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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

• “Cosmic Navigation” Monday, 6:00-8:00 PM, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall. Jeff Kluger and Alan Stern (RSVP).
• “Exposing Racism: The Role of the Press in Covering/Exposing or Ignoring the Race Story” Thursday, 12:00-2:00 PM, Stabile Student Center, Pulitzer Hall. Hank Klibanoff.
• “Extreme Engineering: Expeditions in Space with Astronaut Tim Kopra” Thursday, 6:30 PM, Rennert Hall, The Kraft Center. Tim Kopra.
• “Three-Dimensional Atom Probe Tomography: Directly Measuring the Atomic Origins of Macroscopic Function” Friday, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 214 Mudd Hall. Dr. Austin Akey.
• “How to Stage the Moon Landings” Friday, 7:00-7:45 PM, 301 Pupin Hall. Zephyr Penoyre.

Monday, November 14th

• “Sexuality and the Anxious Response” 12:00-2:00 PM, 754 Schermerhorn Extension. Tey Meadow.
• “Book Talk: Karma and the Art of Butter Chicken” 4:30-6:30 PM, Stabile Student Center, Pulitzer Hall. Monica Bhide.
• “Cosmic Navigation” 6:00-8:00 PM, 3rd Floor Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall. Jeff Kluger and Alan Stern (RSVP).
• “Beyond the Secular State: Secularism, Empire, Hegemony” 6:15-8:15 PM, 403 Jerome Greene Hall. Talal Asad, Etienne Balibar, Mohamed Amer-Meziane.
• “Reporting on the Middle East” 7:30-8:30 PM, Stabile Student Center, Pulitzer Hall. Ceylan Yeginsu, Leila Fadel, Sara Obeidat.

Tuesday, November 15th

• “The Demilitarization of Politics and the July 15 Coup Attempt in Turkey” 6:00-8:00 PM, 208 Knox Hall. Dr. Koray Caliskan.
• “Activism in Context: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Organizing in the Shadow of the 2016 Elections” 6:30 PM, Julius S. Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall. Katherine Brewster, Janet Price.
• “Book Talk: Judas: Imagining a Traitor” 8:00-9:30 PM, World Room, Pulitzer Hall. Amos Oz (email IIJS@columbia.edu to RSVP).

Wednesday, November 16th

• “Living LGBT: A Human Rights Panel” 12:00-1:30 PM, 208 Knox Hall. Jeffrey Wambaya, Mulshid Muwonge, Samuel Matsikure.
• “Addressing Race and Gender Biases in the Classroom: Measuring Inclusion” 5:00-6:30 PM, 208B Butler Library. (RSVP)
• “Statoil Energy Perspective 2016 Edition” 6:00-7:30 PM, World Room, Pulitzer Hall. Eirik Wærness (RSVP).
• “Asian Views on America’s Role in Asia” 6:00-8:30 PM, 1501 IAB. Eugenia Lean, David D. Arnold, Yoon Young-kwan, Xiaobo Lü (RSVP).

Thursday, November 17th

• “The Human Rights Situation of LGBT People in Armenia: Challenges and Realities” 12:00-1:30 PM, 1219 IAB. Nvard Margaryan.
• “Exposing Racism: The Role of the Press in Covering/Exposing or Ignoring the Race Story” 12:00-2:00 PM, Stabile Student Center, Pulitzer Hall. Hank Klibanoff.
• “The Macroeconomics of Central-Bank-Issued Digital Currencies” 12:30-2:00 PM, 102A Jerome Greene Hall. Michael Kumhof (RSVP).
• “International Alumni Panel and Reception: Navigating the Job Search as an International Undergraduate Student” 6:00-7:30 PM, 401 Lerner Hall. (RSVP)
• “Extreme Engineering: Expeditions in Space with Astronaut Tim Kopra” 6:30 PM, Rennert Hall, The Kraft Center. Tim Kopra.
• “Book Talk with General (Ret.) M. Ilker Basbug Former Chief of the General Staff of Turkey” 8:00-9:00 PM, 702 Hamilton Hall. General (Ret.) M. Ilker Basbug (email ik2339@columbia.edu to RSVP).

Friday, November 18th

• “Three-Dimensional Atom Probe Tomography: Directly Measuring the Atomic Origins of Macroscopic Function” 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM, 214 Mudd Hall. Dr. Austin Akey.
• “Python Open Labs: Programming Made Easy” 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, 215 Lehman Library, IAB. (RSVP)
• “Virtual Reality” 5:00-6:30, Brown Institute, Pulitzer Hall. Raney Aronson-Rath.
• “How to Stage the Moon Landings” 7:00-7:45 PM, 301 Pupin Hall. Zephyr Penoyre.
• “What is Populism?” 6:00-8:00 PM, 2nd Floor Common Room, Heyman Center. Jan-Werner Mueller, Nadia Urbinati, David Art, N. Turkuler Isiksel.

Conspiracies abound via Astronaut David R. Scott / Public Domain