One of the greatest perks of an Ivy League education is having all sorts of guest lecturers and talks hosted right on campus. Yet many of these great talks are not publicized enough. Enter Bucket List, a weekly feature that aggregates these events in a single location that will hopefully make you realize, like Bwog has, how special our campus is. Our recommendations for this week are below; the full list is after the jump. Dig around, who knows what you’ll find!

  • April 19: “Technologies of Dissent,” “Sexuality in the Arab World,” “Whatever Happened to Civil Disagreement?”
  • April 20: “Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon,” “A Special Book Signing with President Bollinger,” “Yom Ha’atzmaut,” “College Democrats v. College Republicans: Education Debate”
  • April 21: “Polio: A Look Back at America’s Most Successful Public Health Crusade,” “Game Change,” “Fucking While Feminist: A Workshop with Shelby Knox”
  • April 22: “Going Green Forum: Smarter Students for a Smarter Planet,” “Documenting Memories of Catastrophe: Meaning and Method in Oral History,” “A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid Followed by an Interview with Saidiya Hartmann”
  • April 23: “Environment as a Source of Cooperation in Iraq – Local and Regional Perspectives,” “Barnard Dances at Miller,” “Changing Direction”
  • April 24: “Spring Concert: Wiz Khalifa, Ghostface Killah, and Of Montreal,” “Queer Prom: The Fancy Dance”
  • April 25: “WBAR’s 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q,” “Asian Americans in the Fashion Industry”


Monday, April 19

  • “Governance and Local Economic Policymaking – Vietnam and Indonesia,” 918 IAB, 12 pm – 1:30 pm, Alasdair Bowie
  • “Technologies of Dissent,” 601B Journalism Bldg, 12 pm – 2 pm, Laura DeNardis
  • “Gender and Media in South Asia,” 901 IAB, 1 pm – 2 pm, Bandana Rana
  • “Private Lives of Public Women – Disrupting the Figure of the Prostitute in South Korea,” 918 IAB, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Sealing Cheng, Elizabeth Bernstein, Mary Marshall Clark, and Carole S. Vance
  • “Sexuality in the Arab World,” 555 Lerner Hall, 5:30 pm – 7 pm, Helem Representatives and Michael Luongo
  • “Banking and Financial Regulation: The Past, Present and Future,” 918 IAB, 6 pm – 7:30 pm, Dan McGovern, Richard Clarida, Robert Kopech, and Sharyn O’Halloran
  • “Taking the First Step: Challenges in Education Entrepreneurship,” 179 Dodge Hall, 6 pm – 8 pm, David Levin, Amy Rosen, and Deborah L. Devedjian
  • “Genes and Plays: Using Theater to Enhance Understanding of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Genetics,” 701 Greene Hall, 6:10 pm – 8 pm, Karen Rothenberg
  • “Driving Change as a Woman in the Private Sector,” 707 IAB, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Amy Schulman
  • “Whatever Happened to Civil Disagreement?,” Roone Cinema, Lerner Hall, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Michelle Moody-Adams
  • “Deadly Delivery – Lives Worth Saving: The World’s Maternal Health Care Crisis,” Riverside Church, 6:30 pm – 8 pm, Amnesty International Presentation
  • “Hinduism and Family Life,” 313 Fayerweather, 7:30 pm – 9 pm, P. Ramaswamy Mohan

Tuesday, April 20

  • “Impact Evaluation of Projects that Address Global Environmental Change,” Comer Hall and Lamont Hall, Comer Geochemistry Building, Lamont Doherty, 8:30 am – April 21 5:30 pm, various
  • “Roots of Russian Modernist Art,” 1219 IAB, 10:35 am – 11:50 am, Margaret Samu
  • “Information and Communication Technology and Millennium Development Goals,” 1512 IAB, 12 pm – 2 pm, Eugenia McGill, Analia Lavin, Brooke Partridge, and Christelle Scharff
  • “Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon,” Heyman Center 2nd Floor Common Room, 12:30 pm – 2 pm, Carol Gluck, Partha Chatterjee, and Lydia Liu
  • “Mathematical Models and Measures of Mixing,” 210 Mudd, 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm, Charles R. Doering
  • “Engineering Proteins for New Functions in Biomaterials: Some Assembly Required,” 825 Mudd, 4 pm – 5 pm, Douglas Clark
  • “The Next Step: Conversations for Careers,” Weber Lounge (Enter through Brooks Hall), 5:30 pm – April 21 7 am, Deans Kuan Tsu, Starks, Runsdorf, Schneider, and others
  • “A Special Book Signing with President Bollinger,” Faculty House, 6 pm – 7:30 pm
  • “Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and the Private Sector in Haiti,” 1501 IAB, 6 pm – 8 pm, Garry Conille, Ugo Solinas, Amie Patel, Graciana del Castillo, and Elisabeth Lindenmayer
  • “HSBC CEO Brendan McDonaugh Speaks,” 301 Uris, 6 pm – 7:30 pm, RSVP http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hkss
  • “Leadership for Sustainable Organizations,” Cowin Center, Teachers College, 7 pm – 9 pm, panel
  • “Yom Ha’atzmaut,” Lerner Party Space, 7 pm – 9 pm, music, food, etc.
  • “College Democrats v. College Republicans: Education Debate,” 313 Fayerweather, 8 pm – 10 pm, Maddy Joseph, Jim Downie, Will Prasifka, Tyler Trumback, Kaley Hanekrat, and Derek Turner
  • “Coraline in 3D,” Low Plaza, 8 pm – 11 pm (Chewbacchanal 2010)

Wednesday, April 21

  • “The Human Rights Movement: A Founder’s Perspective,” 301 Pupin Labs, 9 am – 10:30 am, Jeri Laber
  • “SIPA Capstone Presentations,” 1501 IAB, 10 am – 2 pm, various
  • “Financial Regulation and Monetary Policy,” Faculty House, 11 am – 1:30 pm, panel
  • “Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, and Public Opinion in the 2008 Presidential Primaries,” 270B IAB, 12 pm – 1 pm, Brian McKenzie
  • “What a Language May Teach about a People: The Contemporary Use of Romanian in Communication, Film and Literature,” 1219 IAB, 12 pm – 2 pm Mona Momescu
  • “The Moscow Kremlin Museum: ‘Who Needs This Museum?’ A Changing Museum in a Changing World,” 1219 IAB, 2 pm – 4 pm, Svetlana Kostanyan
  • “The Status of Wildlife and Wildlife Conservation in Asia,” 918 IAB, 4 pm – 5:30 pm, Peter J. Clyne
  • “Polio: A Look Back at America’s Most Successful Public Health Crusade,” 401 Hammer Health Sciences Center, Medical Center, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm, David M. Oshinsky
  • “Game Change,” 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Journalism Bldg, 6 pm – 8 pm, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann, and Alan Brinkley
  • “Fucking While Feminist: A Workshop with Shelby Knox,” Sulzberger North Tower, 7 pm – 9 pm
  • “Old Print Journalism Meets New Media Theory,” Faculty House, 7:30 pm – 9 pm, Yassen Zassoursky and Ivan Zassoursky
  • “My Father, My Lord,” 323 Milbank, 8 pm – 10:30 pm, Uri Cohen
  • “Why Only Marriage Equality Will Do: The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage,” 313 Fayerweather, 9 pm – 10 pm, Gary Steinkohl, Brian Silva, Jake Goodman, and more

Thursday, April 22

  • “Turkey: Citizenship and Institutions in Flux,” 1501 IAB, 9:30 am – 4 pm, Etyen Mahcupyan, Dilek Kurban, Henri Barkey, Zehra Arat, and Cihan Tugal
  • “Kadinsky and the East,” 1219 IAB, 10:35 am – 11:50 am, Marian Burleigh Motley
  • “Toward a Social Movement Stylistics: The Changing Style of Popular Contention in China,” 801 IAB, 11:30 am – 1 pm, Guobin Yang
  • “Periconceptional Folate and Child Neurodevelopment,” 1109 School of Social Work, 12 pm – 1:30 pm, Ezra Susser, RSVP cprc@columbia.edu
  • “Going Green Forum: Smarter Students for a Smarter Planet,” Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CESPR, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm, panels
  • “Transience and Technology Use in Street-Involved Young Adults,” 6602 Psychiatric Institute, Medical Center, 2 pm – 3:30 pm, David Pollio
  • “Lessons from Finland,” Zankel Hall, Milbank Chapel, 4 pm – 5:30 pm, Pasi Sahlberg
  • “Documenting Memories of Catastrophe: Meaning and Method in Oral History,” 270B IAB, 4 pm – 6 pm, Mary Marshall Clark
  • “Tumor Sub-Region Imaging: MRI Techniques and Applications,” 214 Mudd, 4:10 pm – 5:15 pm, Kristen Zakian
  • “Environmental Science Senior Seminar Poster Session,” James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, 4:30 pm – 6 pm, various
  • “Bombay Sapphires,” Lehman Lawn (Rain: North Tower Sulzberger Hall), 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, crafts and cultural
  • “A Reading by Jamaica Kincaid Followed by an Interview with Saidiya Hartmann,” Davis Auditorium, Schapiro CEPSR, 6:15 pm – 8:15 pm
  • “The Manaschis of Kyrgyzstan: A Relic of Cultural Tradition,” 1501 IAB, 6:30 pm – 8 pm, Daniel Turcan, Jyldyz Urmanbetova and Andrew Sherman
  • “Invisible Children Screening,” 202 Altschul, 7:30 pm – 9 pm, Innocent (Ugandan former child soldier) and IC Filmmakers

Friday, April 23

  • “Environment as a Source of Cooperation in Iraq – Local and Regional Perspectives,” Casa Italiana, 9 am – 6 pm, panels
  • “Helping Hands: Poverty and Development in Southeast Asia,” 102 Greene Hall, 9:30 am – April 24 2:30 pm, various, RSVP sea.discourses@gmail.com
  • “Party with Chewbacca,” Ancel Plaza, 12 pm onwards, (Chewbacchanal 2010)
  • “The Anatomy and Life Cycle of an NSF Proposal,” Seismology Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Marine Biology/Seismology Bldg, Lamont Doherty, 12:15 pm – 1:15 pm, Ajit Subramaniam
  • “The Birth, Death and Legacy of Arcs on Continent Formation/Evolution,” Monell Building Auditorium, Lamont Doherty, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, Cin-Ty Lee
  • “Religion, Ethnicity and Politics in West Africa: Senegal and Nigeria,” 801 IAB, 4 pm – 6 pm, Ousmane Kane
  • “Barnard Dances at Miller,” Miller Theater, Dodge Hall, 7pm – 9 pm, Runs April 23 and 24 with a 2 PM performance as well on the 24th
  • “Changing Direction,” Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theater, Diana Center, 8 pm April 23, 8 pm and 11 pm April 24, CMTS
  • “No Impact Man Screening,” Greenborough House, 604 W. 114th St., 10 pm – 12 am

Saturday, April 24

  • “Spring Concert: Wiz Khalifa, Ghostface Killah, and Of Montreal,” Low Plaza, 6 pm onwards (Chewbacchanal 2010)
  • “Queer Prom: The Fancy Dance,” Diana Center Event Oval, 10 pm – 2 am

Sunday, April 25

  • “WBAR’s 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q,” Lehman Lawn, 12 pm – 10 pm, various artists
  • “Rocky County’s Water Resources,” Monell Building Auditorium, Lamont Doherty, 3 pm – 5 pm, Paul Heisig
  • “Asian Americans in the Fashion Industry,” Roone Cinema, Lerner Hall, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, SuChin Pak, Humberto Leon, Carol Lim, Tina Chai, Phillip Lim, Patrick Li, Ujjwala Raut, EJ Samson, Arabelle Sicardi, and Aya T. Kanai
  • “Green Clothing Swap,” Lerner 569, 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Hoot Magazine and Earth Coalition