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Bucket List represents the immense academic privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. Gear up for the last full week of classes with these enriching educational programs. Our recommendations are below, and you can find the rest of the list 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

• “No-Regrets Parenting: Making the Most of the 940 Saturdays of Childhood.” Tuesday 6:00 pm, James Room (Barnard Hall). Harley Rotbart.
• “The Responsive Cities Initiative.” Tuesday 6:30-8:00 pm, Brown Institute for Media Innovation (Pulitzer). Lev Gonick, Brett Goldstein, Elin Katz, Jim Baller, Oliver Wise. Register.
• “Writing About Global Science for the International Media.” Thursday 6:30-8:30 pm, 516 Hamilton. Naomi Oreskes, Lesley Jane Seymour. Register.

Monday, April 27 

• “Saved by a Martyr: Meditation, Evangelical Sanctification, and the ‘Persecuted Church’.” 1:10-2:35 pm, 302 Barnard Hall. Omri Elisha.
• “Brazilian Income Distribution: Past/Current Changes and Prospective Agenda.” 1:00-2:00 pm, 802 IAB. Marcelo Neri.

Tuesday, April 28 

• “The Enclosure of Movement: How Travelers, Officials and Jurists Negotiated Rights of Passage in the Old Reich.” 4:15-6:15 pm, 411 Fayerweather. Luca Scholz, Carl Wennerlind.
• “No-Regrets Parenting: Making the Most of the 940 Saturdays of Childhood.” 6:00 pm, James Room (Barnard Hall). Harley Rotbart.
• “The Responsive Cities Initiative.” 6:30-8:00 pm, Brown Institute for Media Innovation (Pulitzer). Lev Gonick, Brett Goldstein, Elin Katz, Jim Baller, Oliver Wise. Register.
• “The Origins of the Papacy.” 4:00-6:00 pm, Italian Academy. Robert Somerville.

Wednesday, April 29 

• “Commercializing Medicine or Benefiting the People: The Imperial Apothecary in China 1076-1600.” 6:00-7:30 pm, Gallatin School (NYU, 1 Wash. Place). Asaf Goldschmidt.
• “Creative Writing Lecture Series.” 7:00-9:00 pm, 501 Dodge. Jayne Anne Phillips.

Thursday, April 30 

• “Writing About Global Science for the International Media.” 6:30-8:30 pm, 516 Hamilton. Naomi Oreskes, Lesley Jane Seymour. Register.
• “Nostalgia.” 6:00-7:30 pm, Buell Hall (East Gallery). Barbara Cassin. Lecture in French.
• “Chemistry Colloquium: The Photosynthetic Membrane of Purple Bacteria—A Clockwork of Proteins and Processes.” 4:30-5:30 pm, 209 Havemeyer. Klaus Schulten.

Friday, May 1

• “Art and Reality: Serbian Perspectives.” 6:00-7:00 pm, 1219 IAB. Svetlana Rakic.
• “Why Sex? Why Gender?: Activist Research for Social Justice.” 10:00 am-6:30 pm, James Room (Barnard Hall). Janet Jakobsen.
• “Patterns of Large-Scale Attention.” 2:00-3:30 pm, CS Conference Room (4th Floor Mudd). Mor Naaman.
• “Columbia Film Festival.” Programs A and B. 7:00 and 9:00 pm, Walter Reade Theater (165 W. 65th). Columbia MFA students.

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