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!

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 or by emailing events@bwog.com.

Student Event Spotlight

A new semester means new student events! If your club or organization is interested in having your event featured in our weekly roundup, please submit them to events@bwog.com.

  • On Thursday at 7:00 pm in Lerner 555, there will be a performance and workshop with Fogo Azul, the all-female samba-reggae drumline. All are welcome to participate in this night of Afro Brazilian Drumming.

Recommended

  • On Tuesday from 5:30-7:30 PM, there will be a screening of the HBO documentary and winner of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary, It Will Be Chaos. The screening will take place in the Grace Dodge Hall room of Teachers College and will feature a Q&A session with the co-director, Filippo Piscopo, following the screening. No RSVP is necessary, and food and drinks will be served.
  • On Wednesday from 6:00-7:30 PM, head over to the Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Room on the 3rd floor of Pulitzer Hall for a discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. The two reporters will be discussing their new book, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America. Leonnig and Rucker, along with their colleagues, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for their reporting on Trump and Russia. No RSVP is needed for this event, but seats will be taken on a first-come-first-serve basis.
  • On Thursday from 1:00-2:00 PM in room 802 of the International Affairs Building, there will be a presentation by Alysson Portella titled: “Racial social norms among Brazilian students: ‘Whitening’, social status, and performance.” Portella will explore the “relationship between students’ social status and grades in Brazil, and how it differs between racial groups.”
  • Next Sunday, February 10th at 6:30 PM, there will be a discussion with Patricia Spears Jones, Kimberly Springer, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, and Courtney Thorsson regarding Ntozake Shange, The Sisterhood, and Black Collectivity. The event will celebrate “the vibrant community of black women writers who began gathering in Brooklyn and Manhattan in the 1970s and went on to produce classics of black feminist literature.” The event will take place in various locations on Barnard’s campus, including the Event Oval in Diana and the Milstein Center Movement Lab. No RSVP is required, but you can RSVP here to ensure your spot is secured.

Science Events

“Discovery to Action: Change from the Poles to Our Shores, a lecture featuring Robin E. Bell” (Robin E. Bell, Columbia University)

  • Saturday, February 8, 6:30 PM, The Event Oval, Diana Center, click here for more information
  • “The brilliant blue water atop the ice sheets is emblematic of rapid change at the ends of our earth. This development at the poles is now appearing along coastal communities around the globe. The melting ice sheets remain a frontier full of rich discovery: rivers, waterfalls, and water that runs uphill. As these discoveries feed our ice sheet models, they also motivate scientist Robin E. Bell’s work to address how we can keep our planet both habitable and beautiful. Bell is Palisades Geophysical Institute/Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.”

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