Events Galore COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog

Events Galore COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog Below is some evidence of the choices that SIPA students must sometimes make when it comes to how to spend their time.   There always seems to be something going on at SIPA or on our campus that would be interesting to attend. ____________________ Monday, November 29, 2010 Gender-Based Violence in the Congo 6:30 pm 8:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 Gender Policy Panel Discussion with Dr. Les Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Paula Donovan, Co-Founder of AIDS-Free World; Dr. Susan Bartels, Co-Head of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; and Lisa Jackson, Writer and Director of the film The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo. Debate: Nuclear Energy and Climate Change 7:00 pm 9:00 pm Columbia Law School, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 106 Earth Institute Debate with Robert Alvarez, Senior Scholar, Institute for Policy Studies, former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy; Peter Bradford, Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law School, former Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, former Chair, New York and Maine utility regulatory commissions; Barton Cowan, Visiting Professor, West Virginia University College of Law, of counsel, Eckert Seamans Cherin Mellott, LLC; Susan Eisenhower, Member, Blue Ribbon Commission for Americas Nuclear Future, Chair Emeritus, Eisenhower Institute; Michael Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice, Director, Columbia Center for Climate Change Law Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Kazakhstans Refugee Crisis: Violence, Hunger and the Transformation of Broader Central Asia, 1930-1933 12:00 am 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1219 Harriman Institute Lecture with Sarah Cameron , Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University Japan Circa 1959 The High-Growth Economy and the Social Effects of Television 12:00 pm 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 918 Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture with Yoshikuni Igarashi, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Kazakhstans Refugee Crisis: Violence, Hunger and the Transformation of Broader Central Asia, 1930-1933 12:00 pm 1:30 pm International Affairs Building Harriman Institute Lecture with Sarah Cameron, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale DevInfo Training 1:00 pm 2:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 407 New Media Task Force Workshop with Christina J. Irene, a representative from the joint UNICEF/DevInfo programme, along with the Fall 2010 DevInfo Interns, will present an introduction to the DevInfo data management system. Brown Bag with Amb. Paul R. Seger, Permanent Repepresentative of Switzerland to the UN 1:00 pm 2:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 802 International Organization Specialization Brown Bag Lecture with Ambassador Paul R. Seger, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations How Not to Help 6:30 pm 8:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 707 Institute for the Study of Human Rights Discussion with Kate Cronin-Furman and Amanda Taub from Wronging Rights. Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Lake Baikal, Siberia: Will Industrial Development Destroy the Worlds Largest, Cleanest Lake? 12:00 pm 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1219 Harriman Institute Lecture Czech Foreign Policy After the Fall of Communism 12:00 pm 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1512 Harriman Institute Lecture with Jiri Paroubek Perspectives on Political and Economic Dynamism in Northeast Asia- Challenges of China and North Korea 12:00 pm 1:30 pm Columbia Univerity Morningside Campus International Affairs Building, Room 918 Center for Korean Research Lecture with Ambassador Young-Mok Kim,Consul General of Republic of Korea to New York. No registration is required. Leaders in Global Energy: Dr. Fatih Birol: Critical Factors Shaping the Future Global Energy Landscape 2:00 pm 3:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 School of International and Public Affairs and Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy Lecture with Dr. Fatih Birol, Chief Economist, International Energy Agency Register Tolerance Without Liberalism: Conflict and Coexistence in Twentieth-Century Indonesia 4:00 pm 6:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 801 Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion Lecture with CDTR Visiting Fellow, Jeremy Menchik My Perestroika 8:00 pm 10:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 417 Harriman Institute Film Screening and Discussion with Robin Hessman. To reserve tickets in advance please follow the link: www.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/8563295. Tickets will also be available at the box office in the Lerner Hall Lobby the day of the show. Concert Series: Italian Harpsichord Music with Andrew Appel 8:00 pm 9:30 pm The Italian Academy at Columbia, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University Concert Series with harpsichordist Andrew Appel, violinist Krista Bennion Feeney, and cellist Loretta O’Sullivan, performing the music of Boccherini, Cimarosa, and Clementi Thursday, December 2, 2010 A Conversation with Adolfo Carrion, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development 12:00 pm- 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 Urban and Social Policy Concentration Conversation with Adolfo Carrion, Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Register Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945 12:00 pm 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1219 East Central European Center Discussion with Professor Tibor Frank, Eötvös Loránd University, Columbia University, regarding the impulses influencing a uniquely gifted generation of mostly Jewish Hungarian emigrants. Biological Measures of the Standard of Living North and South of the Border 4:15 pm 6:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 802 Institute of Latin American Studies Lecture: with Prof. Richard Steckel, Distinguished University Professor of Economics, Anthropology and History at Ohio State University. When China Met Africa and The Colony 6:00 pm 8:00 pm Studio X 180 Varick Street New York, NY 10014 Committee on Global Thought Film screening / Discussion including two films that examine Chinese investment in Africa Register Stories of Stigma, Stories of Strength: Ethnographic Oral History with Sanitation Workers in New York City 6:00 pm 8:00 pm Schermerhorn, Room 754 Oral History Master of Arts Program Lecture with Robin Nagle. She will present her ethnographic work for her forthcoming book Picking Up. QMSS Seminar: Sexual Networks and HIV Transmission in a High-Prevalence Setting: Evidence from a Sociocentric Study 6:30 pm 8:30 pm Hamilton Hall, Room 503 Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Seminar with Stephane Helleringer, Mailman School of Public Health Friday, December 3, 2010 Afghanistan: Prospects for Peace 9:00 am 5:30 pm Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies Sixth Annual Arnold A. Saltzman Forum Register From a Raindrop to a Stream Pebble to a Delta: Recent Research on Predictive Modeling 3:00 pm 4:00 pm Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 833 Earth Institute Lecture with Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Director of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics, University of Minnesota Register Asia in Africa: New Connections in Historical Perspective 3:00 pm 5:00 pm Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center Committee on Global Thought Discussion Panel with Howard French, Deborah Brautigam, Abdoulie Janneh, and Wang Hongyi Register Saturday, December 4, 2010 The International Criminal Court in Motion An Analysis of its Seven Years of Activities and Perspectives with Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court 4:00 pm 5:30 pm International Affairs Building Room 1501 Center for International Conflict Resolution Lecture with Dr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The talk will be followed by a discussion moderated by Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno, Director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution. Register Sunday, December 5, 2010 Toxica Simulation 9:30 am 6:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 CRWG and LASA Simulation allowing participants to engage in a negotiation, observed by negotiation practitioners. Space is limited, RSVP required. Please email Toxica2010@gmail.com. UPCOMING EVENTS Monday, December 6, 2010 From Three-Legged to Two-Legged Races The Emergence of Womens Competitive Sports in Japan (1910s-20s) 12:00 pm 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 918 Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture with Robin Kietlinski, Adjunct Assistant Professor of History, Baruch College; Visiting Researcher, Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Monday, December 6 â€" Distinguished Lecturer Series Southern Buddhism: Tracing Later Buddhist Art in South India 4:00 pm 5:30 pm Knox Hall, Room 208 Southern Asian Institute Distinguished Lecturer Series with John Guy, Metropolitan Museum of Art Innovating for Development: A Thought Leadership Forum from the Journal of International Affairs 6:30 pm 8:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1501 School of International and Public Affairs Forum moderated by Steven Cohen, Executive Director, Earth Institute, about how innovation is driving the agenda for sustainable development, climate change, natural resource use and energy policy. Register Thursday, December 9, 2010 U.S. Rapprochement with Indonesia From Problem State to Partner 12:00 pm 1:30 pm International Affairs Building, Room 918 Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture with Ann Marie Murphy, Associate Professor, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; Adjunct Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Thursday, December 9, 2010 Transforming Humiliation and Violent Conflict Workshop 5:00 pm 8:00 pm Columbia University, Teachers College Campus, 525 West 120th Street, Grace Dodge Hall, Room 179 Earth Institute Lecture Thursday, December 9, 2010 QMSS Seminar: Political Conditions for Diffusion? Anti-Corporate Movements and the Spread of Cooperatives in America Capitalism 6:30 pm 8:30 pm Hamilton Hall, Room 503 Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Lecture with Marc Schneiberg, Queens College Department of Sociology Monday, December 13, 2010 Post-Cancun Debriefing 12:00 pm 2:00 pm International Affairs Building, Room 1512 The Columbia-Paris Alliance Program and the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society Seminar on the climate change negotiations in Cancun, with Scott Barett, Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics and Laurence Tubiana, Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia From Wednesday, January 12, 2011 through Friday, January 14, 2011 SIPA Students Only: 35th Annual Washington, DC Career Conference All Day Event Washington, DC Office of Career Services, School of International and Public Affairs 35th Annual Washington, DC Career Conference, a three-day event consisting of 20 panels, employer site visits, networking reception and a day of informational interviews. For further information regarding this event, please contact Joe Musso at sipa.dc.conference@columbia.edu. Register