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

• Trans-Pacific Partnership: What Does It Mean? Tuesday, October 13, 12:00 – 1:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 (RSVP)
• Being the Change, Leading the Charge: Diversity in Higher Education. Tuesday, October 13, 5:00 – 6:30 pm, Low Library Rotunda (RSVP)
• University Lecture featuring Professors Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Brent R. Stockwell. Thursday, October 15, 6:00 – 7:15 pm, Low Memorial Library Rotunda (RSVP)
• The Surge: Politics, Violence, and Children in Central America and Mexico. Thursday, October 15, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Altschul Hall, Room 202 (RSVP)

Monday, October 12

• South Asia Institute: A Talk by Chris Fuller, London School of Economics. 4:00 – 5:30 pm, Knox Hall, Room 208
• Earth Institute Practicum: Science-Based Solutions for Sustainability: Sustainable Urban Development. 4:10 – 6:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 411
• Picturing Aura: On Visual Media, Esoteric Vision, and the Representation of Radiant Bodies. 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Milbank Hall, Ella Weed Room 223
• Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia: The Punitive Society (1972-1973). 6:15 – 8:45 pm, The Heyman Center, Common Room

Tuesday, October 13

• Trans-Pacific Partnership: What Does It Mean? 12:00 – 1:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 (RSVP)
• What’s Age Got to Do With It? 12:00 – 1:30 pm, Barnard Hall, Room 101
• Richard Valelly (Swarthmore): Building A New Heterosexual State: The Cold War Governmentalization of Sexual Orientation. 12:10 – 1:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 707
• Smartphone Apps for Citizen Scientists: 1. Airborne Contaminants. 4:00 – 6:00 pm, Lerner Hall, Satow Room (RSVP)
• Being the Change, Leading the Charge: Diversity in Higher Education. 5:00 – 6:30 pm, Low Library Rotunda (RSVP)
• Cabot Panel. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Pulitzer Hall
• Dealing with a Violent Past in Kosovo: Voices and Silence of Survivors of Sexual Violence. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1219
• Music and Literature Presents Dubravka Ugresic and Victoria Poleva. 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Casa Italiana, Il Teatro (RSVP)

Wednesday, October 14

• Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil. 4:30 – 5:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• Corruption and Civic Capital in Brazil. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• Social Welfare: Does it Have a Place in China’s Evolving Economy? 6:00 – 7:00 pm, Casa Italiana, Il Teatro
• Reshaping Public Finance and Private Investment to Mitigate Climate Change. 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Buell Hall, East Gallery
• Book Launch: The UN Security Council in the 21st Century. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1510 (RSVP)
• Green Financing for a Changing Climate in the Public and Private Sectors. 6:00 – 7:30 pm, location TBA
• Vatted Dreams: Neurophilosophy and the Politics of Phenomenal Internalism. 6:15 pm, The Heyman Center, Second Floor, Common Room

Thursday, October 15

• 2015 IEA Energy Efficiency Market Report. 12:30 – 1:45 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 (RSVP)
• Brazil Brown Bag Seminar Series – Caught in the Crossfire: Education and Cross-sector Collaboration in Schools Affected by Urban Violence. 1:00 – 2:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 802
• Tow Tea: Computational Journalism in Practice. 4:00 – 5:30 pm, Pulitzer Hall
• The Importance of Cheap Labor: Can Professional Fulfillment, Child-Rearing, and Equality Ever Be Combined? 5:30 – 7:00 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 (RSVP)
• The Light of the World: Conversation with Elizabeth Alexander. 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Pulitzer Hall Lecture Hall
• The Eurozone Crisis Six Years On. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Faculty House
• The Surge: Politics, Violence, and Children in Central America and Mexico. 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Altschul Hall, Room 202 (RSVP)
• University Lecture featuring Professors Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Brent R. Stockwell. 6:00 – 7:15 pm, Low Memorial Library Rotunda (RSVP)
• Poet Elizabeth Alexander in Conversation. 6:30 – 7:30 pm, Pulitzer Hall Lecture Hall
• New Orleans: Opera and Jazz Together. 7:00 – 10:00 pm, Buell Hall

Friday, October 16

• The Great Migration of Central American Youth and Families to New York City- Why Here, Why Now, and How Can our Communities Support Them? 8:30 – 11:30 am, Millbank Hall, Krueger Lecture Hall, Room 405 (RSVP)
• Assia Djebar: Patterns of Resistance. 10:00 am, Maison Francaise, Buell Hall
• Speaker Series with Davida Heller, Assistant Vice President, Corporate Sustainability at Citi. 12:00 – 1:30 pm, The Earth Institute, Hogan A Conference Room, First Floor (RSVP)
• Desmond Jagmohan on Cultivating Civic Capacity Under Domination. 12:15 – 2:15 pm, Schermerhorn Hall
• Stargazing and Lecture Series: Observing Variable Stars, 8:00 pm, Pupin Hall

Sunday, October 19

• Daniel Vaca – “Animating the Corporation: Religion, Stories, and Social Sense.” 2:10 – 4:00 pm, location TBA

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