Monday, April 5 – Sunday, April 11
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED EVENT
April 6, 2010 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
SIPA, International Media And Communications
Conference: Facing the Fracture: Media & Economic Understanding
with Columbia University professor Joseph E. Stiglitz,
associate editor of the Financial Times Martin Wolf
and many other top journalists, scholars, and activists
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
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Monday, April 5
April 5, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Modern Tibetan Studies Brown Bag Conversation: Cinema in Tibet with Pema Tseden and Rigden Gyatso, filmmakers
International Affairs Building, Room 918
April 5, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Talk: Daniil Andreev: The idea of integration of the global cultural space with Dmitri Ahtyrsky, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University. In Russian.
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
April 5, 2010 from 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm
Middle East Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Turkey’s Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan: End of the Dance? with Alexander Murinson, author of “Turkey’s Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan.”
Knox Hall, Room 207 606 West 122nd Street (between Claremont and Broadway Avenues)
April 5, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
SIPA, Economic and Political Development
Brown Bag: With Sienna Baskin, Staff Attorney of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center
International Affairs Building, Rm. 1401
April 5, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 7:45 pm
SIPA, International Economic Policy
IFEP & APEC Study Center Distinguished Speaker Series: China’s Currency and U.S.-China Relations
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
Tuesday, April 6
April 6, 2010 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
SIPA, International Media And Communications
Conference: Facing the Fracture: Media & Economic Understanding with Columbia University professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, associate editor of the Financial Times Martin Wolf and many other top journalists, scholars, and activists
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
April 6, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Talk: Kosovo’s Difficult Future: Challenges Ahead with Ilir Deda, Executive Director, Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED)
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
April 6, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture:: The Slippery Matter of Trademarks: Copycat Soap Companies, the Question of Authenticity, and Sino-British Diplomacy in 1930s China.from the series “Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society.” Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Legal Studies (CCLS) at Columbia Law School.
Jerome Greene Hall Case Lounge, Room 701
April 6, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
SIPA, Economic and Political Development
Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series: Building Partnerships for Social Ventures with Yasmina Zaidman, Director of Communications, Acumen Fund. Reception to follow.
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
April 6, 2010 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
SIPA, Student Group
Talk: The Face of the Voiceless: Iraqi Orphan Initiative. Please join us to learn about the sad realities on the ground for Iraqi orphans and learn how you can help. Co-sponsored by the Network of Arab American Professionals of NY (NAAP-NY).
International Affairs Building, Room 410
Wednesday, April 7
April 7, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Harriman Institute
BookTalk: with by Pauline Jones Luong, Brown University.
The discussion will on the author’s new book (written with Erika Weinthal, Duke University) entitled “Oil is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States” (forthcoming), This is a meeting of the Comparative Politics Seminar, jointly sponsored by the Harriman Institute and the Department of Political Science.
International Affairs Building, Lindsay Rogers Room (7th Floor)
April 7, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
SIPA, Human Rights Working Group
Panel Discussion: Raise Hope for Congo addresses the conflict in eastern Congo, specifically the scourge of conflict minerals and the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the region. With John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, Roger Luhiri, a former fistula doctor at Panzi Hospital in DRC and Lisa Jackson, director of the film The Greatest Silence about rape in the Congo.
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Thursday, April 8
April 8, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Recent Trends in Divorce and Divorce Law in Hong Kong, with Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University.
International Affairs Building, Room 918
April 8, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Middle East Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: The Lineages of the Neo-Mamluk State with Richard Bulliet, Professor of History at Columbia University
Knox Hall, Room 208 606 W. 122nd St.
April 8, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
SIPA, UN Studies Program
UNSP Working Lunch: The Responsibility to Protect: Perspectives from the Non-Aligned Movement with the Ambassadors of Egypt and Cuba
Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN
April 8, 2010 from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies
Grand Rounds: With Dr. Richard Warner, internationally recognized by the mental health care community as a leader in schizophrenia treatment and recovery research and development.
Columbia Medical Center Psychiatric Institute All-Purpose Room, 6th Fl., Rm 6602 168th Street and Haven Avenue
April 8, 2010 from 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Lecture: Czech Writers Under Siege and Czech Literary History with Professor Holý, Institute for Czech Literature and Literary Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. Co-sponsored with Columbia University’s Slavic Department.
International Affairs Building, Room 1510
April 8, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Talk: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics or Did We Ask the Wrong Question with David Monk, NERA Economic Consulting
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
April 8, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Screenings and Commentary: Revisiting Soviet TV with Jonathan Sanders, a consultant on international broadcasting and Russian affairs. Part of the Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Friday, April 9
April 9, 2010 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Earth Institute
New York City Water Summit: With academic, governmental and industrial leaders in the fields of “drinking water” and “waste water”
International Affairs Building, Altschul Auditorium
April 9, 2010 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Workshop: Convened by the Harriman Institute and co-sponsored by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
April 9, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Earth Institute
Seminar: Tailoring seasonal climate forecasts for hydropower operations in Ethiopia’s upper Blue Nile basin with Paul Block, Associate Research Scientist, Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Management, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute, Columbia University
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924
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April 9, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Freedom and Democracy Twenty Years After – Are we there yet? The Czech Republic in Europe and in the World with a keynote address by Jan Fischer, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Followed by a question and answer session with the audience.
Light lunch will be served. Online registration is required
International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center, 15th Floor
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April 9, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Talk:The Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920 and its Legacy: A Yugoslav Perspective with Dejan Djokic, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History; Director, Centre for the Study of the Balkans Goldsmiths College, University of London. Co-sponsored by the Njego Endowment for Serbian Language & Culture at Columbia University
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Saturday, April 10
April 10, 2010, All-Day Event
Harriman Institute
Third Annual OASIES Student Conference: Power and Movement Across Asia, presented by the Organizations for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies at Columbia University, New York University, and Yale University
International Affairs Building, Room 707
April 10, 2010 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Conference: Georgian Modernism with panels covering Tbilisi Avant-Garde Art and its Cultural Milieu and Georgian Modernism and its Development
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
Sunday, April 11
No Events Scheduled
UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, April 12 – Sunday, May 2
Monday, April 12
April 12, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
South Asian Institute
Distinguished Lecturer Series: Brahman communities and the making of social critique in western India, c. 1600-1850 by Rosalind O’Hanlon,Oxford University
Knox Hall, Room 208 606 West 122nd Street between Broadway and Claremont Avenue
April 12, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Committee on Global Thought
Discussion:Financial Market Reform with Phil Angelides, Chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ; and Joseph Stiglitz, Chairman of the Committee of Global Thought.
Low Library Rotunda
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April 12, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion
Book Signing: with Nicholas D. Kristof. two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times
Journalism Building Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor
Tuesday, April 13
April 13, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture: The Exclusionary Rule in a State of Flux: China, Taiwan, and the United States with Margaret K. Lewis. The lecture is a part of the series “Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society”
Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge, Room 701
Wednesday, April 14
April 14, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture:The Politics of Presence: Voice, Deity Possession, and Dilemmas of Development Among Tibetans, with Charlene Makley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Reed College.
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Thursday, April 15
April 15, 2010 from 6:45 pm to 8:45 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Modern Tibetan Studies Film Screening: The Silent Holy Stones from the series “Soul-Searching in Tibet – Films by Pema Tseden (Wanma Caidan)”
Asia Society 725 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021
Friday, April 16
April 16, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Earth Institute
Seminar: An Integrated Framework for Analysis of Water Supply in a Developing World City with Veena Srinivasan, Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924
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Monday, April 19
April 19, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Governance and Local Economic Policymaking: Vietnam and Indonesia, with Alasdair Bowie, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, the George Washington University
International Affairs Building, Room 918
April 19, 2010 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Panel Discussion: Private Lives of Public Women – Disrupting the Figure of the Prostitute in South Korea, with Sealing Cheng, Wellesley College; Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College; Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University; and Carole S. Vance, Columbia University.
International Affairs Building, Room 918
April 19, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Governance and Local Economic Policymaking: Vietnam and Indonesia, with Alasdair Bowie, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, the George Washington University
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Wednesday, April 21
April 21, 2010 from 9:00 am to 10:30 am
Harriman Institute
Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Jeri Laber, Russian Insitute ’54, Founder of Human Rights Watch
Pupin Laboratories 301
April 21, 2010 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute
Talk: The Moscow Kremlin Museum: Who needs this museum? with Svetlana Kostanyan, Kremlin Museum Research Library
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
April 21, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Discussion: Old Print Journalism Meets New Media Theory with Yassen Zassoursky, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University versus his grandson Ivan Zassoursky, Director of the New Media Department. Part of the Media Dialogues Across Boundaries series (Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World)
Faculty House, Presidential Room 2
Thursday, April 22
April 22, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
SIPA International Conflict Resolution Program
Working Lunch: Environmental Restoration: a Tool for Peace Building in Serbia
The Italian Academy at Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th Street and 118th Street)
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Friday, April 23
April 23, 2010, All Day Event
SIPA International Conflict Resolution Program
Environmental Conflict Resolution Series: Environment as a Source of Cooperation in Iraq – Local and Regional Perspectives
The Italian Academy at Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th Street and 118th Street)
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April 23, 2010 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Earth Institute
Seminar: With Paolo D’Odorico, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924
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Monday, April 26
April 26, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion and South Asian Institute
Annual Mary Keating Das Lecture: No Longer Pakistani, Not Yet Indian — Migration and the Meaning of Citizenship with Niraja Gopal Jayal (Visiting Professor, Princeton University; Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Knox Hall, Room 208
Tuesday, April 27
April 27, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Screenings and Commentary: Soviet TV with Donna Bahry, Department of Political Science, Penn State University. Part of the Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Wednesday, April 28
April 28, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Talk: Democratization v. Reconciliation: Post-Nationalist Memories of the Battle of Kosovo with Dr. Anna Di Lellio, commentator and policy analyst on post-war Kosovo, author of “The Battle of Kosovo 1389. An Albanian Epic” (I.B. Tauris 2009) and the editor of “The Case for Kosova. A Passage to Independence” (Anthem Press 2006).
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
April 28, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm a
SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion and South Asian Institute
Discussion: With Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and Co-Director of Lokniti, a research programme on comparative democracy.
Knox Hall, Room 509
Thursday, April 29
April 29, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Book Discussion: Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace with Dominic Lieven, Professor of History at the London School of Economics. Co-sponsored by the Dual Master’s Degree Program in International and World History and the European Institute.
International Affairs Building, Lehman Center, Room 406
April 29, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Seminar: With Sanjay Reddy, New School for Social Research
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Friday, April 30
April 30, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: China in the 21st Century – A Cultural Historian’s Take on Contemporary Events and Contemporary Dilemmas with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies.
International Affairs Building, Room 918
April 30, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Earth Institute
Seminar:With Douglas James, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924
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