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

• “Rethinking the Closet: New York Queer Life before Stonewall.” Tuesday, April 16, 4 – 5:30 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery. George Chaucey.
• “Terrorism Trials in the UK and the US: A Comparative View from Two Judges.” Wednesday, April 17, 12:10 – 1:10 PM. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 104. HH Michael Topolski, Lewis Kaplan Michael Ferrara, Daniel Richman. Boxed lunches will be served.
• “Translating Ovid’s Sexual Violence.” Thursday, April 18, 4:30 PM. Deutsches Haus. Stephanie McCarter and Jia Tolentino.
• ” …But the Nazis Love(d) Music, Too.” Friday, April 19, 4 – 6 PM. 620 Dodge Hall. William Cheng.

Student Event 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.

• Columbia’s undergrad astronomy club, Blueshift, is hosting “an evening celebrating the intersections of astronomy and creativity!” Head to the 14th floor of Pupin on April 19 from 3 to 6 PM for snacks, visual and multimedia art, music and performances, research talks and more!

Tuesday, April 16

• “Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career Of John Hersey.” 12 – 1:30 PM. Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. Jeremy Treglown.
• “Establishing Causality in Counter-Insurgency Doctrine: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Population-Centric War.” 12:10 – 2 PM. IAB 1302. Richard Hanania, moderated by Robert Jervis.
• “Retooling Europe’s Economy: the EIB Investment Report 2018/2019.” 1 – 2 PM. IAB 1201. Debora Revoltella. RSVP here.
• “Sunset Yoga Series.” 5 – 6 PM. Low Steps. RSVP recommended but not required. 
• “Film Screening: The Paris Opera by Jean-Stéphane Bron, 2017.” 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery.

Wednesday, April 17

• “China’s and Russia’s Sharp Power: How Big a Threat?” 12 – 1:30 PM. IAB 1219. Speaker: Christopher Walker; Discussants: Andrew Nathan, Alexander Cooley.
• “Cut the Clutter and Get Organized.” 12 – 1 PM. Lerner Broadway Room. Wendy Samuel, Gail Furgal, Donna Goldberg.
• “11th Annual Isidore I. Benrubi Lecture and Reception: Hate Speech on Campus and the First Amendment: An American Dilemma.” 4 – 6 PM. Roy And Diana Vagelos Education Center (med school campus), Room 201. Aryeh Neier, Jeremy Waldron.
• “China Under Xi Jinping: The First Term and the Future.” 4 – 5:30 PM. IAB 918. Li Weidong, moderated by Andrew Nathan. 
• “Citizen-Leaders: A Conversation with the Obama Foundation Scholars.” 4:30 – 6 PM. Low Library, Faculty Room. Moderator: Prof. Suzanne Goldberg; Panelists: Alice Barbe, Ana Maria Gonzalez-Forero, Hong Hoang, Trisha Shetty
• “Latin America and the United States: Back to the Future or Ahead to the Past?” 6 – 7 PM. IAB 1501. Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés.
• “Re-Present the Other: A Roundtable Discussion about Diversity in the Publishing Industry.” 6 – 8 PM. Lenfest Center of the Arts, KOB Screening Room. Victory Matsui, Monica Odom, Nicole Counts, Deborah Paredez, Erroll McDonald.
• “Hunger for Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story.” 7 – 8 PM. Deutsches Haus. Director Andrew Tkach, Professor Yuri Shevchuk. 
• “Nonfiction Dialogues: Terese Marie Mailhot.” 7 – 8 PM. Dodge 501.

Thursday, April 18

• “Spring Blood Drive at Columbia.” 9 AM – 3 PM. Lerner Auditorium.
• “Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Understanding the Columbia Landscape, Moving Toward Change.” 12 – 1:30 PM. Lerner Hall Broadway Room. Featured speakers include: Jennifer Hirsch, Claude Ann Mellins, Shamus Khan as well as campus experts La’Shawn Rivera, Scott Wright, Marjory Fisher.
• “Time and Kinship: Rebirth and being in Burmese Buddhist cosmology.” 12 – 1:30 PM. IAB 918. Speaker: Naoko Kumada, Moderated by: Zhaohua Yang.
  
• “Leading After a Nuclear Disaster.” 12:30 – 3 PM. Faculty House, 2nd Floor. Naomi Hirose.
• “Locke on Knowledge and the Grounds of Probability.” 4:10 – 6 PM. 716 Philosophy Hall. Jennifer Marusic. Reception to follow.
• “Book History Colloquium presents: Who Made This Book? Bookwork in the Global Supply Chain.” 6 – 9 PM. Butler 522. Matt Kirschenbaum.
• “Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s.” 6 PM. Heyman Center Second Floor Common Room. George Hutchinson, Paula Rabinowitz, Casey Nelson Blake.
• “Reading in French Now.” 6 – 8 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery. Selma Hellal, Chokri Mabkhout, Thierry Grillet, Alex Gil, moderated by Madeleine Dobie. RSVP here.
• “Kashmir 101: A Teach-in.” 6 – 8 PM. Jerome Greene Hall, Room 105. Manan Ahmed, Suchitra Vijayan, Hafsa Kanjwal.
• “Ceremonies: Weddings in the Sikh and Coptic Traditions.” 7 – 8 PM. Earl Hall, Dodge Room. Father Gregory Saroufeem, a Coptic Orthodox Priest, and Guldeep Sethi, from the Sikh tradition.
• “Students of Creative Writing Share Their Work.” 7 PM. Barnard Hall, Sulzberger Parlor.
• “Lynette Wallworth.” 6:30 PM. The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts. Response by Katherine Dieckmann, Film. Register here (does not guarantee seating)

Friday, April 19

• “Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics.” 10:30 – 11:45 AM. IAB, Lindsey Rogers Room 7th Floor. Matthew Blackwell.
• “The Future of Dense Urban Combat: Achieving and Maintaining Decision Advantage.” 12 – 5 PM. IAB 404. For a complete list of sessions and speakers, read here.
• “Emerging Technologies Consortium and Women in Technology – 1,000 Cut Journey – Using VR to fight racism.” 12 – 1:30 PM. Milstein Center, LL002. Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn.
• “Mni Ki Wakan: Water is Sacred.” 12 – 5 PM. Lerner Hall 569.

wow so starry via Blueshift