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.

You’re on the cottagecore side of Tiktok, but isn’t it kind of weird how they know that’s your vibe?

Daily Editor Lillian Rountree manages to attend class and a talk at the same time at Maison Française’s “A Medical Disaster and its Aftermaths: The Quest for Sleeping Sickness Eradication in Colonial Africa.”

On Tuesday night, the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department and the Department of History, in partnership with Columbia University Libraries, hosted a panel discussion with Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Eric Foner, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the topic of reconstruction and why it matters. Events Editor Brigid Cromwell attended.

New Staffer Rania Borgani attended a lecture entitled Ballots and Borders: Election 2020 and What’s at Stake for International Students and Scholars. The lecture, given by Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr, centered around the immigration policies of two presidential candidates and their potential effects on international scholars. 

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.

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.

In University Writing: Readings in Medical Humanities last fall, some sections had the chance to read, discuss, and respond to “Sentimental Medicine,” a thought-provoking essay by Eula Biss. In this October Virtual Narrative Medicine Rounds event, we had the opportunity to hear from Eula Biss herself, this time exploring the pervasive nature of capitalism and […]