At the World Leaders Forum on Wednesday, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organization addressed global vaccine inequality, outlined areas for improvement, and asserted that health is a human right that is worth the cost.

On Wednesday night, Columbia Global Centers hosted a virtual panel as the first in a series of Amerfrican Dialogue and the fourth in a series of Brazil-Peru meetings on Black women, decoloniality, and activism in Latin America. Bwog Staffer Obutor Ogonor covers the event.

On Monday, the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life hosted the first event in what will be a multi-year series exploring the theme of religion and climate change. 

The Khalidiyya Library, located in Palestine, is a newly digitized source for historic papers, emphasizing the importance of manuscripts.  

So much to choose from!

Daily Editor Panu and Staff Writer Linus braved the maze that is getting into Italian House to visit an event on lying and the law.

President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani spoke on Friday at the World Leaders Forum.

Scientists from CIESIN talk about the climate crisis in a Climate Week Event.

Editors Julia Tolda and Solomia Dzhaman attended the presentation of Prof. Yuri Shevchuk’s Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary.

This past Tuesday, Staff Writer Ava Slocum attended Columbia’s African American and African Diaspora Studies Department’s discussion of Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature by Dr. Farah Griffin.

In the midst of New York Climate Week, a group of faculty and students from Columbia, Yale, and Tsinghua universities met online to consider “The Role of Universities in Solving Our Climate Crisis.” New Bwogger Mason Cannon reports.

Staff Writer Sofia Trujillo gets to know the latest facts and stats about the current challenges in Latin American politics.

Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you notice any events excluded from our calendar or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment contributed to a seminar titled “Fixing The Business of Food: Private Sector Alignment with the SDGs and Accountability to Achieve Food Systems Transformation.” Guest Writer Linus Glenhaber covered Thursday’s 8 am event.

On September 16th, Dr. Waverly Duck gave a lecture on the sociology of tacit racism as part of an ongoing lecture series at the Center for Research on People of Color.