Professor Robert G. O’Meally shares what makes Black boxer, Jack Johnson, the ultimate Harlem Renaissance man by employing various mediums and contextualizing his influence through the lens of various prominent Black figures.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres spoke yesterday about addressing climate change, stressing the need to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. Staff writer Grace Fitzgerald-Diaz attended the event, which like other events that are part of the World Leader’s Forum was virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Dr. Robyn Gershon, an epidemiologist and an expert on disaster preparation in the workplace, addressed students in a lecture hosted by CU Journal of Global Health. 

Professor Mitja Velikonja discusses his recent book which centers around the presence of political graffiti in East Central Europe.

Staff writer Grace Fitzgerald-Diaz attended the second lecture in the Race, Health, and Social Inequity series. 

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On Wednesday, Columbia School of the Arts hosted their second online Nonfiction Dialogue of the semester. Writing Program Chair Lis Harris talked with author Amitava Kumar about the immigrant experience, seeking material for nonfiction, and more.

On Monday afternoon, Senior Staff Writer Charlotte Slovin and Staff Writer Julia Tolda attended a Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience event titled How Music Moves Us: Exploring the Connection Between Music and Emotions. The event focused on the ways music moves humans through the lens of neuroscience, movie-scoring, and machine learning.

On Thursday night, Columbia Libraries hosted four cartoonists for America: WTF?: Comics in a Time of Crisis, a discussion of the Trump administration, identity, and the role of comics.  Karen Green, the Curator for Comics and Cartoons, opened the evening with thanks, to Kevin Schlottman and Emily Saso of the Rare Book Library for organizing […]

New staffer Rania attended From the Local to the Global: Business, Debt, Coronavirus, a panel on COVID-19, and the continuous cycle of debt. The panel featured five speakers in different areas of expertise.

On Monday, the Columbia University Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience hosted an event exploring how an interdisciplinary approach incorporating neuroscience and psychology can inform ways to rethink the justice system to create better outcomes for all parties involved. When we think of seminars, we often think of a classroom setting and the exchange of […]

On Monday evening, four days after her already-iconic underwear brand celebrated its first birthday, Parade founder and CC dropout Cami Téllez spoke with the Columbia Marketing Club about the worst advice she’s ever received, the death of boring brands, and how she’s “rewriting the American underwear story.” 

Staff Writer Julia Tolda learns about translating plays and decides to become a translator at the International Play Reading Festival.

On Wednesday night, the Barnard Center for Research on Women presented “Transformative Justice in the Era of #DefundPolice: Lessons from the Past, Strategizing for the Future,” featuring transformative justice activists Mimi Kim and Shira Hassan.