You, too, can draw this well

You, too, can draw this well

Bucket List represents the immense academic privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. Our 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

  • “Writing Lives Series: Artist at the Center.” Monday 6:15 pm, 301 Pulitzer. Maxine Hong Kingston.
  • “Between the Color Line and the Border Line: A Trickster’s Tale from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” Tuesday 4:00-6:00 pm, 411 Fayerweather. Sarah Beckhart.
  • “Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Post-Socialist China.” Thursday 5:00-6:30 pm, 918 IAB. Tiantian Zheng, Dorothy Ko.
  • “Korean Comics (Manhwa).” Friday 2:30-4:00 pm, 403 Kent. Charles Armstrong, Dima Mironenko, Hee-Sook Shin.
  • “Hearst Digital Media Lecture: The Future of Global Coverage and Audience Engagement.” Friday 6:00-8:00 pm, Pulitzer Lecture Hall (3rd Floor). Kevin Delaney, Lydia Polgreen (J’00). RSVP.

Monday, April 20 

  • “Writing Lives Series: Artist at the Center.” 6:15 pm, 301 Pulitzer. Maxine Hong Kingston.
  • “Corporate Imperialism: East India Company Revisited.” 4:00-5:30 pm, 208 Knox. Atul Kohli.

Tuesday, April 21

  • “If Global Warming Is So Urgent, Why Is There So Little Action?” 2:30-4:00 pm, 301 Uris. Per Espen Stoknes.
  • “The New Cuban Socio-Economic Model And Labor Policy: The Challenges for Gender and Social Equity.” 6:00-7:00 pm, 802 IAB. Dayma Echevarría León. Talk is in Spanish.
  • “Between the Color Line and the Border Line: A Trickster’s Tale from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.” 4:00-6:00 pm, 411 Fayerweather. Sarah Beckhart.

Wednesday, April 22 

  • “The Brian Bent Lecture: Mass Spectrometry, Drop by Drop.” 4:30 pm, 209 Havemeyer. Dick Zare.
  • “From Hot War to Cold War: Transnational Trajectories.” 10:00 am-5:45 pm, 1512 IAB. Tarik Cyril Amar, Benjamin Tromly, Per Anders Rudling, more. 
  • “Human Rights Under Xi Jinping: Is There Room for Optimism?” 12:00-1:30 pm, 918 IAB. Sophie Richardson, Andrew Nathan.

Thursday, April 23 

  • “A History of the Ugly.” 12:00-1:30 pm, 101 Barnard Hall. Rachel Eisendrath.
  • “Health and Social Activism of Self-Identified Gay Men in Post-Socialist China.” 5:00-6:30 pm, 918 IAB. Tiantian Zheng, Dorothy Ko.
  • “Creativity Across the Americas: Through the Lens of Education, Culture, and Creative Industries.” 10:00 am-7:00 pm, 179 Grace Dodge Hall (TC). Felipe Buitrago, Arlene Davila, Erick Gordon, Richard Peña. RSVP.
  • “Race and Marriage Equality.” 6:00-8:00 pm, MyImage Studios/MIST Harlem (46 W. 116th). Marcellus Blount, Darnell Moore, Mignon Moore, Yoruba Richen. Register.
  • “In Conversation: Notes of a Native Son.” 6:30 pm, 125 Zankel Bldg. (TC). Phillip Lopate, Kiese Laymon. RSVP.

Friday, April 24 

  • “Hearst Digital Media Lecture: The Future of Global Coverage and Audience Engagement.” 6:00-8:00 pm, Pulitzer Lecture Hall (3rd Floor). Kevin Delaney, Lydia Polgreen (J’00). RSVP.
  • “Korean Comics (Manhwa).” 2:30-4:00 pm, 403 Kent. Charles Armstrong, Dima Mironenko, Hee-Sook Shin.

Saturday, April 25 

  • “Gender: A Discussion Between the Sciences and Humanities.” 9:30 am-1:00 pm, Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall (3rd Floor). Frances Champagne, Evelynn Hammonds, Gloria Origgi, more.