On Wednesday, Staff Writer Charlie Bonkowsky attended “Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond,” a book talk and conversation between several of the professors who contributed articles or edited the new volume.

This past Wednesday, Staff Writer Ava Slocum attended an online reading of Asiimwe Deborah Kawe’s play Appointment with gOD, presented as part of the 2021 Columbia University School of the Arts International Play Reading Festival through the Lenfest Center for the Arts.

Graduate School of Journalism Director Jane Eisner and the Museum of Jewish Heritage interviewed author and journalist Met Laytner about his new book.

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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.