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Columbia University Events
Catalyzing Change in Next-Gen Health: Investing in Women & Tech
Online
Catalyzing change in next-gen health requires a shift in focus toward areas with the greatest potential for long-term impact, such as women’s health and emerging technologies. These fields offer powerful opportunities to improve health outcomes, drive innovation, and address longstanding gaps in care. By supporting new ideas and expanding access to overlooked areas of health, we can build a more inclusive and forward-looking future – one where innovation is guided by equity, science, and the needs of diverse communities.
The program is a one-of-kind multi-disciplinary discussion and educational experience that brings the greatest minds from medicine, science, venture capital, capital allocation, business, and operations together to solve pain points of critical healthcare areas that require innovation. This event not only provides an overview of the healthcare innovation landscape, but also provides insight on the know-how or barriers in commercialization and scaling of health innovation across the U.S.
SPEAKERS
Lily Jin (Moderator), Operating Partner, Marathon Venture Partners
Camilla Languille, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Mubadala Private Equity
Charlotte Xia, Investor, Fusion Fund
Protest Waves After the Arab Spring and Gezi Park


Venue
- Columbia University – Italian Academy
- 1161 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Protest Waves After the Arab Spring and Gezi Park: Divergent Trajectories Across the Globe
Sakıp Sabancı Annual Lecture 2025 by Prof. Zeynep Tüfekçi, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Introduced by Prof. Edhem Eldem, Sakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor of Turkish Studies, Columbia University.
About the Speaker:
Zeynep Tüfekçi is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a columnist for The New York Times. Her work revolves around the intersection of technology, science, and society, and covers pressing topics such as social media, artificial intelligence, the pandemic, politics, and democracy. She approaches social challenges using complex and systems-based thinking, focusing strongly on policy and societal response.
Monday, April 28, 2025, The Italian Academy, Teatro, Columbia University (1161 Amsterdam Ave.)
Event begins at 4:30 PM
In-person only. Registration is required. Please register here.
For more information, visit our website.
This event is supported by the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University.
Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies
646-745-8534
sakipsabancicenter@columbia.edu
Music Monday: Orchestrating Dreams


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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Orchestrating Dreams will perform at the Lee C. Bollinger Forum. PLEASE REGISTER HERE!
Music Monday is a free and open-to-the public monthly concert series hosted by The Lee C. Bollinger Forum. Performances take place in The Forum’s ground-floor Atrium on Monday evenings, once a month.
Orchestrating Dreams bridges the gap of equity in music education. Orchestrating Dreams’ mission is to strengthen diverse communities through accessible high quality music education programs and to help individuals develop a lifelong love for learning and resiliency.
Signature Speaker Series: Professor Katharine Mach


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.
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Please join us for our next Climate School Signature Speaker Series featuring:
Professor Katherine Mach, University of Miami & Yale University
Topic: Increasing preparedness for intensifying climate change
4:00PM-5:00PM Program
5:00PM-6:00pm Reception
For virtual attendance please Register Here
Katharine Mach is professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, & Earth Science. In 2025, she is the Coleman P. Burke Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Yale School of the Environment.
Her research assesses climate change risks and response options to address increased flooding, extreme heat, wildfire, and other hazards. Through innovative approaches to integrating evidence, she informs effective and equitable adaptations to the risks. Mach was the 2020 recipient of the Piers Sellers Prize for world leading contribution to solution-focused climate research. Mach has served as a chapter author or lead in the Fourth through Sixth US National Climate Assessments and the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. From 2010 until 2015, she co-directed the scientific activities of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Mach received her PhD from Stanford University and AB summa cum laude from Harvard College.
Webinar: Candid Reflections on Resource-Based Development
Online
Register here.
Join the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), in association with Steptoe LLP, for Session 2 (“Reaching a Fair Deal that Balances Risks and Rewards in Mining Investments”) of our four-part webinar series, Candid Reflections on Resource-Based Development.
A fundamental dimension of any equitable vision of a mining project relates to its financial benefit for the host state and community. The proposition of many large mining projects is indeed that the fiscal benefits of the project will be transformative for the host state; accordingly, many developing countries are eager to attract such projects, anticipating substantial revenues, along with jobs, community development, access to foreign markets, and development of local expertise. In practice, governments often struggle to secure the best possible returns, or find that anticipated revenues are offset by tax holidays and other fiscal loopholes. As risk takers and sources of capital and expertise, mining companies see it as legitimate that they reap substantial economic upsides from successful projects. Yet as the owner of the mineral resource, host states believe that the government should take the larger share. Many disputes relate to governments’ attempts to increase their take, when agreed fiscal terms fail to generate anticipated revenues, or where they seek to enhance the downstream benefits of projects by imposing local processing requirements. This panel will explore this tension, and in particular, what a ‘fair deal’ looks like, and the possibility to define adequate benchmarks.
Speakers:
- Ignacio Bustamante, Head of Base Metals, Appian Capital Advisory LLP
- Antonio Pedro, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
- Amir Shaikh, Lead Counsel, World Bank Group
- Salli Swartz, Former Chair, International Section of the American Bar Association
- Joe Tato, Senior Counsel, Steptoe
Moderators:
- Lisa Sachs, Director, CCSI
- Christophe Bondy, Partner, Steptoe LLP
Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
Medicine Grand Rounds with Azra Bihorac


Venue
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
- 622 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032
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Website
https://www.nyp.org/
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
AI and Emerging Technologies in the ICU
Azra Bihorac, MD MS FCCM FASN
Professor Of Medicine, Surgery And Anesthesiology
Director, Intelligent Clinical Care Center
Senior Associate Dean For Research Affairs
University Of Florida College Of Medicine
Lecture 12:00-1:00 pm
Join via Zoom: https://forms.gle/Z9JQ2REbq3xeDz126
Aging Seminar: Life reflected: to understand wisdom holistically
Online
SPRING 2025 SEMINARS OF THE ROBERT N. BUTLER COLUMBIA AGING CENTER | Assets of Aging: A Series on the Capabilities that Accrue with Longer Lives
Join us for the Columbia Aging Center’s ONLINE seminar–the next in a series that focuses on the assets of aging and the capabilities that accrue with longer lives. Please register to attend via Zoom on April 30, 2025. Details and registration link below.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025, 12:00PM-1:00PM ET
Life well reflected: to understand wisdom holistically
Eeva K. Kallio, PsyD
Associate Adjunct Professor
Wisdom and Learning Research Team
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Wisdom in practice Research Group Member, Academy of Finland
Virtual Seminar
Location: Zoom
Register to attend via Zoom at: https://columbiacuimc.zoom.us/meeting/register/ZdYpL45BQvqsHpC5x69Oyg
Abstract: Based on our recent work, we suggest that adult development and wisdom are closely related phenomenon. Wisdom is an axiological term, tied to values and conception of the human being as “an ideal”, a best expression of humanity. We analyzed 19 wisdom models and metamodels and created a new “Holistic wisdom metamodel” (HWM) which sets for the factors that are essential to describe wisdom. It is a bidirectional model and includes both subjective factors and external actions in different contexts. In the HWM, complex integrative though is in the core of wisdom, indicating ability for multidimensional reflection on cognitive, emotional and ethical realms, manifesting in practice. Among wisdom scholars, it is commonly agreed that the main source of wisdom is a deep reflection upon one’s experiences and lifespan. The relationship between age and wisdom is unclear and complicated, but wisdom seems to be protective of well-being in older adults. Complex integrative thinking as part of wisdom in older adults hasn’t been studied exhaustively so far. As wisdom is multidimensional, it has been assumed that many different factors have impact on growth of it (situation, resources, specific type of wisdom dimensions, good education, personality factors, cognitive load of tasks). Longitudinal research is needed in this matter, as cognitive dimension of wisdom may be vulnerable to age-related changes. However, some emotional wisdom features seem to be stable, or even grow, with age. It seems that different domains of wisdom develop differently, and some domains are stronger than others in old age.
Conference by Prof. Serge Gruzinski (EHESS Paris) at Casa Hispanica


Venue
- Columbia University – Casa Hispanica
- 612 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
Please join us for a lecture by Professor Serge Gruzinski (EHESS, Paris) titled “Between Global History and Digital History, Exploring the Alphabetic Colonization in the New World (16th-21st Century),” related to Prof. Gruzinski’s recent book Quand les Indiens parlaient latin. Colonisation alphabétique et métissage dans l’Amérique du XVIe siècle.
Prof. Gruzinski will also offer a workshop for graduate students on May 1. Registration is open only to students from across Columbia..
This event is kindly co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, History, and French, the program in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Institute for Latin American Studies, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Book Talk: Merchants of Knowledge, Robert G. Morrison


Venue
- Columbia University – Schermerhorn Hall
- 1180 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
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APRIL 30- Book Talk
Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe
Speaker: Prof. Robert G. Morrison (Bowdoin College)
Host: Prof. A. Tunç Şen (Columbia University)
Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies is pleased to co-sponsor this special event: a book launch for Prof. Robert Morrison’s new publication, with a discussion led by our own Prof. A. Tunç Şen.
Merchants of Knowledge: Intellectual Exchange in the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe
Between 1450 and 1550, a remarkable century of intellectual exchange developed across the Eastern Mediterranean. As Renaissance Europe depended on knowledge from the Ottoman Empire, and the courts of Mehmed the Conqueror and Bayezid II greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe, merchants of knowledge—multilingual and transregional Jewish scholars—became an important bridge among the powers.
With this book, Robert Morrison is the first to track the network of scholars who mediated exchanges in astronomy, astrology, Qabbalah, and philosophy. Their books, manuscripts, and acts of translation all held economic value, thus commercial and intellectual exchange commingled—knowledge became transactional as these merchants exchanged texts for more intellectual material and social capital. While parallels between medieval Islamic astronomy and the famous heliocentric arrangement posited by Copernicus are already known, Morrison reveals far deeper networks of intellectual exchange that extended well beyond theoretical astronomy and shows how religion, science, and philosophy, areas that will eventually develop into separate fields, were once interwoven. The Renaissance portrayed in Merchants of Knowledge is not, from the perspective of the Ottoman Muslim contacts of the Jewish merchants of knowledge, hegemonic. It’s a Renaissance permeated by diversity, the cultural and political implications of which the West is only now waking up to.
About the Speaker
Robert Morrison (Columbia Ph.D. ’98) is George Lincoln Skolfield, Jr. Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and North African Studies at Bowdoin College. He is a scholar of science in Islamic societies and Jewish cultures. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the National Humanities Center. His previous book was The Light of the World: Astronomy in al-Andalus (University of California Press, 2016).
Event Details
️Date: Wednesday, April 30
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Schermerhorn Hall, room 807, Columbia University
This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is required for campus access. Non-Columbia guests must register by April 28 to receive a campus access code.
Please register here: https://bit.ly/43LyXjD
Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies
(646) 745-8534
columbiasabancicenter@gmail.com
Antoine The Fortunate: One Man at the Crossroads of Empires


Venue
- Columbia University – Schermerhorn Hall
- 1180 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027
TICKETS/REGISTER LINK
MAY 2- Documentary Film Screening and Discussion
Antoine The Fortunate: One Man at the Crossroads of Empires
Discussants: Film director Prof. Nefin Dinç (James Madison University), and Prof. Edhem Eldem (Columbia University).
Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies invites you for a screening of the documentary Antoine the Fortunate, followed by a conversation with the film’s director, Prof. Nefin Dinç, and historian Prof. Edhem Eldem.
Antoine the Fortunate tells the story of Antoine Köpe, a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire born in 1897 in Istanbul, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing from Köpe’s private memoirs and a remarkable, previously unseen archive, the film captures the survival and resilience of a man and his family during the most turbulent years of the Ottoman Empire and the birth of modern Turkey.
Event Details:
️Date: Friday, May 2
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
Location: Schermerhorn Hall, room 612, Columbia University
This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is required for campus access. Non-Columbia guests must register by April 30 to receive a campus access code.
Register here: bit.ly/SSCNefinDinc
Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies
6467458534
sakipsabancicenter@columbia.edu
NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp
Online
The NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp is a two-day intensive boot camp combining lectures, hands-on activities, and discussions to demystify the NIH application process. This training will prepare participants to submit an NIH grant proposal that turns reviewers into advocates, positioning the applicant for success.
February 18-19, 2025 || 10am – ~5pm EDT || Livestream online training
The 2-day NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp: Building a Strong Foundation for Funding Success will provide comprehensive training that supplies researchers with the tools to write persuasive, effective grant proposals. Through a combination of seminars, discussions, examples, and hands-on activities, with a particular focus on navigating between-the-lines on how to tailor your proposals to grant reviewers, this training will orient you to all aspects of the academic funding process (i.e., grant writing and grant strategizing), including:
- How to identify and apply for the right funding opportunities with the NIH (and beyond);
- How to position your research and yourself to make reviewers your research advocates;
- How to target your application to the right place at the right time; and
- How to write clearly, effectively, and persuasively when telling your scientific story.
Audience and Requirements
Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend, and we particularly encourage trainees and early-stage investigators to participate. No prior experience in preparing or submitting NIH grant applications is necessary. However, each participant should be prepared to share* and work on an NIH Specific Aims page and an NIH biosketch. Participants who have not previously written an NIH-style Aims page and/or biosketch will have an opportunity to draft their page and receive initial feedback ahead of the on-site workshop. There are no other requirements to attend the NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp.
*Hands-on activities will use participant aims pages, and we therefore request that all participants respect the confidentiality of other attendees. Any participant who prefers not to share their research ideas may create a mock aims page to use during the boot camp.
Additional Information
- Subscribe for updates on new Boot Camp details and registration deadlines.
- Contact the NIH Grant Writing Boot Camp team.
Capacity is limited. Paid registration is required to attend.