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

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.

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.”

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. 

This Bwogger attended an event centered around the effects of our warming climate, specifically as they relate to the wildfires ravaging the west coast.

On Tuesday, September 15, Columbia Psychiatry hosted a panel titled “Unequal Care: Mental Health and Black Americans,” the first of a three-panel series in partnership with the School of Journalism titled “Justice and Mental Health: A Country on Fire.” 

In the search for a miracle cure deriving from plants, News Editor Lauren Kahme and Monday Daily Editor Lillian Rountree attend a discussion with botanical specialists and give their thoughts below.

On Tuesday night, one Bwogger attended an event celebrating the work of Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer and learned more about the influence of school photography on the study of assimilation and resistance. 

Editor’s Note: This post contains discussions of sexual assault.

This Thursday, the Columbia Debate Society hosted a public debate with the Rikers Debate Project – a program teaching competitive debate skills to students held in Rikers Island jail – in Lerner 555. CDS members and Rikers Debate Project alumni teamed up along with a commentary from a panel of professors. Staff writer Lara Yener […]

Former New York Times Op-Ed editor Trish Hall spoke on campus Wednesday evening about the elements of a great op-ed at an open class session hosted by Telecommunications, Media, and Communications professor Claudia Dreifus.

Bwogger Eliza Staples attended A French Family: from the Caribbean to Dunkirk by way of Algeria – A Talk by Audrey Celestine on Tuesday night at the Maison Française.

Bwogger Joya Kumar attended “The Voices of the Victims: The Rohingyas and Their ‘Subhuman’ Life,” a talk by Professor Nasir Uddin about the victims of the Rohingya genocide.

This Wednesday, I had the honor of going to a talk by Dael Orlandersmith, an award winning African American playwright, hosted at the Lenfest Center for the Arts.  Orlandersmith was raised in East Harlem for most of her young life, and still lives in the city to this day. She began her talk with a […]

Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, came to the Lenfest Center to deliver a talk on her recent exhibition at the Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature, and discussed it with Amale Andraos, Dean of the Columbia School of Architecture. Tl;dr, a big chunk of the exposition is coming to MoMA in 2020 […]