Take a break from midterms and learn something new about public health, climate justice, or medieval monks this week!

Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you have a correction or addition, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

Student Spotlight:

Dreaming with the Diaspora

  • Tuesday, October 14, 8 to 9 pm, Reid Hall, Zora Neale Hurston Lounge (1st floor).
  • BOSS and HSA are teaming up for this event, which focuses on the significance of dreams in the African diaspora. There will be giveaways of food and eye masks.
  • No registration required.

Breaking Bread, Building Bridges

  • Friday, October 17, 8 to 11 pm, 555 Lerner Hall.
  • This networking and dinner event is hosted by CU Doctors Without Borders. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about public health, with guest speakers Mailman School Professor of Epidemiology Dana Palmer and Dr. Michael Falk, a physician who has participated in multiple humanitarian missions.
  • Register here. A $5 donation to MSF is required for entry.

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Recommended:

Flu Shot Pop-Up

  • Tuesday, October 14, 9 am to 5 pm, Lerner Hall Auditorium.
  • Back due to popular demand, Columbia Health is giving out free flu shots again for one day only.
  • No registration required.

Landmark Climate and Human Rights Rulings: Reflections on ICJ & IACHR

  • Wednesday, October 15, 12:10 to 1:10 pm, 107 Jerome Greene Hall.
  • This conversation from the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School centers on the recent decisions from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). The event will include Dr. Maria Antonia Tigre of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and Kelsey Jost-Creegan, Supervising Staff Attorney at Columbia Law Human Rights Clinic. Lunch will be served.
  • Register here.

How Putin Turned Foreign Policy Success into Strategic Defeat

  • Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 to 8 pm, 1219 International Affairs Building, Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room.
  • Professor Peter Clement, former Deputy Assistant Director of CIA for Europe and Eurasia, will lead this presentation about Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy. The event will focus on two questions: “Were there clear turning points in the hardening of Putin’s policy toward the US and the West more broadly since he became Russia’s president in 2000? What factors led Putin to eschew largely successful foreign policy pragmatism in favor of his fateful decision to reinvade Ukraine?”
  • Register here.

What Was Pious Attention?

  • Friday, October 17, 12:15 to 1:45 pm, 201 Casa Hispanica. 
  • Addicted to your phone? Constantly checking the news? Sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, this event asks how historic religious scholars dealt with distractions and focus. 
  • Register here.

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