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.

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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.

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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.

Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on April 7, 2025 to attend this event.

Please join us for the latest convening of the the Borton-Mosely Distinguished Lecture Series, jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Harriman institute, The Cold War, Russia-China Relations, and the Making (and Unmaking?) of Southeast Asia featuring Bilahari Kausikan, Former Ambassador-at-Large in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore. The event will be moderated by Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University and Alexander Cooley, Vice Provost for Research, Libraries, and Academic Centers; Barnard College; Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College; Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Southeast Asia is not a natural region but a geopolitical construct. Although most of its members now choose to forget or downplay this inconvenient historical fact, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which today more than anything else, defines the region, was profoundly influenced by Cold War dynamics as they played out in Southeast Asia. In its origins at least, ASEAN was in fact a Cold War organization. Within the broad framework of the Cold War in Southeast Asia, Sino-Soviet competition, manifest most starkly in the Soviet-backed Vietnamese invasion and occupation of Cambodia from 1979 to 1991, played a crucial role in giving ASEAN a clear purpose and direction after drifting for almost twenty years after it was established in 1967. But what does a Cold War organization do after the end of the Cold War? Furthermore, how does ASEAN operate after it expanded to include Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia which were mired in Cold War proxy civil wars and in which the communist or proto-communist parties emerged victorious? That Russia and China are no longer adversaries but in a close anti-western partnership that they claim is ‘without limits’ is a further complication. By examining these questions, this lecture hopes to provide a better understanding of how a much misunderstood regional organization operates and the challenges it faces.

Fellows Research – Day 1

Dr, Camillo Bechi Genzano (Columbia Center for Translational Immunology)
“Immune Infiltration of Autologous and Allogeneic Human Stem Cell-Derived Beta Cell Grafts”
Dr. Marie Hasselluhn (Division of Digestive & Liver Diseases)
“Deciphering Local Immunosuppression in Pancreatic Cancer: Targeting CAF-Myeloid Cell Crosstalk to Enhance Immune Response”

Dr. Elena Martinelli (Division of Nephrology)
“Enhanced Diagnostic Precision in APOL1 Kidney Disease with the p.N264K M1 Protective Variant”

Dr. Mikael Pezet (Columbia Center for Human Development/Center for Stem Cell Therapies)
“Human Respiratory Airway Progenitors Derived from Pluripotent Cells Generate Alveolar Epithelial Cells and Model Pulmonary Fibrosis”

Lecture 12:00-1:00 pm

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