Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump.

Recommended

  • “Thought Leadership Forum on the Future of the City” Monday, April 23, 6:30 pm — 8:00 pm, IAB 15th floor, Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President and probable 2013 mayoral candidate, Alexander D. Garvin, Jeffery Inaba, Greg Lindsay, Kavitha Rajagopalan, Carne Ross, Saskia Sassen (SIPA, more info here)
  • “Rewiring the Real” Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 pm — 8:00 pm, IAB 1501, Mark Z. Danielweski, author of House of Leaves and Only Revolutions (SIPA)
  • “Key Issues in Global Economic Governance” Thursday, April 26, 9:00 am — 12:00 pm, Low Memorial Library, Alan Krueger, Guillermo Calvo, Kathleen Hays, Merit E. Janow, Jeffrey Sachs, Jan Svejnar, Sharyn O’Halloran

Monday, April 23

  • “The Euro Crisis” 9:30 am — 11:00 am, Morningside Campus Faculty House, Garden Room 2, Hans Werner Sinn (SIPA, Economics)
  • “Cultural Memory, Russian Identity and Eurasianism, or ‘Do Russians Remember the Fall of Tsargrad?” 12:00 pm — 1:30 pm, IAB 1219, Rauf Garagozov, Gulnar Kendirbai (Herriman Institute)
  • “Protetsant Textuality and Poetics of Tamil Political Modernity: Swadeshi Bharati” 3:00 pm — 5:00 pm, IAB 801, Bernard Bates (South Asia, Middle East Studies)
  • “No-Choice Democracies? How the Deep Crisis of Europe is Destroying the Community Model” 4:00 pm — 7:00 pm, Heyman Center, 2nd Floor Common Room, Victoria de Grazia, George Schopflin, Ferenc Miszlivetz, Turkeler Isiksel, Ivan Szelenyi, Benjamin Barber, Misha Glenny, Federico Rampini, Todd Gitlin (SIPA)
  • “A Tale of Colonial Kidnapping in India’s Northwest Frontier” 4:00 pm — 5:30 pm, Knox 208, Elizabeth Kolsky (History, South Asia Institute)
  • “CU at the Movies: School of the Arts” 8:00 pm — 10:30 pm, Low Rotunda, Columbia University Film Festival, more info here
  • “Multi-Sectoral Efforts to Stem the Worldwide Rise of Non-communicable Diseases” 9:00 am — 10:30 am, Columbia University Medical Center, Allan Rosenfield building, Room 1101, Trevor Gunn, Sandro Galea, Peter Nuennig, Robin Whyatt, Moise Desvarieux (SIPA)
  • “Organizational Barriers to Peace: Agency and Structure in International Peacebuilding” 12:15 pm — 2:00 pm, IAB 1302, Susanna Campbell (SIPA)
  • “Viktor Bout, Sergei Magnitsky, and Shell Companies: A Field Experiment in Corruption and Money Laundering” 3:30 pm — 5:00 pm, IAB 707, Jason Sharman (SIPA)
  • “Thought Leadership Forum on the Future of the City” 6:30 pm — 8:00 pm, IAB 15th floor, Scott Stringer, Manhattan Borough President, Alexander D. Garvin, Jeffery Inaba, Greg Lindsay, Kavitha Rajagopalan, Carne Ross, Saskia Sassen (SIPA, more info here)
  • “Q2P: Film Screening + Discussion” 6:00 pm, Maison Francaise, Paromita Vohra (Barnard)
  • “Book Talk: Michael Moran” 5:30 pm — 7:00 pm, J-School Student Center, Michael Moran (J-School)
  • “When the Levee Breaks: Foreign Policymaking in Congress (1877-2010)” 4:10 pm — 5:30 pm, IAB 707, John Lapinski (ISERP)
  • “The Structure and Mechanism of the Hsp90 molecular Chaperone: A Ubiquitous Facilitator of Cellular Signaling” 12:00 pm, 700 Fairchild, David Agard (Biological Sciences)
  • “Neutrino Science and Applications” 4:15 pm, 428 Pupin, Adam Bernstein (Physics)
  • “Data-Drive Uniqueness for Image Retrieval and Object Detection” 11:00 am, CS conference room, Alexei Efros (Computer Science)

Tuesday, April 24

  • “Euro-Atlantic Integration: Towards Stability and Prosperity” 9:00 am — 10:00 am, IAB 1219, Nikola Poposki, David L. Phillips (Human Rights)
  • “Calvino’s Stories of Love and Loneliness” 11:00 am — 1:00 pm, Casa Italiana, Richard Howard
  • “Impact of the Greek crisis on the Wider Balkan Reigon” 12:30 pm — 2:30 pm, Faculty House, Garden Room 2, Mark Medish, Ivan Vejvoda, Misha Glenny (SIPA)
  • “Synergistic Approaches in Molecular and Nanoscale Therapeutics and Delivery Systems for Cancer Diseases” 4:00 pm — 5:00 pm, Mudd 825, Kaushal Rege (Chemistry)
  • “What happened to the 991 Jews in Lens? A Microhistorical Approach to the holocaust” 6:00 pm — 7:30 pm, East Gallery, Buell Hall, Clarie Zalc (History)
  • “Rewiring the Real” 6:30 pm — 8:00 pm, IAB 1501, Mark Z. Danielweski, author of House of Leaves and Only Revolutions (SIPA)
  • “An African Election: Film Screening and Director Q&A” 8:30 pm — 10:30 pm, IAB 417, Jarreth Merz, more info here
  • “Africa in Brazil? Samba, History, and the Allure and Challenge of Diaspora” 6:00 pm, Diana Center, Marc Hertzman (Barnard)

Wednesday, April 25

  • “Columbia University Earth Summit: A Call to Action” 12:00 pm — 7:00 pm, Low Memorial Library, Brice Lalonde, Raj Kundra, Vijay Modi, Gary H. Toenissen, Stephen Gitongi, Carl Hausmann (Earth Institute)
  • “Labor Costs, Labor Informality, and Income Distribution in Colombia and Chile” 12:00 pm — 1:00 pm, IAB 802, Fabio Sanchez Torres (Latin America)
  • “Mumbai Stories: Music, Migration and Mobile Phones” 6:00 pm, Diana Center, Surabhi Sharma (Barnard)
  • “Messianic Empire: Humanitarian Imaginations and Ethical Material in Sudan” 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm, Schermerhorn ext 457, Manuel Schwab (Anthropology)
  • “No Such Agency: Digital Surveillance in the Era of Post-Privacy” 4:10 pm — 6:00 pm, Schermerhorn Extension 963, Joseph Masco (Anthropology)
  • “Law Norms and the Motherhood/Caretaker Penalty” 12:00 pm, 509 Knox, Shelley Correll (Sociology)

Thursday, April 26

  • “Key Issues in Global Economic Governance” 9:00 am — 12:00 pm, Low Memorial Library, Alan Krueger, Guillermo Calvo, Kathleen Hays, Merit E. Janow, Jeffrey Sachs, Jan Svejnar, Sharyn O’Halloran
  • “Family and Job Flexibility: How Class and Gender Shape Work hours and Schedules.” 12:00 pm — 1:00 pm, School of Social Work, Room 1109, Naomi Gertsel (Public Health, Social Work)
  • “Defining the Nation Through Cultural Myth: Russian National Discourse During the Great Reforms (1850s -1870s) 4:00 pm — 5:30 pm, IAB 1510, Olga Maiorova (Harriman Institute)
  • “Attractive, Non-Covalent interactions in Asymmetric Catalysis” 4:30 pm — 5:30 pm, Havemeyer 309, James Leighton, Eric Jacobsen (Chemistry)
  • “CU in Network (Columbia University Internship Network) Kickoff) 5:00 pm — 7:00 pm, Lerner 555, more info here
  • “Delacorte Lecture: Desiree Rogers” 7:00 pm — 8:30 pm, J-School World Room, Desiree Rogers (J-School)
  • “The Communications Concept: A Global History” 12:00 pm — 2:00 pm, 601B J-School, Arvind Rajagopal (ISERP)
  • “Nothing Compares to Paris: A reassessment of the Rayonnant Capital” 6:30 pm — 7:30 pm, 612 Schermerhorn, Meredith Cohen (Art History)
  • “The Greek Crisis in a European Perspective” 6:16 pm, Rennert Hall, Kraft Center, 606 W115th, Konstantinos Tsoukalas (ICLS)

Friday, April 27

  • “Beyond Italy and New Spain: Itineraries for an Iberian Art History (1440-1640)” All day, more info here
  • “The Theodosian Code: Problems of Interpretation and Dating” 11:00 am — 1:00 pm, 5th Floor Seminar Room, Italian Academy, Timothy D. Barnes (Classics)
  • “Hydrogen Atom Transfer from Transition Metal Hydrides to Alkynes” 4:00 pm, 209 Havemeyer, Deven Estes (Chemistry)
  • “How is a Hubble Image Made” 8:00 pm, 301 Pupin Hall, Christine Simpson (Astronomy)