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Going to Columbia is an incredible academic privilege. That’s why we have Bucket List every week, cataloging the lectures and seminars happening on campus. Recommended events are below and the full list is after the jump.

Recommended

• “The Writing Lives Series An Evening with Poet and Novelist Michael Ondaatje” Tuesday April 29, 6:15-8:15 PM, Schapiro Center Davis Auditorium.
• Hook Me Up: Discussion on college hook-up culture through an interactive speed-dating event.” Tuesday April 29, 7:00-8:30 PM, Millicent Carey McIntosh Student Dining Room.
• “It Won’t Stop Until We Talk.” Tuesday April 29, 7:00-9:00 PM. Robi Damelin, Bassam Aramin.
• “The Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty Lecture” Wednesday April 30, 4:00-6:00 PM, Columbia University Medical Center Alumni Auditorium. Debora Spar.

Monday, April 28.

• “China’s Maritime Power and the South and East China Seas” 12:00-1:30 PM, IAB 918.
• “Brownian Distance Covariance and Energy Statistics” 1:30-3:00 PM, School of Social Work 903. Gabor Szekely.
• “Symmetries of the quantum Hall effect” 2:10 PM, 705 Pupin Hall. Dam Thanh Son.
• “How Technology Can Help Fight Conflict, Instability, and Repression” 4:00-5:30 PM, IAB 918. Justin Kosslyn.
• “Prize Postdoctoral Fellow Colloquium: Positive Feedbacks and the Global Distribution of Biomes” 4:00-5:00 PM, Faculty House Ivy Lounge.
• “Roundtable on ‘Toleration in Conflict’ by Rainer Forst” 4:00-6:00 PM, Heyman Center 2nd Floor. Rainer Forst, Teresa Bejan, Evan Haefeli, Andrew Sabl, Nadia Urbinati.
• “History of Prejudice in the US and India” 4:00-5:30 PM, Knox Hall 208. Gyanendra Pandey.
• ‘Architecture and Liturgy in the Byzantine ““Dark Ages””?’ 4:00-5:00 PM, 934 Schermerhorn. Vassileios Marinis.
• “Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space: Fundamentals of RKHS” 4:00-6:00 PM, Social Work 903. Arthur Gretton.
• “The Familial Roots of Political Inequality” 4:10-5:30 PM, 707 IAB. Laura Stoker.
• “Inflation (after BICEP2)” 4:15 PM, 301 Pupin Hall. Paolo Creminelli.
• “Synthetic Biology for Synthetic Chemistry” 4:30-5:30 PM, Havemeyer 209. Jay Keasling.

Tuesday, April 29.

• “City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago” 12:00-1:30 PM, 406 IAB.
• “The Self Beyond Itself: Rethinking How Societies Can Become More Humane” 3:00-5:00 PM, Lerner Hall 555. Heidi Ravven.
• “Methane emissions make shale gas a bridge to nowhere” 4:10-5:00 PM, Schermerhorn Extension 1015. Bob Howarth.
• “1968: The Literary Year as an Anachrony” 6:30-8:00, IAB 1219. Cleo Protohristova.
• “What Counts: Reimagining What Student Growth Looks Like (and Requires)” 6:30-8:00 PM, Diana Event Oval. Sam Chaltain.
• “Pour une stylistique de l’existence” 7:00-8:30 PM, Buell Hall. Marielle Mac, Vincent Debaene.

Wednesday, April 30.

• The Colonial Subjects in Spanish Guinea: ‘Sons of the Soil’ and ‘Indigenas’” 12:00-1:30 PM, 208 KNox Hall. Ana Lucia Sa.
• “Recent Developments and U.S. Policies” 12:00-1:30 PM, IAB 918. Kin MOy.
• “High Energy Particle Seminar.” 1:00 PM, 705 Pupin. Paolo Creminelli.
• “Brownian Correlation.” 1:30-3:00 PM, Social Work Building 903. Gabor Szekely.
• “Special lecture 3 on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space.” 4:00-6:00 PM, Social Work Building 903. Arthur Gretton.
• “Franz Boas Seminar by Mark Abls.” 4:10-6:00 PM, 963 Schermerhorn Extension.
• “Faiths’ Response to Intimate Partner Violence: Dinner & Panel Discussion” 6:00-7:30 PM, Faculty House Presidential Room.
• “Film preview: Pour une femme with director” 6:00-8:30 PM, Buell Hall East Gallery. Diane Kurys.
• “Panel | ULYSSES Gets Graphic” 6:00-8:00 PM, Butler Library 523. Robert Berry, Chad Rutkowski, Charles Brownstein.
• “Shoddy Technology: Textile Waste and the Epistemology of Reuse” 6:00-7:30 PM, NY Torch Club. Hanna Shell
• “Cutting-edge Strategies for Sustainability Management,” 6:10-7:00 PM, Havemeyer 209. Steve Cohen.
• “Redeeming the Sick Man of Europe: An Ottoman Wax Museum in Nineteenth-Century London” 6:15-7:15 PM, 612 Schermerhorn. Unver Rustem.
• “On Looking: New York Through Fresh Eyes” 6:30-8:00 PM, Diana Event Oval. Alexandra Horowitz, Madeline Schwartzman.
• “The Struggle for Syria” 6:30-8:30 PM, Shapiro Davis Auditorium.

Thursday, May 1.

• “Philosophy as a Public Humanity” 12:15 PM, Heyman Center Common Room. Max Hayward.
• “When Failed States Succeed: Assessing Weak State Capacity and Choice to Confront Violent Non-state Actors” 12:15-2:00 PM, 707 IAB. Austin Long.
• “Aquifers, Renewable Energy and Desalination in Baja California Sur: Responses to Development and Climate Changes” 2:00-4:00 PM, Lerner Hall 568. Magdalena A K Muir.
• “Classics Colloquium: Adriaan Lanni.” 4:10-5:30 PM, 602 Hamilton.
• “Center for the Ancient Mediterranean Talk.” 6:00-7:00 PM. Angelos Chaniotis.
• “Material Changes: Fragmented Histories of Ancient Maya Sculptures” 6:00-7:00 PM, 951 Schermerhorn Extension. Dr. Megan O’Neil.

Friday, May 2.

• “Preventing Brain Disorders, Improving Global Mental Health” 8:30-3:30 PM, CUMC Alumni Auditorium Black Building. Dr. Shekar Saxena.
• “Utopias and Dystopias in Music and Media of East Central Europe Circum 1989” 9:15-5:15 PM, 602 Hamilton Hall.
• “The Past in Public: Museums and Memory” 10:00-1:00 PM, 918 IAB. Clifford Chanin, Stephane Grimaldi, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Valerie Paley.
• “LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPE: NEW CONTEXTS, COMPETENCIES, AND DIRECTIONS FOR THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM” 3:00-4:30 PM, Hamilton 707. David Malinowski.
• “The Antarctic Circumpolar Current during the Last Glacial Maximum” 3:30-4:30 PM, LDEO Monell Building Auditorium. Jean Lynch-Stieglitz.
• “‘Ways of seeing’ in prehistoric Europe: new methods and concepts for the deep-time social history of art” 5:00-6:30 PM, 951 Schermerhorn Extensino. Dr. John Robb.
• “Turning Trends into Business Insights” 6:00-8:00 PM, 501 Northwest Corner. Kirk Olson.

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