This event features the launch of the Soil Lead Contamination: A Community Regeneration Manual produced by the Black School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Presenters will share their knowledge and experience in conducting community-focused lead-contaminated soil remediation and the importance of addressing this environmental justice and public health issue.

Event Speakers

• Hadeel Assali, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Science and Society
• Bailey Hutchison, Founder of the TruCulture Community Farm
• Shani Peters, Co-Founder of the Black School
• Moderated by Tamara Jeffries, Co-Production of Knowledge Program Manager at the Center for Science and Society

Event Information

Free and open to the public; no registration required. Contact Hadeel Assali at ha2355@columbia.edu with any questions.

Hosted by the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University.

How can culture drive climate action? From fashion to film, music to sports, cultural industries shape public awareness and inspire change. Culture for Climate: Bridging Art, Fashion, and Education explores how we can connect and educate diverse audiences on sustainability and climate solutions through creative expression.

Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring experts at the intersection of art, entertainment, fashion, and climate education. We’ll delve into:

• The power of culture in shaping climate narratives
• Best practices for integrating sustainability into creative industries
• Career pathways for those passionate about climate and culture

Following the panel, enjoy a networking reception with light bites, where you can continue the conversation and connect with like-minded professionals.

Date: Tuesday, April 15th, 2025, 4-6pm. Registration opens at 3:30pm.
Location: The Forum at Columbia University, 601 West 125th Street, New York, NY 10027. Foyer on the Second Floor.
Open to the public | Interactive Q&A encouraged | Limited capacity (50 attendees) | Registration required

This event is part of our broader Earth Month Series and is presented by:

• Climate Education for a Resilient Future Earth Network
• Fashion, Energy, and Climate Earth Network
• Bridging Scientific and Artistic Approaches Earth Network
• Sustainability, Energy, and Entertainment Earth Network

The Columbia Climate School Earth Network program fosters interdisciplinary collaboration across Columbia University, driving innovative research, education, and impact in climate and sustainability.

Come be part of the conversation—where creativity meets climate action!

A talk by Bénédicte Savoy

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In this talk, Bénédicte Savoy will look at the emptiness that art and cult objects leave in their place of origin when, in the course of history, through armed conflict, colonial occupation or economic asymmetries, they have been moved to be displayed in (mostly Western) museums – with all the political, economic and epistemological implications that this entails.

Bénédicte Savoy is Professor of Modern Art History at the Technische Universität Berlin. From 2016 – 2021, she simultaneously held a professorship at the Collège de France in Paris for the cultural history of artistic heritage in Europe from the 18th to the 20th century. Her research focuses on museum history, French-German cultural transfer, Nazi looted art, and Postcolonial provenance research. In 2018, she wrote the report “On the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage”, together with the Senegalese scholar Felwine Sarr, commissioned by the French President Emmanuel Macron. In 2021 Savoy and Sarr were in the TIME 100 list of the most influential people of the year. Savoy has received numerous awards for her research and academic teaching, including the 2016 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Research Foundation and most recently the Berlin Science Prize. Her most recent publications include the book Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat, which has been translated into several languages, and the joint publication Atlas der Abwesenheit. Kameruns Kulturerbe in Deutschland (Atlas of Absence: Cameroon’s Cultural Heritage in Germany).

This event is associated with the screening and discussion of Dahomey (Mati Diop, 2024) on Thursday April 17. More information here.

Two of the greatest guitarists of our time come together for an incredible evening of music. The virtuosic Miles Okazaki, called “a wildly versatile musician, freakishly precise, but also full of emotion” by The Paris Times, joins the esteemed Bill Frisell, “long hailed as one of the most distinctive and original improvising guitarists of our time” (The New York Times), for this special not-to-be-missed performance.

Free admission • Doors open at 5:30PM, music at 6PM
Onstage seating is first-come, first-served.