Stop by on Thursday night!

Bucket List represents the intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for this week are below, and the full list is after the jump. If you notice any events that have been left off the list, or if you have a correction, please let us know in the comments.

Recommended

• “Billion Dollar Whale: Behind One of The World’s Biggest Corruption Scandals.” Monday, September 17, 12 – 1:30 pm. Pulitzer Hall, Stabile Student Center. Bradley Hope, Tom Wright.
• “Ciencia, Política y Sexo.” Monday, September 17, 7 pm. 328 Milbank Hall. Víctor Mora Gaspar.
• “Menstrual Health and Gender Justice.” Thursday, September 20, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. IAB, Room 7o7.  Inga Winkler, Nancy Reame, Chris Bobel, Norma Swenson, Trisha Maharaj, Vanesa Paranjothy.
• “Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo.” Thursday, September 20, 5 – 9 pm. Deutsches Haus. Dr. Seth Anziska and Professor Rashid Khalidi.

Monday, September 17

• “Fall 2018 Minerva Lectures: Asymptotic Theory of Transaction Costs.” 1:10 – 2:25 pm. Mathematics, Room 507. Walter Schachermayer.
• “Social Value Investing: The Success of Cross-Sector Partnerships.” 6 – 8 pm. Low Library. William Eimicke, Steven Cohen. Register here.

Wednesday, September 19

• “International Cooperation for Sustainable Development – An Asia Perspective.” 1– 2 pm. Maison Francaise.  Mr. Timothy T. Y. Hsiang, Dr. André Corrêa d’Almeida. Register here.

Thursday, September 20

• “Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition.” 6 – 7:30 pm. Maison Francaise.  Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Katherine Ewing, Nabeel Hamid, Christia Mercer. Register here.
• “Global Language Justice Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Translating migration: art, ethics and uncertainty” 6:15 pm. Heyman Center for Humanities, Second Floor Common Room. Moira Inghilleri.
• “LGBTQ Open House.” 6 – 8 pm. Schapiro Hall. Multicultural Affairs.
• “Technology & Social Innovation for Sustainable Development.” 1 – 2 pm. IAB, Room 1501. Dr. Jeanette Wing, Audrey Tang, moderated by Poorvi Goel. Register here.

Friday, September 21

• “Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin.” 6 – 8 pm.  The Heyman Center for Humanities, Second Floor Common Room. Seyla Benhabib, Nadia Urbinati, Jeremy Waldron, moderated by Bernard Harcourt, Adam Tooze. Register here.
• “Public Lecture and Stargazing: Clocks of the Universe.” 8 –  10 pm. Pupin, Room 301. Mihir Kulkarni.

Saturday, September 22

• “Global Radicalism: Solidarity, Internationalism, and Feminist Futures.” 10 am – 5 pm. The People’s Forum, 320 W. 37th St. conference featuring keynote speakers Mary Helen Washington & Vijay Prashad.

Looking Ahead

• Next week, Columbia will be hosting a week of events with award-winning science-fiction writer, Cory Doctorow! Check out this site to get more information on his talks and panels, and to register for all events
• The Japanese Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Minister for Working-style Reform, Minister in charge of the Abduction Issue, Minister of State for the Abduction Issue, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, Katsunobu Kato will be coming to give a special lecture on September 27. Register here if you want to attend!

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