Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you notice any events excluded from our calendar or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.


Events Calendar!

Instead of clogging up your feeds (and our Sunday afternoons), with 800 hundred copy and pasted links from poorly formatted Columbia websites, check out Bwog’s event’s calendar, which will attempt to compile every campus event across departments and student groups into one easily accessible Google Calendar! We’re still working out some technical difficulties on our end, but if you have any suggestions, issues or want to make sure your event is included, drop us a line in the comments, through our submission form, or by emailing events@bwog.com.

Student Event Spotlight

Your student event could be here!! If your club or organization is interested in having your event featured in our weekly roundup, please submit them to events@bwog.com or using our Events Submission Form.

Head to the Lerner Ramps tomorrow from 12 – 3 pm for EcoRep’s Zero Waste Giveaway. Bring your computer and download Ecosia to win free bamboo cutler, metal straws, and more; if you answer a sustainable trivia question, you’ll be entered for a chance to win a Johnny Urban backpack.
Recommended

  • Today from 5 to 6:30 pm, Her Excellency Ms. Ann Linde, Sweden’s newly minted Minister for Foreign Affairs, will be in conversation with  Dr. Yasmine Ergas, Director of the Specialization on Gender and Public Policy at SIPA on developing a “Feminist Foreign Policy” in the country. The talk, which will take place in Room 1512 in International Affairs, will begin with opening remarks by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee and conclude at 6 with a reception to follow. Reserve your seat and find out more information here.
  • On Tuesday from 6 – 7:30 pm in Buell Hall’s East Gallery, Audrey Celestine of  the Université de Lille will trace three generations of a family’s history in the aptly titled “A French Family: from the Caribbean to Dunkirk by way of Algeria.” In doing so, she’ll touch on themes of colonization, Empire, and decolonization and how these forces shaped the family’s relationships with one another and the world at large. RSVP here; seating is first-come, first-served.
  • This Wednesday from 12:10 – 1:10 in Jerome Greene 102B, friend and colleague of murdered French journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon Christophe Boisbouvier, as well as human rights advocates from the Human Rights Watch and the UN, will come together to speak on “Accountability for Targeted Killings of Journalists: Legal and Other Efforts Towards Justice.” The talk will focus specifically on Dupont and Verlon’s deaths and efforts to bring justice to this case and others like it. No registration is necessary; lunch will be provided.
  • Bwog doesn’t publish op-eds but we can send you to events in order to learn how to write them. Also on Wednesday from 6 – 8 in 1512 International Affairs, former New York Times op-ed editor Trish Hall will be promoting her book “Writing to Persuade” and sharing tips and tricks to successful opinion writing in an open session with Professor Claudia Dreyfuss. No registration is necessary, so we expect a flurry of Spec op-eds to be hitting our Facebook feeds posthaste.
  • Finally, the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies (1140 Amsterdam Avenue) will be hosting “The Jewish Dead In Literature And Lore” from 6:30 – 8 pm. Professor Jonathan Boyarin of Cornell will use familiar and unfamiliar examples to explore what happens when the line between living and dead is transgressed.

Swedish countryside (aka parts unknown) via Pixabay