Bucket List brings to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for the week are below, followed by a full calendar of events. If you notice any events excluded from the list or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

Recommended

• “Discussion & Film Screening: I Am Not Your Negro.” Tuesday, April 2, 6 – 9:30 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery. Followed by a discussion with Karim Clesca, the editor, Henry Adebonojo, the cinematographer, and SIPA Students of Color.
• “Power Talk with Anna Holmes.” Wednesday, April 3, 6:30 – 8 PM. Milbank 223 (Ella Weed Room). Registration requested.
• “US Colonialism and the Appropriation of Puerto Ricans’ Bodies, Land, and Freedom.” Thursday, April 4, 11 – 12 AM. Malia Lee Womack.
• “Shakespeare in Translation?” Thursday, April 4 7 PM. Held Lecture Room, Barnard Hall. James Schapiro, John McWhorter, Featuring performances by KCST. Tickets here.

Monday, April 1

• “Implementing the Prespa Agreement between Greece and North Macedonia.” 10 – 11 AM. International Affairs 1219. Georgios Katrougalos; welcome by Alexander Cooley and moderated by David L. Phillips.
• “Human Rights vs. (Sustainable) Development?” 12 – 1 PM. Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Dr, Room 320C. Adam Metzger. 
• “Gender, Technology and Development: A Practitioner’s Perspective.” 1 – 2 PM. International Affairs 801. Savita Bailur.
• “America and the New Protectionism.” 6 – 7:30 PM. Miller Theater. Paul Krugman, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, David E. Weinstein, Amit Khandelwal. Registration is now closed.
• “Future of Economic Statecraft: Fireside Chat with Jack Lew.” 6 – 7:30 PM. Low Library, Faculty Room.  Jack Lew in conversation with Richard Nephew.
• “The Wilsonian Century: Perspectives on the Treaty of Versailles at 100.” 6 – 9 PM. Butler Library 203. Rashid Khalidi, Erez Manela,  Patricia O’Toole. 
• “Turgenev Revisited: The Literary Reflection of the Essay “Hamlet and Don Quixote” in Anatoly Lunacharsky’s “The Liberated Don Quixote” and Isaac Babel’s “Red Cavalry.” 6:15 – 7:15 PM. International Affairs, Room 1201. Bettina Kaibach.
• “Born Free and Equal: A Symposium on Journalism and Human Rights.” 4:30 – 6:45 PM. Pulitzer, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall. For a full list of speakers and panels please read here.
• “The Cosmopolitics of Inka Imperial Rule” 6 – 8:30 PM. Schermerhorn 612. Terence D’Altroy.
• “Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching.” 6:30 – 8 PM. Heyman Center Second Floor Common Room.  Ben Baer; Bruno Bosteels; Brent Edwards; Anupama Rao, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. 

Tuesday, April 2

• “Uneven Centuries: Turkey’s Experience with Economic Development since 1820.” 6 – 8:30 PM. International Affairs 1501. Sevket Pamuk, introduced by Rashid Khalidi. RSVP here.
  
• “World Leaders Forum: India at Crossroads.” 6:30 – 8 PM. Shapiro CSPER, Davis Auditorium. Amartya Sen and Prabhat Patnaik, with a moderated discussion by Ruchira Gupta.
• “The Art of the Leningrad Underground.” 6:30 – 7:30 PM. International Affairs 1219. Alexander V. Markov. This talk will be in Russian.
• “Nuestra América: utopía y persistencia de una familia judía.” 6:15 – 8 PM. Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room. Claudio Lomnitz, Jesús D. R. Velasco, Graciela Montaldo, Norma Elizondo 

Wednesday, April 3

• “Enabling a More Inclusive Academy: Achieving Diversity & Excellence.” 5 – 6:30 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery. Virginia Valian. 
• “Cultural Identity, Geography of Encounter & the Politics of Space/Time.” 6 – 8 PM. Low Library, Faculty Room. Jeff Malpas, Rachael Rose, Eduard Andrei, opening remarks by Mona Momescu, introduction by Christopher J. Caes.
• “CU Live: Talent Showcase.” 6 – 8 PM. Miller Theater. Register here (bring your CUID).
• “To Where From Here: Migration Legacies Roundtable.” 6 – 8 PM. The Forum, Lenfest Center for the Arts. Ayana Mathis, Kellie Jones, Farah Jasmine Griffin. Pre-registration required.
• “Human Rights Today: Celebrating 70 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” 6:30 – 8 PM. Jerome Greene Hall 106. Welcome and Opening Remarks: Gillian Lester, Suzanne Goldberg, Laura Roosevelt, Robert Klitzman. Panelists: Roger Cohen (Moderator), A. Kayum Ahmed, Allida Black, Sarah Cleveland, Lynn Freedman, Tracy Robinson. 
• “War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought.” 6:15 – 8 PM. Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room. Murad Idris, Jordanna Bailkin, Ilana Feldman, Jesús R. Velasco, Susan Pedersen.

Thursday, April 4

• “Dismantling Systemic Inequity in Criminal Justice & Health” 8 AM – 4:30 PM. Lerner 555. Registration and agenda here.
• “Whose Freedom, Whose Speech? The Future of Campus Community.” 12 – 2 PM. Pulitzer Hall, Room 300. Noah D. Drezner, Suzanne Nossel, Tanya Hernández, Jason Riley.
• “Book talk on Uneven Moments: Reflections on Japan’s Modern History.” 12 – 1:30 PM. International Affairs 918. Harry Harootunian.
• “Between the Empire and the Nation-State: New Histories of Refugee Regimes in Europe and the Middle East.” 12:15 – 1:15 PM. International Affairs 1219. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, Philipp Ther.
  
• “Book Talk: “Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia” 12:10 – 2 PM. International Affairs 1302. Christine Cheng, moderated by Séverine Autesserre.
• “Decolonizing Universalism.” 4:10 – 6 PM. Philosophy 716. Serene Khader. 
• “Body Sovereignty & Kids: How We Can Cultivate A Culture Of Consent.” 5:30 – 7 PM. Altschul 202. Monica Rivera.
• “Turkey: Collapse of the Rule of Law.” 6 – 8 PM. Low Library Rotunda. Steven Cook, Dr. Sarah Cleveland, Agnes Callamard, Dr. Alp Aslandogan. Registration required.
• “Women Waging War: A conversation on the distinctive politics of women who participate in violence.” 6 – 8 PM. International Affairs 1501. Co-hosted and moderated by Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan, Dr. Dipali Mukhopadhyay; Panelists: Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod, Dr. Sonia Ahsan, Others TBA.
• “The Last Poets: Conversation with Christine Otten & Brent Edwards.” 6 – 8 PM. Kent 617. RSVP here.
• “Lydia Ginzburg’s Testimony from Inside the Leningrad Siege: An Unreconciled Memory, an Unwanted Heritage, and a Challenge for Today.” 6:15 – 8:15 PM. International Affairs 1219. Irina Sandomirskaja.
• “Representing Jazz in the 21st Century: A Lecture & Presentation by Prof. Krin Gabbard.” 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Lenfest Center for the Arts, The Forum 315. RSVP required. Email columbiajazzstudies@gmail.com or call 212-851-9270 to secure your seat.
• “Spiritual Nerd Fest.” 7:30 – 9 PM. Pupin 301. Dr. Robert Pollack, = Dr. Nidhal Guessoum, and Dr. Christiana Zenner. RSVP here.
• “West Indians in West Africa: Sketches of an Archaeology of the Back-to-Africa Movement from Nineteenth-Century Liberia.” 6 – 8 PM. Knox 201. Matthew Reilly.

Friday, April 5

• “Religion and the Future.” 8:30 AM. Milbank Hall, 328. Graduate student conference; registration and a full schedule here.
• “China’s Invisible Crisis: How the Urban-Rural Human Capital Divide Threatens China’s Growth and Stability.” 12:15 – 1:15 PM. School of Social Work, CO3. Scott Rozelle. 
• “University Senate Plenary | Monthly meeting of Columbia University Senate.” 1:15 – 2:45 PM. Columbia School of Nursing, 7th Floor.
• “Reintegration of the Donbas: Different Perspectives.” 5 – 7 PM. International Affairs, 7th Floor Lindsay Roberts Room. Pavlo Ostrovskyi, Taras Galkovskyi, Elise Giuliano, Olexii Baranovskyi, moderated by Olena Nikolayenko.
• “Film Friday: This Is Home.” 6:30 – 9:30 PM. Pulitzer Hall, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Room. Q & A afterward with Director Alexandra Shiva; pizza will be served.
• “Empire by its Other Names.” Friday, April 5 – Saturday, April 6. The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room. Full schedule here. 
• “Mounia Abousaid Memorial Reading Nook Dedication.” 3 – 5 PM. Komoda Room of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. RSVP required.
• “Art, Theft, and Restitution.” 3 – 5 PM. Buell Hall East Gallery. Ariella Azoulay, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, and Brian Wallis, moderated by Marianne Hirsch and Andreas Huyssen. RSVP here.
• “Listening Otherwise In and To Persian Poetry.” 3 PM. Dodge 622. Andrew Hicks

Saturday, April 6

• Bacchanal! SOPHIE will be headlining, with performances by rapper Tierra Whack, electropop artist Rina Sawayama, and student opener DJ and rapper Oswald Fresh.

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