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Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
Over the past two decades, local newspapers have endured a significant downturn in readership and witnessed the collapse of their ad-supported business model. However, this narrative only scratches the surface. Private equity firms and hedge funds have purchased publications across the country seeking substantial profits at the expense of decimating newsrooms and undermining the foundations of democracy.
As we navigate through a critical time for journalism and democracy, Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink exposes the heart-wrenching consequences of capitalist greed in an industry looking for relevance and reinvention. This documentary film not only spotlights the battles between Wall Street “vulture capitalists” and those devoted to community well-being, but also underscores the indispensable role of journalism in our democratic system.
The screening of the film will be followed by a conversation with director Rick Goldsmith led by Juan Manuel Benítez, Philip S. Balboni Professor of Local Journalism.
RSVP Required: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stripped-for-parts-american-journalism-on-the-brink-tickets-859042087007?aff=oddtdtcreator
Thursday, March 28, 2024, 6:00 – 8:30 pm
Columbia Journalism School, World Room, 3rd Floor, Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Mindy Myers
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Should Hospitals Pay the Ransom?
Should You Pay the Ransom? Navigating the law and ethics of a ransomware attack, the special case of Health-care institutions.
This CLE program will explore the unique Cyber/Privacy/Data Management, ethical and legal challenges faced by a heath-care institutions in formulating their response to a ransomware attack. We will explore the challenges to good decision-making regarding public communication, dealing with the “THREAT-ACTORS”, protecting patient privacy, and of course paying the ransom, or not! The program will conclude with a simulation of the first discussions an organization’s leader must have when an attack is suspected.
Speakers:
David N. Hoffman, J.D., Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Columbia University
Thomas Hallisey, Director, Health Information Technology, Healthcare Association of New York State
Susan Regan, Former Associate General Counsel of Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSHealth); Lecturer on Law and Bioethics, Bioethics Program, Columbia University
Cordell Schachter, Chief Information Officer (CIO), US Department of Transportation; Former CIO, NYC Department of Transportation
This event is eligible for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits for attorneys licensed in the State of New York.
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TRANSLETTING
Venue
- Columbia University – Dodge Hall
- 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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Public presentation of work from the translation project ‘Transletting’ involving collaborations between students in the Writing Program and Columbia’s Word for Word partner DLL Leipzig (German Literature Institute at the University of Leipzig). Event will feature a reading of excerpts from the joint Transletting projects, followed by a panel discussion, moderated by student Samuel Haecker, on the differences between studying writing in the German academic realm and the anglophone sphere.
Presented by Literary Translation at Columbia.
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Columbia Law School 8th Annual Human Rights Student Paper Symposium
Venue
- Columbia Law School
- 435 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027
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The Annual Columbia Law School Human Rights Student Paper Symposium aims to foster the development of student scholarship and stimulate debate on human rights challenges and opportunities.
This year we will hold our Eighth Annual Human Rights Student Paper Symposium.
The Symposium is co-organized and presented by the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute, Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School Human Rights Association, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. The student authors of papers selected for the Symposium are invited to present their work to a panel of faculty, practitioners, and students for feedback and commentary. Feedback is designed to assist students to further develop their paper for publication. Following student presentations, the floor opens to the audience for continued collaborative discussion.
Join us for a day featuring papers that critically engage with human rights issues and dicussions on their challenges with human rights scholars and practitioners.
When: Friday, March 29, 2024 | 8:30am – 1:00pm
Where: Jerome Greene Hall | Rooms: Case Lounge and 602
Please join us for this day of academic discussion by registering below.
Breakfast and Lunch will be served.
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Child or Soldier? Adolescents and Armed Conflict
A nuanced discussion of current issues surrounding children and adolescents associated with armed conflict.
Grave violations against children in armed conflict, including the recruitment and use of children by armed forces and groups, continue to be a major protection concern in numerous countries in Africa, the Middle East, East and South Asia, and Latin America. Over the last 20+ years, the international landscape has shifted in the context of securitization and counterterrorism measures, effectively shrinking the humanitarian and protection space for children and adolescents impacted by armed conflict.
Hosted by the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism at Columbia University’s Journalism School and co-organized with the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the Care and Protection of Children (CPC) Learning Network, this in-person panel conversation seeks to unpack how common beliefs, biases, and perceptions of children and adolescents in conflict-affected regions are shaping the narrative – and the international humanitarian and development community’s response and programming for certain groups of children. Panelists will contextualize current narratives through a combination of journalistic, humanitarian, programming, legal, and geopolitical perspectives.
Panelists:
- Dr. Ezequiel Heffes, Director, Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict
- Faith K. Nimineh, Senior Advisor, Humanitarian Affairs, ChildFund Alliance
- Juan D. Arredondo, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Moderator:
Azmat Khan, Patti Cadby Birch Assistant Professor of Journalism and Director of the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Introductory Remarks:
Monette Zard, Allan Rosenfield Associate Professor of Forced Migration and Health and the Director of the Forced Migration and Health Program in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Monday, April 1, 12:30pm-2pm, World Room, 3rd Floor
Columbia Journalism School, World Room, Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Boxed lunch will be provided for attendees.
Cover Image: Underaged Members of the Che Guevara Luis and Angel pose for a picture at a clandestine ELN (Ejercito de Liberación Nacional) camp in the jungle of Colombia’s Pacific coast. Photo Credit: Juan Arredondo.
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David Pozen & Maia Szalavitz on The Constitution of the War on Drugs
Please join the Center for Constitutional Governance for a discussion with Professor David Pozen, author of The Constitution of the War on Drugs, and leading neuroscience journalist Maia Szalavitz.
The U.S. government’s decades-long “war on drugs” is increasingly recognized as a moral travesty as well as a policy failure. The criminalization of substances such as marijuana and magic mushrooms offends core tenets of liberalism, from the right to self-rule to protection of privacy to freedom of religion. It contributes to mass incarceration and racial subordination. And it costs billions of dollars per year–all without advancing public health. Yet, in hundreds upon hundreds of cases, courts have allowed the war to proceed virtually unchecked. How could a set of policies so draconian, destructive, and discriminatory escape constitutional curtailment? In The Constitution of the War on Drugs, David Pozen provides an authoritative, critical constitutional history of the drug war, casting new light on both drug prohibition and U.S. constitutional development.
Rather than restrain the drug war, the Constitution helped to legitimate and entrench it. Pozen shows how a profoundly illiberal and paternalistic policy regime was assimilated into, and came to shape, an ostensibly liberal and pluralistic constitutional order. Placing the U.S. jurisprudence in comparative context, The Constitution of the War on Drugs offers a comprehensive review of drug-rights decisions along with a roadmap to constitutional reform options available today.
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Pozen teaches and writes about constitutional law, information law, and nonprofit law, among other topics.
Maia Szalavitz is a neuroscience journalist who covers drugs, addiction, and public policy. She is the author of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction, and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Lunch will be provided for registered guests.
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Disability Ethics, Intersectionality & AI/ML Bias Speaker Series
Venue
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- 622 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032
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In this talk, I will present two empirical studies conducted in partnership with the disability community. Both studies present an in depth needs assessment to be used as a foundation for creating informatics tools responsive to the disability community’s needs. In the context of these studies, we have employed a range of methods including interviews, focus groups, task analysis, participatory design sessions, and usability testing. In the first study, supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, we engaged with adults living with physical, cognitive, sensory, and mental health related disabilities to understand how best to design informatics tools supporting communication of health information among disabled adults and members of their social networks. In the second study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, we engaged with parents of children with medical complexity to understand the need for informatics tools that support communication and coordination with the child’s caregiving network. At the conclusion of this talk, I will present a framework which synthesizes lessons learned about engaging in informatics research with the disability community across these and other empirical studies conducted by our team.
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Artivism: The Rise of Purposeful Marketing, with John Rea
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Brands are now taking purposeful positions, from what they sell to what they stand for. This presentation will delve into the evolution of purpose-led advertising and discover how purpose-driven brands are leading the charge and making a difference beyond profits.
From shampoo to shoes, brands are selling more than just their products – they’re also marketing important causes and their commitment to them. Let’s delve into the evolution of purpose-led advertising and discover how purpose-driven brands are leading the charge and making a difference beyond profits.
Attendees will learn about the emerging marketing and advertising trends driving societal change and how brands are aiming to create a healthier and more compassionate planet. The discussion will also showcase how digital and social media channels can act as accelerators for social change, bringing ideas and causes to the forefront of society and expanding their reach.
Bio
John Rea’s introduction to the business of communication arts combined his love for design and music: as an art director at Rolling Stone Magazine working with then staff photographer Annie Leibovitz. After several years as a designer, he began an advertising career working on some of the world’s best-known brands: Coca-Cola, Intel, Volvo, Coppertone and Claritin.
As Executive Creative Director of Digital Marketing, he has combined his talents in design and multi-channel thinking to help build the digital and integration division at Havas Tonic, one of the largest fully integrated consumer health and wellness agencies in North America. He is not simply a believer in creative integration; he teaches a course about it, as well as a course in Purposeful Marketing, at The School of Visual Arts in NYC. Currently on the faculty, he lectures there regularly, and he continues to be actively involved in connecting students with internship programs, fellowships and job positions.
John Rea’s Links and Resources:
John Rea’s Coney Island Story:
Adobe Link
The Giving Assistant Blog
FastCompany
Youtube
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Building the Bridge to Prevention: Using Epidemiology to Inform an Effective Response to Overdose and Gun Violence
Venue
- Roy And Diana Vagelos Education Center
- 104 Haven Ave., New York, NY 10032
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Building the Bridge to Prevention: Using Epidemiology to Inform an Effective Response to Overdose and Gun Violence
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
11:00am-12:00pm
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In-person location:
Rooms 1302/1303
VEC Building, 104 Haven Ave.
Presenter:
Magdalena Cerdá, DrPH MPH
Professor, Division of Epidemiology
Director, NYU Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy
Department of Population Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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Impact of AI on Cybersecurity
Panel: 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Networking and light refreshments: 5:00 – 6:00 PM
This event will be simulcast. If joining us virtually, an access link will be provided 24 hours in advance.
The impact of AI on human society is profound and multifaceted, and it depends on how it is developed, regulated, and integrated into various sectors. Careful consideration of ethical, legal, and social implications is crucial to ensure that AI benefits society while minimizing potential negative consequences. One of the key implications of AI is the potential for its misuse by cybercriminals to develop sophisticated cyberattacks that most public and private companies, especially government agencies, are not fully prepared to fend off.
To combat the misuse of AI for criminal activities, law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity experts are continually working to develop and implement countermeasures. This includes using AI and machine learning for threat detection and prevention and developing regulations and ethical guidelines for AI usage. However, staying one step ahead of AI-driven criminal activities remains an ongoing challenge in the evolving landscape of cybersecurity and criminal behavior.
Already, the US and EU have proposed, at the urging of the AI industry, frameworks for AI guardrails, while world leaders have called for a global approach to AI regulation.
Moderator:
- Shahryar Shaghaghi, Professor of Professional Practice, Enterprise Risk Management; Technology, Risk Management and Cybersecurity Executive
Panelists:
- Soheil Gityforoze, Doctoral Candidate in AI & Machine Learning, The George Washington University – School of Engineering & Applied Science
- Justin Greis, Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Kambiz Mofrad, Chief Information Security Officer, SVAM International
- Demond Waters, Chief Information Security Officer, NYC Department of Education
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April Narrative Medicine Rounds with Lucy Sante
“I Heard Her Call My Name,” a conversation with Lucy Sante moderated by Jae Sevelius.
For our April Rounds we are thrilled to welcome Lucy Sante, Belgian-American writer and critic and author of the recently published I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition, a memoir of a life spent pursuing a dream of artistic truth while evading the truth of her own gender identity, until, with the help of a face-altering photo app, at the age of 67 she turned to face who she really was. Sante’s memoir braids together two threads of personal narrative: the arc of her life, and her recent step-by-step transition to a place of inner and outer alignment. Sante brings a loving irony to her account of her unsteady first steps; there was much she found she still needed to learn about being a woman after some sixty years cloaked in a man’s identity, in a man’s world. A marvel of grace and empathy, I Heard Her Call My Name parses with great sensitivity many issues that touch our lives deeply, of gender identity and far beyond.
Lucy Sante will be in conversation with Jae Sevelius, Ph.D. (they/them), a Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University, a Clinical Psychologist, and a Research Scientist at New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Sevelius’ community-engaged research focuses on developing and evaluating trauma-informed, gender-affirming, and peer-facilitated interventions to improve mental health and other health outcomes among transgender and gender expansive people in the United States and Brazil. Dr. Sevelius also leads research on psychedelic-assisted therapy for identity-based trauma.
Narrative Medicine Rounds are monthly rounds held on the first Wednesday of the month during the academic year, hosted by the Division of Narrative Medicine in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Rounds are supported by live captioning. If you have any other accessibility needs or concerns, please contact the Office of Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu at least 10 days in advance of the event. We do our best to arrange accommodations received after this deadline but cannot guarantee them. A recording of our Virtual Narrative Medicine rounds is available following the live session on the Narrative Medicine YouTube channel, and you can watch other recent Rounds events there.
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Justice Forum: Music of the Oppressed
Venue
- Columbia University – Casa Hispanica
- 612 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027
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Music of the Oppressed: Tradition, Un-tradition, and the Unschooling of Music.
Helga Davis and Alkinoos Ioannidis in Conversation
Helga Davis and Alkinoos Ioannidis have independently of each other engaged with the question of music as political engagement from the vantage point of the creator and the performer, especially with what could be called, a la Paulo Freire, “music of the oppressed.” They have been articulating this question in the music that they create and perform, especially from within the context of what constitutes “tradition” in musical education and what the role of the Classics can be in the production of modern music. As teachers, they have taken these questions to their students actively facing the challenges of what it takes to un-school children in music and school them again in a music project that is emancipatory (or e-womancipatory, e-humancipatory) utilizing the long tradition of humanity (mythology, in the case of Helga Davis, or “traditional” music, as Alkinoos Ioannidis does). They are both engaged in reorienting music for children as a pedagogical project, teaching them what music can do for humanity.
Moderated by Stathis Gourgouris, this dialogue will cover what can be possible for music on the stitches, borders, and folds of its being.
This is a joint event with Leros Humanism Seminars (LHS/ΣΛ), a project of Columbia Global Centers, Athens.
Speakers
Helga Davis, a Harlem native, is a multifaceted, critically acclaimed artist, curator, and cultural convener widely respected for her expansive creative practices. She is currently an inaugural advisor to Brown University Arts Institute, working on curatorial and programming initiatives, and a Teaching Artist/Mentor for The Park Avenue Armory Youth Corps. In Spring 2023, she was commissioned by the National Sawdust/Onassis Foundation to write a work based on C.P. Cavafy’s poetry for a children’s choir and orchestra, featuring herself as soloist and conductor. Between 2019 and 2022, she was a Mellon Foundation-funded Creative Futures Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill. Her eponymously named New York Public Radio podcast, Helga, now in its sixth season, unfolds as a long-form conversation engaging artists across disciplines to explore current cultural issues with rare candor. She is the winner of the 2019 Greenfield Prize in composition and a 2019 Alpert Award finalist. Her new artistic venture is the study and application of CONDUCTION, a method of spontaneous composition developed by Lawrence Douglas “Butch” Morris. Helga was a principal performer in the 25th anniversary revival of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’s Einstein on The Beach; in Robert Wilson and Berniece Johnson Reagon’s The Temptation of St. Anthony; Toshi Reagon’s Parable of the Sower; and in Courtney Bryan’s Yet Unheard, among many others. As a curator, she developed performances at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and recently completed a three-year position as the Visiting Curator for the Performing Arts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She has collaborated with Nick Cave, Claudia Rankine, David Byrne, Bill T. Jones, Solange, Glenn Ligon, and many others. She serves on the Board of the Jerome Foundation.
Alkinoos Ioannidis was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. He studied classical guitar at the European Conservatory. In 1989, he moved to Athens, Greece, where he spent the next three years studying theatre at the National Theatre Drama School and philosophy at Athens University. In 1993, he signed to Universal Music. As a singer-songwriter, he has released eleven solo albums, most of which have gone gold or platinum. As a guest singer, he has performed on more than 40 albums with various artists. He has also written music for dance and theater, while his symphonic work is often performed by orchestras in Greece and abroad. His influences range from traditional Cypriot music, Greek composers of the last decades, Byzantine, Classical, and Rock. His classical work was performed at the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal, by the Camerata Europaea and Ernst Senf Chor, and at the Athens Concert Hall, with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. His work was been the opening concert of the “White Nights” Festival of Petrozavodsk, Russia, with the Karelia Philharmonic Orchestra, presented by The Hermitage Symphony Orchestra in St. Petersburg’s Philarmonia, and in Germany by Thuringer Symphoniker. He is also the flutist, percussionist, and singer of the avant-garde group FMS (Friends of Miltos Sahtouris). Alkinoos Ioannidis has worked as an actor, playing leading roles in ancient drama at the Epidaurus Theater in Greece, and more recently, has been working with youth musicians in Greece (Volos and Leros).
Moderator
Stathis Gourgouris is a poet, essayist, translator, sound artist, and professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He writes opinion pieces on contemporary politics and culture in newspapers and internet media in both Greek and English. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022, a former president of the Modern Greek Studies Association, and a former director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia (2009-2015). He is a member of the Sublamental Artists Collective, which releases his music and sound art compositions under the name of Count G.
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- African American and African Diaspora Studies
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
- Department of Classics
- Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures
- Department of Music
- Tamer Center for Social Enterprise