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. 

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.

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.

This week, events take a look into the past and out to the future. Here at Bwog, we do our best to bring your attention to important guest lecturers and special events on campus. If you have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

On Wednesday, January 19, Deputy Events Editor Ava Slocum attended the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender’s discussion of The Inheritance, the 2021 graphic novel memoir by Professor Elizabeth Povinelli.

Welcome back to school, dear readers! 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 coverage or have a correction, let us know in the comments or email events@bwog.com.

On December 2, Illustrator Ava Morouse attended an online panel titled “HIV & COVID-19: When Pandemics Collide.” Presented by the ICAP Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, the panel was a part of Mailman’s Centennial Distinguished Speakers Series and honored both Mailman’s centennial as well as World AIDS Day.

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 their first in-person production since early 2020, the Columbia University Players can finally welcome an audience back for The Dead, a stage adaptation of James Joyce’s short story. Staff Writer Ava Slocum went to the Lerner Black Box Theater for the Friday performance of the show, directed by Celia Krefter (CC ’22).

From same-day delivery access to internet availability, algorithms built with problematic data are influencing our daily lives and exacerbating structural racism and inequality. The Undesign the Redline @ Barnard Symposium aimed to shed light on a serious and often-overlooked issue: digital redlining.

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.

Staff Writer Ava Slocum’s Lit Hum professor recommended that her class attend Wednesday evening’s talk, “Classical Allusions in Contemporary African-American Poetry.” And it was so interesting! Dr. Chiyuma Elliott gave her presentation over Zoom, in a guest lecture coordinated by the Morningside Institute.

This past Tuesday, Staff Writer Ava Slocum finally got to go see one of the film screenings for the Columbia Maison Française’s series Mauvais Genres: French Cinema Takes On Gender. She attended the screening and Q&A for Ladies of the Wood (2021), directed by Claus Drexel, soon to have its theatrical release in France.

Irish historian Christine Kinealy discussed the role of Black women—and Irish independence—in the abolitionist movement in a lecture hosted by NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House.

Last Wednesday, October 27, Staff Writer Ava Slocum attended the Zoom discussion “On Translating Dante: A Conversation with Mary Jo Bang ’98,” presented through the Columbia University School of the Arts.