Featuring Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Julio Frenk, MD, MPH, PhD President Professor of Public Health Sciences, Health Sector Management and Policy, and Sociology University of Miami Winners of the Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH (moderator) Dean, Columbia Mailman School of Public […]

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for an event in the Russia's Worlds Lecture Series, a discussion with Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (UC Santa Barbara) and Eileen Kane (Connecticut College). Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is an Assistant […]

Join us for the next Conversations that Matter, featuring Arno Boersma. Connecting The Dots - Building networks among the world’s small island developing states (SIDS) to create sustainable development solutions Key Topics: Social Impact, Networks, Collaboration, Innovation, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Sustainable Development, Knowledge Strategy Increasingly, humanity is facing major global challenges that cannot be […]

Alexis Hoag and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss “Valuing Black Lives: A Case for Ending the Death Penalty“ by Alexis J. Hoag. Please RSVP here. In this seminar, we will explore the hidden damage that death sentences and executions wreak on family members of the condemned, wardens and prison guards, attorneys, chaplains, and others. The hidden traumas have, so far, […]

This event will be held virtually on Zoom. There will be no in-person event. Click here to join on Zoom at the time of the event. The Department of Slavic Languages and the Harriman Institute present a lecture by the 2021 William E. Harkins Colloquium guest speaker, Alexei Yurchak (University of California, Berkeley). Alexei Yurchak is Professor of Anthropology at the University […]

Online Event Co-Sponsors: Barnard College Religion Department, Columbia University Religion Department, Columbia Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, and the Columbia Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies Event Description Jodi Eichler-Levine and Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada will be in conversation about their new books examining the role of material culture in shaping gender, memory, community, and […]

Mid-Year Report Card: Assessing Children's Social and Emotional Health THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2021 | 6:00 PM EST REGISTER Join us for an in-depth overview of the kinds of emotional reactions experienced by children and youth now having gone back to school in a completely virtual or hybrid classroom for half a school year. Experts in […]

On Friday, January 22nd @ 11:00AM ET, we welcome Prof. Catherine von Reyn from Drexel University as she presents, "Engineering neural circuits to understand sensorimotor transformations." ABOUT THE WEBINAR To interact with our environment, we rely on sensorimotor transformations where our nervous system outputs behavioral responses from inputs of light, sound, smell, taste, and touch.  […]

Please join us for a lecture: Impact of a Labor Income Reward Plan: An Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Experiment in China Li Gan, Clifford Taylor Jr. Professor in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University Moderated by: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work; Director, China Center for Social Policy   China currently […]

Brilliant and engagingly written, The Return of Great Power Rivalry argues that this conventional wisdom is wrong. Drawing on an extraordinary range of historical evidence and the works of figures like Herodotus, Machiavelli, and Montesquieu and combining it with cutting-edge social science research, Matthew Kroenig advances the riveting argument that democracies tend to excel in great power […]

Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their […]

Reconstructing Black Worlds: Counternarrative Creation as Preservation Practice - A lecture by Dr. Andrea Roberts From 1865-1930, formerly enslaved Texans founded 557+ freedom colonies, which are now absent from official maps, have lost population, and their building conditions have declined since the Great Migration. Dr. Andrea Roberts will discuss the contemporary status of these Black communities, diasporic […]

In Service to the New Nation: The Life and Legacy of John Jay Conference Posted on 2020-12-08 (2020-12-18) by Robb Haberman, Associate Editor, The Papers of John Jay The John Jay Papers Project, Columbia University Libraries, and Columbia University’s Office of the Provost are proud to present In Service to the New Nation: The Life & Legacy of John Jay, […]