Your brain on bucket list.

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 speakers (see bolded events after the jump).  Note: registration for these events opens on Tuesday, September 22 at different times depending on the speaker.  Times are noted below.
• 2015 International Conference for Sustainable Development.  Wednesday, September 23, 9:00 am – Thursday, September 24, Alfred Lerner Hall (RSVP by email)
• Rethinking Islam, Democracy, and Identity in Pakistan and India: The Role of Sufism.  Friday, September 25, 9:00 am – Saturday, September 26, 5:00 pm, Knox Hall, Room 509
• Policing the Crisis: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique.  Thursday, September 24 4:45 pm – 3:00 pm, Saturday, September 26, The Diana Center Event Oval at Barnard College and SUNY, Stony Brook, Manhattan Campus
• 4th Annual Morningside Lights, Saturday, September 26, 8:00 pm, Morningside Park

Monday, September 21

• Meeting China’s Climate Goals.  12:30 – 2:00 pm, Faculty House, 2nd Floor Seminar Room (RSVP)
• Keywords in Sound: A Roundtable Discussion.  5:00 – 7:00 pm, Butler Library, Room 523
• Grand Corruption and Impunity.  6:00 – 8:00 pm, Jerome Green Hall, Room 101 (RSVP)
• Popular Fiction: A People’s History of the American Public Library.  6:00 – 8:00 pm, Butler Library, Room 203
• Cabaret Warsaw: Jewish-Gentile Co-Productions, 1919-1939.  6:30 – 8:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1201

Tuesday, September 22

• How to Prosecute a Corrupt President and Live to Talk About It: A Conversation with José Ugaz.  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• Why Counterterrorism Needs Countering Violent Extremism.  12:10 – 1:10 pm, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103
• “A Class By Herself”: Protective Laws for Women Workers, 1890s-1990s by Nancy Woloch. 12:00 – 1:30 pm, International Affairs building, Room 406 (RSVP by email) lehmancenter@columbia.edu
• “Your Choices Matter:” A Sustainability Awareness Event.  3:00 – 6:00 pm, Alfred Lerner Hall, Broadway Room
• Globalization of Financial Markets: China, the Fed, and Future Policy Options.  3:00 – 4:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 512 (RSVP)

Wednesday, September 23

• 2015 International Conference for Sustainable Development.  September 23 9:00 am – September 24, Alfred Lerner Hall (RSVP by email)
• His and Hers: How Language Shapes Public Attitudes Toward Gender Equality.  12:10 pm – 1:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 707
• Americas South Seminar: The Social Life of Activists: The Communist Youth of Chile and the Young Communists of the Sixties.  6:30 – 7:30 pm, Schermerhorn Extension, Room 457

Thursday, September 24

• Climate Change and the Fifth Environmental Paradigm.  11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Columbia Alumni Center, 8th Floor Schapiro Room (RSVP by email)
• Her Excellency Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta. 11:30 am to 12:30 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library (RSVP on Tuesday, September 22 9:30 am)
• Ukrainian Identity Under the Impact of Euromaidan and the War.  12:00 – 1:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1219
• Brazil Brown Bag Seminar Series – Macroprudential Instruments in Brazil. 1:00 – 2:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science.  2:45 – 3:45 pm, Mudd, Room 214
• The Chinese Bureaucracy in Three Lenses: Weberian, Confucian, and Marchian.  4:00 – 5:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 918
• His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda. 4:10 – 4:40 pm, Lerner Auditorium (RSVP on Tuesday, September 22 11:00 am)
• Development Workshop: Angus Deaton.  4:15 – 5:45 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1101
• Bruce Lawrence: “Allahu Akbar – Greater than Whom?” 4:30 – 6:00 pm, Knox Hall
• Policing the Crisis: Stuart Hall and the Practice of Critique.  4:45 pm – 3:00 pm, Saturday, September 26, The Diana Center Event Oval at Barnard College and SUNY, Stony Brook, Manhattan Campus
• Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European Thought.  6:00 pm, Butler Library, Room 523
• Pope Economics/Pope Ecology.  6:00 – 8:00 pm, Buell Hall
• Roots and Fruits of Activism in Washington Heights and New York City.  6:00 – 8:00 pm, Knox Hall, Room 509
• Political, Social, and Economic Development in Brazil I: State and Challenges for the Brazilian Economy.  6:00 – 8:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802

Friday, September 25

• 2015 Social Enterprise Conference: Imagine and Inspire: the Future of Social Enterprise.  8:30 am – 12:30 pm, New York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West
• Rethinking Islam, Democracy, and Identity in Pakistan and India: The Role of Sufism.  September 25, 9:00 am – September 26, 5:00 pm, Knox Hall, Room 509
• The Transparency Series: Mapping and Cartography Workshop.  All day, Pulitzer Hall, The Brown Institute
• TTIP and Beyond: EU Trade Policy in the 21st Century.  12:45 – 1:45 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1512 (RSVP)
• Her Excellency Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the Government of Bangladesh.  5:00 – 6:00 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library (RSVP Tuesday, September 22 12:30 pm)
• Ko Hui-dong and the Diamond Mountains: Restoring Korea’s Artistic Heritage.  6:00 – 8:30 pm, East Asian Library, Reading Room
• 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21): What to Expect and What Should Follow?  6:00 – 8:00 pm, Buell Hall, East Gallery (RSVP)

Saturday, September 26

• Her Excellency Michelle Bachelet, President of the Republic of Chile.  11:40 am – 12:30 pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library (RSVP Tuesday, September 22 3:30 pm)
• 4th Annual Morningside Lights, 8:00 pm, Morningside Park

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