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Columbia University Events
Child Abuse Identification and Reporting Workshop
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Teachers College is a NYSED-Approved provider of the Child Abuse Identification and Reporting workshop, which is required for many administrative, teaching, and pupil-personnel certification areas. This learning experience will prepare you to recognize signs of child abuse and train you on your legal responsibilities as a mandated reporter. We are providing these workshops through a Zoom format for the of the Spring 2023 semester.
Time: 10am-12pm
Open to TC students, TC Alumni, and the general public; please register at www.tc.edu/cps.
- Saturday, January 7, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, January 29, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, February 5, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, February 19, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, March 5, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Saturday, March 11, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, April 2, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Sunday, April 30, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
- Saturday, May 6, 2023 – 10:00am – 12:00pm EST
School Violence Prevention and Intervention Workshop

Teachers College is a New York State approved provider of the School Violence Prevention and Intervention Workshop, which is a requirement for many administrative, teaching, and pupil-personnel certification areas. We are providing these workshops through a Zoom format for the Spring 2023 semester.
Time: 12:45-2:45
Open to TC students, TC Alumni, and the general public; registration is required; please register at www.tc.edu/cps.
- Saturday, January 7, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, January 29, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, February 5, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, February 19, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, March 5, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Saturday, March 11, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, April 2, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, April 30, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Saturday, May 6, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
2023 Yosef Yerushalmi Annual Memorial Lecture: Sarah Abrevaya Stein

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- Columbia University – Kent Hall
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Join us for the 2023 Yosef Yerushalmi Annual Memorial Lecture with award-winning author and historian Sarah Abrevaya Stein. This event will take place in person at the IIJS, 617 Kent Hall.
The picnic blanket is lumpy, the ants bite, the food is sandy: but you see so much more when you’re eating on the ground. The picnic and the portable camera came of age together in late and post Ottoman society, and “vernacular” picnic photographs are a ubiquitous feature of the Sephardic photo album. This essay converses with the children, women, men, and objects that appear in these images, considering how Sephardic Jews relaxed and ate in nature at a time when so much was shifting around them. It also asks whether the scattered, globally diasporic, family-owned archive of the Sephardic photo album can be united to restore a lived, dusty, lusty image of late and post-Ottoman Jewish life.
Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, and the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. The recipient of the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Jewish Book Awards, Stein is the author and editor of ten books, many of them award-winning. Her most recent books include Wartime North Africa: a Documentary History, 1934-1950 (Stanford University Press, with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2022) and Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century (FSG/Macmillan, 2019), which was named a Best Book of 2019 by The Economist and an Editor’s Choice Book by the New York Times Book Review.
Please register for this event at 2023 Yosef Yerushalmi Annual Memorial Lecture with Sarah Abrevaya Stein Tickets, Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 4:00 PM | Eventbrite.
Supported by the generosity of the Knapp and Kaye families.
While all IIJS events are free and open to the public, we do encourage a suggested donation of $10.
Music Monday at The Forum

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- The Forum at Columbia University
- 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
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Music Monday is a free and open-to-the public monthly concert series hosted by The Forum. Concerts take place in the ground-floor Atrium on Monday evenings, once a month. January’s event will feature players from the vibrant and forward-looking Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program.
Columbia University + Chile: A Century of Innovation + Collaboration

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Columbia University
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- The Forum at Columbia University
- 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
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with President Lee C. Bollinger
Columbia University
Tuesday, January 31
11am (New York) 1pm (Santiago)
601 W. 125th Street, NY, NY 2nd Floor
In person registration here
Webinar registrtion here
Co-organized by Columbia Global Centers and the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), “Columbia University and Chile: A Century of Innovation and Collaboration” is an event to honor Karen Poniachik, pioneer and advocate for women’s rights in Chile, and founding director of Columbia Global Centers | Santiago who passed away in October 2022.
WELCOME
Wafaa El-Sadr, Executive Vice President for Columbia Global
OPENING REMARKS
Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
PRESENTERS
Vicky Murillo, Director, Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)
Carla Magri, Columbia Global Centers | Santiago
PANEL
Nara Milanich, Professor of History, Barnard College
Walter Baethgen, Senior Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School
Regina Cortina, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University
Astrid Liden, Columbia College Student
MODERATOR
Tom Trebat, Director Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro
*Lunch will be served after the event.
South-South Cooperation in Urban Development, Policies and Planning

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Lecture by Emma Mawdsley, Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
Emma Mawdsley’s recent research has focused on global development politics, with a particular interest in South-South Cooperation, India, and the UK. Current work includes editing a special section for International Affairs (Chatham House) on India, China and Turkey’s claims to being ‘civilisational states’; and a substantial research project with colleagues looking at the role of private sector consultants and contractors in development. Professor Mawdsley is the Director of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies at Newnham College, Cambridge.
This lecture will be presented virtually. Please access the lecture using this Zoom webinar link.
South-South cooperation has transformed global development imaginaries, practices and institutions over the last 20 years or so. At the same time, the long-standing principles and framings of South-South cooperation (anti-hegemonic solidarity, non-interference, shared identities) have come under significant pressure, and shifted in new and explicitly nationalist directions in many cases. This lecture will first elaborate on the recent evolution of this dynamic landscape of development cooperation, and draw out current trends and directions. Professor Mawdsley will then explore these themes specifically in relation to research and scholarship around urban partnerships, including the creation of masterplans; urban infrastructure loans and projects; and planning and regulatory technical assistance. The lecture will conclude by asking what an urban lens offers in understanding South-South cooperation today.
The Rat Academy in Morningside Heights

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Columbia University Office of Government and Community Affairs is partnering with Assemblymember O’Donnell to host a Rat Academy with NYC DOH on January 31 (via Zoom). Businesses, property managers and the general public in Morningside Heights can learn prevention measures.
The Wellness Circle

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- The Forum at Columbia University
- 601 W. 125th St., New York, NY 10027
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The Forum, in partnership with the Harlem Wellness Center, will host weekly chair stretches and meditation sessions on Wednesdays starting January 18th in the West Atrium.
Free and open to all. Please register here.
Creative Writing Lecture: Katie Kitamura

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- Columbia University – Dodge Hall
- 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
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Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Intimacies. One of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2021, it was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. It was also one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021. Her third novel, A Separation, was a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Gone To The Forest and The Longshot, both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award.
Her work has been translated into 21 languages and is being adapted for film and television. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan, Santa Maddalena, and Jan Michalski foundations, Katie has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
About the Creative Writing Lectures Series
The Creative Writing Lecture Series brings distinguished writers to Columbia for original talks on craft. Recent guests have included John Keene, Sarah Manguso, Lynne Tillman, and Carmen Maria Machado.
Screening of Angels by Jasmine Bissete

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- Teachers College – Joyce Berger Cowin Auditorium
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This event will feature a screening of the short film Anges, followed by a Q&A session with Professor Roxanne Varzi and director Jasmine Bissete, along with an accompanying talk by Professor Varzi on French-Iranian cultural relations.
Anges (English title Angels) is set in Tehran, Iran and 1968. When French-Iranian student Niloufar, 10, learns that President Georges Pompidou will visit her school, she devises her own way to make an impression. Anges is a short (6 minute) French-language U.S.-France co-production released in 2021. It has been featured in international film festivals including the New York Shorts International Film Festival, Catalina Film Festival, Pittsburgh Shorts, Cyprus International Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Detmold in Germany, and the Rabat International Children and Family Film Festival. The film was awarded the Best Director Prize at the Children’s International Film Festival of Wales.
Director Jasmine Bissete graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University, Columbia College. She is a filmmaker and the co-founder and Creative Director of Kinglet Films, a production company operating in New York and Paris with a focus on fostering cross-cultural connections through cinema.
Professor Roxanne Varzi, an Iranian-born American cultural anthropologist, filmmaker, sound artist, writer, playwright, and educator. Roxanne Varzi is Professor of Anthropology and Film and Media Studies at University of California, Irvine.
Land, Law, Labor

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This conversation highlights new approaches to the history of the intertwining of law, visual culture, and land—and the benefits of cross-disciplinary, cross-geographic and cross-historical comparison and collaboration. Mabel Wilson (Columbia University) will present from her new project, Building Race and Nation, which examines how enslaved labor was employed to construct early government architecture and urbanism in the Middle Atlantic States on land dispossessed from Indigenous nations. This work intersects with narratives of racialization in Brenna Bhandar’s (University of British Columbia) work, in particular with her critique of “the possession of the self and land” that is central to the settler colonial project.
Organized as one of the “Conversations on Architecture and Land in and out of the Americas” by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at GSAPP.
This virtual event is open to the general public. Please register in advance for zoom webinar details.
GSAPP is committed to providing universal access to all of our events. Please contact events@arch.columbia.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.
School Violence Prevention and Intervention Workshop

Teachers College is a New York State approved provider of the School Violence Prevention and Intervention Workshop, which is a requirement for many administrative, teaching, and pupil-personnel certification areas. We are providing these workshops through a Zoom format for the Spring 2023 semester.
Time: 12:45-2:45
Open to TC students, TC Alumni, and the general public; registration is required; please register at www.tc.edu/cps.
- Saturday, January 7, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, January 29, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, February 5, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, February 19, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, March 5, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Saturday, March 11, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, April 2, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Sunday, April 30, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST
- Saturday, May 6, 2023 – 12:45pm – 2:45pm EST