“I pinky promise I will go to one of these events,” – You

Bucket List represents the immense academic privilege we enjoy as Columbia students.  Our recommendations are below, and the full list can be found below 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

• The Big Problem from the Financial Crisis that Still Isn’t Fixed.  6:30 – 7:30 pm, Low Memorial Library Rotunda (RSVP)
• The New Geopolitics of Energy.  6:00 – 7:30 pm, Casa Italiana, Teatro Room (RSVP)
• Heyman Center Workshops with CRPS Workshop Series: Tommie Shelby on Richard Wright: Realizing the Promise of the West.  12:45 – 2:15 pm, Schermerhorn Hall Seminar Room

Monday, September 14

• #COP21BioClimate Film Screening with Alan Rabinowitz and Andy Revkin. 6:00 – 9:00 pm, Lerner Hall (Roone Arledge Auditorium)

Tuesday, September 15

• Monitoring Ukraine’s Reforms: Prospects and Challenges. 12:15 – 1:30 pm,  International Affairs Building, Room 1219
• Mexican Mondays: Armed Forces and the Rule of Law in Mexico’s Drug Trafficking War.  4:00 – 5:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• The New Geopolitics of Energy.  6:00 – 7:30 pm, Casa Italiana, Teatro Room (RSVP)
• The Big Problem from the Financial Crisis that Still Isn’t Fixed.  6:30 – 7:30 pm, Low Memorial Library Rotunda (RSVP)

Wednesday, September 16

• Book Talk: Authoritarian Russia: Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes.  12:15 – 1:45 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1219
• Exhibit Opening: The Lost World of Subcarpathian Rus’: The Lens of Rudolf Hulka.  6:00 – 8:00 pm, International Affairs Building, 12th Floor Harriman Institute AtriumJac

Thursday, September 17

• The Rise of China and its Impact on the Global Order.  11:15 am – 12:15 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library (RSVP)
• A Broken Promise?: German Unification and the Origin of Post-Cold War NATO Expansion, Twenty-Five Years On.  12:00 – 1:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1219
• “Turkey’s Kurdish Question: What do the 1990s tell us about contemporary politics?”  12:30 – 2:00 pm, Knox Hall, Room 208
• Tow Tea: Perspectives on International Reporting.  4:00 – 5:30 pm, Pulitzer Hall, The Brown Institute
• Columbia University Alumni Association of Korea (CUAAK) Colloquium on Contemporary Korean Affairs: South Korea and the Changing Geopolitics of East Asia.  4:00 – 5:30 pm, Law School Building, Room 104
• Luzhin’s “Overcoat”: “Defense” as Self-Destruction.  4:00 – 5:30 pm, Hamilton Hall, Room 709
• Caribbean Feminisms on the Page.  6:30 – 8:00 pm, Diana Event Oval
• Heading Off Damage: New Insights in Traumatic Brain Injury.  6:30 – 8:00 pm, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Friday, September 18

• Heyman Center Workshops with CRPS Workshop Series: Tommie Shelby on Richard Wright: Realizing the Promise of the West.  12:45 – 2:15 pm, Schermerhorn Hall Seminar Room
• A Woman Reading and Writing in the 11th Century Japan: The Sarashina Diary.  4:00 – 5:30 pm, Kent Hall, Room 403
• Columbia Astronomy Outreach Stargazing and Lecture Series.  8:00 – 10:00 pm, Pupin Hall

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