Bucket List brings to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. Our recommendations for the week are below, followed by a full calendar of events. If you notice any events excluded from the list or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.
Recommended
- “The Postwar Moment: Book panel discussion with Isser Woloch, Victoria de Grazia, Ira Katznelson, and Adam Tooze.” Monday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery.
- “A Talk by Dominique Kalifa: Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld.” Tuesday, 4:30 – 6:00 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery.
- “Film Screening: Makala. A film by Emmanuel Gras, 2018, 96 min” 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery.
- “The Ethics of Covering Extremism” 5 – 6:30 PM. Pulitzer Hall, The Brown Institute. Nina Berman, Tess Owen, and Glenna Gordo.
- “Making FRONTLINE: Narrative Storytelling Across Forms” 7 – 8 PM. Pulitzer Hall, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall. Raney Aronson-Rath, giving a Hearst lecture.
Student Event Spotlight
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- “[APAHM 2019] D.R.A.G.: Diasporic Representations of Asians + Gender” Friday, 5:00 – 7:30 PM. Early Hall. “Join us in concluding the month’s worth of celebrations for FREE food, FREE bubble tea, and a FREE show at the Earl Hall Auditorium! The event will showcase a Q&A session and performances from two inspiring artivists, whose work epitomizes notions of “COMMOTION” as they strive to champion Asian-American representation amidst their challengings to the gender binary.”
Monday, April 22
- “War On Crime Or War On The Poor? A Conference on Violence & Policing in the Philippines, Latin America, & the U.S.” 9:00 AM through 12:00 PM Tuesday. Pulitzer Hall World Room. RSVP and Speakers Here
- “Explaining Nationalism: Self-descriptive Uses of “Nationalist” in Contemporary Russian Media Texts” 12 – 1 PM. IAB 1219. Veera Laine. Also live-streamed on Facebook.
- “The Freelance Series: Pitching Your Masters and other best long-form work” 5:00 – 6:30 PM. Pulitzer Hall 607B. Stephen Fried.
- Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves: simulations of subjectivity in Fernando Pessoa’s philosophy of self” 5:30 – 7:00 PM. Heyman Center Common Room. Jonardon Ganeri.
- “Public Forum: Counting the Victims of Police & Extrajudicial Killings” 6:00-7:30 PM. Pulitzer Hall World Room. Panel discussion moderated by Sheila Coronel.
- “Youth Aspirations in Exile: Participatory Action Research in the Kakuma Refugee Camp” 6 PM. Barnard Hall, Sulzberger Parlor. Michelle Bellino.
- “Late Night Science: Do I know you? The Science of Recognizing Others” 6:15 – 7:45 PM. Jerome L. Greene Science Center, 3227 . Register here.
- “The Postwar Moment: Book panel discussion with Isser Woloch, Victoria de Grazia, Ira Katznelson, and Adam Tooze.” 6:30 – 8:00 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery.
Tuesday, April 23
- “Historic Cities of Ukraine: Perspectives for Research and Conservation” 12 – 1 PM. IAB 1219. Mariana Kaplinska
- “Minjian: the Rise of China’s Grassroots Intellectuals” 12:00 – 1:30 PM. IAB 918. Sebastian Veg
- “The Terrorist Argument: Modern Advocacy & Propaganda” 12 – 2 PM. IAB 1302. Dr. Chris Harmon, moderated by Stuart Gottlieb.
- “Energy, Development and Climate Change: How development successes are fundamentally altering the global energy landscape” 1 – 2 PM. IAB 404. Philippe Benoit
- “Populism as Political Theology: An Anthropological Perspective” 4 – 6 PM. Schermerhorn Extension, Room 457. William T.S. Mazzarella.
- “A Talk by Dominique Kalifa: Vice, Crime, and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld.” 4:30 – 6:00 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery.
- “Immersive, Interactive, Democratic, ‘Original’: Shakespeare You Can Throw Beer At” 6 – 7 PM. Barnard Hall, James Room. W. B. Worthen.
- “Why Picture a Tigress Gorging on One’s Body? Art of Compassion and What Else?” 6 – 7 PM. 807 Schermerhorn Hall. Eugene Wang.
- “Marina Carr in Conversation with Lisa Dwan on Greek Drama, Beckett, and Adaptation” 6:15 PM. The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room.
Wednesday, April 24
- “Criminal Leviathans: When Gangs Govern from Behind Bars” 12 – 2 PM. IAB 717. Benjamin Lessing.
- “China in Latin America and Africa: from conflict to integration?” 12 – 1 PM. IAB 802. Hongxiang Huang.
- “National Protest Agenda and Party Politics in Visegrád Countries” 12 – 1 PM. IAB 1219. Katerina Vrablikova.
- “The Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Emerging Nature Rights: Sharing Experiences in Direct Action and Diplomacy” 1:30 – 2:30 PM. Teachers College, Grace Dodge Hall. Joshua Cooper
- “The Dictatorship of Capital: Urban Redevelopment and the Question of Violence in Post-Authoritarian South Korea” 2 – 4 PM. IAB 918. Hae Yeon Choo.
- “Franz Boas Seminar by Lisa Stevenson” 4:10 PM. 963 Schermerhorn Extension.
- “Audiotactility, Culture, Improvisation: A Lecture & Presentation by Prof. Laurent Cugny” 6 – 8 PM. 701C Dodge Hall.
- “International Trade and Emerging Markets – The Case of Brazil” 6:10 – 8:00 PM. IAB 802. Emanuel Ornelas.
- “Ceremonies: Indigenous Stories” 7:00 – 8:00 PM. Earl Hall Auditorium. Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz.
Thursday, April 25
- “Towards a Sonic Historiography of Medieval Music: 78 rpm recordings, c. 1910-c.1950” 12 PM. Studio at Butler, 208b Butler Library. Isabelle Ragnard.
- “Under-Rewarded Efforts: The Elusive Quest for Prosperity in Mexico” 1:00 – 2:30 PM. IAB 413.
- “Colonial Landscapes and Seascapes: the center of Pacific World history” 4:30 – 6:00 PM. IAB 918. Gregory T. Cushman, moderated by Paul Kreitman
- “Film Screening: Makala. A film by Emmanuel Gras, 2018, 96 min” 6:30 – 8:30 PM. Buell Hall, East Gallery.
- “Citizen Filmmakers: Stefan Bugryn and Steven Zelko” 7 – 8 PM. Deutsches Haus. Moderated by Yuri Shevchuk.
- “The Ethics of Covering Extremism” 5:00 – 6:30 PM. Pulitzer Hall, The Brown Institute. Nina Berman, Tess Owen, and Glenna Gordo.
- “The Digital Future of the History of Science” 6:00 PM. The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room. Christopher Phillips, Pamela Smith, Alex Wellerstein, and Emily Bloom, moderated by Whitney Laemmli.
- “#DecolonizeConservation: Survival International on how Big Conservation funds land theft, abuse and the torture of Tribal and Indigenous People” 6:30 PM. 301M Fayerweather Hall. Dr. Mordecai Ogada, Dr. Daniel Lavelle, Dr. Jo Woodman, and Dr. Noah Chasin.
Friday, April 26
- “Tax Filing and Voter Registration: A Talk by Vanessa Williamson from the Brookings Institution” 1o:30 – 11:45 AM. IAB Lindsay Rogers Room.
- “Making FRONTLINE: Narrative Storytelling Across Forms” 7 – 8 PM. Pulitzer Hall, Joseph D. Jamail Lecture Hall. Raney Aronson-Rath, giving a Hearst lecture.
- “Punishing Trauma: Collateral Consequences of Incarceration” Schedule and speakers here. Maison Francaise, East Gallery.
The Underworld According To Dante via Wikimedia Commons