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Global Perspectives on Racism in Public Health

• Monday, October 18, 2021 5:30 to 7 pm
• Online event, link here
• “The FACE Forward Speaker Series features a variety of guests–from local policymakers to community organizers to international public health innovators–sharing insights on anti-racist practice and engaging in a dialogue with faculty, staff, and students. Learn more on the FACE Forward webpage.”

Going to Extremes: Global Hazards and the Path to Resilience

• Monday, October 18, 2021 6 to 7:15 pm
• Online event, link here
• “A summer of unprecedented heat, fire, and flooding extremes and the ongoing pandemic have laid bare the dangers to humanity. The science of understanding evolving hazards and the ability to take immediate, informed action is crucial to creating a resilient future. Climate School Founding Dean Alex Halliday will lead a conversation with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory climate scientist and hurricane expert Suzana Camargo; Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Columbia Climate School Jeff Schlegelmilch; and former New York City, Chief Climate Policy Advisor and current Special Advisor on Climate and Sustainability Issues at Columbia Climate School Daniel Zarrilli. Join the Columbia Climate School online for this critically important conversation.”

Your Digital Carbon Footprint

• Thursday, October 21, 2021 4 to 5 pm
• Online event, link here
• “The digital is material. Learn how you can measure and reduce your digital carbon footprint to ’embody the just and liberated worlds we long for’ (adrienne maree brown). In this workshop, we’ll talk about the material impacts of our digital lives. You will be given tools to measure and understand these impacts and, through an ethics of care, reduce and repair harm. We frame this work, not through the faulty ideology of individual responsibility, but through the Black feminist praxis of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Without absolving corporations and governments of environmental responsibility, we simultaneously embrace ‘ways for humans to practice being in right relationship to our home and each other, to practice complexity, and grow a compelling future together through relatively simple interactions’ (brown 24).”

Feminist Film Series: Bombshell, The Hedy Lamarr Story

• Thursday, October 21, 2021 5:30 pm
• Altschul Hall room 202, click here for more information
• “Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, a documentary film directed by Alexandra Dean, explores how Lamarr’s true legacy is that of a technological trailblazer. Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr fled an oppressive marriage to create a name for herself as one of Hollywood’s top leading ladies in the 1940s. Behind the glamour and sex appeal, though, was a talented and inquisitive inventor who created a radio system that is now considered the basis of Bluetooth technology.”

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