DSpar and Cosmopolitan's EIC will talk about this

DSpar and Cosmopolitan’s EIC will talk about this

Bucket List represents the immense academic privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. This week, soak up the sun and some knowledge. Our recommendations are below, and the full list can be found below the jump. As always, if we’ve made a mistake or left anything noteworthy off the list, please let us know in the comments. 

Recommended 

  • “The Global Economic and Financial System: Challenges and Prospects.” Monday 6:00-7:30 pm, 1512 IAB. Jacob Frenkel.
  • “Ethics and Approaches to Covering Violent Conflicts.” Tuesday 12:00-2:00 pm, Faculty House Garden Room 2. Nina Berman, Judith Matloff, Maria Turchenkova. Register.
  • “Beauty and Aging: A Conversation.” Tuesday 6:30 pm, Diana Event Oval. Joanna Coles, Dayle Haddon, Dr. Rhoda Narins (BC’62), Naomi Wolf, Debora Spar.
  • “Do Babies Matter? Family and Gender in the Ivory Tower.” Thursday 12:00-2:00 pm, Davis Auditorium (CEPSR). Mary Ann Mason.
  • “Caribbean Feminisms on the Page.” Thursday 6:30 pm, Diana Event Oval. Jamaica Kincaid, Tiphanie Yanique, Kaiama Glover.

Monday, April 13

  • “Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719.” 4:00-5:30 pm, 208 Knox. Munis Faruqui.
  • “The Global Economic and Financial System: Challenges and Prospects.” 6:00-7:30 pm, 1512 IAB. Jacob Frenkel.
  • “Learning Compact Models From High-Dimensional Large Datasets.” 11:00 am, Davis Auditorium (CEPSR). Yoram Singer.

Tuesday, April 14 

  • “Modernity at the Frontier.” 6:30-8:00 pm, 457 Schermerhorn Ext. Deneb Valereto. Food and beverage provided.
  • “Ethics and Approaches to Covering Violent Conflicts.” 12:00-2:00 pm, Faculty House Garden Room 2. Nina Berman, Judith Matloff, Maria Turchenkova. Register.
  • “Beauty and Aging: A Conversation.” 6:30 pm, Diana Event Oval. Joanna Coles, Dayle Haddon, Dr. Rhoda Narins (BC’62), Naomi Wolf, Debora Spar.
  • “Citizens’ United and It’s Aftermath.” 4:10 pm, LL104 Diana. Jonathan Alter.
  • “The Tragedy of the Egyptian Revolution.” 6:00-8:00 pm, 707 IAB. Khaled Fahmy.

Wednesday, April 15 

  • “In the Shadow of Working Men: Gendered Labor and Migrant Rights in South Korea.” 12:00-1:30 pm, 918 IAB. Hae Yeon Choo.
  • “Progressive Inequality: Rich and Poor in New York, 1890-1920.” 1:00-2:30 pm, 406 IAB. David Huyssen. RSVP.

Thursday, April 16

  • “Do Babies Matter? Family and Gender in the Ivory Tower.” 12:00-2:00 pm, Davis Auditorium (CEPSR). Mary Ann Mason.
  • “A Childhood’s Garden of Despair: Dostoevsky and ‘A Boy at Christ’s Christmas Tree.'” 4:00-6:00 pm, 709 Hamilton. Robin Feuer Miller.
  • “The Fate of Social Science in a Black Box Society.” 12:00-2:00 pm, 411 Fayerweather. Frank Pasquale.
  • “Caribbean Feminisms on the Page.” 6:30 pm, Diana Event Oval. Jamaica Kincaid, Tiphanie Yanique, Kaiama Glover.
  • “Take Back the Night: March and Rally.” 7:45-9:45 pm, Barnard gates (B’way@117th). Various speakers.

Friday, April 17

  • “Lynching, Religion and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla.” 11:00 am-1:00 pm, 802 IAB. Gema Santamaria.
  • “Feminism’s Abject Selves: Beauvoir, Leduc, Wittig.” 9:30 am-6:00 pm, Buell Hall East Gallery. Virginia Despentes, Didier Eribon, Anne Garetta, more. Continued on April 18. Schedule.
  • “Writing and Reading Manuscripts in Germany in the 16th Century.” 6:00-8:30 pm, 523 Butler. Eef Overgaauw.

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