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

• “The War on Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and the Constitution” Monday, February 6th, 8:00 pm — 10:00 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium, Glenn Greenwald, Bruce Fein, Jacob Hornberger (more info)
• “Jennifer Egan: Rewiring the Real” Tuesday, February 7th, 6:30 pm — 8:00 pm, IAB 1501, Recipient of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and author of “A Visit From the Goon Squad“ Jennifer Egan, Willing Davidson (Literature)
• “Athena Film Festival” — Runs Thursday, February 9th, through Sunday, February 12th (more info)
• “How Sports Analytics are Changing the Game”, Thursday, February 9th, 6:30 pm — 8:30 pm, IAB 403, Vince Gennaro, author of ”Diamond Dollars: the Economics of Winning in Baseball” (Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences, SIPA)
• “Arab Spring and Beyond: Social Networking and Political Change in the Middle East, Russia, and China” Friday, February 10th, 10:30 am — 12:00 pm, IAB 918, Xiaobo Lu, Thanassis Cambanis, Timothy Frye; includes a free breakfast (Weatherhead East Asia Institute, registration required)

After the jump, a deluge of even more events slated for this week.

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

• “Opium Trade in Afghanistan: Human Rights, Security and Public Health” Monday, January 30th, 6:30 pm — 9:00 pm, IAB 1501, Col. Louis H. Jordan, Jr., Jake Sherman, Don Duncan (War and Peace Studies)
• “UN Studies Program Panel on, ‘The Security Council and its Human Rights Agenda: Children and Armed Conflict; New Tools to Fight Impunity” Tuesday, January 31st, 6:00 — 8:00 pm, IAB 1501; Radhika Coomaraswamy, Dr. Peter Wittig, Grace Akallo, Jo Becker (SIPA, UN Studies Program)
• “Armstrong Memorial Lecture: Technology and Business Innovations at Qualcomm with Impact on a World Nearly Six Billion Cellular Subscribers” Wednesday, February 1st, 2:30 pm — 4:00 pm, Davis Auditorium, Qualcomm founder Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs (Electrical Engineering, Computer Science)
• “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory — Screening and Conversation” Friday, February 3rd, 3:30 pm — 6:15 pm, Dodge Hall, Lifetime Screening Room, Director Bruce Sinofsky (Arts)

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

• “The Salafis, Politics, and the Revolution in Yemen” Monday, January 23th, 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm, Knox Hall 208, Laurent Bonnefoy (SIPA)
• “The Holocaust as Culture: A Conversation with Irme Kertész” Monday, January 23th, 7:00 pm, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room Level 2, Irme Kertész (Comparative Literature)
• “Explaining Muslims’ Support for Democracy in Post-communist Albania” Wednesday, January 25th, 4:00 — 6:00 pm, IAB 801, Arolda Elbassani, Karen Barkey (SIPA)
• “Protests, Elections, and the Prospects for Political change in Russia” Thursday, January 26th, 12:15 pm — 1:45 pm, IAB 1512, Timothy M. Frye, Lincoln Mitchell, Stephen Sestanovich (SIPA)
• “The Southern Tiger: Chile’s Fight for a Peaceful and Democratic Future” Friday, January 27th, 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm, IAB 1512, Ricardo Lagos, Blake Hounshell, Elizabeth Dickinson (RSVP)

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

• “Improving Livelihoods in Batey Communities in the Dominican Republic” Wednesday 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, 1302 IAB, Lilo Delbus (Economic and Political Development)
• “Why Trilling Matters” Wednesday, Wednesday 6:45 pm – 8:00 pm, Adam Kirsch and Mark Lilla (The Current)
• “Two Sudans: For Better or for Worse?” Thursday 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 1501 IAB, Huda Ali, Luka Biong Deng, Tanya Domi, Kenny Gluck, Ahmed Adam Hussein, and John Prendergast (Humanitarian Affairs)
• “The Athens Dialogues” Friday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Casa Italiana, Mark Mazower, Stathis Gougouris, Karen Van Dyck, Nadia Urbinati, Simon Critchley, and others, RSVP by emailing hg2252@columbia.edu (Heyman Center for the Humanities)

Full List

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

• “Governing the World: The Rise and Fall of an Idea” Monday 6:00 pm, Low Rotunda, Mark Mazower, registration (University Lecture)
• “TEDx ColumbiaEngineering” Tuesday 9:00 am – 5:30 pm, Miller Theatre, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Jay Rosen, Herbert Chase, David Newman, Omar Haroun, and more, free tickets
• “Kyiv: A European City” Wednesday 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Seminar Room 1, Faculty House, Alexander Popov, Mayor of Kyiv (Ukrainian Studies)
• “New Money for a New World” Wednesday 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, 417 IAB, Bernard Lietaer, registration (Earth Institute)
• “Conversation with Composers Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris and Walter Thompson” Wednesday 8:00 pm, 622 Dodge, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris and Walter Thompson (Center for Jazz Studies)
• “Gabriel Silver Memorial Lecture with Lawrence H. Summers” Thursday 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, 1501 IAB, Larry Summers, registration (SIPA)

Full List

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. Thursday is a university holiday, so there are very few lectures scheduled this week. Our recommendations for are below and the full list is after the jump.

Recommended

• “Did the Arab Spring Start in Kyrgyzstan?” Monday 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, Italian Academy, Rosa Otunbayeva, President of Kyrgyzstan, registration (World Leaders Forum)
• “CSA Talks: Dr. Ruth” Monday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 401 Lerner, Ruth Westheimer, includes dinner, RSVP on Facebook
• “The Future of Morocco” Tuesday 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Stabile Student Center, Journalism, Ahmed Herzenni (Journalism)

Full List

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

• “Putin’s Russia and the Upcoming Elections” Monday 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Garden Room 2, Faculty House, Nikolay Petrov, Maria Lipman, Alena Ledeneva, Konstantin Sonin, Yulia Latynina, and Timothy Frye
• “Concert: Gift of Instruments” Monday 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm, Miller Theatre, Carter Brey, Alan Gilbert, Victor Goines, Marcus Printup, Aaron Diehl, Yasushi Nakamura, Marion Felder, Joyce Yang, and Simone Porter
• “Anarchy is a Choice: International Politics and the Problem of World Government” Tuesday 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 1501 IAB, James Fearon
• “CJR’s 50th Anniversary Conversation on Journalism: How the Past Guides the Future” Tuesday 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, World Room, Journalism, Vivian Schiller, Michael Shapiro, Connie Schultz, Robert Lipsyte, Justin Peters, and James Marcus, RSVP by emailing cathy.harding@columbia.edu
• “Fiction and History Conference: Day 2″ Wednesday 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Faculty House, E.L. Doctorow, Mark Carnes, John Demos, Jane Kamensky, and James Neal
• “Discussion with Filmmaker and Installation Artist Isaac Julien” Thursday 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Miller Theatre, Isaac Julien, followed by reception, registration
• “How Can Democrats Win Back the House?” Friday 8:00 pm, 417 IAB, Congressman Steve Israel, free tickets

Full List

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

• “Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano” Tuesday 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, 1501 IAB, Yukiya Amano, registration
• “Translating the Indian Past: The Poets’ Experience” Tuesday 7:00 pm, Event Oval, the Diana, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
• “Brian Greene, Live in Conversation” Wednesday 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm, Miller Theatre, Briane Greene, Leonard Susskind, and Saul Perlmutter, sold out
• “Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship: City Strategies Summit with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg” Thursday 8:30 am – 9:30 am, Low Rotunda, Michael Bloomberg, Jeffrey Inmelt, Robert Kasdin, Meyer Feldberg, sold out
• “Political Stabilization: The Role of the U.S. Department of State, USAID, and the U.S. Military in Good Governance and Development” Thursday 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm, 1501 IAB, Douglas Climan, William Buhl, and Stacia George

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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

• “An American Foreign Policy Success Story: the Dayton Accords, Republika Srpska, and Bosnia’s European Integration” Tuesday 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm, Faculty Room, Low Library, Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska, Bosnia & Herzegovina, registration
• “Working Mothers, Barnard Daughters” Wednesday 6:30 pm, 304 Barnard Hall, Anna Quindlen, Tirza Wahrman, Deena Mitlak, Michelle Friedman, Sarah Belfer, Sharon Cromer, Simone Sobers
• “Understanding #OCCUPYWALLSTREET” Wednesday 7:30 pm, 501 Schermerhorn, Saskia Sassen, Nadia Urbinati, Stathis Gourgouris, and Suresh Naidu, RSVP by emailing jlb2210@columbia.edu
• “Meet Princess Rym Ali” Thursday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Stabile Student Center, Journalism, David Klatell and Rym Ali, Princess of Jordan
• “Mario Batali: Conversation on Culture and Cuisine” Thursday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Casa Italiana, Mario Batali, registration

Full List

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

• “America and Israel-Palestine: War and Peace” Monday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (doors open at 5:00 pm), LeFrak Gym, Barnard Hall, Noam Chomsky
• “A Discussion on Sex Trafficking with Lydia Cacho Ribeiro and Triveni Acharya” Tuesday 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 1302 IAB, Lydia Cacho Ribeiro, Triveni Acharya, and Yasmine Ergas
• “Address by Daniel K. Tarullo, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System” Thursday 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Low Rotunda, Daniel Tarullo, registration
• “Creative Writing Lecture with Zadie Smith” Thursday 7:00 pm, Miller Theatre, Zadie Smith
• “Israeli Impunity and International Law” Thursday 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, 309 Havemeyer, Richard Falk and Bashir Abu-Manneh, registration
• “A Conversation With Egyptian Journalist Shahira Amin” 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Student Center, Journalism, Shahira Amin
• “Europe and the Arab Spring: A Paradox” Friday 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm, 1302 IAB, Zaki Laidi and Gordon Bajnai

Full List

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. If you have any questions (such as, “Where’s William and June Warren Hall?”), or formatting suggestions, just leave them in the comments, and we’ll try to respond!

Recommended

• “Afghanistan’s Troubled Transition” 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 501B IAB, Scott Smith, registration
• “Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Discrimination, Identity and Power” Wednesday 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 207 William and June Warren Hall, Catharine MacKinnon
• “Outlaws or In-laws? The Effects of Gay Marriage in Scandinavia” 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, Deutsches Haus, Jens Rydström
• “What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters” Wednesday 7:00 pm, Miller Theatre, Udi Aloni, James Schamus, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and Alisa Solomon
• “What Does the Future Hold for Ukraine?” Thursday 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, Casa Italiana, Vitaly Klychko, registration
• “Injured Cities, Urban Afterlives” All day Friday and Saturday, Miller Theatre and Wood Auditorium, Lee Bollinger, Rosalind Morris, Saskia Sassen, Nina Bernstein and many others, registration
• “A Conversation with Pakistani Politician Imran Khan” Friday 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 2nd Floor Lecture Hall, Journalism, Imran Khan and Aparisim Ghosh
• “America, Israel, and the Palestinians: In Pursuit of Peace” Sunday 4:00 pm, Kraft Center, Alan Dershowitz, registration

Full List

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. As always, please leave any formatting suggestions in the comments!

Recommended

• “The Labor of Cute: Net Idols, Cute Culture, and the Social Factory in Contemporary Japan” Monday 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, 918 IAB, Gabriella Lukács
• “Café Columbia: Writing about Abraham Lincoln” Monday 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, PicNic Cafe (Broadway between 101st and 102nd Street), Eric Foner, $10 cover (includes one drink)
• “Cooking Demonstration and Lecture by ‘Iron Chef’ Morimoto” Tuesday 6:00 pm, Casa Italiana, Masaharu Morimoto and Jordan Sand
• “Pulitzer Panel” Tuesday 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Journalism, Jeff Gottleib, Ruben Vives, Amy Ellis Nutt, Paige St. John, and Walt Bogdanich
• “I Walked with Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath” Tuesday 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 622 Dodge, Jimmy Heath
• “Secularising Islamists? Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Pakistan” Wednesday 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, 1510 IAB, Humeira Iqtidar, Sudipta Kaviraj, and Karen Barkey
• “Ciphers and the end of Maya Number Writing” Thursday 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm, 930 Schermerhorn, Anna Blume
• “Muslim American Citizenship: A Decade Since 9/11″ Friday 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, 1501 IAB, Hishaam Aidi, Arshad Ali, Sahar Aziz, Kathleen Foley, Zareena Grewal, Sally Howell, Amaney Jamal, Ousmane Kane, Arun Kudunani, Charles Kurzman, Suhail Khan, Irfan Nooruddin, Farid Senzai, Alfred Stepan, and Mohammed Younis, registration
• “Film Screening and Stargazing: The City Dark” Friday 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Pupin 301

Full List

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. We’re still experimenting with different formats, so if you have an idea, please leave it in the comments!

Recommended

• “Roadmap for Addressing Sex Differences in Pain Management” Monday 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Debora Spar, Marianne Legato, Jeffrey Mogil, Richard Smiley, Josephine P. Briggs, Saralyn Mark, RSVP by emailing wwn.ibro@verizon.net
• “News from the LHC: Tightening the Noose on the Standard Model” Monday 4:15 pm, 428 Pupin, John Parsons, preceded by tea and cookies in 705 Pupin
• “Moral Relativism” Tuesday 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm, 716 Philosophy, Gilbert Harman
• “No More Peace! How Disaster, Terror and War Have Upstaged Media Events” Wednesday 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 607B Journalism, Elihu Katz
• “Yoga and Yogis” Thursday 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, 207 Knox, Sir James Mallinson
• “Post-Orientalism and the Exilic Individual: A Conference in Honor of Hamid Dabashi” Friday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, 501 Schermerhorn, various speakers
• “Lecture and Stargazing: Strange New Worlds” Friday 7:00 pm, Pupin, Ray Jayawardhana

Full List

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. This week is full of sold-out World Leaders Forum events, but there are also a lot of good social science lectures on Thursday and Friday and a couple major academic conferences next weekend. We realize this big list format isn’t the easiest to read, so stay tuned next week as we tweak the presentation and make it easier to discover interesting events.

Recommended Events

• “The Past And Future Of French History” Wednesday September 21st, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, East Gallery, Buell Hall, Samuel Moyn, Gregory Mann, Emmanuelle Saada, Judith Surkis and Robert O. Paxton
• “Report on a Visit to North Korea” Thursday September 22nd, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, 918 IAB, Charles Armstrong, Abraham Kim, and James Person
• “Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations: Shall We Play Ball?” Thursday September 22nd, 4:00 pm, 820 IAB, Jorge Dominguez, Rafael Hernandez, and John Coatsworth
• “Kind of Blue to Bitches Brew” Thursday September 22nd, 8:00pm – 10:00pm, 622 Dodge
• “Activism and the Academy: Celebrating 40 Years of Feminist Scholarship and Action” All day Friday September 23rd and Saturday September 24th, Barnard Hall, various, registration required
• “Religion and Human Rights Pragmatism: What causes persuasion, diffusion, and change of human rights norms and practices?” Saturday September 24th, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm, 1501 IAB, Amitav Acharya, Charli Carpenter, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Daniel Goldstein, Samuel Moyn, Tsveta Petrova, Anthony Richter, James Ron, Kenneth Roth, Kathryn Sikkink, Alfred Stepan, and Leslie Vinjamuri

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The Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege and luxury we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus that will hopefully make you realize how lucky we are to be here. We’ll even lecturehop a few. Our recommendations are below and the full list is after the jump.

Recommended Events

• “Following the War Home: The Interaction of Interviewing and Fiction” Tuesday September 13th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 801 IAB, Helen Benedict
• Xu Bing: Square Word Calligraphy Classroom” Wednesday September 14th, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, 612 Schermerhorn, Xu Bing
• “From Closed Doors to Open Roads: A Journalist’s Journey” Wednesday September 14th, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• “Russian Elections 2011-12: Is There a Chance For Political Opposition?” Friday September 16th, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Skyline Room, Faculty House, Boris Nemtsov, Evgeniya Chirikova, Andranik Migranyan, and Timothy Frye

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