0 CommentsFeeling defensive after your professor gave you a bad grade on your midterm? Bwog can’t help you with grades, but we can help you defend yourself from assailants and the flu by highlighting free self-defense classes and flu shots on campus!
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Student Spotlight:
Self-Defense Class – CU Public Safety & Shotokan Karate Club
- Monday, October 28, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Wien Hall, Wien Lounge.
- Attend a free self-defense class cohosted by Columbia Shotokan Karate Club and CU Public Safety. Attendees will learn about situational awareness, commuter safety tips, and basic self-defense tactics.
- Register here.
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Recommended:
Flu Fair at Morningside Heights Campus
- Monday, October 28 to Thursday, October 31, Lerner Hall Auditorium.
- Visit Columbia Health’s Flu Fair all week to make sure you don’t forget your flu shot this year! Times vary each day, but the first 200 Columbia community members to receive their flu shot can snag a special “Fight Flu” Alma or Roar-ee pin. (You’ll also get a flu shot—the real prize.)
- No registration required. Bring your CUID.
Making Elections More Trustworthy (And Trusted)
- Monday, October 28, 11:40 am to 12:40 pm, Mudd Building, Room 451.
- Listen to Law and Computer Science Professor Matt Blaze discuss the benefits and drawbacks of technologies on election management and maintaining high-integrity elections. Blaze will explain the technologies used in elections, how they can fail, and the safeguards used to mitigate their risks.
- Registration not required.
- Monday, October 28, 5:30 to 7 pm, Burke Library.
- Co-sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) and the Henry Luce Foundation, this event will feature a discussion on AI’s role in rethinking humanistic pedagogy as well as assumptions about religion’s “human-ness.” Speakers include Sylvester Johnson, a Professor of Black Studies at Northwestern University, and Sharday Mosurinjohn, a professor at Queen’s University.
- Register here.
Left Adrift: A Conversation with Timothy Shenk
- Tuesday, October 29, 7 to 8:15 pm, Book Culture (112th Street).
- Celebrate the publication of alumnus Timothy Shenk’s book Left Adrift at Book Culture! Shenk will be joined by American Studies Professor Andrew Delbanco to discuss the book, which details a new historical perspective on the left’s transformation over the past 50 years and offers insight into the future of the Democratic Party as we await the 2024 Presidential Election.
- Registration not required.
- Wednesday, October 30, 4:30 to 6 pm, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513.
- Never learned about a ship hull ceiling in your undergraduate education thus far? Make sure to change that by attending this talk on the selection and preparation of materials for ship hull ceilings in the Italian peninsula in the 14th and 15th centuries. Laura Hutchingame, a PhD student in Art History at UCLA will also discuss the diverse forms of labor that contributed to ship hull ceiling production during this era.
- Register here.
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