In 2021, Anna Frajlich’s Polish-language poetry collection Imię Ojca/Im’ia Bat’ka (The Name of the Father) received its first translation into Ukrainian. On Wednesday, February 16, Deputy Events Editor Ava Slocum attended the Harriman Institute’s book talk and poetry reading for the new edition, translated last year by Vasyl Makhno.

Last Thursday, seven Columbia departments, committees, and institutes came together to facilitate a reading, conversation, and Q&A with renowned speculative fiction author N.K. Jemisin and Jayna Brown, a Pratt professor whose work pertains to Black expressive cultures and Black utopias.

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The regional study of Stalin’s legacy—a third perspective from the millennial generation.

Deputy Arts Editor Grace Novarr attended a conversation between acclaimed novelists Tóibín and Hamilton, who discussed Hamilton’s recently published novel, The Pages.

Staff Writer Kate Mekechuk attended the Department of Anthropology’s Boas Talk by Dr. Myles Lennon who discussed “Affective Energy: The ‘Equicratic’ Politics of Solar Technology From Wall Street to West Harlem.”

Senior Staff Writer Henry Golub talks with student director Rishi Chhapolia (CC ’22) about his film Faust’s Facade, streaming on YouTube and Vimeo.

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On Friday, Staff Writers Charlie Bonkowsky and Simon Panfilio attended the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies’ expert panel, Russia and Ukraine: What Does Putin Want?

Staff Writer Gigi Silla covers a virtual event hosted Wednesday by Columbia University’s Maison Française

Staff Writer Sofia Matson attended the Heyman Center for the Humanities’s discussion of Roosevelt Montás work. In his newly published Rescuing Socrates, Roosevelt Montás writes on the transformative power of the so-called “Great Books” and defends their place in modern day higher education. 

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David Freedberg’s Iconoclasm, published in 2021, is the result of five decades of foundational study on the topic. On Friday, January 28, Deputy Events Editor Ava Slocum attended the Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities’s discussion of Freedberg’s newest work.

In the fourth installment of the Lewis-Ezekoye Distinguished Lecture in Africana Studies, physics and women’s studies professor Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein spoke about access to cosmological studies and the importance of Black feminist analysis in science.

On Wednesday, Staff Writer Charles Bonkowsky attended Angelo Caglioti’s lecture, Science and Fascism, or Fascist Science? Meteorology, Empire, and anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy through Columbia’s Center for Science and Society.