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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 a correction, please leave them in the comments.

Recommended

• “Symposium on Displaced Scholars” Monday, 6:00-8:00 PM, Low Library Rotunda. Agnès Callamard, Allan E. Goodman, Arien Mack (RSVP)
• “Megacities ShortDocs NYC Festival” Wednesday, 7:00-9:00 PM, Buell Hall East Gallery. (RSVP)
• “International Conference on Sustainable Development” Wednesday at 8 AM to Thursday at 8:00 PM, Lerner Hall. Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica; Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway; Amina Mohammed, Minister of Environment, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja (Advance RSVP)
• “Plasma Physics Colloquium: Relativistic Electrons and Magnetic Reconnection in ITER” Friday, 1:00-2:00 PM, 214 Mudd Hall. Allen Boozer

Monday, September 19th

• “Symposium on Displaced Scholars” 6:00-8:00 PM, Low Library Rotunda.  Agnès Callamard, Allan E. Goodman, Arien Mack (RSVP)
• “How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything” 12:15-2:00 PM, 1512 IAB. Rosa Brooks (email siwps.dra@gmail.com for RSVP)

Tuesday, September 20th

• “Spanish Fever: Stories by the New Spanish Cartoonists” 6:00-8:30 PM, 523 Butler Library. Santiago García, Javier Olivares, David Rubín, Ana Galvañ, José Domingo (RSVP)
• “The Politics of Innovation: Why Are Some Countries Better than Others at Science and Technology?” 12:15-2:00 PM, 1512 IAB. Dr. Mark Zachary Taylor, Merit Janow

Wednesday, September 21st

• “Megacities ShortDocs NYC Festival” 7:00-9:00 PM, Buell Hall East Gallery. (RSVP)
• “International Conference on Sustainable Development” Wednesday at 8 AM to Thursday at 8:00 PM, Lerner Hall. Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica; Erna Solberg, Prime Minister of Norway; Amina Mohammed, Minister of Environment, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Archbishop of Abuja (Advance RSVP)

Thursday, September 22nd

• “Climate Change and National Security: People not Polar Bears” 12:00-2:00 PM, Social Hall, Union Theological Seminary. David Titley
• “Ensuring Urban Resilience, Come Hell Or High Water” 6:30-8:45 PM, Jerome Greene Hall. Nancy Anderson, Hon. Dawn Zimmer, Chris Ward (RSVP)

Friday, September 23rd

• “Plasma Physics Colloquium Relativistic Electrons and Magnetic Reconnection in ITER” 1:00-2:00 PM, 214 Mudd Hall. Allen Boozer
• “Federica Mogherini: the EU Global Strategy, European Institute Lecture Series” 1:00-2:00 PM, Italian Academy Teatro. Federica Mogherini, Vice-President of the European Commission