This week’s events include a zine making tutorial, panel discussion on constitutional courts in Asia, and a discussion of democracy as the “Citizen’s Story.”

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Student Event Spotlight

Zine Making for the People: How To and Lab Time

  • Tuesday, November 19, 6:30 to 8 pm, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107.
  • Zine librarians Zoe Foshee BC ’27 & Jenna Freedman will introduce zines making to those interested in producing zines for classes, clubs, events, or for fun. Students with more experience can use provided supplies to begin right away.
  • Register for the event and find more information here.

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Putting the People Back in Democracy

  • Monday, November 18, 5 to 7 pm, The Forum at Columbia University, Foyer.
  • Jon Alexander, author of Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and Graça Fonseca, former Deputy Mayor of Lisbon City Council, Minister of Culture, and Portugal’s Secretary of State for Administrative Modernization will explore the “Consumer Story” and propose democracy imagined as a “Citizen Story.” This event is jointly sponsored by Columbia World Projects and the European Institute.
  • Reserve your seat and find more information here.

Empire of Memory: German Colonialism and the Making of Postcolonial

  • Monday, November 18, 6 to 8 pm, Deutsches Haus, Event Space.
  • Fabian Krautwald (PhD), a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in African History at University College London, will lead a talk on the memories of colonialism and development of postcolonial sovereignty, with a focus on Herero communities in Namibia between the end of German rule and contemporary times.
  • Register and learn more here. Registration is required.

Constitutional Courts in Asia: Are They Upholding Freedoms?

  • Tuesday, November 19, 12:10 to 1:10 pm, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 107.
  • Guest speaker Warisha Farasat, Practitioner-in-Residence at Columbia Law School and Advocate in the Supreme Court of India, will lead a panel discussion on the efficacy of constitutional courts on maintaining human rights freedoms in Asia. This event is hosted by the Human Rights Institute. 
  • Register and find more information here.

Author Talk. My Two Decades of Dialogue with Ukraine

  • Wednesday, November 20, 12 to 1:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room, 1219.
  • The Harriman Institute’s Ukrainian Studies Program will host an author talk by Jessica Zychowicz, moderated by Mark Andryczyk. Zychowicz will touch on two decades of historiographic and ethnographic work, as well as her time spent supporting democracy and gender equality with Ukrainian peers since 2005.
  • Reserve your seat and learn more here. Registration closes at 4:00 pm on November 19.

Public Health in Times of War and Conflict

  • Thursday, November 21, 11:30 am to 12:50 pm, Allan Rosenfield Building, Floor 8 Auditorium.
  • Global health practitioners and scholars will discuss their professional and personal experiences with responding to public health needs in the midst of conflict zones. Thoại D. Ngô, Professor & Chair, Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, will moderate the event; Seema Jilani, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, L. H. Lumey, Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Medical Center, and Sid Naing, Research Scholar at Yale University, will speak on the panel.
  • Find more information here; reserve your seat here. Registration required.

Jean-Michel Lesdel – Caribbean Voices, Tradition, and Modernism

  • Friday, November 22, 2 to 4 pm, Fayerweather Hall, Room 513.
  • Jean-Michel Lesdel will speak about the aspects that make his work, which is focused on the relationship between tradition and modernity—particularly within the framework of western music and colonization, innovative. This event is part of the Comparing Domains of Improvisation series, sponsored by Columbia University’s Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience program.
  • Register for the event and find more information here. Registration required.

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