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. As always, feel free to mention any events we may have missed in the comments section (and/or mock our typos) and we’ll add them. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump.

Recommended:

• “Is Sustainability Sustainable?: A Post-Bloomberg NYC Panel Discussion” Tuesday, 6:00 – 8:00, Low Library, Rohit Aggarwala, Sergej Mahnovski, Steven Cohen
• “Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort” Tuesday, 6:15, Heyman Center Common Room, Raffaele Laudani, Nadia Urbinati, et al.
• “Sustaining Peace: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference” Thursday, 1:30 – 9:30, Teachers College, Leymah Gbowee (7:30-8:30), Peter T. Coleman (Register)

Monday, October 21:

• “Illegal Surveillance in Latin America” 8:00, IAB 802, Alejandro Santos
• “Precise packaging of complex viral genomes and the temporal control of their gene expression” 12:00, Fairchild 700, Leonard Mindich
• “Communication by Statistical Regression” 12:00 – 1:00, School of Social Work, Andrew Barron
• “From Undeserving Poor to Rights Holder” 12:10 – 1:10, Jerome Greene Hall 107, Magdalena Sepulveda
• “Inteligencias Colectivas” 1:00, Buell 300, Zoohaus, Andres Jaque
• “Planck and Beyond” 2:10, Pupin 831, David Spergel
• “The Past and the Future of Press Freedom in Turkey” 3:30-5:00pm, Lerner 569, Nuri Colakoglu
• “Where There’s a Will, There Isn’t Always a Way: The Impact of Local Political Institutions on Latino Political Participation” 4:10 – 5:30, IAB 707, Narayani Lasala
• “Measuring the expansion history of the Universe with CHIME” 4:15, Pupin 428, Mark Halpern
• “Ulysses Kay Project: A Pre-Concert Talk” 5:00, Schermerhorn Extension 754, George Lewis, Jennifer Lee, Courtney Brian, Liz Player
• “Starting Over Reloaded” 6:00 – 8:00, IAB 802, Albert Fishlow
• “Market-based Solutions for Environmental Problems” 6:15 – 7:30, IAB 1302, Sascha Lafeld
• “Rethinking the Secular Public” 6:30 – 8:00, Heyman Center Common Room, Etienne Balibar, Stathis Gourgouris
• “Blinding: a Bilingual Reading & Discussion” 7:00, James Room on the 4th Floor of Barnard Hall, Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter
• “Edward Villella: Man Who Dances On” 7:00, Diana Event Oval

Tuesday, October 22:

• “Development of New Generations of Fluorescent False Neurotransmitters for High Resolution Imaging of Glutamate Release” 12:00 – 1:00, Fairchild 700, Paolomi Merchant
• “Butterfly People: An American Encounter with the Beauty of the World” 12:00 – 1:30, Lehman Center, William Leach
• “Crisis in Sudan” 12:45 – 2:00, IAB 403, Mukesh Kapila
• “Transforming Times Square: A Public Space Journey” 1:00, Avery 114, Tim Tompkins
• “Studying the effects of changing environmental conditions on soil microbial metabolism, without the soil” 4:10 – 5:00, Schermerhorn Extension 1015, Ford Ballantyne
• “Saving a Bad Monetary Marriage: The Eurozone After the Crisis” 5:00 – 6:30, IAB 1501, Martin Wolf
• “War Cry of the Beggars” 6:00 – 8:30, Held Auditorium, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Partha Chatterjee
• “David Brooks and Matt Palmer in Conversation” 6:30, Buell Hall
• “Beast or Beauty? How to Adapt a Brutalist Building in Six Easy Moves” 6:30, Fayerweather 200, Clare Hughes
• “Human Rights Behind Bars: A Conversation about Prisoners’ Rights” 6:30 – 8:30, IAB 404, Nina Gelashvili, Sylvester Terhemen Uhaa, Mayamba Geoffrey Kuletela
• “Non-State Actors and Violations of Human Rights” 7:30 – 8:30, Faculty House, Nigel Rodley

Wednesday, October 23:

• “Sustainable Development Seminar Series: America’s Water: Renewing Our Aging Infrastructure” 10:00 – 12:00, Lerner’s Broadway Room
• “Emerging Markets – Global Investors Perspective” 12:00 – 1:00, IAB 1219, Joon Hyuk Heo, Farhod Inogambaev
• “Covering the Americas: the best of 2013” 12:00 – 2:00, Journalism 305, Jon Lee Anderson, Donna De Cesare, Mauri Knig, et al.
• “The Epistemology of Cave Art – a Doxic Investigation” 12:15, Location TBD, Mats Rosengren
• “Directional Dark Matter Detection with the DMTPC Experiment” 1:00, Pupin 705, Jeremy Lopez
• “Franz Boas Seminar” 4:10 – 6:10, Schermerhorn Extension 963, Joanne Randa Nucho
• “Fighting Someone Else’s Wars? Irish Mercenaries, Soldiers, and Adventurers in the New World, 1776-1865” 6:00 – 8:00, Sulzberger Parlor, Jos Shane Brownrigg-Gleeson
• “The Whip Hand”: Sovereignty, Anti-Colonialism, and International Law, 1950-1971″ 7:30 – 9:30, Faculty House, Christopher Dietrich

Thursday, October 24:

• “Testimony and 9/11: Memory Change over Time” 10:00 – 1:00, IAB 918, William Hirst, Elizabeth Phelps, Clifford Chanin, Bradley Evans
• “Finding Concurrency Errors in Web Sites” 11:00, CS Conference Room, Veselin Raychev
• “Political Cyberbullying in Thailand” 1:00 – 2:00, IAB 324, Thaweeporn ‘Am’ Kummetha
• “Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in Wages” 2:00 – 3:30, Location TBD, Kim Weeden
• “Conscience Tolerable and Intolerable” 4:10 – 6:10, Philosophy 612, Nancy Ruttenburg
• “Quantum Mechanics and Biology: Elucidating Design Principles of Photosynthetic Energy Transfer” 4:30 – 5:30, Havemeyer 209, Greg Engel
• “Europe Losing its Soul: The European Social Model” 6:00 – 7:30, Fayerweather 411, Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
• “Girls, Zines, and their Afterlives: On the Significance of Multiple Networks and Itineraries of Dissent” 6:00 – 8:00, Butler Library, Janice Radway
• “Life Again, Capturing resurrection after the Vazargan earthquake in Iran” 6:00 – 8:00, IAB’s 4th Floor Atrium, Hoda Rostami, Hamid Dabashi
• “Cities as Cultural Arenas: Media, Art, and the Urban Experience” 6:00, Casa Hispanica, Beatriz Jaguaribe

Friday, October 25:

• “Royal Portrait: The Public Image of Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-1595)” 10:00 – 12:00, Faculty House, Özgen Felek
  
• “What’s it Worth? Getting Creative with Rubrics and Assessment” 12:00 – 1:00, Butler 208, Adrienne Garber, Michael Cennamo
• “Conserved quantities in General Relativity” 3:30 – 4:30, 507 Math, Po-Ning Chen
• “From Harlem to the World: Eslanda Robeson’s radical internationalism and lessons for contemporary activists” 4:00 – 5:30, Schermerhorn Extension 754, Barbara Ransby
• “The Sounds of the Stars” 7:00, Pupin, Jeff Oishi

EnCore:

• “The Humanities and the MLA Today” Monday, 6:00 – 8:00, Buell Hall’s East Gallery, Mary Louise Pratt, Marianne Hirsch, Simon Gikandi, Carlos Alonso, Pierre Force
• “Embodiments of Science” Tuesday, 4:00 – 5:00, Schermerhorn Extension 754, Kelly Happe
• “Faustilla the Pawnbroker & Other Tales of Gender & Finance in the Early Roman Empire” Wednesday, 12:00 – 1:00, Barnard 101, Kristina Milnor