Eli Amdur, Adjunct Professor (retired), Coach, Advisor, T-shirt Philosopher, and Lead Guitarist The history and future of ethical decision making. A theoretical and case-study look at “progress” – with and without […]

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We are excited to welcome Prof. Celeste Nelson from Princeton University to Tissue Talks on Wednesday, April 14th at 3:00PM EST as she presents, "Developmental bioengineering: implementing evolution’s strategies to build […]

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. To register and access live stream links, visit the event page on our website: https://harriman.columbia.edu/event/virtual-event-russian-influence-middle-east-new-era Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join the Program on U.S.-Russian Relations for a panel […]

Current events have given us urgent cause to reexamine the United States’ long history of discrimination and violence against Asian Americans. Chinese were lynched in California and exclusionary laws cut back their immigration. Japanese citizens were corralled into barbed-wire camps during World War II. And immigrants from Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, India and elsewhere faced levels […]

Infant mortality has long been recognized as a disproportionate cause of death for black Americans. This talk examines the historical origins of tracking black infant mortality in the U.S. The data collected during slavery and in the long transition to freedom served a range of purposes, spanning preventative public health measures to theories forecasting black […]

ICLS and the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics presents: Medical Humanities and Pandemic Urbanisms - Telling Stories: Medicine and Institutional Racism April 14, 6:00 PM EST Registration is required. You may register here. Speakers Bettina Judd (Gender, Women and Sexuality, U Washington) and Raymond Givens (Internal Medicine, Columbia University), moderator Rita Charon (Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics), and respondent Matthew Sandler (American […]

Please register here. The issue of damages in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is gaining increased attention. Arbitrators are devoting more space to the topic in their awards and counsel and experts in their submissions, States are reflecting on this in their policy- and treaty-making capacities, and academics and other commentators are increasingly scrutinizing existing approaches and […]

Please join us April 15 for the First International Symposium of Fusobacteria. This event will take place virtually. Organizing Committee:   Yiping Han, Columbia University, USA Gilad Bachrach, Hebrew University, Israel Jorg Vogel, University of Wurzburg, Germany Confirmed Speakers:  Matthew Meyerson (keynote), Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA Emma Allen-Vercoe, University of Guelph, Canada Hideo Baba, Kumamoto University, […]

This event will be held virtually as a Zoom webinar and streamed via YouTube Live. There will be no in-person event. Click here to register & access live stream links   Register here for the Zoom webinar, or tune in on YouTube Live. Please join us for the 4th Annual Edward A. Allworth Memorial Lecture, given by Erica Marat (National Defense […]

The student teams in SIPA’s Workshop in Development Practice (the EPD Workshop) have been working this year on cutting-edge projects with twelve clients in over ten countries. This year's projects support agricultural technology and food security, inclusive energy finance, impact bonds and impact investing, digital governance and public sector innovation, education models and policies, gender […]

Over the last three decades, the debate about climate change has involved challenges to the very evidence of change, disagreements about status of models and simulations as scientific evidence, calls for “sound science,” disputes about the contribution of anthropogenic causes, attempts to cast doubt on the integrity and plausibility of forecasts and assessments, and various […]

Columbia Mailman School of Public Health The Dean's Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health  Gary S. Belkin, MD, PhD, MPH Founder, Billion Minds Institute Former NYC Deputy Health Commissioner 2020-2021 McSilver Fellow-in-Residence McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University Kathleen J. Sikkema, PhD Chair and Stephen Smith Professor Department […]

Elections, Online Chatter and Content Moderation Guest Speaker: Mutale Nkonde, Founding Director, AI for the People REGISTER HERE Chaired By: Desmond Upton Patton, Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, The Data Science Institute, Columbia University. Patton is also Associate Professor of Social Work; Associate Dean of Curriculum Innovation and Academic Affairs; and Courtesy Appointment […]