The LeRoy Neiman Gallery presents an immersive exhibition centered on the evolving nature of artistic creation by School of the Arts graduate Alejandro Contreras ’22 that highlights the energy and unpredictability of his process. Filled with in-progress works, at various stages, the overflowing gallery will become an extension of his studio to reflect the…

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Hybrid Event
Taiwan Legal: What Does ROC Law Say about Taiwan?
Thursday, April 3, 2025 | 12:30 – 2:00 PM (ET)
Furman Hall Room 326 and Zoom (245 Sullivan St, New York, NY 10012)

Featuring: Yu-Jie Chen, Assistant Research Professor, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica; Non-resident Affiliated Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute, NYU School of Law

Co-sponsored by the U.S.-Asia Law Institute (USALI) of New York University School of Law

About the event:

Taiwan’s status as a state is often challenged not because it fails to meet the criteria for statehood, but because of its ambiguous legal relationship with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). We continue our “Taiwan Legal” speaker series by asking how Taiwan, functioning as the Republic of China (ROC), defines its relationship with the PRC in legal terms. Yu-Jie Chen, an assistant research professor at the Institutum Iurisprudentiae of Academia Sinica, will explain what the ROC Constitution says and how Taiwan engages with and distinguishes itself from the PRC.

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Join CGT Member Manan Ahmed in a conversation about his new book, Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore, joined by fellow CGT member Carol Gluck.

In Disrupted City, Manan Ahmed, Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, brings to life a diverse and vibrant world by walking the city again and again over the course of many years. Along the way he joins Sufi study circles and architects doing restoration in the medieval parts of Lahore and speaks with a broad range of storytellers and historians.

Dan O’Flaherty, Professor of Economics at UC Davis, will host a two-part mini course series on the topic of “Local Projection Methods for Applied Economics.” Please see the detailed information below for further course information and to RSVP.

Mini Course Series, Part 2

Date: Thursday April 3, 2025

Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Location: IAB 1102

The second session will focus on applications to panel data, with discussions of inference, and difference-in-differences methods.

Please note that an RSVP is required to attend this event. Please click here to RSVP.

Join us in a conversation with Dr. Jeremiah Mercurio, Head of History & Humanities in the Columbia University Libraries, and Dr. Daniel Gabelman, Head of English at Kings’ Ely (Cambridgeshire, England), in discussing their new book The Form and Theory of Literary Doodling. This literary study “investigates the phenomenon of literary doodling―the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity… and aims to legitimise doodles as worthy of serious critical attention, demonstrating how they trouble the meaning of texts, introduce semantic flexibility into literary works and their reception, and rejuvenate the joy of readerly discovery.” This lively event will be held in the Burke Library Reading Room and is sure to inspire novices and book culture enthusiasts alike. Registration required by 4/2 at 11:59pm at the link below.

5:30-6:30pm Talk and Q&A

6:30-7pm Reception & Refreshments

Accessibility note: the Reading Room is on the library’s 3rd floor and our elevator is not working. There is another elevator for use if needed but it requires a key to a door that is normally kept locked. Please email burke@library.columbia.edu in advance if you require elevator use to attend this event, thanks

The NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia & Weill Cornell 2025 Breast Cancer Management CME will review state of the art practices in breast cancer screening, highlighting the use of MRI and EUS.  Other topics will include local therapies and the latest advances in systemic therapies as well as a review of the SOUND and INSEMA trials.  The format will consist of lectures, panel discussion, a mock tumor board, where our internationally recognized faculty will present and review complex cases.

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Columbia University.  Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians

Amedco LLC designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits for physicians.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses

Amedco LLC designates this activity for a maximum of 4.00 ANCC contact hours.

More Information 

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Join a student-led conversation about campus culture and the UCGT’s year-long exploration of how to foster meaningful discussion in difficult times.

Directions to Heyman Center can be found here.

In his new book Making Sense of Chaos, J. Doyne Farmer presents a scientific challenge for economics and finance. Farmer, a leader in complexity science and chaos theory, argues that by applying complex systems science to economic activity, we can build more realistic models and simulations of the global economy that align with the complexity of our interconnected world.

On April 4, Farmer will be joined by discussants Alma Steingart, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, and Michael Woodford, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy and Chair of the Economics Department; Steingart, an intellectual historian who studies the interaction between politics and mathematical rationalities, and Woodford, a macroeconomist and monetary theorist, will discuss Farmer’s book. Should it change the way we think about and interact with economic models? What does this mean for a world so intimately connected by these fields?

The conversation will be chaired and moderated by Suresh Naidu, Jack Wang and Echo Ren Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University, and Co-director of the Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects, Columbia Global.

The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Political Economy (CPE), the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Program for Economic Research (PER).

Public Health’s Constitutional Crisis: What You Need to Know

A TALK WTH PROFESSOR STEPHEN VLADECK (Georgetown Law, CNN)

History Matters: An Endowed Lecture Series

Sponsored by the Department of Sociomedical Sciences  and the Center for History and Ethics of Public Health

Grant cancellations, funding freezes, layoffs at major health agencies, and declarations that the President has the right to impound Congressional-appropriated money.

In this talk, constitutional law authority Stephen Vladeck, JD, will walk our community through the major legal issues we are confronting and must understand.

Vladeck is also Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts at Georgetown Law and the author of the popular One First blog and a regular commentator on CNN who most recently appeared on 60 Minutes.

Date: Monday, April 7, 2025, from 12:15-1:45pm

Location: Calder Lounge (Uris Hall 107)

Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Speaker: Raffaella Taylor-Seymour (Columbia University)

Respondent: Chazelle Rhoden (Columbia University)

Abstract: “Ancestor worship” is a classic category of analysis in religious studies, one that has come to be taken for granted in both academic writing and public discourse as a minoritarian form of religious practice. This talk examines the complexities of imposing the frame of religion on ancestors by examining the relational dimensions of ancestral practices in Zimbabwe that also raise questions about kinship. Drawing on missionary, colonial, and ethnographic archives, the talk interrogates how ancestral practices came to be a minoritized form of “religion” over the past two centuries. In the precolonial world, ancestral spirits were fundamental to local knowledge systems, played a central role in everyday life, and formed the bedrock of social and political power. The talk traces how British colonists worked to demonize, marginalize and ultimately minoritize ancestors in Zimbabwe, configuring them first as “superstition” and later a kind of religion that would become a minority form of religious practice. Ultimately, the talk argues that these processes transformed ancestors into a minority “religion” while erasing their relational dimensions, a struggle that played out in many contexts and continues to limit understandings of ancestors and ancestral practices. At the same time, the talk makes the case for a relational approach to ancestral spirits by examining how people in Zimbabwe continue to imagine, resist, and rework the meanings of both ancestors and religion. This talk draws on material from Raffaella Taylor-Seymour’s book project, titled Ancestral Intimacies: Queerness, Relationality and Religion in Zimbabwe.

Free and open to the public

Registration is required—Please register in advance to reserve your spot

Join us on April 8 at 12pm ET for the next Ethics Grand Rounds with Lucas J. Matthews, PhD and Paul Appelbaum, MD. 

We will be discussing The Geneticization of Education and Its Bioethical Implications, in person and online.

For under $10, direct-to-consumer genetic tests provide reports on educational traits like intelligence and math ability, placing them on a genomic spectrum. This technology, while publicly accessible and cost-effective, has prompted growing concern about its societal impacts and the potential geneticization of education, where educational abilities are increasingly perceived as merely genetic. In this session, Division of Ethics Assistant Professor Lucas Matthews, PhD, and Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry Director Paul Appelbaum, MD, will explore the bioethical implications of this new technology, and discuss the future of equity in education.