (Wallach Gallery/Miller Theatre)

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

This week’s list takes Just Societies global – from Afghanistan to Mississippi. Write your event stories here.

WORLD LEADERS FORUM

September 26: President of the Republic of Namibia, Low Library, Rotunda.

REMINDERS

September 27: Segregation Today: A Delacorte Center conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times Magazine
September 29: Real Estate Tech Unbundled (Entrepreneurship)

PICKS

September 26
5 – 8 p.m.
AC4 | Peace Education Network | School of Professional Studies
Perspectives on Peace: Education and Empowerment in the Syrian Refugee Crisis
With a set of short documentary screenings and a panel with expert insight, this session examines of some of the communities impacted by the current refugee crisis and creative solutions to deliver education to refugees. Panel includes Aline Sara, founder and CEO of NaTakallam; Nada Elatter, director of educational programs at the Sesame Workshop; Laura Doggett, producer and editor of Another Kind of Girl; and Bruce Usher; co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. Register here. Teachers College, Zankel Hall, Milbank Chapel. (Global, Just Societies)

7:30  – 10 p.m.
The Athena Center’s Leadership Labs
Presidential Debate Viewing and Discussion about Women, Leadership, Feminism, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump
Featuring Marie C. Wilson, founder and former president of the White House Project; Erin Vilardi, founder and director of VoteRunLead; Heather McKee Hurwitz, post-doctoral fellow in the Athena Center for Leadership Studies and the department of sociology. Register here. Barnard College, Diana Center, LL103.

September 28
1 – 2:30 p.m.
Heyman Center for the Humanities | Center for Teaching and Learning
Civic Engagement and the Humanities
Liz Ševčenko, director of the Guantanamo Public Memory Project and of the Humanities Action Lab at the New School, will speak about her work bringing faculty, students, and community partners around the country into public engagement with urgent social issues. Heyman Center, 2nd floor, Common Room. (Just Societies)

6 – 8 p.m.
Office of the Provost | School of Social Work
Remember Freedom Summer: Voting Rights 2016
A tribute to former Columbia School of Social Work student Michael “Mickey” Schwerner and the 1964 Freedom Summer civil rights campaign, highlighting its lessons and the significance of voting rights today. Includes Robert Moses, New York City planner; Calvin O. Butts, pastor and president of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury; Irwin Garfinkel, co-director of the Columbia Population Research Center; and Ronald Mincy, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice. Registration required here. Livestream available here. Low Library, Rotunda. (Just Societies)

September 29
6 – 8:30 p.m.
Maison Française | Columbia Journalism School
Screening and Discussion – Inside Charlie Hebdo: Is Anything Too Sacred to Caricature?
Based on the French satirical magazine that became the target of a terrorist attack in 2015. Véronique Brachet Cabut, widow of Jean Cabut, one of the cartoonists killed in the attack, will be joined in discussion by Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists; Victor Navasky, author of The Art of Controversy and George T. Delacorte Professor in Magazine Journalism Emeritus; and Suzanne Daley, former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times. The Brown Center for Digital Media, Pulitzer Hall. (Global)

September 30
8:45 a.m. – 5 p.m.
The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise
Cities Transformed: Empowering Individuals, Businesses and Communities
Will urban change expand opportunity and equity or will it entrench inequalities? How can social innovations transform cities in ways that fully empower individuals, businesses, and communities? Panelists include Andrew Salkin, senior vice president of City Solutions at 100 Resilient Cities; Damon Phillips, co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise; John Paul Farmer ’04BUS, director of technology and civic innovation at Microsoft. See full list of speakers and program here. Purchase tickets here. Lerner Hall, Auditorium.

9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
GSAPP
Fitch Colloquium: Preservation and War
What are the moral limits to war and actions to preserve historic sites? Opening remarks by Dean Amale Andraos. Includes Jorge Otero-Pailos, director of the Historic Preservation Program, Zainab Bahrani (art history and archaeology), and Rosalind C. Morris (anthropology). See full list of speakers and program here. Register here. Wood Auditorium.

October 5
5 – 7 p.m.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Narratives in the Body: Why One Story and Not Another?
For Narrative Medicine Rounds, Siri Hustvedt, novelist, scholar, and lecturer in psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, will discuss the ideas in Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Work. 630 W. 168th Street, Columbia University Medical Center, Pauline A. Hartford Memorial Chapel.

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

World Leaders Forum—Columbia’s annual idea-fest coinciding with the UN General Assembly—events are related to displaced scholars, Panama, and Costa Rica. Write your event stories here.

REMINDERS

September 19: Hope in the Face of Fear: Using Neuroscience to Transform Anxiety Treatments
September 22: Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell or High Water
September 29: Decision 2016: The Battle for the Latino Vote
 
PICKS

September 20
6:30 p.m.
School of the Arts | Maison Française
Complex Issues: Losing Helen
Dean Carol Becker’s Losing Helen is a first-person narrative essay of a daughter’s profound journey through the many phases in the process of losing her ninety-eight-year-old mother. In discussion with Phillip Lopate, director of nonfiction in the writing program. Register here. Buell Hall, East Gallery.

September 27
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Columbia Journalism School
Segregation Today: A Delacorte Center conversation with Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times Magazine
Nikole Hannah-Jones has been investigating the way racial segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy. She will be in conversation with Keith Gessen, the George Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism. Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall. (Just Societies)

September 28
4 – 5:30 p.m.
Mailman
Incarceration, Health Disparities, and Community Health
A Dean’s Grand Rounds with Robert Fullilove, professor of sociomedical sciences and associate dean for minority affairs. Alumni Auditorium, Physicians & Surgeons, 630 West 168th St. (Just Societies)

September 29
6:30 – 9 p.m.
Columbia Entrepreneurship | GSAPP Real Estate Development Program | Metaprop NYC
Real Estate Tech Unbundled
Panelists will discuss the real estate industry and the impact of real estate tech startups. Including Amol Sarva ’96CC, founder and CEO of Knotel; Marc Holliday ʼ90GSAPP, CEO of SL Green Reality Corp; and Zach Aarons ’13BUS, co-founder of MetaProp. Purchase tickets here. 237 Park Avenue, Convene Conference Center.

September 30
6:30 p.m.
School of the Arts
Making a Murderer
Conversation on filmmaking and narrative technique with Moira Demos ’08SOA and Laura Ricciardi ’07SOA, creators of the series Making a Murderer. Moderators include Maureen A. Ryan, chair of the School of the Arts film program. Miller Theatre.

October 4
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Columbia Journalism School
A First Amendment in the Digital Age
What will the next generation of speech and press-freedom cases look like? What will the First Amendment have to say? A Zenger Lecture with Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute. To RSVP, e-mail [email protected]. Reception to follow. Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall. (Just Societies)

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

Global (dis)integration? Primary care nurse practitioners? Stiglitz et al, on taxes, privacy and the digital era, the new Miller mural, climate and cities, Latino voters—Columbia’s in full swing: pick your passion!

Write your event stories here.
 
REMINDERS
 
September 15: Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture
September 19: Hope in the Face of Fear: Using Neuroscience to Transform Anxiety Treatments

PICKS

September 13
5:30 p.m.
Wallach Art Gallery | Miller Theatre | Columbia Arts Initiative
Artist Talk and Reception with Tomo Mori
This year’s site-specific mural in the lobby of Miller Theatre is Tomo Mori’s Concerto Encircling. Deborah Cullen, director and chief curator at the Wallach Art Gallery, will join Mori in a Creative Conversation to discuss her work. Reception to follow. Miller Theatre, lobby.

September 14
11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Columbia Nursing
Open House: Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Group
Celebrate the opening of the new uptown faculty practice, meet the nurse practitioners, take a tour, and learn about the services available. Refreshments will be served. Register here. 516 West 168th Street.
(Picking Partner: Mairead Q. Moore, Nursing)

September 15
1 – 6:15 p.m.
Columbia Law School | The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
The Future of Integration in Europe and Beyond
Panelists will address such issues as European integration post-Brexit, the political challenges of economic integration, and the impact disintegration could have on global business. Includes David Freedberg, director of the Italian Academy; Gillian Lester, dean of Columbia Law School; John Authers, senior investment commentator at Financial Times; Armando Varricchio, ambassador at the Italian Embassy to the United States; and , ambassador at the Institute of International Finance. RSVP here. The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue. (Global Solutions)
(Picking Partner: Nancy L. Goldfarb, Law)

September 16
6 – 9 p.m.
Columbia Journalism School | Film Fridays
Film Screening: 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets
Documents the story of the killing of 17-year-old Jordan Davis and reveals how hidden racial prejudice can result in tragedy. Followed by a Q&A with director Marc Silver and producer Carolyn Hepburn. Columbia Journalism School, Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor. (Just Societies)

September 21
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
SIPA | Columbia European Institute | European Commission, Bocconi University
Tax Avoidance and Privacy in the Digital Age: Transatlantic Citizens’ Dialogue
A debate on competition, tax avoidance, and privacy in the digital age from both the US and EU perspective. With Margrethe Vestager, European Union Commissioner for Competition; Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor; and Mario Monti, senator and president, Bocconi University. Moderated by Dean Merit E. Janow. Register here. International Affairs Building, Room 1501. A live broadcast of the event will be available here. (Global Solutions, Data and Society)
(Picking Partners: Kathryn Cashin and Maria Vallejo-Nguyen, SIPA)

September 22
6:45 – 8:45 p.m.
The Earth Institute | The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law | The Sallan Foundation
Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell or High Water
Creating resilient cities requires that a city place a high priority on making the most of new approaches to climate risk management. For Climate Week NYC, Joyce Rosenthal, the Earth Institute; Kate Orff, director of the Urban Design Program at GSAPP; Nico Kienzl, director of Atelier Ten; Juan Camilo Osorio, director of research at the NY Environmental Justice Alliance; and Megan Linkin, SwissRe, will be in discussion. Moderated by Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Keynote address by Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, and Chris Ward, former executive director of Port Authority. Register here. Columbia Law School, Room 106. (Climate Response)
 
September 29
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. 
Columbia Journalism School | Telemundo Network
Decision 2016: The Battle for the Latino Vote
Panelists will discuss the battle to win the increasingly important Latino voters during this historic election year and far beyond. Speakers include María Celeste Arrarás, journalist and host for Noticiero Telemundo; Steve Coll, dean of Columbia Journalism; Jose Diaz-Balart, anchor and host for Noticias Telemundo and NBC News; Luis Fernández, executive vice president of Noticias Telemundo; and Chuck Todd, NBC political director. See program schedule here. Registration required here. Registration ends September 22. Columbia Journalism School, Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor.

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

Faculty and students are back, and so are Jerry’s Picks! In case you missed our list last week, September starts below, including anxiety reducing neuroscience. Write your event stories here.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS
 
September 7 – December 10: The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (Wallach Gallery)
September 13 – June 2017: Tomo Mori: Concierto Encircling (Wallach Gallery/Miller Theatre)
 
PICKS
 
September 7
5 – 7 p.m.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Inside America’s Private Prison System
For Narrative Medicine Rounds, Shane Bauer, senior reporter at Mother Jones, will discuss his experience as a corrections officer and the health care issues of inmates at a Louisiana prison. CUMC Faculty Club, Physicians and Surgeons Building, 4th floor. (Just Societies)
 
September 8
6 p.m.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Fractured Lands: Reception and Panel on Landmark Issue of the New York Times Magazine
A Columbia collaboration on Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart, the landmark edition of the New York Times Magazine published August 14, 2016. Panel discussion with Jake Silverstein, editor in chief; Jenna Pirog, virtual reality editor; and Scott Anderson, Pulitzer Center grantee. Moderated by Jon Sawyer, executive director of the Pulitzer Center. Followed by a reception. RSVP here to join the waitlist. Columbia Journalism School, Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor. (Global)

September 15
5 – 7 p.m.
Center for the Study of Social Difference
Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture
Under the Precision Medicine Initiative, Columbia explores questions that precision medicine raises in law, ethics, the social sciences, and the humanities. James Tabery (University of Utah) will discuss a historical perspective on personalized and precision medicine. Schermerhorn Hall Extension, Room 754. (Precision Medicine)

September 19
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Hope in the Face of Fear: Using Neuroscience to Transform Anxiety Treatments
For the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series, Helen Blair Simpson (professor of psychiatry and director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute) will describe how neuroscience is transforming  and treatments for anxiety and OCD. Registration is required here. International House, Davis Hall, 500 Riverside Drive. (Zuckerman Institute)

September 23
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Heyman Center for the Humanities | Project Narrative, Ohio State University | The Paul Scholar Funds, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The New Seriality Studies
A look at the past, present, and future of serial storytelling across media, periods, and disciplines. Speakers include Sharon Marcus, dean of humanities; A.O. Scott, film critic at the New York Times; Julie Snyder, co-creator and executive producer of Serial; and Lev Grossman, book critic at TIME magazine. View program and panelists here. Heyman Center, Common Room.

September 17 – 24
School of the Arts | Rare Book and Manuscript Library
5th Annual Morningside Lights
A week of free community arts workshops culminates in a procession of handmade lanterns celebrating the Pulitzer Prize centennial and the great artists of our time. See the schedule of daily lantern-building workshops here. Illuminated procession on September 24 at 8 p.m. Morningside Park, 116th Street and Morningside Avenue.

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

Faculty and students are back, and so are Jerry’s Picks! Arts to genomes to justice, September starts below. Write your event stories here.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

September 7 – December 10: The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa (Wallach Gallery)
September 13 – June 2017: Tomo Mori: Concierto Encircling (Wallach Gallery/Miller Theatre)

PICKS

September 7
5 – 7 p.m.
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Inside America’s Private Prison System
For Narrative Medicine Rounds, Shane Bauer, senior reporter at Mother Jones, will discuss his experience as a corrections officer and the health care issues of inmates at a Louisiana prison. CUMC Faculty Club, Physicians and Surgeons Building, 4th floor. (Just Societies)
 
September 8
6 p.m.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Fractured Lands: Reception and Panel on Landmark Issue of the New York Times Magazine
A Columbia collaboration on Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart, the landmark edition of the New York Times Magazine published August 14, 2016. Panel discussion with Jake Silverstein, editor in chief; Jenna Pirog, virtual reality editor; and Scott Anderson, Pulitzer Center grantee. Moderated by Jon Sawyer, executive director of the Pulitzer Center. Followed by a reception. RSVP here to join the waitlist. Columbia Journalism School, Pulitzer Hall, Lecture Hall, 3rd floor. (Global)

September 15
5 – 7 p.m.
Center for the Study of Social Difference
Precision Medicine: Ethics, Politics, and Culture
Under the Precision Medicine Initiative, Columbia explores questions that precision medicine raises in law, ethics, the social sciences, and the humanities. James Tabery (University of Utah) will discuss a historical perspective on personalized and precision medicine. Schermerhorn Hall Extension, Room 754. (Precision Medicine)

September 23
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Heyman Center for the Humanities | Project Narrative, Ohio State University | The Paul Scholar Funds, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The New Seriality Studies
A look at the past, present, and future of serial storytelling across media, periods, and disciplines. Speakers include Sharon Marcus, dean of humanities; A.O. Scott, film critic at the New York Times; Julie Snyder, co-creator and executive producer of Serial; and Lev Grossman, book critic at TIME magazine. View program and panelists here. Heyman Center, Common Room.

September 17 – 24
School of the Arts | Rare Book and Manuscript Library
5th Annual Morningside Lights
A week of free community arts workshops culminates in a procession of handmade lanterns celebrating the Pulitzer Prize centennial and the great artists of our time. See the schedule of daily lantern-building workshops here. Illuminated procession on September 24 at 8 p.m. Morningside Park, 116th Street and Morningside Avenue.

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