We will bury you (in knowledge).

Bucket List represents the intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below, and the full list is after the jump. If you notice any events that have been left off the list, or if you have a correction, please let us know in the comments.

Recommended

• “Our Man in Havana: Reconciliation and Beyond” Monday, 4:00-6:00 PM, 802 IAB. Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis (email rhu2102@columbia.edu to RSVP)
• “The Supreme Court Takes Up Contraception – Again” Tuesday, 12:10 PM, 646 Jerome Greene Hall. Brigitte Amiri.
• “Beyond the Shoe: Rethinking Khrushchev at the 1960 General Assembly” Thursday, 6:30-8:00 PM, 1219 IAB.
• “Gender Issues and Sportswriting with Christina Kahrl” Friday, 12:30-1:30 PM, Stabile Student Center, Pulitzer Hall. Christina Kahrl.

Monday, March 28th

• “Countering Violent Extremism: Lessons from the Western Balkans” 12:15-2:00 PM, 1302 IAB. Dr. Florian Qehaja.
• “Becoming Political: Youth Activism in Post-3/11 Japan” 12:00-1:30 PM, 918 IAB.
• “Our Man in Havana: Reconciliation and Beyond” 4:00-6:00 PM, 802 IAB. Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis (email rhu2102@columbia.edu to RSVP)

Tuesday, March 29th

• “Mobility and Confinement: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Incarceration in America” 9:15 AM – 5:00 PM, 2nd Floor Common Room, Heyman Center for the Humanities. Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, Elizabeth Hinton, Kelly Lytle Hernández, Reuben J. Miller, Donna Murch.
• “The Supreme Court Takes Up Contraception – Again” 12:10 PM, 646 Jerome Greene Hall. Brigitte Amiri.
• “What Happened to National Liberation?” 4:00-6:00 PM, Library of Italian Academy. Michael Walzer,  Mustafa Akyol, Akeel Bilgrami, Giancarlo Bosetti, Nader Hashemi, Jonathan Laurence, Hanna Lerner (RSVP).

Wednesday, March 30th

• “Fragments of an Unfinished War: Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China” 12:00-1:30 PM, 918 IAB. Francoise Mengin, Andrew Nathan. 

Thursday, March 31st

• “A Role for Selective Autophagy in the Developing and Aging Brain” 12:00-1:30 PM, 703 Northwest Corner Building. Ai Yamamoto (email cmh2197@columbia.edu to RSVP).
• “Population Policy, Fertility Decline, and Sex Selection: New Evidence from China under Mao.” 4:15-5:15 PM, 1101 IAB. Grant Miller.
• “Comparing Political Regimes in Russia’s Regions” 4:15-5:15 PM, 1219 IAB. Nikolay Petrov.
• “Earth Institute Practicum in Innovative Sustainability Leadership: Creating a Market for Renewable Energy” 6:10-7:00 PM, 717 Hamilton Hall. Curtis Probst (email kdefrancia@ei.columbia.edu to RSVP)
• “Foucault 13/13: The Government of Self and Others” 6:15-8:45 PM, Heyman Center for the Humanities. Judith Revel, Sharon Marcus, John Rajchman (email cm3325@columbia.edu to RSVP).
• “Human Rights Connectivity and the Future of the Human Rights System” 6:00-7:00 PM, Low Library Rotunda. Sarah H. Cleveland.
• “Beyond the Shoe: Rethinking Khrushchev at the 1960 General Assembly” 6:30-8:00 PM, 1219 IAB.

Friday, April 1st

• “Designing for Life and Death: Sustainable Disposition and Spaces of Remembrance in the 21st Century Metropolis” 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Faculty Room, Low Library. Christina Staudt, Robert Pollack, Karla Rothstein, David Sloane, Ruth Toulson, Kartik Chandran (RSVP).
• “Gender Issues and Sportswriting with Christina Kahrl” 12:30-1:30 PM, Stabile Student Center, Pulitzer Hall. Christina Kahrl.
• “The EU Refugee Crisis and the Future of Europe: Moral Challenge and Political Conundrum” 1:00-6:00 PM, Buell Hall. Alexander Aleinikoff, Ayten Gundogdu, Turkuler Isiksel, Adam Tooze (RSVP).

Banging shoes all around via John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library / Public Domain