Bucket List represents the intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our best to bring 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 that have been left off the list, or if you have a correction, please let us know in the comments.

Recommended

• “The Future of Memory.” Wednesday, March 6, 6 – 7:30 PM. Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld have devoted their lives to tracking down Nazis who escape from justice and preserve the memories of Jewish people who lost their lives in the Holocaust. Listen to the couple speak about their work and their forthcoming join memoir in conversation with Clémence Boulouque. RSVP here. 
• “100 Years of Korean Popular Music.” Friday, March 8, 2:30 – 5:30 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 918. Three expert scholars in ethnomusicology, music history, and cultural studies trace the development of popular music in Korea from the colonial period to the K-pop we know and love today. Featuring Roald Maliangkay, Suk-Young Kim, Dal Yong Jin, moderated by So-Rim Lee, Hye Eun Choi
• “Resisting, Reclaiming, Reframing: Indigenous Communities and Art Museum Collections.” Friday, March 8, with welcoming remarks at 10:00 AM. Italian Academy, Teatro.  This all-day symposium features Indigenous cultural leaders discussing different strategies for rethinking and reshaping museum practice around Indigenous art collection, curation, and more. Find a full list of panels and speakers here, and register here.

Student Event Spotlight

• Doors open at 7 PM on Friday, March 8 for the Columbia University Dance Marathon. Come to Lerner Hall for free food, games, and prizes and donate money that will go to help children with cancer; it runs til 2 AM and you can attend for any duration!

Monday, March 4

• “The Politics of Helping Women, Children, and the Vulnerable.” 9 – 11:45 AM. International Affairs Building, 15th Floor Kellogg Center. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro. 
• “Now or Later? Completing the European Banking Union.” 4:30 – 6 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1512. Andreas Gombret, introduction by Patricia Mosser.
• “Jacques Schiffrin: A Publisher in Exile: Book Launch and Discussion.” 6 – 8 PM. Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall. Author Amos Reichman, translator Sandra Smith, Eric Jennings, Susan Suleiman, and Robert O. Paxton, moderated by Adam Tooze. RSVP here.
• “Why Konstantinović’s ‘Philosophy of Parochialism’ Matters Today.” 7 – 8 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. workshop with Branislav Jakovljević, Branka Arsić
• “Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Salon in Honor of Saidiya Hartman.” 6:30 PM. Diana Event Oval.  Saidiya Hartman, Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Alexander G. Weheliye, and Tina Campt. Register here.
• “A Discussion on Literature, Law, and the Right to Die.” 6:30 – 8 PM. Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room. Author Jared Stark, Rishi Goyal, and Diane Rubenstein.
• “Law, Selfness, And Kinship In Medieval Karaism.” 12 – 1:30 PM. Insitute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Joseph E. David.

Tuesday, March 5

• “The Rise of Populism: Trump versus Putin.” 12 – 1 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. Victoria Zhuravleva.
• “Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean.” 1 -2 PM. Maison Française East Gallery, Buell Hall. Eric T. Jennings. RSVP here.
• “Film Screening & Discussion: Electing Russia.” 6 – 8 PM. Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life. Rennert Hall. A discussion with filmmakers Yevgeny Gindilis and Kirill Rogov, moderated by Professor Timothy Frye. Register here.
• “Behind the Scenes of Fake News Production and Fact-Check Interventions.” 5 – 6 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 918.  Jonathan Corpus Ong, moderated by Sheila Coronel
• “Cinema/Politics/Philosophy.” 6:15 – 8. Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room. Nico Baumbach, James Schamus, Bruno Bosteels,Homay King, Rob King.
• “The Economics of Early Childhood Intervention.” 6 – 7:30 PM. Presidential Ballroom, Faculty House. Janet Currie, Jane Waldfogel, Douglas Almond, Migues Urquiola, David E. Weinstein. 

Wednesday, March 6

• “Creative Writing Lecture: Renee Gladman.” 7 – 8 PM (Doors open at 6:45 PM for the general public). Dodge Hall, Room 501.
• “Found in Translation Award: New Books from Poland.” 12 – 1 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. Krzysztof Koehler, introduction by Eliza Rose, moderated by Christopher J. Caes.
• “Film Screening and Discussion: Two Schools.” 6 – 8 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. Director Srđan Šarenac and Michelle Fine, moderated  by Dijana Jelača
• “Contemporary African Fiction: Let’s Tell This Story Properly.” 5:30 – 7:30 PM. Milstein Center, Lynn Chu Room. Jennifer Makumbi.
• “Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics.” 5 – 6 PM. Pulitzer Hall, The Brown Institute. Shannon Lohr.
• “Denaturalizing Moche Naturalism” 6 – 8:30 PM. Schermerhorn Hall, Room 832. Lisa Trever. Wine and cheese will be served from 6 PM.
• “I.M Pei and Urban Design 1948-1960.” 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Schermerhorn Hall, Room 930. Charles Mumford.

Thursday, March 7

• “National Self-Determination During the Russian Civil War: The Views of Constitutional-Democratic Émigrés.” 12 – 1 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 1219. Julia Klimova. 
• “Iliazd as a Transnational Artist.” 4 – 9 PM. Butler Library, Room 522. Johanna Drucker, keynote speaker.
• “The organization and evolution of the surveillance state in China.” 12 – 1:30 PM. International Affairs Building, Room 918. Minxin Pei, moderated by Yao Lu. 
• “Visiting Old Ladies: Reclaiming Knowledge and Relatives in Museum Collections.” 7:10 PM. Faculty House. Sherry Farrell Racette, Crystal Migwans. 

Friday, March 8

• “University Senate Plenary | Monthly meeting of the Columbia University Senate.” 1:15 – 2:45 PM. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 103.
• “The Wind that Shakes the Barley: Consequences of the Food Globalization in Prehistory” 4:30 – 6:30 PM. Kent Hall, Room 403. Xinyi Liu.
• “Manto: A Film Screen with Director Nandita Das.” 5:45 – 9 PM. Milbank Chapel, Teachers College.

Looking Forward

• Anne Carson will be here this April! No need to register, but mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 10 at 7 PM if you want to meet the author, poet, librettist (and more) who translated the Sappho you read in Lit Hum

 name that k-pop group via Wikimedia Commons & Korea.net/Korean Culture and Information Service (Jeon Han)