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
- “Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories.” Monday, November 12, 6:15 – 8 PM. Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room. A roundtable discussion featuring historians Marwa Elshakry, Michael Gordin, Malgosia Mazurek, and Carl Wennerlind, and co-editors of the work they will be discussing Will Deringer, Eugenia Lean and Lukas Rieppel to talk about the long-recognized connection between capitalism and scientific discovery.
- “The New York Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones in Conversation with NBC’s Lester Holt.” Thursday, November 15, 12:30 – 1:45 PM. Pulitzer Hall, Joseph J. Jamail Lecture Hall (3rd Floor). RSVP here. Holt talkes to Hannah-Jones about about her career reporting on civil rights and racial injustice especially around education.
- “GendeRev: Trans Makeup As Resistance.” Saturday, November 17, 5 – 7 PM. Schapiro Hall, Stephan Donaldson Lounge (Ground Floor). Workshop hosted by Multicultural Affairs with a focus on the importance makeup in the lives of trans people, putting into the conversation the experiences of multiple trans femme people of color. Makeup tips and dinner provided.
Student Event Spotlight
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- The Columbia Hindu Students Organization is celebrating Diwali this Saturday in Roone Artledge Auditorium, featuring free food and and opportunity to learn the different ways the holiday is celebrated.
- As part of Class Awareness Month, the Columbia First-Generation Low Income Partnership (FLIP) is encouraging people to share why they’re proud of being first-generation and/or low income at Columbia. Find a safe space to share your successes in Lerner 505 on Tuesday from 7 to 8.
- The Korean Students Association is screening box office smash “Master” this Friday from 8 – 11:30 PM. Stop by the Broadway Sky Lounge for snacks and an action-packed thriller (English subtitles provided).
Monday, November 12
- “Enabling Real Virtuality: Closing the Gap Between the Digital and the Physical.” 11:40 AM – 12:40 PM. Mudd Hall, Room 451. Daniel Wigdor.
- “LGBTQ+ Rights in a Global Perspective.” 12:10 – 1 PM. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 105. Ugandan rights activist Pepe Julian Onziema, moderated by Professor Katherine Franke.
- “Saving the World Trade Organization: How Realistic are the EU’s Proposals?” 12:10 – 1 PM. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107. Jan Wouters.
- “The Age of Disruption: Global Trends and the U.S.-India Relationship.” 5:30 – 7:30 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1501. Timothy Roemer, former U.S. Ambassador to India. RSVP strongly encouraged, contact Michael Falco (mf2727@columbia.edu).
- “Portraiture and Enslavement at the Thresholds of Emancipation (A Caribbean Meditation).” 6 – 8 PM. Schemerhorn Hall, Room 612. Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, University of Chicago, Romance Languages Dept.
- “Imagining & Narrating Plague in the Ottoman World.” 6:30 – 8 PM. Pulitzer Hall, Joseph J. Jamail Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor. Author Orhan Pamuk and historian Nükhet Varlık. RSVP here.
- “Films@IIJS: Azimuth.” 7 – 9:30 PM. Kent Hall, Room 617. Q & A with with first-time director Mike Burstyn, famed stage and screen actor.
Tuesday, November 13
- “Building from the Left: Strategies to Disrupt the Right.” 6:30 PM. The Diana Event Oval. Cara Page, Activist-in-Residence 2016-2018; Tarso Luís Ramos, Executive Director of Political Research Associates and Activist-in-Residence 2016-2018; Pooja Gehi, Director, National Lawyers Guild; moderated by Janet Jakobsen.
- “The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche, and the New Capitals of Asia.” 12 – 1:30 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. Natalie Koch.
- “Tim Wu Book Talk and Signing for The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.” 12:10 – 1:10 PM. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104. RSVP here.
- “CUBAN-US MUSICAL EXCHANGES: What did DIZZY GILLESPIE Learn From CHANO POZO? Screening of ‘THE LEGACY OF CHANO POZO’.” 6 – 8 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 802. talk by Chris Washburne.
- “Working With and Supporting Trans Survivors of Violence.” 6 – 8 PM. Schapiro Hall, Stephan Donaldson Lounge (Ground Floor).
- “Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria: Everyday Experiences of Faith, Youth, and Poverty.” 6 – 7:30 PM. Knox Hall, Room 208. Hannah Hoechner, University of East Anglia.
- “Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route.” 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Milbank Hall, Room 328. Screening followed by talk by director/producer Pamela Sporn.
- “Like Dolls I’ll Rise, Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux, and Les Indes Galantes.” 6;30 – 9 PM. Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room. Q&A with director Nora Philippe and Shanny Peer. RSVP here.
- “My Final Territory: An Evening with Writer Yuri Andrukhovych.” 7 – 8:30 PM. International Affairs Building, Harriman Institute Atrium, 12th floor.
- “Meet a Yiddish Celebrity: Yiddish Princess, Sarah Gordon.” 8 PM, Deutsches Haus. RSVP here.
- “Narratives of Ownership: A Conversation of Land Rights with Professor Karl Jacoby.” 7 – 8 PM. Hamilton Hall, Room 603. RSVP here.
Wednesday, November 14
- “How Cities Spur Entrepreneurship and Innovation.” 12 – 2 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1512. Daniel Correa, Senior Advisor at the Center for American Entrepreneurship, Co-Founder of Smart Cities Lab; Euan Robertson, Director of Strategic Planning & Special Projects at Columbia Technology Ventures, former Chief Operating Officer of the New York City Economic Development Corporation; and Hollie Russon Gilman, Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Columbia SIPA. RSVP here.
- “Righting Victim Participation in Transitional Justice.” 12:30 – 2 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 201. Tine Destrooper.
- “Grassroots Politics of Equality in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mobilizing Affect and Claiming Justice.” 6 – 7:30 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. Jasmina Husanovic, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- “Triple Axis: Iran’s Relations with Russia and China.” 6 – 7:30 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1512. Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai, both from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. RSVP here (required).
- “The Country Upside Down (Le Pays à l’envers).” 6:30 – 9 PM. Buell Hall, Maison Francaise East Gallery. Screening followed by Q&A with director Sylvaine Dampierre, Kim Hall, and Nora Philippe. RSVP here.
- “Creative Writing Lecture:Alexander Chee.” 7:00 PM. Dodge Hall, Room 501.
- “Culture and Ideas: An Evening with Sadie Dupuis ’11.” 7 – 8:30 PM. Diana Center Event Oval.
Thursday, November 15
- “One Tree, One City: Children’s Art From Around the World.” 5 – 7 PM. Macy Hall, Teachers College.
- “Carrie Mae Weems.” 6:30 – 9:30 PM. Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Lantern. RSVP here.
- “THE MERCHANT’S TALE: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan.” 6 – 8 PM. Kent Hall, Room 403. Simon Partner—Professor in the Department of History, Duke University.
- “‘Keywords for Today’ and ‘Political Concepts’: A Dialogue on the Terms We Use and Don’t Use.” Thursday, November 15, 2:30 – 5:30 PM. Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, Jonathan Arac and Arjuna Parakrama; commentators: Susan Buck-Morss, Miriam Ticktin, Emily Apter
- “Just Societies Speaker Series: Imani Perry: Black Letters and the Law” 4 – 5:30 PM. Buell Hall, Maison Française East Gallery.
Friday, November 16
- “World Leaders Forum: Cities of the Mind: Lost Cities and Their Inhabitants.” 10 – 11:30 AM. Teatro, Casa Italiana. Ashis Nandy, Indian Political Psychologist.
- “In War & Peace: Development of Independent Reporting in (post-)Yugoslav Space.” 6 – 8 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. Marija Šajkaš.
- “Ouaga Girls.” 6:30 – 9 PM. Buell Hall, Maison Française East Gallery. Screening followed by Q&A with director Theresa Traore Dahlberg, Abosede George, and Nora Phlippe. RSVP here.
- “Transparency Series on Voice Interfaces — Panel Discussion with Joseph Price, Washington Post and Tommy O’Keefe & Liz Danzico, NPR.” 5 – 6:30 PM. Pulitzer Hall, The Brown Institute. RSVP here.
- “Landscapes of Interaction: Ceramic Production and Exchange in Late Neolithic Northwestern China.” 4:3o – 6:30 PM. Andrew Womack, McGill University.
Saturday November 17
- “New Writing from Brazil.” 6 – 8 PM. Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room.
Looking Foward
- “Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives” is a book talk on a collection of never-before-published photos of Black history uncovered in the New York Times archives. Authors Darcy Eveleigh and Rachel L. Swarns will be joined by Professor Kim F. Hall to discuss their book Unseen. Come to the James Room on the 4th floor of Barnard Hall at 6:30 on Thursday, November 29 to attend.
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