Happy Easter to all who celebrate! Check out this week’s EEOC for Bwog’s best event picks for the second week of April.

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Student Event Spotlight

  • On Thursday, April 13, the King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe (KCST) will be hosting a bake sale to raise money for their upcoming spring show, Antony and Cleopatra! The bake sale will take place on the Lerner ramps from 11 am to 4 pm. Stop by and support student theater!

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Recommended 

  • On Tuesday, April 11, from 5:30 to 7 pm, the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life will host the discussion “Curating the City of Faith: New Directions in Representing Religion in Contemporary Life,” featuring curator Azra Dawood in conversation with Barnard professor Najam Haider. How do museum exhibitions about religion shape public understandings of religion and race today? What are some of the challenges and prospects that curators and museum professionals face in “representing religion” to diverse audiences? This event brings Azra Dawood, curator of the exhibit, “City of Faith: Religion, Activism, and Urban Space,” currently on display at the Museum of the City of New York, into conversation with Najam Haider, Professor of Religion at Barnard College. Following a presentation on the exhibit, which has a particular focus on South Asian communities in New York, they will address these questions and more, before Q&A from the audience. The event will take place in the Heyman Center’s Second Floor Common Room. Please register online.
  • 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. On Tuesday, April 11, Professor Franke’s class will host Professor Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World. Students may join either in person (JGH 102A) or via Zoom (requires registration: tinyurl.com/GenderJusticeSeries2023).
  • On Wednesday, April 12, at 7:30 pm, Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) and the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University will host “The Translator is Present: A Personal History of Erasure,” a reading by writer and translator Anton Hur, followed by a conversation with Literary Translation at Columbia Director Susan Bernofsky. The conversation will take place in Dodge Hall Room 501, with no registration required.
  • On Thursday, April 13, from 6 to 8:30 pm, the Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights will host a panel discussion on the pressing issues that lie ahead for the Supreme Court in the latest installment of the Initiative’s American Voter Project. Panelists will include Eric H. Holder Jr. (CC ’73, LAW ’76), 82nd Attorney General of the United States, Columbia Law School professors Bernard E. Harcourt and Olatunde C. Johnson, and Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times. The panel will take place from 6 to 7:30 pm, with a reception with food provided following from 7:30 to 8:30 pm. This event will take place in the Italian Academy Teatro. Please register online to attend.
  • On Friday, April 14, from 12 to 1:30 pm on Zoom, students can attend Columbia Health’s online program “Disrupting the Culture of Online Sexual Violence.” Sexual violence online isn’t just a “women’s issue.” Even though female identifying students historically experience higher rates of harm, emerging data shows abuse targeting male-identifying students is on the rise. Speaker Adam Dodge (EndTAB) will discuss what abuse in online spaces looks like, how different genders experience it, and how we can be part of the solution. All participants will be entered into a drawing for an Amazon gift card. Please register online.
  • On Friday, April 14, from 1 to 3 pm, students can join Columbia College Women for a panel discussion and networking with alums who are law professionals of color. The panel will take place at ​​Kirkland & Ellis LLP and students who attend will receive a free lunch and get the chance to learn about what it’s like to be working in a law firm. Please register online to attend!

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