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Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik
Dear fellow members of the Columbia community, Our University is committed to four core principles, which underpin all of our work and our shared values

Statement From David Greenwald, Claire Shipman, Minouche Shafik, and Angela Olinto
Dear fellow members of the Columbia Community, Throughout this very challenging year, we have adhered to a simple goal: to continue our academic mission while

Statement from Columbia University President Minouche Shafik
Dear Members of the Columbia Community, I am deeply saddened by what is happening on our campus. Our bonds as a community have been severely
Columbia University Events
BRIM Film Screening


Venue
- Allan Rosenfield Building
- 722 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
You’re invited to a screening of
BRIM
A 3-part narrative film series that highlights how structural racism across the life course influences experiences that may lead to poor health and healthcare later in life. The film illustrates the multigenerational experiences of two families with structural racism based on 3 studies led by Columbia University Assistant Professor and Film Executive Producer, Dr. Paris “AJ” Adkins-Jackson, PhD, MPH. The film will be followed by a panel discussion.
Film Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1050564804/d6393e7886
Panelists:
Jennifer J. Manly, PhD, Professor Neuropsychology
Amber Baylor, JD, LLM, Clinical Professor of Law
Tess Pottinger, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medical Studies
Samuel K. Roberts, PhD, Associate Professor of History and Sociomedical Sciences
April 2, 2025
10am-12pm EST
Columbia University
Mailman School of Public Health
8th Floor Auditorium
Allan Rosenfield Building
722 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Medicine Grand Rounds: Clinician-Scientist research


Venue
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- 622 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032
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Website
https://www.nyp.org/
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Clinician-Scientist Pathway (CSP) Research
- Aleksandar Obradovic, MD PhD: Precision Immunotherapy: Leveraging Protein Activity Inference to Target Tregs in Tumor Micro-Environment
- Edd Ricker, MD PhD: Sex-specific Differences in Age/Autoimmune-Associated B Cells in Lupus Mice
- Samuel Resnick, MD PhD: Multiplexed screening identifies broadly active rescuers of proteotoxicity
- Nathan Suek, MD: Donor reactive T cells and innate immune cells promote pig to human decedent xenograft rejection
Lecture 12:00-1:00 pm
Join via Zoom: https://forms.gle/cGJ66Sy9Ycu95KpB7
April Narrative Medicine Rounds with Garth Greenwell
Online
“Small Rain: A Reading and Conversation with Garth Greenwell,” moderated by Nellie Hermann
For our April rounds we are thrilled to welcome Garth Greenwell, award-winning author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness, who will be speaking about his most recent novel, Small Rain.
In Small Rain, a poet’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.
Small Rain is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, where the forces that give life value–art, memory, poetry, music, care–are thrown into sharp relief. Time expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom. Small Rain surges beyond the hospital to encompass a radiant vision of human life: our shared vulnerability, the limits and possibilities of sympathy, the ideal of art and the fragile dream of America. Above all, it is a love story of the most unexpected kind.
Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for many other awards, including the PEN/Faulkner and the LA Times Book Prize. His second work of fiction, Cleanness, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times Notable Book. His new novel is Small Rain. His nonfiction appears widely, and he writes regularly about culture for the Substack newsletter To a Green Thought. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Harold D. Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU.
Garth Greenwell will be in conversation with Nellie Hermann, core faculty of Columbia Narrative Medicine, who has published two novels, The Cure for Grief (Scribner) and The Season of Migration (FSG).
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.
Emersión


Venue
- Columbia University – Dodge Hall
- 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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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…
Taiwan Legal: What Does ROC Law Say about Taiwan?

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.
Disrupted City: A Lunchtime Seminar with Manan Ahmed

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.
“Local Projection Methods for Applied Economics” with Oscar Jorda


Venue
- International Affairs Building (Columbia University)
- 420 West 118th Street
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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.
“Form and Theory of Literary Doodling”

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
Breast Cancer Management 2025

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.
DIALOGUE IN CRISIS: Pathways to New Conversation


Venue
- Columbia University – The Heyman Center
- 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
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.
‘Making Sense of Chaos’ Panel Discussion


Venue
- The Forum at Columbia University
- 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
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The Forum, located on the corner of 125th Street and Broadway, is a unique community gathering space that serves as the gateway to Columbia University's developing Manhattanville campus. Open to the entire university as well as the local New York City community, The Forum is a multi-use venue that houses a state-of-the-art auditorium, meeting and event spaces, and communal work areas.
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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).
Managing Conduct in a Digital World: Addressing Emerging Risks
Online
Conduct risk relates to all risks in Enterprise Risk Management. It permeates an organization’s culture, ability to manage risk that ultimately impacts its reputation. Professionals in all industries, regulated or unregulated, must grapple with conduct risk; it is a competitive advantage to do so effectively.
This session delves into the strategies and tools to foster ethical behavior and mitigate the risk of reputational damage. The panel of compliance and risk professionals bring their deep experience of managing conduct risk in our ever-evolving environment of digitalization and regulatory change.
Moderator:
Penny Cagan, Part-Time Lecturer, Enterprise Risk Management; Former Americas Head of Operational Risk Control, UBS
Panel:
Tom Balogh, Former Regulator and Senior Non-Financial Risk Leader
Aarona Chou, Managing Director, Global Head of Wealth Client Risk Assessment & Control Design, Citi
Michael Silva, Lead Independent Director, Column Bank N.A.
Registered guests will receive a Zoom link prior to the event.
For questions about this event, please contact Joshua Gleich, jg4173@columbia.edu.
To obtain additional information about program offerings at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies, please contact an Admissions Counselor at inquire@sps.columbia.edu.
If you require closed captioning, sign-language interpretation, or any other disability accommodations, please contact Disability Services, disability@columbia.edu, at least 10 days in advance.
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