Television killed the Communist star

Television killed the Communist star

Bucket List represents the 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. If you notice any events that have been left off the list, or if you have a correction, please let us know in the comments.

Recommended

  • “Chuck Norris vs. Communism” Monday, 6:00-8:00 PM, Buell Hall. Irina Margareta Nistor.
  • “Venezuela: El incierto final de la revolución Bolivariana” Tuesday, 1:00-2:00 PM, 802 IAB. Francisco Suniaga, Gabriel Kessler.
  • “Colloquium in Law, Rights & Religion: FIRST, Do No Harm (Suing Catholic Hospitals for Putting Pregnant Women at Risk)” Wednesday, 4:30-6:00 PM, Case Lounge, 701 Jerome Greene Hall. Brooke A. Tucker.
  • “An Education of the Senses: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Male Desire in early modern Isfahan” Thursday, 4:00-6:00 PM, 754 Schermerhorn Ext. Kathryn Babayan.
  • “Selected Papers of John Jay, Volume 4” Thursday, 6:00-8:30 PM, 523 Butler Library. Patricia Bunomi.

Monday, April 3rd

  • “Feminist To The Core” 12:00-2:00 PM, Buell Hall. Gayatri Spivak.
  • “Ukrainian Identity Post-Maidan: Crimean Tatars, Russian Speakers, and the LGBT Community” 12:00-1:30 PM, 1219 IAB. Ian Bateson.
  • “Debate on U.S. Sanctions Practice and Policy” 7:00-8:30 PM, 1501 IAB. Richard Nephew, Erich Ferrari (RSVP).
  • “Chuck Norris vs. Communism” 6:00-8:00 PM, Buell Hall. Irina Margareta Nistor.

Tuesday, April 4th

  • “The Ethics of Care as a Politics of the Ordinary” 6:00-7:30 PM, Buell Hall East Gallery. Sandra Laugier (RSVP).
  • “Building an Intersectional Movement to End Sexual Assault on Campus” 7:00-9:00 PM, Diana Event Oval, Barnard College. Sandra Kim.
  • “Soviet Nationalities Policy in Russia and its Western Neighbors: Life after Death” 4:15-5:45 PM, 1201 IAB. Alexander Osipov
  • “Venezuela: El incierto final de la revolución Bolivariana” 1:00-2:00 PM, 802 IAB. Francisco Suniaga, Gabriel Kessler.
  • “Microphone to the World: Empowering Street Girls” 6:00-8:00 PM, 802 IAB. Melody Mills.
  • “The New Era of Counterforce” 2:00-4:00 PM, 707 IAB. Keir A. Lieber, Daryl Press.

Wednesday, April 5th

  • “Small Spaces – How to Live in One!” 12:00-1:00 PM, 516 W. 112th Street.
  • “The Future of the Alliance: NATO Facing Challenges, with General Denis Mercier, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation” 9:30-10:45 AM, 1501 IAB. General Denis Mercier (RSVP).
  • “Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia” 12:00-1:30 PM, 1219 IAB. Anne Garrels, Bill Keller.
  • “Miss Swan’s Bad Language: The Uses of Literacy in 1920s England” 6:15-8:15 PM, 2nd Floor Common Room, Heyman Center. Christopher Hilliard, Roger Luckhurst.
  • “Colloquium in Law, Rights & Religion: FIRST, Do No Harm (Suing Catholic Hospitals for Putting Pregnant Women at Risk)” 4:30-6:00 PM, Case Lounge, 701 Jerome Greene Hall. Brooke A. Tucker.
  • “Sites of Extraction: Perspectives from a Japanese Coal Mine in Northeast China” 12:00-1:30 PM, 918 IAB. Victor Seow, Madeleine Zelin.

Thursday, April 6th

  • “An Education of the Senses: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Male Desire in early modern Isfahan” 4:00-6:00 PM, 754 Schermerhorn Ext. Kathryn Babayan.
  • “Bicycling Street Skills” 5:00-6:30 PM, Trustees Room, 212 Low Library.
  • “Selected Papers of John Jay, Volume 4” 6:00-8:30 PM, 523 Butler Library. Patricia Bunomi.
  • “12th Annual Deutsch Awards for Social Justice” 6:00-8:00 PM, 179 Grace Dodge Hall. Mike Wessells, Alexandra Tamiko Da Dalt (email icccr@tc.columbia.edu to RSVP).

Friday, April 7th

  • “The Wire—The Conference” Friday, 8:30 AM – Saturday, 6:30 PM, 300 Pulitzer Hall. Jamie Hector, Felicia Pearson, Wendell Pierce, Sonja Sohn (RSVP and Programming Information).
  • “Transparency Series: Typography Seminar” 5:00-6:00 PM, Brown Institute, Pulitzer Hall. Paula Scher.

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