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 a correction, please leave them in the comments.

Recommended

  • “Considering the Creative Habit with Twyla Tharp” Diana Center Event Oval, Monday September 15 7:00-9:00 PM. Register.
  • “Barnard Women Poets Prize Reading” Sulzberger Parlor, Wednesday, September 17 7:00-9:00 PM. Sandra Lims

Monday, September 15

  • “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” 509 Knox Hall, 4:00-6:00 PM.
  • “Pakistan and the Burden of Islam” Heyman Center, 4:10-6:00 PM. Ainslie Embree
  • “OSCE and the Challenges Faced by the Organization in Changing European Security Environment” IAB 1512 4:00-6:00 PM. Ranko Krivokapic.

Tuesday, September 16

  • “Abenomics, TPP, and the Future of Japans Agriculture.” IAB 918, 4:15-6:00 PM. Gerald Curtis, Richard Katz.


Wednesday, September 17

  • “Origins of Environmental Law Lecture Series: The Partisan, Geographic and Economic Political Context of Environmental Policy” IAB 407, 11:00-12:00 PM. Leon Billings, Thomas Jorling.
  • “Counterfactuals and Literary History: Racine, Sainte-Beuve and the Question of Tragedy” Buell Hall, 6:00-7:30 PM. Christopher Prendergast.
  • “Democracy, Capitalism and the European Public Sphere in the 21st Century: Etienne Balibar and Nancy Fraser in Conversation” Heyman Center Common Room, 6:00-7:00 PM.
  • “Everything Everyone Should Know About Economics.” IAB 1302, 6:00-7:30 PM. Ha-Joon Chang.

Thursday, September 18

  • “Seeing molecular vibrations: Chemical imaging for biology and medicine” 209 Havemeyer, 4:30-5:30 PM. Wei Min.
  • “The Gender Pay Gap: Going, Going…But Not Gone” 405 Milbank, 6:00-8:00 PM. Francine Blau.
  • “‘Islamic’ Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures” 612 Schermerhorn, 6:00-8:00 PM. Renata Holod.
  • “The Political Landscape of Shale Gas Development and Hydraulic Fracturing in New York” Faculty House, 7:00-8:15 PM.
  • “In Proportion: A Conversation on the Laws of War and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” Schermerhorn 501, 8:00-10:00 PM. Moshe Halbertal.
  • “Distributed Attention. A Media History of Distraction” Deutsches Haus, 8:00 PM. Petra Loffler.

Friday, September 19

  • “For a New Cuba and a New Spain: Popular Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War” IAB 802, 11:00-1:00 PM, Ariel Mae Lambert.
  • “War on Gaza: Military Strategy and Historical Horizons.” Schermerhorn 501, 12:00-1:30 PM. Rashid Khalidi, Noura Erakat.