Bucket List represents the unbelievable 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. As always, feel free to mention any events we may have missed in the comments section (and/or mock our typos) and we’ll add them. Our recommendations for this week are below and the full list is after the jump.

Recommended

  • “Mellon Visiting Artist Talk with Matteo Pericoli and Lorin Stein” 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Matteo Pericoli, Lorin Stein
  • “How Sustainable Development Can Help Solve America’s Crisis” Tuesday, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium, Jeffrey Sachs


Monday

  • “Feminist to the Core: Professor Anahid Nersessian on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata” 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, 754 Schermerhorn Extension, Anahid Nersessian
  • “Political Survival and the Surrender of Sovereignty: Evidence from Post-Soviet Georgia” 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 1219 IAB, Jesse Dillon Savage
  • “Biology Departmental Seminar: Embryo Sac Development in Plants” 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, 700 Fairchild, Gabriella Pagnussat
  • “The Ambivalent Middle Class: Weaving Sexual Rights into the Social Fabric in India” 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Room 1, Faculty House, Katherine Pratt Ewing
  • “Why Do Partisan Media Polarize Viewers?” 4:10 pm – 5:30 pm, 707 IAB, Matt Levendusky
  • “For the Public Good: Creating the Democracy That Will Ensure a Future Middle Class” 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, James Room, Barnard Hall, Heather McGee
  • “Eric Hobsbawm’s Legacy: Rethinking the 20th Century” 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, Common Room, Heyman Center, Victoria de Grazia, Barbara Fields, Eric Foner
  • “ICR Practicum Series: Drivers of Conflict and Peace” 6:15 pm – 8:00 pm, 707 IAB
  • “Mellon Visiting Artist Talk with Matteo Pericoli and Lorin Stein” 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Matteo Pericoli, Lorin Stein
  • “Asia’s Strategic Environment at a Time of Leadership Change” 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm, 103 Jerome Greene (Columbia Law School), Alexander Cooley, Benjamin Liebman, Andrew J. Nathan, Gary F. Locke, Stephen A. Orlins

Tuesday

  • “Civil Society Space for Environmental Democracy and Governance in Myanmar” 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 801 IAB, Myo Thu
  • “Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking” 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 114 Avery, Eran ben-Joseph
  • “Affirmative Action in Brazil: From the 1990s to the Supreme Court Decision in 2012” 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 802 IAB, Joan Dassin, Jorge Balan, Brittany Jenkins
  • “How Sustainable Development Can Help Solve America’s Crisis” 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Roone Arledge Auditorium, Jeffrey Sachs
  • “The Failing Mafia State” 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Low Memorial Library Faculty Room, William Browder, Ian Hague, Timothy Frye
  • “Cross-wiring Feminism and Terrorism: Rise of the ‘Feminist Threat'” 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Common Room, Heyman Center, Amanda Third
  • “Boundary Conflict and Civil Sphere: How Institutional Crises are Constructed as Social Endangerments” 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 1219 IAB, Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson
  • “The Weight of the Colonial Past on Immigration Policy in France” 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, East Gallery, Buell Hall, Alexis Spire
  • “Apocalypse Now: A Conversation with Karen Thompson Walker” 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Rennert Hall, Kraft Center, Karen Thompson Walker

Wednesday

  • “Urban Design and Regulatory Limitations: The Future of Zoning, Land Use, and its Impact on the Public Domain” 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Roy R. Pachecano
  • “Archive Trouble: Cultural Responses to the Greek Crisis” 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Common Room, Heyman Center, Dimitris Papanikolaou

Thursday

  • “Living Room Witnesses: American Television and the Holocaust” 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, 513 Fayerweather, Jeffrey Shandler
  • “International Horizons for Child Protection Research” 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, 303 CUMC Hammer Health Sciences Center, Julie Taylor
  • “Feminist Lesbian Solidarity in the Western Balkans, A Post-War Political Movement” 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 1219 IAB, Lepa Mladjenovic
  • “International Politics Seminar” 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, 707 IAB, Jason Lyall
  • “Could Peace in Asia Last? Historical Memory, Nationalism and Sino-Japanese Relations” 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm, 1302 IAB, Zheng Wang
  • “State-Supported Technology Transfer in Taiwan Under the KMT, 1949-1978” 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, 918 IAB, J. Megan Greene
  • “Bureaucratic Legitimation and Race-, Sex-, and Age-Discrimination at Work” 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm, 509 Knox, Vincent Roscigno
  • “Earth Institute Fellows Symposium: Meeting the Challenges of  Sustainable Development in a Changing World” 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm, 555 Lerner
  • “SEAS Colloqium in Climate Science” 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm, 214 S.W. Mudd, John Fyfe
  • “Book Launch: Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalization” 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 509 Knox, Christophe Jaffrelot, Laurent Gayer
  • “Empire in Africa I” 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 918 IAB, Charles Piot, Jean Franco
  • “The 2012 Kenneth N. Waltz Lecture in International Relations: Nuclear Brinkmanship and Military Power” 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 1501 IAB, Robert Powell
  • “The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy” 4:10 pm – 6:00 pm, 801 IAB, David Nasaw
  • “Chemistry Colloqium” 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm, 209 Havemeyer, Angelo Cacciuto
  • “Using Oral History to Find New Solutions to Intimate Violence” 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 602 Northwest Corner Building, Alisa del Tufo
  • “The Unfinished: Indian Stone Carvers at Work” 6:15 pm -7:15 pm, 832 Schermerhorn, Vidya Dehejia
  • “The Struggle and the Triumph of Latin Jazz” 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm, 622 Dodge, Bobby Sanabria

Friday

  • “Second Annual Program for Financial Studies Conference: Turning Around Governments, Companies, and Attitudes” 7:30 am – 10:30 am, Roone Arledge Auditorium, Laurie Simon Hodrick, Charles M. Jones, Candace Browning, Jacques Chappuis, Amir Emami, Jeffrey Kaplan
  • “Martian Summer” 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Pupin Rooftop, Andrew Kessler