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It’s Springtime at SIPA (and Columbia)!

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Friday, April 23rd, 2010 
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The following was prepared by SIPA student Joshua Huneycutt, a second year MIA student concentrating in Energy and Environmental Policy.

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To accompany the lengthening days and shedding of layers that takes place in Morningside Heights around this time of year, the SIPA and Columbia communities stage a number of fun events to coax students out of their study caves (i.e. Lehman Library)and into the spring air.

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(Weird Flowering Branch Tree on Columbia Campus)

On SIPA’s home turf, the spring fun typically kicks off with the annual SIPA BBQ.  This year‘s “Business Cards and BBQ” theme encourages SIPA students to get to know each other better via SIPA students’ favorite pastime – networking! Here, kegs of beer and grilled meats (and veggie burgers) kick off the season of sitting in SIPA’s terrace in the sun, and continuing the fun, and postponing the pain of tackling term papers and exams, SIPA stages its premiere entertainment event – Follies – the following day.

An age-old tradition, this variety show parodies the school’s quirks and foibles through musical numbers, songs, skits, and [plenty of videos (link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sipa+follies&aq=f).  And if this wasn’t enough keep SIPA students going, the annual SIPA Gala (or SIPA Prom as it’s commonly known) takes place the following week, typically in a stunning venue with a top-shelf open bar to fuel the dancefloor.

If you’re burnt out on SIPA events, there are plenty of other things happening on campus.    This year’s annual “Bacchanal” party on Columbia’s main quad will feature none other than Wu-Tang’s own Ghostface Killah and psych popsters Of Montreal.  The following day, Barnard College’s radio hosts a more indie and metal-oriented day of free music and food, the WBAR-B-Q (link: http://www.wbar.org/).  The dark synth-pop stylings of Cold Cave and brutal black metal of the Columbia alum-led Liturgy surely warrant a visit by Columbia and NYC music lovers alike.

vampireweekend(Vampire Weekend performs at Bacchanal 2009)

So while you might not be in the area for this year’s SIPA spring, rest assured that if you end up spending two years in these hallowed halls, the typical drudgery of exam season can end up being, well, kind of fun.

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Arianna Huffington: Facing the Fracture: Media and Economic Understanding

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Friday, April 23rd, 2010 
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On April 6th Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, visited SIPA to addresses the role of the media in covering the ongoing financial crisis. Huffington opened a conference featuring top journalists, scholars and activists, sponsored by SIPA’s International Media, Advocacy and Communications specialization and the Roosevelt Institute.  For the full video click here.

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Concentration Choice

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 
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One of the questions that has been popping up in our email in box has to do with the choice of concentration at SIPA.  You can think of your concentration as your major field of study.  Many applicants are worried that they must stick with the concentration selected when the admission application was filled out.  This is not the case.  As a reminder, our six concentrations are:

  • Economic and Political Development
  • Energy and the Environment
  • Human Rights
  • International Finance and Economic Policy
  • International Security Policy
  • Urban and Social Policy

We do look for focus in an admission application and the concentration choice often will influence how a file is read.  For example, if someone selects International Finance and Economic Policy on the admission application we do look for evidence of some pretty serious quantitative study and/or work experience due to the fact that this concentration is quantitatively heavy.

However, we also realize that when admitted applicants enroll and speak with faculty, take some classes, interact with second year students, and attend events, one’s career or academic focus might shift and we want to be flexible and allow students to choose the pathway that is best for their professional goals.  Often this insight only comes after actually enrolling and spending time at SIPA.

Thus it is perfectly acceptable to change your concentration when you register for classes in the fall.  There is no formal process, you simply must choose a concentration when you register.  There is also no firm time line to finalize your choice, however the longer you wait, the more precarious completing the requirements becomes.

The counseling students receive will thus encourage you to be firm with your concentration choice sometime during your first year, and the sooner the better so that you may shape your class schedule and internships.  All of our program requirements must be completed in four semesters and deciding early will help alleviate pressure over time by narrowing your class choices.

So there is no need to worry about sticking to the concentration selected on the admission application.  During Orienation in August new students will have the opportunity to hear faculty speak about the different options and the concentration choice will be made when you register.  If you need to change again when you register for the second semester you may, but again the more focused and certain you are, the more you will be able to gain from the program.

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Dean Coatsworth on Charlie Rose

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Thursday, April 15th, 2010 
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The Dean of SIPA, John Coatsworth, recently appeared on the Charlie Rose program. The segment is described as the following on the Charlie Rose Web site:

A discussion about Latin America with Greg Grandin, Associate Professor of Latin American history at New York University, John Coatsworth, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Kevin Casas-Zamora, Former Vice President of Costa Rica and Michael Shifter, Incoming President of Inter-American Dialogue.

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You can view the full interview by clicking here.

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A New York Minute

Posted by Matt Clemons 
· Thursday, April 8th, 2010 
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You may have heard the expression “New York minute” before.  The long time host of The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson, once described a New York Minute this way:

“It’s the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn.”

The expression is meant to convey a hectic and busy pace, and you could say that events at SIPA seem to happen almost every minute.  Here is the latest update on current and upcoming events at SIPA.

Monday, April 5 – Sunday, April 11

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

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
Register

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)
Register

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)
Register

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
Register

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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5:00 pm on Wednesday.

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