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Extracurricular Events

Posted by Matt Clemons

· Monday, January 24th, 2011

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One of the cool things about living in New York City is that there is always something going on. Yes, it’s true, it is the city that never sleeps. I can attest to this because I live on an avenue and the noise never ceases outside my window. For those of you not familiar with New York City, for the most part avenues are larger and run north/south while streets are smaller and run east/west. This applies to most of the Island above Canal Street – below Canal all bets are off. So if you are looking for a place to live, I would recommend street addresses because you are likely to deal with less noise, but there are always exceptions to the rule. But I digress . . .

In terms activities, SIPA and Columbia are much like New York City – there always seems to be something going on for our students to take advantage of. I thought I would take an entry to provide a glimpse into some of the extracurricular programming going on in the coming weeks.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Net Delusion: A Brownbag with Author Evgeny Morozov
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1302
International Media and Communications
Brownbag with blogger and social commentator Evgeny Morozov, a rising star in Internet politics.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Information Effects and Human Rights Data: Is the Good News about Increased Human Rights Information Bad News for Human Rights Measures?
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1302
Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Talk with Ann Marie Clark and Kathryn Sikkink, in which they will discuss changes in the quality and availability of human rights information over time and the implications for scholarly use of comparative data based on contemporaneous sources, including the widely used data sets based on annual Amnesty International and U.S. State Department reports.

Center for Korean Research Colloquium Series
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 907
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Center for Korean Research Colloquium with Joel Wit, former State Department official.

Faith Misplaced
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
International Affairs Building, 1512
Middle East Institute
Lecture with Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and the first holder of the Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies at Rice University, speaking on his new book Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promises of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001.
Register

Thursday, January 27, 2011

QMSS Seminar: Gary Langer
6:10 pm – 8:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 403
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Lecture with Gary Langer, Langer Research Associates.

Urban Aging from New York to Beijing
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
WEAI Brown Bag Lecture with Michael Gusmano, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health and Ada C. Mui, Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work.

eHealth – A Paradigm Shift in Delivery of Healthcare
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
Economic and Political Development Concentration
Brown Bag with Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed, President and CEO of Healthcare Paradigm. Discussant: Dr. Patricia Mechael, Director of Strategic Application of Mobile Technology for Public Health and Development at the Center for Global Health and Economic Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Pizza will be provided.

HOME: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Alfred Lerner Hall, Roone Arledge Cinema
Earth Institute
Lecture with David Berreby, journalist and author (moderator); Sabine Marx, Managing Director, Columbia Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED); Shama Perveen, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia Water Center; Gavin A. Schmidt, climatologist and climate modeler, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS); Peter Seligmann, Chairman & CEO, Conservation International; Maria Uriarte, Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology (E3B), Columbia University.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Japanese Youth in Transition: Work, Marriage, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
WEAI Brown Bag Lecture with Hiroshi Ishida, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo; Visiting Fellow, Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University.

Taiwan in Imperial China
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Schermerhorn Hall, Room 963
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
WEAI Lecture with Douglas Fix, Professor of History and Humanities Modern China and Japan, Reed College.

SAI Distinguished Lecture Series: A Talk by 2009 Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
South Asian Institute and The Earth Institute
Talk by 2009 Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom, Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University in Bloomington
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“Racially Inferior”: Roma, Sinti and Other Holocaust victims
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
The Italian Academy at Columbia University
The Italian Academy
Lecture exploring issues of discrimination and crimes against humanity.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Grzegorz W. Kolodko on Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World
6:15 pm – 7:45 pm
Faculty House, Presidential Room 1
Committee on Global Thought
Talk with Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world’s leading authorities on economics and development policy and former Minister of Finance of Poland. He will discuss his new book, Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World, to be released on February 8th, 2011. Registration for this event is required.
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development (Human Development Report 2010 – 20th Anniversary Edition)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Economic and Political Development
Talk with Francisco Rodriguez, Head of the Research Team, UNDP Human Development Report. Moderated by Jose Antonio Ocampo. Discussants, Eugenia McGill and Eric Verhoogen. Reception to follow.

Film Screening and Discussion: Promised Land
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
W&J Warren Hall, Room 209 Morningside Campus
Committee on Global Thought
Film Screening and Discussion featuring “Promised Land,” a film that gives viewers an inside look at the critical story of land reform and racial reconciliation in the new South Africa.
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QMSS Seminar
6:10 pm – 9:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 403
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Lecture with Sandra Garcia, Universidad de los Andes.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Middle East Institute
Film Screening/Lecture/Book Talk with Professor Christopher Stone, speaking on his newest book Popular Culture and Nationalism in Lebanon: The Fairouz and Rahbani Nation, in conjunction with a screening of “We Loved Each Other So Much.”
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The Shah with Abbas Milani
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
Middle East Institute
Book Talk with Abbas MilaniHamid and Christina Moghadam, Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University, speaking on his new book, The Shah, a biography which offers in-depth understanding of one of the most significant actors in the creation of the modern Islamic republic.
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Friday, February 11, 2011

Columbia Water Center/Earth and Environmental Engineering Seminar: Hydrological Applications of NASA’s GRACE Satellite Mission
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 833
Earth Institute
Lecture with Matt Rodell, Hydrologist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Events Galore

Posted by Matt Clemons

· Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

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Below is some evidence of the choices that SIPA students must sometimes make when it comes to how to spend their time. There always seems to be something going on at SIPA or on our campus that would be interesting to attend.

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Monday, November 29, 2010

Gender-Based Violence in the Congo
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Gender Policy
Panel Discussion with Dr. Les Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Paula Donovan, Co-Founder of AIDS-Free World; Dr. Susan Bartels, Co-Head of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; and Lisa Jackson, Writer and Director of the film “The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo.”

Debate: Nuclear Energy and Climate Change
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106
Earth Institute
Debate with Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies, former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy; Peter Bradford, Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law School, former Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, former Chair, New York and Maine utility regulatory commissions; Barton Cowan, Visiting Professor, West Virginia University College of Law, of counsel, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC; Susan Eisenhower, Member, Blue Ribbon Commission for America’s Nuclear Future, Chair Emeritus, Eisenhower Institute; Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Director, Columbia Center for Climate Change Law

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Kazakhstan’s Refugee Crisis: Violence, Hunger and the Transformation of Broader Central Asia, 1930-1933
12:00 am – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Harriman Institute
Lecture with Sarah Cameron , Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University

Japan Circa 1959 – The High-Growth Economy and the Social Effects of Television
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture with Yoshikuni Igarashi, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Kazakhstan’s Refugee Crisis: Violence, Hunger and the Transformation of Broader Central Asia, 1930-1933
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building
Harriman Institute
Lecture with Sarah Cameron, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale

DevInfo Training
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 407
New Media Task Force
Workshop with Christina J. Irene, a representative from the joint UNICEF/DevInfo programme, along with the Fall 2010 DevInfo Interns, will present an introduction to the DevInfo data management system.

Brown Bag with Amb. Paul R. Seger, Permanent Repepresentative of Switzerland to the UN
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 802
International Organization Specialization
Brown Bag Lecture with Ambassador Paul R. Seger, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations

How Not to Help
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 707
Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Discussion with Kate Cronin-Furman and Amanda Taub from “Wronging Rights”.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Lake Baikal, Siberia: Will Industrial Development Destroy the World’s Largest, Cleanest Lake?
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
Harriman Institute
Lecture

Czech Foreign Policy After the Fall of Communism
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
Harriman Institute
Lecture with Jiri Paroubek

Perspectives on Political and Economic Dynamism in Northeast Asia- Challenges of China and North Korea
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Columbia Univerity Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 918
Center for Korean Research
Lecture with Ambassador Young-Mok Kim,Consul General of Republic of Korea to New York. No registration is required.

Leaders in Global Energy: Dr. Fatih Birol: Critical Factors Shaping the Future Global Energy Landscape
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
School of International and Public Affairs and Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy
Lecture with Dr. Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency
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Tolerance Without Liberalism: Conflict and Coexistence in Twentieth-Century Indonesia
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 801
Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion
Lecture with CDTR Visiting Fellow, Jeremy Menchik

My Perestroika
8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 417
Harriman Institute
Film Screening and Discussion with Robin Hessman. To reserve tickets in advance please follow the link: www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8563295. Tickets will also be available at the box office in the Lerner Hall Lobby the day of the show.

Concert Series: Italian Harpsichord Music with Andrew Appel
8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
The Italian Academy at Columbia, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue
The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
Concert Series with harpsichordist Andrew Appel, violinist Krista Bennion Feeney, and cellist Loretta O’Sullivan, performing the music of Boccherini, Cimarosa, and Clementi

Thursday, December 2, 2010

A Conversation with Adolfo Carrion, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
12:00 pm- 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Urban and Social Policy Concentration
Conversation with Adolfo Carrion, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1219
East Central European Center
Discussion with Professor Tibor Frank, Eötvös Loránd University, Columbia University, regarding the impulses influencing a uniquely gifted generation of mostly Jewish Hungarian emigrants.

Biological Measures of the Standard of Living North and South of the Border –
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 802
Institute of Latin American Studies
Lecture: with Prof. Richard Steckel, Distinguished University Professor of Economics, Anthropology and History at Ohio State University.

When China Met Africa and The Colony
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Studio X 180 Varick Street New York, NY 10014
Committee on Global Thought
Film screening / Discussion including two films that examine Chinese investment in Africa
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Stories of Stigma, Stories of Strength: Ethnographic Oral History with Sanitation Workers in New York City
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Schermerhorn, Room 754
Oral History Master of Arts Program
Lecture with Robin Nagle. She will present her ethnographic work for her forthcoming book Picking Up.

QMSS Seminar: Sexual Networks and HIV Transmission in a High-Prevalence Setting: Evidence from a Sociocentric Study
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Seminar with Stephane Helleringer, Mailman School of Public Health

Friday, December 3, 2010

Afghanistan: Prospects for Peace
9:00 am – 5:30 pm
Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Sixth Annual Arnold A. Saltzman Forum
Register

From a Raindrop to a Stream Pebble to a Delta: Recent Research on Predictive Modeling
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 833
Earth Institute
Lecture with Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Director of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota
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Asia in Africa: New Connections in Historical Perspective
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center
Committee on Global Thought
Discussion Panel with Howard French, Deborah Brautigam, Abdoulie Janneh, and Wang Hongyi
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Saturday, December 4, 2010

The International Criminal Court in Motion – An Analysis of its Seven Years of Activities and Perspectives with Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
International Affairs Building Room 1501
Center for International Conflict Resolution
Lecture with Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The talk will be followed by a discussion moderated by Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution.
Register

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Toxica Simulation
9:30 am – 6:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
CRWG and LASA
Simulation allowing participants to engage in a negotiation, observed by negotiation practitioners. Space is limited, RSVP required. Please email [email protected].

UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday, December 6, 2010

From Three-Legged to Two-Legged Races – The Emergence of Women’s Competitive Sports in Japan (1910s-20s)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture with Robin Kietlinski, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College; Visiting Researcher, Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Monday, December 6 – Distinguished Lecturer Series “Southern Buddhism: Tracing Later Buddhist Art in South India”
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Knox Hall, Room 208
Southern Asian Institute
Distinguished Lecturer Series with John Guy, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Innovating for Development: A Thought Leadership Forum from the Journal of International Affairs
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
School of International and Public Affairs
Forum moderated by Steven Cohen, Executive Director, Earth Institute, about how innovation is driving the agenda for sustainable development, climate change, natural resource use and energy policy.
Register

Thursday, December 9, 2010

U.S. Rapprochement with Indonesia – From Problem State to Partner
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture with Ann Marie Murphy, Associate Professor, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; Adjunct Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict Workshop
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Columbia University, Teachers College Campus, 525 West 120th Street, Grace Dodge Hall, Room 179
Earth Institute
Lecture

Thursday, December 9, 2010

QMSS Seminar: Political Conditions for Diffusion? Anti-Corporate Movements and the Spread of Cooperatives in America Capitalism
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Hamilton Hall, Room 503
Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
Lecture with Marc Schneiberg, Queens College Department of Sociology

Monday, December 13, 2010

Post-Cancun Debriefing
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 1512
The Columbia-Paris Alliance Program and the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
Seminar on the climate change negotiations in Cancun, with Scott Barett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics and Laurence Tubiana, Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia

From Wednesday, January 12, 2011 through Friday, January 14, 2011

SIPA Students Only: 35th Annual Washington, DC Career Conference
All Day Event
Washington, DC
Office of Career Services, School of International and Public Affairs
35th Annual Washington, DC Career Conference, a three-day event consisting of 20 panels, employer site visits, networking reception and a day of informational interviews. For further information regarding this event, please contact Joe Musso at [email protected].
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Back in the Swing

Posted by Matt Clemons

· Thursday, August 26th, 2010

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During the summer the SIPA building is a very quiet place. The reason for this is that we do not offer summer courses. Each student that graduates from SIPA will have a minimum of 30 weeks of professional development experience. 15 weeks come through an internship and 15 weeks come through a workshop.

Students are responsible for finding their own internships, but we offer a lot of assistance through Career Services, faculty, alumni, and current students. We want students to be able to go anywhere in the world to complete their internship and thus we do not offer summer courses so that students can focus full time on professional development and resume building. Workshops are group projects composed of 5-6 students working for an outside client. The workshops are set up by faculty and administrators and students pick from a predetermined list. Workshops take place during the academic year.

Back to the point of this entry . . . the quiet atmosphere of SIPA will cease next Monday as we welcome new students for Orientation and the following week returning students will be back for the start of classes. Once classes start the building buzzes with activity each and every day. It is typical for there to be 10-15 events each week featuring amazing speakers. Here is just a taste of what will be featuring as the semester starts.

We will have Leaders in Global Energy lecture series starting on September 15. Opening remarks will be given by Nabuo Tanaka of the International Energy Agency. He will be followed by the Portuguese Prime Minister, Jose Socrates, in late September.

CH Tung, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong and one of SIPA’s Global Fellows will be speaking on US-China Relations on September 17.

EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso will be speaking at the World Leaders Forum on campus and will likely address SIPA students following the main university event.

We will have updates on the blog regarding events so stay tuned.

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President Sarkozy Visit

Posted by Matt Clemons

· Thursday, April 1st, 2010

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The following was contributed by Anesa Diaz-Uda, a second-year MPA student.

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Part of what has made my SIPA education so special is the access to world-renowned scholars as well as current and former global leaders. Just this year I’ve attended several lectures with Jeffrey Sachs and Joseph Stiglitz, and heard President Kirchner of Argentina and the former Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan. Monday morning I was lucky enough to add President Nicolas Sarkozy to my list. Below are some of the key points I took away:

Columbia University’s President Bollinger introduced President Sarkozy as a fresh leader, unafraid of controversy. Sarkozy lived up to his reputation, immediately expressing his intent to not use a speech. Rather, he would speak to us as candid friend – a very charismatic and focused one.

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President Sarkozy first admitted his admiration for the US, and its unequaled power in the global order. He concentrated on the idea that with power comes responsibility, namely a responsibility to listen and exchange ideas with others. He made it clear that Europe wanted to be heard in such a setting.

The value of this exchange, for Sarkozy, was particularly potent in this moment of crisis. He impressed upon all of us a 1) Need for new answers, 2) Need to renew the existing model, 3) Need to do all of this together.

As he put it, “This is why I am here in the States.” He hoped to foster a free and open discussion at Columbia as well as at the White House the following day.

One of the main topics in this discussion was economic regulation. Sarkozy felt that the financial market must be regulated. It lacked structure, and without a mechanism that holds people accountable in good and bad times, another crisis would ensue. He understood that as a Frenchman speaking in favor of regulation, many would suspect him of socialism or at the very least anti-free market sentiments. This was not the case. He spoke favorably of capitalism, however, he genuinely believed that only regulation would save a faltering free market economy.

He couldn’t defend a system where so many people who were not responsible for market failures got hurt, and would consider himself an accomplice should he not attempt to create a system to regulate the global economy. He then cited examples such as the oil market, which is subject to much fluctuation, as an industry in need of some ground rules. He genuinely believed that it was in the interest of all stakeholders, particularly producer-states and top consumers to set a targeted price for barrels of oil. He spoke harshly on the topic of speculative bubbles, but repeatedly said he thought that it was “well and proper” for businessmen and women who produce innovative products and services to make large profits – he was simply not pleased with the idea of people simply speculating on derivatives, for example, making immense sums of money.

Sarkozy also made it clear that he believed we need new metrics for understanding and measuring growth. He spoke highly of Joseph Stiglitz’s work, and supported the idea that sustainable growth requires the measurement of new more qualitative concepts. He also spoke of his hope to create a new international institution dedicated to monetary policy – similar to what we saw during and in the wake of WWII with the Bretton Woods System.

Sarkozy moved from his economic and financial evaluation, to the topic of new world governance. He spoke candidly about the need for reform in the UN, particularly the Security Council. He impressed upon us the need to think about the countries of tomorrow. When referencing the G8, he said, “We can’t manage tomorrow’s conflicts alone.”

He spoke briefly about security, and compared the attacks in Moscow’s subway system to 9/11. For Sarkozy, the fight against terrorism is everyone’s fight, and he pledged his support and military to the War in Afghanistan.

President Sarkozy ended his conversation again speaking of the value of listening and engaging the international community in this time of crisis, and spoke of his admiration of President Obama. “We were proud of you when you elected Obama.” He saw the US as a country making much progress. He did, however, ask the American people to not lag behind the US President specifically with regard to financial and environmental regulation.

He then took questions. Questions ranged from US healthcare reform to what a new UN Security Council would look like. He was as lively and honest in his responses, once even citing his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, who was in attendance and as expected, looked stunning.

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SIPA Events

Posted by Matt Clemons

· Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

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Just thought I would give all of you out there a taste of what is going on at SIPA the next few weeks. With 20 different institutes and centers our building is always a hive of activity.

Monday, February 22
February 22, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Indonesia’s Oligarchy in Comparative Perspective, with Jeffrey Winters, Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.
International Affairs Building, Room 918

February 22, 2010 from 12:15 pm to 2:00 pm
SIPA, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Lecture: The Domestic Challenges and Regional Implications of the Iranian Revolution with Professor David Menashri, Director of the Center for Iranian Studies, Dean of Special Programs and Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University
International Affairs Building, Room 707

February 22, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Talk: Temur Yakobashvili, Minister of State for Reintegration of Georgia; Introduction: Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University; Discussant: Alexander Cooley, Barnard College, Columbia University
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

February 22, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Institute of Latin American Studies
Information Session: For undergraduate students interested in a major in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Speaker: Dr. Natasha Lightfoot. Co-sponsored by the Study of Ethnicity and Race
International Affairs Building; Room 802

Tuesday, February 23
February 23, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
SIPA, Economic and Political Development Concentration
EPD Speaker Series: ICTs and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), with a focus on agricultural development
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

February 23, 2010 from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Middle East Institute
Conference: Reconstructions of Fiqh Among Indonesian Traditionalist Muslims, with Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

February 23, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion
Discussion: Fatma Gocek, Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan and author of Social Constructions of Nationalism in the Middle East (2002) and Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change (1996). Part of the “Religion, Ethnicity and Politics Lecture Series.”
International Affairs Building, Room 801

February 23, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture: Citizen Complaints and Popular Accountability under Authoritarianism: Evidence from Pre-1989 Eastern Europe and Post-1978 China, with Martin K. Dimitrov.
Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge (Room 701)

February 23, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
SIPA, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Lecture::Global Capabilities of the U.S. Army Special Forces.with Major Gen. Michael S. Repass. Co-sponsored by the U.S. Military Veterans of Columbia University.
International Affairs Building, Room 707

Wednesday, February 24
February 24, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion
Discussion: “Who Belongs? Religion, National Identity and Immigrant Integration in Denmark and Sweden” – Part of the “PhD Thesis Series on Religion and Politics” co-sponsored with Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR)
International Affairs Building, Room 801

February 24, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Institute of African Studies
Discussion: The Paradox of Post-Abortion Care (PAC): Health Professionals and the Medicalization of a Quasi-Legal Practice in Senegal with Siri Suh, MPH Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University.
Knox Hall, Room 208

February 24, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Panel Discussion with: Ambassador Valery Kuchinsky,Former Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Alexander Motyl, Political Science, Rutgers, Adrian Karatnycky, Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

Thursday, February 25
February 25, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Thailand’s Crisis: Who Cares About the Economy? with Duncan McCargo Professor of Southeast Asian Politics, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, part of the series “The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast Asia.” .
International Affairs Building, Room 918

February 25, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Talk: Ljiljana Smajlovic, President, Journalists Association of Serbia
International Affairs Building, Room 1510

February 25, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
SIPA International Conflict Resolution Program
Conversation: Alvaro de Soto in conversation with Sir Brian Urquhart
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
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February 25, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm

Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Special Lecture: Debating the History of the People’s Republic of China – A 60-Year History or 30-Year History? with Wang Hui, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, Beijing.

The Judith Lee Stronach Center, 820 Schemerhorn Hall

Friday, February 26
From February 26, 2010 through February 27, 2010, All Day Event
Harriman Institute
Conference: Please join the Harriman Institute in association with the Polish Cultural Institute, Romanian Cultural Institute, and Austrian Cultural Forum for a conference marking the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe.
Faculty House
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February 26, 2010 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Institute of Latin American Studies
Discussion: ‘“Mashing Ants’: Black Resistance and Survival in Antigua’s Post-1846 Sugar Crisis” with Dr. Natasha Lightfoot; part of the New York City Workshop of Latin American History at the NYC Workshop of Latin American History at NYU.
New York University 53 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012

February 26, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
Institute of Latin American Studies
Lecture: Obama in Latin America with Dr. Robert A. Pastor, Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University and Co-Director of the Center for North American Studies (CNAS) and the Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM)
International Affairs Building, Room 1510

February 26, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
SIPA, UN Studies Program
Discussion: UNSP Working Lunch “Rebuilding Haiti” with Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, the Ambassador of Brazil to the UN
Permanent Mission of Brazil to the UN

Saturday, February 27

Harriman Institute
Conference: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe.

See Friday, February 26 for details.

February 27, 2010 from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm EST
SIPA, The Morningside Post
Conference: Policy Making in the Digital Age
International Affairs Building, 15th floor
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Sunday, February 28
No Events Scheduled

UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, February 29 – Sunday, March 28

Monday, March 1
From March 1, 2010 at 12:00 pm through March 31, 2010 at 12:00 pm EDT
East Central European Center
Exhibition: A retrospective of 45 years of the turbulent postwar history of a new democracy and U.S. ally. Co-sponsored by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance
International Affairs Building Atrium, Ground Floor

March 1, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Middle East Institute
Lecture: The U.S., Hamas, and Peace in the Middle East, with Robert Pastor, Professor of International Relations at American University and is Founder and Co-Director of AU’s Center for Democracy and Election Management
International Affairs Building, Room 1501

March 1, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture: U.S.-Japan Relations in East Asia and Beyond with Kouji Murata, Doshisha University; Christina Davis, Princeton University; Ryo Sahashi, Tokyo University; and Devin Stewart, Carnegie Council.
International Affairs Building, Room 918

Tuesday, March 2
March 2, 2010 from 12:15 pm to 2:00 pm
SIPA, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
Book Talk: “Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu that Led America into the Vietnam War.” Ted Morgan will discuss his recent book on the Vietnam War.
International Affairs Building, Room 1512

March 2, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture: Speaking Law to Political-Economic Power: China’s Derivative Lawsuit Mechanism and the Limits of Private Law, with Nicholas C. Howson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School. from the series “Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society”
Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge (Room 701)

March 2, 2010 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture: The Hugh Borton and Philip E. Mosely Distinguished Lecture on Eurasia: The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century – China, Russia, and the United States, with Morton H. Halperin, Senior Advisor, Open Society Institute
International Affairs Building, Room 1501

Wednesday, March 3
March 3, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Institute of Latin American Studies
Lecture: The Politics of Japanese Identities in São Paulo with PhD candidate Stephanie Phillips
International Affairs Building; Room 802

Thursday, March 4
March 4, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Institute of Latin American Studies
Lecture: Growth, Technology, and External Constraints in Latin America with José Gabriel Porcile Meirelles, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Parana in the Department of Economics. Co-sponsored with SIPA’s Economic and Political Development concentration.
International Affairs Building; Room 802

March 4, 2010 from 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies
Grand Rounds: Family Homelessness: A Multi-System Dilemma with Cheryl Zlotnick, RN, DrPH.
Room 6602, All-Purpose Room Sixth Floor, Psychiatric Institute Entrance at Kolb Annex, 40 Haven Avenue, 168th Street and Haven Avenue (take inside bridge to sixth floor)

Tuesday, March 9
March 9, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: Resistance in Okinawa to a New U.S. Marine Air Base, and Japan’s “[Un]equal Partnership” with the United States, with Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Brown University.
International Affairs Building, Room 918

March 9, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Lecture: The Opacity of Texts: Reading Qing Judicial Narratives, from the series “Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society.”
Jerome Greene Hall Case Lounge, Room 701

March 9, 2010 from 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm
Committee on Global Thought
Discussion: A New (dis)Order: Questioning the Self-Regulating Market with Theo Lubke, Senior Vice-President in the Bank Supervision Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Perry Mehrling, Professor of Economics at Barnard College; Gillian Tett, assistant editor of the Financial Times; and Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor of Economics.
International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center
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Wednesday, March 10
March 10, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Harriman Institute
Talk: A Theory of Elitocide and Its Impact on Contemporary Understandings of the Crime of Genocide with Dennis Gratz, Publicist (Sarajevo, BiH and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University)
International Affairs Building, Room 1219

Thursday, March 11
March 11, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Harriman Institute
Performance: The Harriman Institute welcomes the award-winning Washington, DC-based Synetic Theater company to Columbia University’s Miller Theatre for a rare New York performance of its acclaimed production “Host and Guest.”
Miller Theater

Tuesday, March 23
March 23, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Brown Bag Lecture: History Never Dies: Northeast Asia’s Troubled Present, , with Alexis Dudden, Associate Professor, Department of History and Director, Foundations of Humanitarianism Program, University of Connecticut, from the series “North Korea and a Changing Northeast Asia”.
International Affairs Building, Room 918