On October 7, Marisa Sobel will be presenting, “Cadmium exposure and chronic lower respiratory disease.” Vivian Do will also be presenting – Title TBA.

Join us in person in ARB 1102 or via Zoom.

Views of Democracy and Society and Support for Political Violence in the USA: Findings from a Nationally Representative Survey

Garen J. Wintemute, MD, MPH, Professor, Susan P. Baker-Stephen P. Teret Chair in Violence Prevention, Director, Violence Prevention Research Program, Attending Physician, Emergency Department, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA.

The University Seminars and Columbia University Press present the 2024 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures given by:

Volker R. Berghahn

Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History
Columbia University

The Heavy Burden of Modern German History: Imperialism, Wars, Genocide in the Twentieth Century, and the Fall-Out

Lecture I: Debates Among Historians of Modern Germany, 1950-2024

Monday, October 7, 2024, 8 pm

Lecture II: Hitler’s War Aims: Genocide and World Domination

Monday, October 21, 2024, 8 pm

Lecture III: Learning from the Past after 1945: Ordinary Germans and Elites

Monday, October 28, 2024, 8 pm

These lectures will examine the development of Germany in the twentieth- and twenty-first- centuries up to the year 2024. As that development has led to at times heated debates among historians and social scientists, the first lecture will analyze the most important controversies from 1950 to the present, to provide the larger historical context. The second lecture will present the latest scholarship on Germany’s role in two world wars, culminating in the genocide of the Jews of Europe and other minorities up to 1945. The third lecture will discuss how the Germans got out of the catastrophe of World War II and how, with Allied help, they reconstructed their political system, their economy, and their intellectual and cultural life, raising the question of their capacity to learn from a horrific past.

Volker Berghahn, Seth Low Professor of History, specializes in modern German history and European-American relations. He received his M.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (1961) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1964). He taught in England and Germany before coming to Brown University in 1988 and to Columbia ten years later. His publications include America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe (2001); Quest for Economic Empire (ed., 1996); Imperial Germany (1995); The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945-1973 (1986); Modern Germany (1982); Der Tirpitz-Plan (1971); Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (2006); and most recently Industriegesellschaft und Kulturtransfer (2010).

Lectures are free and open to the public. Registration is required: REGISTER HERE

In-Person Event
Living the Asian Century: An Undiplomatic Memoir with Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 | 6:00 – 7:30 PM (ET)
Asia Society (725 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021)

Featuring: Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS); Former Ambassador to the UN for Singapore; Former President of the UN Security Council

In conversation with: Kyung-wha Kang, President and CEO, Asia Society

Note: Columbia University students, faculty, and staff may contact the APEC Study Center at ss6054@gsb.columbia.edu for a complimentary event ticket while quantities last.

Cosponsored by the Asia Society

The neoliberal era is coming to an end, but what will replace it? Developing a coherent alternative will require fresh thinking that spans philosophy, economics and political science.

This timely conversation hosted by the Center for Political Economy will bring together a panel of scholars to explore the ideas that could shape a new economic paradigm. In his new book Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society, economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler looks to the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls to reinvigorate liberalism and develop a new model of capitalism that would genuinely work for all. But is Rawls the thinker we need right now? What would a truly just economy look like? And how could we bring it about?

Our panel will include Daniel Chandler (London School of Economics), Daniel Luban (Columbia) and Alex Raskolnikov (Columbia). Suresh Naidu (Columbia) will chair and moderate the discussion. This program is brought to you in partnership with Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia University.

This panel will take place in the Foyer on the second floor of the Forum. Check-in will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Forum’s West Atrium.

The event is open to the public, subject to registration. 

Medicine Grand Rounds @VP&S Amphitheatre 1

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• 11:30am: Lunch provided (or bring your own!)
• 12:00pm: Lecture

To register and obtain a Zoom link, please visit eventleaf.com/e/MedicineGrandRounds

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What’s at stake in the 2024 Presidential Election, both at home and abroad?

This October, we’re bringing together leading political experts and scholars for a three-part panel series exploring key topics shaping this pivotal election, including voting behavior, domestic policy, and the global implications of U.S. foreign policy.

This program is the result of a partnership with The Academy of Political Science, and is is also supported by the Urban and Social Policy Program and Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Attendance is free and open to the public, but registration is limited.

The 2024 Presidential Election and Domestic Policy: What’s at Stake?

10/09, 2:00–3:30 PM ET

• Ester R. Fuchs is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science and the Director of the Urban and Social Policy Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She serves as Director of WhosOnTheBallot.org, an online voter engagement initiative for New York City. She served as Special Advisor to the Mayor for Governance and Strategic Planning under New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg from 2001 to 2005.
• Alexis Grenell is the co-founder of Pythia, where she leads innovative issue campaigns for workers rights’, gender equality, climate policy, and small “d” democracy. Alexis is also a columnist for The Nation where she frequently writes about gender, politics and power among other issues. Her work has also appeared in the New York Daily News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Daily Beast, Newsday, the New York Post, El Diario, and City & State. In 2015, she earned her Masters in Public Administration from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
• Basil Smikle Jr. is a Professor of Practice and Director of the M.S. program in nonprofit management in the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University. As an MSNBC Political Analyst, he regularly shares his insights on national media outlets. With 20 years in higher education and 30 years devoted to public service, his insights span a broad spectrum of contemporary issues including, civic engagement, nonprofit advocacy and communications, electoral politics and education policy.  He lectures at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and Teachers College at Columbia University.
• Moderated by Robert Y. Shapiro, who is Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government in the Department of Political Science and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the President of The Academy of Political Science and Editor of its journal, Political Science Quarterly.  He specializes in American politics with research and teaching interests in public opinion, policymaking, political leadership, the mass media, and applications of statistical methods.

CUEGR

Columbia University Epidemiology Grand Rounds

Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

4:00 – 5:30pm

Speaker:

Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Commissioner of Public Health, City of Boston; Executive Director, Boston Public Health Commission

TALK TITLE: TBD

In-Person Location:

Alumni Auditorium

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

William Black Building

630 West 168th Street

New York, NY 10032

Online Zoom Registration:

https://bit.ly/4gf7kTP_CUEGR

Cocktail Reception to follow the lecture.

Join the Lehman Center for American History and the Columbia University and Slavery Project for a Book Talk and Discussion with Sarah Gronningsater, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gronningsater’s exhaustive archival research reveals the far-reaching impacts of the cradle-to-grave experiences of a generation of black New Yorkers. Born into precarious freedom after the American Revolution and reaching adulthood in the lead-up to the Civil War, this remarkable generation ultimately played an outsized role in political and legal conflicts over slavery’s future, influencing both the nation’s path to the Civil War and changes to the US Constitution.

The Rising Generation shows how, as the children of gradual abolition reached adulthood, they took the lessons of their youth into midcentury campaigns for legal equality, political inclusion, equitable common school education, and the expansion of freedom across the nation.