Bucket List represents the immense academic privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. On Tuesday, we are graced by the presence of Tunisia’s former Prime Minister, His Excellency Mehdi Jomaa. Check out his talk about democracy, and more, on Tuesday. Our other recommendations are below, and the full list can be found after the jump. As always, if we’ve made a mistake or left anything noteworthy off the list, please let us know in the comments. 

Recommended 

  • “Leading Tunisia’s Democracy Start-up.” Tuesday, 11:00 am-12:00 pm, Low Rotunda. His Excellency Mehdi Jomaa, President Bollinger. Registration required.
  • “Speech and Media Freedom: New Lessons of the Umbrella Revolution.” Monday, 12:10-1:10 pm, 107 Jerome Greene. Margaret Ng.
  • “Hijacking Feminist Rhetoric: Latest PR Tactics in the Promotion of ‘Female Sexual Dysfunction.’” Thursday, 5:00-7:00 pm, Faculty House. Leonore Tiefer.
  • “Delacorte Lecture Series.” Thursday, 6:00-7:30 pm, World Room (3rd Floor Journalism). Jake Silverstein (Editor-in-Chief of NYT Magazine). Refreshments provided.


Monday, February 23 

  • “The Emergence of Jets at the Large Hadron Collider.” 4:15 pm, 428 Pupin. Matthew Schwartz.
  • “Speech and Media Freedom: New Lessons of the Umbrella Revolution.” Thursday, 12:10-1:10 pm, 107 Jerome Greene. Margaret Ng.
  • “Research Without Borders: Fair Use and Appropriation of Art and Photography.” 2:00-4:00 pm, Faculty House Garden Room 2. Greg Cram, Rachelle Browne, Mickey Osterreicher, Parker Higgins. RSVP.

Tuesday, February 24

  • “Leading Tunisia’s Democracy Start-up.” 11:00 am-12:00 pm, Low Rotunda. His Excellency Mehdi Jomaa, President Bollinger.
  • “What Went Wrong in Libya? A Look at Key Actors, Events and the International Community’s Role in Libya’s Downward Spiral.” 4:00-6:00 pm, 1302 IAB. Hanan Salah.
  • “Sound and Image: Chinese Poets in Conversation with Artist Xu Bing.” 6:00-8:00 pm, 203 Butler Library. Bei Dao, Ouyang Jianghe, Xi Chuan, Zhai Yongming, Zhou Zhan, Xu Bing.

Wednesday, February 25

  • “The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture.” 12:00-2:00 pm, 1302 IAB. Johnathan Rynhold.
  • “Improving Resource Efficiency in Cloud Computing.” 11:00 am, 750 CEPSR. Christina Delimitrou.
  • “Resilient New York: Architecture and Urban Planning in the Face of Climate Change.” 7:00-9:00 pm, 555 Lerner. Brian Baer, Pippa Brashear, Tara Eisenberg, more.

Thursday, February 26

  • “Hijacking Feminist Rhetoric: Latest PR Tactics in the Promotion of ‘Female Sexual Dysfunction.’” 5:00-7:00 pm, Faculty House. Leonore Tiefer.
  • “The Future of the (Digital) Book.” 6:00-8:00 pm, 523 Butler Library. Diana Taylor, Alexei Taylor.
  • “Attitudes Toward Gender Inequality: Results From Embedded Experiments in 6 Countries.” 12:15-2:00 pm, 707 IAB. Rose McDermott.
  • “Sex, Politics and Putin: Masculinity and Russian Foreign Policy.” 12:00-1:00 pm, 1219 IAB. Valerie Sperling.
  • “Delacorte Lecture Series.” 6:00-7:30 pm, World Room (3rd Floor Journalism). Jake Silverstein (Editor in Chief of NYT Magazine). Refreshments provided.

Friday, February 27

  • “Neutron Stars.” Lecture/Stargazing. 7:00-9:00 pm. Slavko Bogdanov.