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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 sparsely populated reading week are below, with no specifically recommended events. If you notice any events that have been left off the list, or a correction, please leave them in the comments.

Recommended:

  • The Eighth Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture: Growing Pains in the Chinese Social Security System’, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Schapiro CEPSR, Tuesday
  • Student Townhall With The Hon. Catherine McKenna, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Faculty House, Wednesday
  • “Can America and China Avoid a Collision?” George Ball Lecture with Kishore Mahbubani, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Faculty House, Wednesday
  • Engineering: Astronaut Appearance, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM, Butler Library, Thursday

Monday, Feb 19:

  • The Right to Difference: French Universalism and the Jews, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Buell Hall

Tuesday, Feb 20:

  • Whatever Happened to the Class Struggle? Comintern, France and Spain: the Front Populaire and the Frente Popular May-July 1936, 12:15 PM – 2:00 PM. International Affairs Building
  • The Eighth Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture: Growing Pains in the Chinese Social Security System’, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Schapiro CEPSR

Wednesday, Feb 21:

  • Talk: “Why Arctic Security Matters”, 12:15 PM – 2:00 PM, International Affairs Building
  • Student Townhall With The Hon. Catherine McKenna, Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Faculty House
  • “Can America and China Avoid a Collision?” George Ball Lecture with Kishore Mahbubani, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, Faculty House
  • Events in African Philosophy with Bruce Janz (University of Central Florida), 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM, Knox Hall
  • Brexit: A Leap in the Dark?, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM, Low Library

Thursday, Feb 22:

  • Extreme Engineering: Astronaut Appearance, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM, Butler Library

Friday, Feb 23:

  • Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Governance & Public Policy, 2:00 PM – 4:00PM, International Affairs Building

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