Hello and welcome back to Science Fair, Bwog’s weekly roundup of science events happening around campus. Enjoy the weather this week! Bwog Science wishes you luck with your midterms and a lovely spring break. As always, email science@bwog.com if you want your event featured.

AI Investigation of 1921 Tulsa Massacre

• Monday, March 9, 4:10 pm to 5:25 pm.
• The Milstein Center at Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, Lower Level – LL002. Registration not required.
• Dr. Phoebe R. Stubblefield, lead forensic anthropologist for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Investigation and Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, will introduce Tulsa’s history and geography with emphasis on locations relevant to the massacre and ongoing investigation. Dr. Stubblefield will share insights from her work and using AI on this critical investigation into one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. More information.

Degrowth vs. Green Growth

• Sunday, March 9, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
• Pulitzer Hall (Lecture Hall).
• This debate tackles one of the defining questions in climate economics and policy: Do we need to shrink the economy to meet climate goals, or can technological innovation and market-based approaches drive decarbonization while improving prosperity? Test underlying assumptions about capitalism, growth, feasibility, and justice as panelists explore what credible pathways forward actually look like. Essential for anyone thinking about climate solutions beyond simple tech optimism or DOOM. More information.

Alice! CU Well Peer Leaders (CPE) Information Session

• Tuesday, March 10, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
• Online event.
• Want to get involved in health education and develop facilitation skills? Alice! Health Promotion is recruiting volunteers to become CU Well Peer Leaders and earn the NASPA Certified Peer Educator (CPE) certification. Undergrads, grad students, and affiliates are all welcome. Learn about workshop facilitation, outreach events, and leading conversations about health and well-being. Join this virtual info session to hear about role expectations and what it means to be a Peer Leader. More information.

Human Rights in an Aging World: Technology, Inclusion, and Accountability

• Monday, March 10, 12:10 pm to 1:10 pm.
• Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107, 435 West 116th Street. Registration required.
• How are digitalization, artificial intelligence, data privacy, and emerging technologies redefining equality, autonomy, and dignity in later life? This discussion explores what role lawyers can play in shaping rights-based responses as tech increasingly mediates the aging experience. Free and open to the public.

Digital Governance for Democratic Renewal

• Tuesday, March 11, 10:00 am to 11:00 am.
• Online event. Registration required.
• As ownership of major digital platforms grows increasingly concentrated among a few wealthy individuals, their political and economic interests directly shape online speech governance. This event explores how concentrated platform ownership influences content moderation at X and Meta, and why platform governance models must account for ownership structures themselves. Hosted by Columbia World Projects.

Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain’s Second Scientific Revolution

• Tuesday, March 11, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.
• Hybrid event: Fayerweather Hall, Room 513, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue and online. Registration not required
• In the 19th century, the East India Company established an ambitious library-museum for Asian arts and sciences in London, plus two colleges, all funded with taxes from British India. Jessica Ratcliff investigates how Company science depended on its monopoly form and how, as that monopoly collapsed, Britain’s rose on the scientific world stage. Explore how colonial extraction shaped the institutions and knowledge systems we inherited. More information.

The Day Dalí Met Freud and Other Lessons from the World of Yesterday

• Tuesday, March 11, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
• Columbia Alumni Center, 622 W. 113 St. Registration not required.
• On July 19, 1938, Salvador Dalí finally met his idol Sigmund Freud, hoping to convince him of the value of his “paranoid-critical method” and bringing his latest painting, The Metamorphosis of Narcissus. The encounter didn’t go as planned—and writer Stefan Zweig later described it as marking the end of a liberal cultural order whose collapse would give way to WWII. Explore this historic meeting and what it signaled about the unraveling of an era.. More information.

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