April showers bring May flowers! Rain is on the forecast for this week, so spend some time indoors with these on-campus events.

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Student Event Spotlight

• On Friday, April 7, from 6 to 8:30 pm, BlueShift will host their annual Arts & Astro event! Stop by Lerner 555 to see astronomy and art come together!

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• On Monday, April 3, from 12 to 1 pm EDT, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg will discuss his new book Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal with Columbia professors Pierre Force and Emmanuelle Saada and UCLA professor Raphaelle Branch. Machiavelli’s repeated use of the adverb nondimanco (“nevertheless”) indicated he thought that there was an exception to every rule. This may seem to confirm the traditional image of Machiavelli as a cynical, “machiavellian” thinker. But Carlo Ginzburg’s close analysis of Machiavelli the reader throws a different light on Machiavelli the writer. Ginzburg’s book unveils the complex relationship between Machiavelli and Pascal—their divergences as well as their unexpected convergences. The conversation will take place online over Zoom. Please register to receive a link.
• On Monday, April 3, from 12:30 to 2 pm, the Columbia community can join Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi for a conversation on global politics, national security, and the backsliding of democracy. Speaker Pelosi, who has served in Congress since 1987 and served two terms as House Speaker, was the first woman elected Speaker and a key decision-maker on some of the most important domestic and global issues of our time. Keren Yarhi-Milo, Dean of Columbia SIPA and Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations, will moderate the discussion. Please register online in order to receive a link to watch a livestream of the event.
• ​​This spring semester, students can join Professor Katherine Franke’s Gender Justice class at Columbia Law School. Every week, between March 21st and April 25th, Professor Franke will have a guest speaker joining the class and will open it to the public. Speakers include lawyers and activists doing gender justice work on the ground. Gender Justice classes take place on Tuesdays from 4:20 to 6:10 pm EDT. On Tuesday, April 4, Professor Franke’s class will host Dana Sussman from Pregnancy Justice who will speak on “The Increasing Criminalization of Pregnancy.” Students may join either in person (JGH 102A) or via Zoom (requires registration: tinyurl.com/GenderJusticeSeries2023).
• On Tuesday, April 4, from 12 to 1:30 pm, the Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library in Dodge Hall will host an in-person workshop on publishing a podcast! This workshop will go through Anchor, a tool to get your podcast published on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc. The workshop will also cover writing a captivating podcast description, tips on podcast art, and ways to cite your sources in the episode description. We will also discuss ways in which you can reach more listeners. This workshop is part of the Podcasting Workshops series (online and in-person), led by Film + Media Studies graduate student Emily Ko, currently Digital Audio Intern in the Music & Arts Library. Workshops are open to current Columbia students, faculty and staff. For a full listing of workshops in this series, please see: https://bit.ly/PodcastingSp23. To attend Tuesday’s event, please register online.
• On Tuesday, April 4, from 4 to 6 pm, Columbia Climate School will host UCLA Professor Stephanie Pincetl for the talk “What Would Be a Just Energy Transition?” as part of the Signature Speaker Series. Professor Pincetl does research on cities, how they impact resources far and near such as water sources and ecosystems, and how those resources are used in cities, where, by whom, and to do what. She has created the first-ever interactive energy web atlas that describes building energy use in Los Angeles County. Pincetl was one of the main leads of the first Los Angeles County Sustainability Plan and is currently serving in the same capacity for the LA Department of Water and Power’s 100% renewable equity plan. The event will take place in-person at the Faculty House, with programming from 4 to 5 and a reception afterward from 5 to 6. Please register online to attend.
• On Thursday, April 6, at 6 pm, UNC Chapel Hill professor Morgan Pitelka will give talk a talk on “The Archaeology of Urban Life in Late Medieval Japan.” In this talk, presented by the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture, Pitelka will introduce the once thriving city of Ichijödani, a provincial urban center that peaked in the sixteenth century, a period usually associated primarily with political incohesion and endemic warfare. The archaeological evidence from Ichijodani, particularly when put into conversation with excavated materials from other urban sites in Japan, illuminates the rhythms and logic of life and death for the many medieval Japanese who lived in urban agglomerates other than the capital city of Kyoto. The talk will take place in Kent Hall Room 403. Please register online to attend.

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