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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

• World Leaders Forum events (see bolded events after the jump)
• Iran Post Sanctions: How Much Oil will Hit the Market? Monday, September 28, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Graduate School of Journalism, 2nd Floor Lecture Hall (RSVP)
• Corruption in Sports. Monday, September 28, 4:00 – 7:00 pm, Jerome Green Hall, Room 101
• The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Oral History, Radical Mapping, and Displacement in San Francisco. Thursday, October 1, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Knox Hall, Room 509
• Legacies of the Slave Past in the Post-Slave Present. Friday, October 2, 9:00 am, Held Auditorium, Barnard College

Monday, September 28

• Confronting the Crisis of Global Governance. 9:30 am – 12:45 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library
• Central Bank and Monetary Policy After the Global Financial Crisis: No Return to Past Certainties. 12:00 PM – 1:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 (RSVP)
• The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP – UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change. 3:00 – 4:00 pm, Casa Italiana, Teatro Room (RSVP)
• Corruption in Sports. 4:00 – 7:00 pm, Jerome Green Hall, Room 101
• His Excellency Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, President of the Republic of Mozambique. 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library (RSVP) 
• South Asia Institute: A Talk by Rustom Barucha. 4:00 – 5:30 pm, Knox Hall, Room 208
• Mexican Mondays with Julia Preston. 4:00 – 5:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• The Chandler Medal Lecture: Venki Ramakrishnan. 4:30 – 5:30 pm, Havemeyer, Room 309
• Iran Post Sanctions: How Much Oil will Hit the Market? 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Graduate School of Journalism, 2nd Floor Lecture Hall (RSVP)
• Foucault 13/13: Penal Theories and Institutions (1971-1972). 6:15 – 8:45 pm, Casa Hispanica
• Putinism Abroad: Challenges in Russian Foreign and Security Policy. 6:15 – 8:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501

Tuesday, September 29

• Book Talk – Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union. 12:00 – 2:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1219
• No Longer an Island of Tranquility: Germany and Europe’s Dual Challenges of Russia and Refugees. 12:10 – 1:10 pm, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 102B
• States Take the Lead: A View from Utah: Utah Governor and NGA Chair Gary R. Herbert Discusses Economic Opportunity and the Global Economy. 1:00 – 2:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 (RSVP)
• Roma Rights and The Gypsy Identity in a Globalizing World. 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Philosophy 302
• His Excellency Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine. 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library
• Invention and Neganthropology in the Society of Hypercontrol. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Buell Hall, East Gallery
• Power Talk with Athena Distinguished Fellow and CEO and Founder of Curemark. 7:00 pm, Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd floor of Barnard Hall

Wednesday, September 30

• His Excellency Dr. Rui Maria de Araújo, Prime Minister of Timor-Leste. 10:30 – 11:30 am, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library (RSVP) 
• Easy Money and Respectable Girls: Neoliberalism and Expectation in the U.S. Virgin Islands. 12:00 – 1:30 pm, Barnard Event Oval, The Diana Center
• Women in Energy Lunch with Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany. 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Faculty House, Garden Room 1
• Eduardo Bitrán: Chile’s Experience in Developing an Entrepreneurship Hub. 1:00 – 2:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 404
• His Excellency Juan Manuel Santos, President of the Republic of Colombia. 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library (RSVP) 

Thursday, October 1

• Her Excellency Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of the Republic of Croatia. 10:00 – 11:00 am, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library (RSVP) 
• Crafting Democratic Transitions: Learning from Experience. 4:00 – 5:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• Legacies of the Slave Past in the Post-Slave Present: A Talk with Catherine Hall. 4:30 pm, Skylight Room, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Her Excellency Atifete Jahjaga, President of the Republic of Kosovo. 5:00 – 6:00 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, (RSVP) 
• China’s Energy Future: A Conversation with Zhang Guobao. 5:00 – 6:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 (RSVP)
• Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism. 6:00 pm, The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
• U.S.-Latin America Relations: Challenges and Historical Lessons. 6:00 – 7:15 pm, Faculty House, 2nd Floor, Room 1
• The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Oral History, Radical Mapping, and Displacement in San Francisco. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Knox Hall, Room 509
• Doing Recent History: History that Talks Back. 6:00 – 8:30 pm, Butler Library, Room 203
• Perspectives on Peace: Lessons from 3 Years, 6 Revolutions and 9 Women Fighting for Peace in a State of War. 6:00 – 8:30 pm, Teachers College, Zankel Hall, Everett Lounge (RSVP)

Friday, October 2

• Legacies of the Slave Past in the Post-Slave Present. 9:00 am, Held Auditorium, Barnard College
• Courts, Collections, Cosmologies: The Literary Anthology in Eurasian Perspective. 1:00 – 4:00 pm, Kent Hall, Room 403
• Astrobiology: The Science of Life in the Universe. 3:30 – 4:30 pm, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Monell Building Auditorium
• Havana’s Urban Futures. 4:00 – 6:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• Public Lecture and Stargazing: Our Monster Black Hole. 8:00- 10:00 pm, Pupin Hall

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