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Student Spotlight:

Blueshift Welcome Back Meeting

  • Tuesday, January 27, 8:30 to 9:30 pm, 1332 Pupin Hall.
  • Join Columbia’s undergraduate astronomy club for their first general body meeting of the semester.
  • No registration required.

AI in Medicine: Now, Soon, or Never?

  • Tuesday, January 27, 9 pm, Location TBA.
  • Columbia Policy Institute is hosting a discussion about artificial intelligence and medicine, asking what the opportunities and challenges of AI may be.
  • No registration required.

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Recommended:

We Testified Anyway-Turning Pain into Evidence and Accountability

  • Tuesday, January 27, 12:10 to 1:10 pm, Columbia Law School, 107 Jerome Greene Hall.
  • This panel will focus on the struggles of survivors of trauma in participating in court cases and how they overcome those obstacles. Speakers include attorney Carlos Federico Gaitán Hairabedian and human rights activist Claudia Poblete. Lunch will be provided.
  • Register here.

The Abel Lecture on Antisemitism with Pam Nadell

  • Tuesday, January 27, 6 to 7 pm, on Zoom. 
  • This annual lecture explores the history of antisemitism in the US and how Jewish people have fought back. American University Professor of Women’s and Gender History Pamela Nadell will use her book Antisemitism, an American Tradition to investigate the issue.
  • Register here.

Workshop on Knowledge and the State

  • Thursday, January 29, 4:20 to 6:30 pm, 413 Fayerweather Hall. 
  • Supported by the Center for Political Economy, this series of workshops seeks to “explore the relationship between public governance and technical expertise.” The first of the series will focus on how public officials use expert knowledge in areas from climate science to economic trade to the science of gender. Books that will be discussed include The Invention of International Relations Theory: Realism, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the 1954 Conference on Theory by Nicolas Guilhot, Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power by Inderjeet Parmar, and Philanthropy in America: A History by Olivier Zunz.
  • Register here.

Journalism under authoritarian pressure: Reporting from Türkiye

  • Thursday, January 29, 4:30 to 6 pm, 612 Schermerhorn Hall.
  • How does journalism operate in repressive environments? What does ethical reporting look like under an authoritarian regime? Here to answer these questions and more are journalists Ann Cooper and Diego Cupolo in this panel sponsored by the Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies.
  • Register here.

Addressing Violence Against Women in the Human Rights System

  • Thursday, January 29, 4:30 to 5:30 pm, 1512 International Affairs Building.
  • Speakers for this human rights event include survivor Jessica Lehanan, lawyer and former White House Advisor on Violence Against Women Caroline Bettinger-López. They will discuss Lenahan’s landmark case, Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) vs. United States and the advancement of women’s rights after Castle Rock.
  • Register here.

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