Instead of our standard display of our weekly event schedule, today we’ll leave you with a taster for Monday, April 14. One day at SIPA will enrich your life but if you are looking for more, you can check out our event calendar.
The Art of Life in Ürümchi: Development Aesthetics and the City in Chinese Central Asia
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1219
A discussion with Darren Byler, University of Washington
Sponsor: Harriman Institute, OASIES
Dean’s Seminar: Governance of the Internet
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Join Merit E. Janow, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs; Professor, Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs and an all-star panel of technology experts to discuss regulation and supervision of the internet. Panelists include Gordon Goldstein, Managing Director, Head of External Affairs, Silver Lake Group; Ambassador David Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP; Eli Noam, Professor of Economics and Finance and Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility at the Columbia Business School; Laura DeNardis, Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Communication at American University; Director of Research for the Global Commission on Internet Governance. Watch live at https://sipa.columbia.edu/live
Sponsor: School of International and Public Affairs.
Financial Innovation in International Development for Africa
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 407
A talk by Benoît Chervalier, African Development Bank Group
Sponsor: International Finance and Economic Policy Concentration, Alliance Program, Economic and Political Development Concentration
SAI: Mary Keatinge Das Lecture with Muzzafar Alam (Chicago)
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, Knox Hall, Room 208
A talk by Muzzafar Alam, University of Chicago
Sponsor: South Asia Institute
Varieties of Backyard Management: EU Integration and the Evolution of Economic State Capacities in the Southern and Eastern Peripheries of Europe
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1201
A talk by Laszlo Bruszt, European University Institute
Sponsor: Harriman Institute, Blinken European Institute
Strive to Thrive: Redefining Success in the Modern World
6:00 pm to 7:15 pm, Uris Hall, Room 301
A lecture and book signing with Arianna Huffington. Registration required.
Sponsor: Columbia Business School’s Chazen Institute of International Business
How the “Putin Project” is Affecting LGBTI Human Rights in Russia’s Near Abroad — Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
6:15 pm to 8:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1219
A panel discussion on LGBTI Human Rights with Olena Shevchenko, Anna Kirey, Matthew Schaaf.
Sponsor: Harriman Institute, Freedom House
Come visit us at SIPA. We’re sure you will be hard-pressed to find nothing of interest.
For details on future SIPA EVENTS, go to: https://sipa.columbia.edu/experience-sipa/events/list