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

• “Gracie Book Club at Barnard: A reading and discussion with Nana-Ama Danquah and Professor Colin Wayne Leach.” Monday, January 28, 6 PM. Barnard Hall, James Room (4th Floor). Nana-Ama Danquah Professor Colin Wayne Leach, NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray, and President Sian Beilock. Part of a collaboration with ThriveNYC, a book club themed around challenging stigma around mental health. This talk will focus on Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression, a Memoir. Reserve tickets here (recommended, not required).
• “Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale.” Wednesday, January 30, 6:15 PM. Deborah R. Coen (Yale, History Department), Malgorzata Mazurek (Columbia, History Department), Peder Anker (NYU, Gallatin), Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia, English and Comparative Literature Department). A panel discussion exploring the history of how human beings conceive of scale and how that has affected their thinking about world climate.
• “Jair Bolsonaro’s Presidency: Challenges and Perspectives.” Thursday, January 31, 1 – 2 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 802. Dr. Murillo Aragão. A look at the challenges and different perspectives for the presidency of Brazil’s controversial new right-wing leader.

Student Spotlight

If your club or organization is interested in having your event featured here, please submit them to events@bwog.com or using our Events Submission Form.

• In case you missed it, Bwog’s first open meeting of the semester is tonight at 9 PM in Lerner 510. Be there or be square.
• Undergraduate Student Life and Ferris Reel Film Society are hosting a screening of Mama Mia!: Here We Go Again, on Thursday in the Roone Arteledge Cinema. Come through to bop along from 8 – 10 PM.

Monday, January 28

• “War, Geopolitics and Famine: Malthus Revisited.” 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM. Allan Rosenfield Building
  722 West 168th St., Hess Commons.  Martin W. Bloem, MD, Ph.D., Sandra Albrecht, Ph.D., MPH
• “Russian Elites and Western Sanctions: A Political Economy Under Strain.” 12 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. Nigel Gould-Davies.
• “Critical Humanism and Speculative Literary Totalities.” 6:15 PM. Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room. Ben Etherington.
• “The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History.” 6:15 – 8:15 PM. Buell Hall,  Maison Française. Gil Anidjar, Columbia University; Alon Confino, UMass Amherst; Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Raef Zreik, Tel Aviv University; Gil Hochberg, Columbia University (Panel Chair). Tickets here (full, with waitlist available).

Tuesday, January 29

• “Better Angels: Documentary Screening and Panel.” 6 PM. Diana Event Oval. Kim Marten in conversation with Director Malcolm Clarke. Reserve tickets here.

Wednesday, January 30

• “MATANGI / MAYA / M.I.A. film screening.” 7 – 9 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1501.
• “Financing the SDGs, Privatization, and Human Rights: A Discussion with Jeffrey Sachs and Philip Alston.” 6 – 7:30 PM. Columbia Law School, Room JG 104. Register here.
• “The Striped Layman: Visual Culture and the Politics of Vernacular Medical Knowledge in Early German Print.” 6 – 8 PM. Fayerweather Hall, Room 513.  Tillmann Taape. 
• “The Leading Role, 2016 (Ukrainian Film).” 7 PM. Deutsches Haus, 420 West 116th St. Yuri Shevchuk will open film and moderate discussion afterward. 

Thursday, January 31

• “Dr. Tareq Baconi in conversation with Prof. Rashid Khalidi.” 12 – 1:30 PM. Knox Hall, Room 208.
• “Ridicule.” 6:30 – 8 PM. Buell Hall, Maison Francaise East Gallery. Register here.
• “Existence is Resistance: Carceral Capitalism in/of Palestine.” 6:10 PM. Knox Hall, Room 208. Jasbir Puar.
• “‘Words as Archives: Locating the modern South Asian ‘Vernaculars’ in History.'” 4 – 6 PM. Fayerweather Hall, Room 413. Prachi Deshpande. 

Friday, February 1

• “Conference on Finding the Way to Truth: Sources, History, and Impact of The Meditative Tradition.” Friday, February 1 – Saturday, February 2. Buell Hall, Maison Francaise. Find a full schedule and list of speakers here. RSVP with Skye C. Cleary at sc3692@columbia.edu.

Looking Forward

• Noted chef and Barnard alumna Alex Guarnaschelli will be giving the keynote address for Arts Week at 7 PM on Tuesday, February 5 at 7 PM in the Diana Event Oval. BC/CU ID holders can reserve tickets through Eventbrite, and are permitted one non-BC/CU ID holding guest.
• Columbia’s Annual Battle of the Dining Halls (featuring Alex Guarnaschelli as celebrity guest judge) will be taking place next week from 2 – 3:30 PM in the Lerner Auditorium. Meal plan holders can register here, and will be entered into a raffle for prizes. The first students to arrive will also get a shirt to rep their favorite dining hall.

the first lady via Wikimedia Commons