Speaker: Anne K. Grunewald, PhD Associate Professor/FNR ATTRACT Fellow, Head Molecular and Functional Neurobiology Group Universite Du Luxembourg Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine Host: Martin Picard, PhD Event Contact Information: Taisha E. Lembert 212-305-8186 tl2811@cumc.columbia.edu

Please join for a lecture with: Giulio Napolitano, Professor, Roma Tre University Moderated by: Karl P. Sauvant, Columbia University Law School The 20th century ended with a proliferation of global and regional free trade and investment agreements aimed at breaking down obstacles and barriers to the movement of goods and capital. Since the beginning of the 21st century and even more after the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, however, things have begun to change. Foreign investment, in principle, continues to be welcome. However, suspicions and fears about foreign investments have gradually grown. To this have contributed, on the one hand, the weakening of traditional financial, industrial and social structures; on the other, China’s increasingly ambitious economic and geopolitical expansionism policy. In some countries, this distrust and fears have been wisely exploited at the political level and placed at the base of a more general neo-protectionist agenda, as demonstrated by the experience of the Trump [...]

Memories of the Resistance: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the Architecture of Collective Dissidence, 1938-1945 A lecture by Sophie Hochhäusl, Assistant Professor, Architectural History and Theory, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. With commentary by Raphael Koenig, Leonard A. Lauder Fellow in Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Christianna Bonin, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture + Art, MIT and introduction by Felicity Scott, Director, PhD program in Architecture and Co-Director of the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices program at Columbia GSAPP. Today Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000) has been widely recognized as one of the most significant female figures in modern design who worked in Austria, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s. These decades of professional work were marked by a drastic break between 1940 and 1945, when Schütte-Lihotzky was interned for her participation in the Communist resistance against the Nazi regime. Her recollections from the years of internment became [...]

Please join us for a presentation by Anatoly Motkin, founder and president of StrategEast. The StrategEast Westernization Index 2020 assesses the processes of adherence to Western values in post-Soviet countries outside of Russia across five dimensions: political, legal, economic, cultural, and lifestyle. This second edition of the Index, like the first one released in 2018, is the only report to analyze the fourteen countries of the post-Soviet, non-Russian region (PSNR) as a whole. It measures each country’s wholesale integration into the Western world across many sectors and is prepared by experts from the region. The present edition of the Index has additional features revealing both a static and a dynamic picture of Westernization in the post-Soviet countries outside of Russia. This second edition shows trends in political, economic, and legal Westernization, and by extension, the effectiveness of efforts by Western institutions operating in the region. The Index is intended as a tool for public institutes, both [...]

Electricity is the largest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions globally that cause climate change, and the heart of economic development and social improvement for the world’s largest economies, including India and China. Tomorrow’s systems will need to be much larger to support continued economic growth and the demand that comes with it, but they will also need to be substantially less carbon-intensive to meet our climate goals, with renewables replacing coal. Join the Center on Global Energy Policy for a panel discussion that brings together senior experts to provide their insights into this challenge of expanding access to electricity while also lowering carbon emissions, with a focus on lessons that can be drawn from India and China. The panel will comprise Ajay Mathur, Director General of TERI (India), and Deborah Seligsohn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Villanova University. The event will be moderated by CGEP Adjunct Senior Research Scholar Philippe Benoit, who leads the Center’s energy for development research [...]

Please join for a lecture with: Noriyuki Shikata, Associate, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University; Former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in Beijing Moderated by: Takako Hikotani, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Department of Political Science, Columbia University The Abe administration (2012-) and its diplomacy has been remarkably stable despite the geopolitical challenges and instability of its alliance partner, the United States. Is Japan going to stay its course, or are we going to witness major changes in the years ahead? Mr. Shikata, based on his extensive diplomatic experience, will discuss how he forecasts Japan’s diplomacy in 2030. About the Speaker: Noriyuki Shikata holds a B.A. in Law from Kyoto University and Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Most recently, he was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Japan in China. [...]

Presented by Jennifer Chang, Vice-President and Senior Analyst, Moody's Investor Service, and John Welch, Executive Director, Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce and Former Managing Director, HSBC Global Banking and Markets Event Contact Information: ILAS 212-854-4643 Ilas-info@columbia.edu

JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Inga Winkler will discuss their ongoing advocacy to address the national problem of lack of access to sanitation, which predominantly impacts individuals living in poverty, particularly in African American, Indigenous and Immigrant communities.  This talk will highlight current advocacy strategies, including engagement with the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission, and the barriers to making the right to sanitation a reality in the United States. Panelists: JoAnn Kamuf Ward, Director of the Human Rights in the U.S. Project at Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute. Inga Winkler, Lecturer in Human Rights at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and Director of Undergraduate Studies. Event Contact Information: Gergana Halpern gh2410@columbia.edu

Cultural heritage and the emotions of nostalgia are closely entangled and both have become weaponised in populist national debates. From the nostalgic reflection explicit in the ‘make America great again’ election slogan, to the yearning for an empire long gone that underlies Brexit and the vilification and incarceration of migrants and refuges, heritage has, in some measure, been implicated. Nor is this a new phenomenon, heritage studies itself arose as a recognizable field in the 1980s, at least in the Anglophone context, within the context of Thatcherite uses of heritage and nostalgia and Roland Reagan’s mawkish campaign cry ‘let’s make America great again’. At this time heritage was vilified as explicitly ‘capital C’ conservative. This talk will theorise both the affective qualities of heritage and the processes through which heritage becomes a resource of political power. As both an emotional and political resource heritage becomes readily mobilised within right-wing populist movements and the talk analyses how [...]

You are invited to join the Sports Management and Bioethics Programs to discuss important ethical practices that include important topics such as concussion, player safety and injury protocol. The panel consists of key leaders in the sports and bioethics. Panelists: Kathleen Bachynski, MD Author, No Game for Boys to Play: The History of Youth Football and the Origins of a Public Health Crisis Author, Pink Concussions: Female Brain Injury from Sports, Violence, Military Service Jonathan Becker, MD Sports Medicine, University of Louisville Barbra Rothschild, MD Lecturer, Bioethics at Columbia University Moderated by Robert Klitzman, MD Professor of Psychiatry Director, Online and In-person Masters of Bioethics Program Agenda: 7:00pm - Registration/networking 8:00pm - Opening remarks 8:05pm - Panel discussion 8:45pm - Q&A 9:00pm - Networking 9:30pm - End of the event We hope to see you there! Livestream option available here. Speakers Robert Klitzman, M.D. Academic Director, M.S. in Bioethics Program, School of Professional Studies; Professor of Psychiatry (in Sociomedical Sciences), [...]

A Lecture with Geeta Mehta Geeta Mehta is an Indian-American social entrepreneur, urban designer, architect and author passionate about bringing the issues of social justice into the design discourse. She is the co-founder of two NGOs: Asia Initiatives and URBZ, and an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. Geeta will discuss why she questions the current practice of measuring the return on investments (RoI) of all projects just with money, and how they should be instead measured with social capital, ecological capital, and financial capital. She will also show how SoCCs (social capital credits) the award-winning community currency for social good she has innovated is changing neighborhoods and improving lives in projects across 4 countries. These transformations include river restorations, public space creation and management, rainwater harvesting, livelihood creation and more. Free and open to the public. Organized as part of the Urban Design Lecture Series.

In 1979, near the height of second-wave feminism, a thirty-one-year old Indian immigrant started one of the first male strip clubs for women in Los Angeles. Within a few years The Chippendales spread to New York, and a touring show brought the oiled, muscled studs to fly-over country. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Chippendales were more than mere entertainment: the male strip show gave women permission to behave in a sexually aggressive manner never seen before in public. From ogling males bodies, to paying to kiss the Chips, tearing at their clothes, grabbing their penises and having sex in the back of the club (sometimes for a fee), the Chippendales legitimized the female gaze, allowing women to nakedly express desire for men in public and objectify male bodies. The Chippendales were far from the first male sex workers for women. While the talk will tell the story of the male sex worker through the lens [...]

“Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms,” a talk by Jonathan Metzl For our March Narrative Medicine Rounds, we welcome Jonathan M. Metzl, MD PhD, who is the Frederick B. Rentschler II professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of its Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. In his talk, Dr. Metzl, addresses four assumptions that frequently arise in the aftermath of mass-shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that a psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime before it happens, (3) that shootings are the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control won’t prevent another Newtown. Each of these statements is certainly true in particular instances. Yet notions of mental illness that emerge in relation to mass shootings frequently reflect larger cultural stereotypes and anxieties about matters such as race, social class, and politics. These issues become obscured when mass shootings come to [...]

Financial markets are the primary directors of economic activity in a capitalist global society, but they also have an important societal role in encouraging investments that are beneficial to natural and human ecosystems. Behavior can be greatly influenced by the availability and price of capital finance, and sustainability factors—environmental, social, and governance (ESG)—must be reflected in the world as understood by finance professionals in order to be real and not merely symbolic. A new book, titled "The Financial Ecosystem: The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability" outlines the rationale for and methods used in six areas where financial acumen has been harnessed to the goal of combining monetary return with long run sustainability. In this event, authors Satyajit Bose, Guo Dong, and Anne Simpson will be joined by other sustainable finance experts to discuss each of the six areas and their specific roles in advancing specific measures of sustainability. They will also illustrate analytical tools and [...]