Welcome to Culture on the Corner, an exciting new event series at The Forum. This initiative aims to celebrate and explore the vibrant tapestry of our neighborhood culture in creative ways. We hope to offer a nook where people can forge new connections, foster deeper understandings, and discover the diverse heritage that makes Manhattanville unique.

The Forum and Mario Miguelito, the Artist and Creative Director of Void Asylum, invite you to an interactive fashion experience, highlighting what it looks like to let go of the corporate tether and navigate a path of creative entrepreneurship. Come celebrate Void Asylum’s new art pieces, and network with like-minded energy. Be prepared for prizes, giveaways, and a finale fashion show!

Void Asylum by Mario Miguelito is a luxury streetwear fashion brand manifested within the universal coordinates of past, current, and future culture. Each fashion garment created is an artistic extension of the brand’s core mantra, “Think.Become.” Void Asylum’s goal is to invite everyone to seize today in a way that cultivates and inspires them to let go and be freedom’s creation.

RSVP is encouraged! Seating is limited and will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Vinay Desai first studied singing, harmonium, and tabla with Shafiq Rahman. After completing college in both pre-pharmaceutical science and pre-law in Delaware, Desai studied Santoor in India. In 2011, with blessings and direct guidance of Padma Vibhushan Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, Desai began his studies under Takahiro Arai. He later moved back to the United States to study with Kunal Gunjal. To expand his knowledge, Desai has learnt from maestros such as Parthasarathi Chatterjee, Jay Gandhiji, and Suryaksha Deshpandejii. Now, Vinay studies directly with the great master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma while residing in Shanti Mandir, a beautiful Ashram located in Walden, NY.

Or, watch on YouTube.

Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection, which is out in September. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, and has written for The Paris Review, N+1, Playboy, The New York Times, WIRED, The New Republic, and others. He also runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn.

Organized by Ben Marcus, Writing.

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.

Mark your calendars; it’s that time again! Ride-Your-Bike-to-Campus Day – Rain or Shine!

CUIMC Campus – Friday, 4/26/24 – 10am-3pm Ft. Washington Ave / West 168 Street (Haven Plaza)  (*Free Document Shredding & Electronics destruction 10am-2pm)

Join us for free:

• Bike registration with CU Public Safety and the NYPD.
• Bike tune-ups with registration.
• Bike NYC Safety tips
• One-on-one consultations with NYPD and CU Public Safety specialists about personal safety, situational awareness, safe commuting and more.
• Public Safety programs and services

We will also provide free electronic tattoos for laptops, tablets, cell phones, and other electronic devices. Those devices will be registered with the NYPD and CU Public Safety.

Discounted Public Safety bike locks and discounted bike helmets and accessories (by Innovation Bike Shop) will be on sale.

Helpful links:

Bike Rack Locations By campus.

Bike NYC Safety Tips

For more information, call the Public Safety Community Engagement Team at 212-854-8513 or email:

ps-crimeprevention@columbia.edu

Thank you. We hope to see you there!

A basic narrative medicine workshop held in-person at Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Join us in-person for an immersive and intimate weekend at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York featuring distinguished guest speakers and a special thematic focus on communicating across differences and the complex intersections of healthcare and community!

Register now for $50 off tuition with our Early Bird pricing!

This workshop will provide a transformative introduction to the field of narrative medicine with a special focus on the ways the practice can be applied in communicating across differences and understanding the complex intersections of identity, community, self and other present in the exchanges between clinicians and patients and in the broader spaces of community that impact and are impacted by healthcare.

The weekend will feature integrated practice of narrative medicine methods, along with interactive presentations by Columbia Narrative Medicine faculty Rita Charon, MD, PhD, Craig Irvine, PhD, Maura Spiegel, PhD and Deepthiman Gowda MD, MPH, MS, as well as FEATURED GUEST PRESENTATIONS BY: 

Jae Sevelius, PhD clinical psychologist, Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, and Research Scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute will speak from their background of community-led research serving gender expansive people of color and those affected by HIV on “Reclaiming the Self: Autonomy, Authenticity, and Affirmation.”

Christopher Travis, MD, MS alumnx of the Columbia Narrative Medicine masters program and Assistant Professor and Assistant Education Director for Narrative Medicine in the Department of OB/GYN at University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University will present on the influence of narrative medicine in medical training with “Reflections on Training, Difference, and Collegiality,” where he will also dialogue with presenting faculty and Narrative Medicine Clinical Director and Assistant Dean of Medical Education for Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, Deepthiman Gowda, MD, MPH, MS.

Narrative medicine founding faculty will themselves present on how narrative medicine works, narrative ethics in the context of these concepts of intersection and difference, the power of film in understanding and witnessing dialogues, and pathways for connection in witnessing of self and other. These presentations by Division of Narrative Medicine faculty and our guest speakers, will combine with group discussions, practical exercises, and transformative small group work to provide an immersive introductory experience to the methods and skills of narrative medicine, and will offer rigorous skill-building in narrative practices.

Full schedule and details, including faculty presentations, tuition rates, our discount for cohorts, and travel information are available here!

Columbia DSL’s Breakthroughs in Storytelling, an annual celebration of new forms and functions of storytelling, returns this month with three special events.

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The Orange Road String Quartet presents a program of quartets that build elaborate and interweaving structures at the intersection of secular and spiritual, set against the backdrop of the beautiful Saint Paul’s Chapel. Featuring music by Caroline Shaw, inti figgis-vizueta and Iannis Xenakis, each piece serves as a unique meditation on architecture and its various forms.

Or, watch on YouTube.

The Columbia Cornell Obesity Medicine course provides a thorough overview of obesity medicine and obesity research. Topics include nutrition, lifestyle, behavior change, case management, pharmacological and surgical treatment options, pregnancy and pre-pregnancy, and obesity across patient populations from children to older adults.

This course is aimed at all health professionals: physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and more.

Please join the New York Energy Forum and Bloomberg for a panel discussion around what’s happening in the energy transition arena as we approach mid-year, with a focus on three key themes: Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM), where we stand and progress versus 2023; Ammonia and Hydrogen, looking at hydrogen hubs and developing trends; and the long-term policy on natural gas as a fossil fuel including the LNG Outlook & Energy policy. The panel will be followed by a reception to give you the opportunity to network with the community.

Bloomberg
120 Park Avenue
22 MPR
New York, NY 10017

Agenda

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Check-in

4:00 PM – 4:05

Opening Remarks

Ryan Charles, Bloomberg

4:05 PM – 5:30 PM

Panel Discussion

David Doherty, BloombergNEF
Kyle Harrison, BloombergNEF
Melissa C. Lott, Columbia University’s Climate School
Jacob Susman, Ambient Fuels
Moderated by Ed Morse, Hartree Partners

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Networking Reception

Please click here for speaker information and to register for this event; https://go.bloomberg.com/attend/invite/midyear-update-critical-energy-transition-issues/

Join the Lehman Center for American History for a conversation with Laura Helton about her new book, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History. 

During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African American life. At a time when dominant institutions cast doubt on the value or even the idea of Black history, these bibliophiles, scrapbookers, and librarians created an enduring set of African diasporic archives. In building these institutions and amassing abundant archival material, they also reshaped Black public culture, animating inquiry into the nature and meaning of Black history.

Scattered and Fugitive Things tells the stories of these Black collectors, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south. Laura E. Helton chronicles the work of six key figures: bibliophile Arturo Schomburg, scrapbook maker Alexander Gumby, librarians Virginia Lee and Vivian Harsh, curator Dorothy Porter, and historian L. D. Reddick. Drawing on overlooked sources such as book lists and card catalogs, she reveals the risks collectors took to create Black archives. This book also explores the social life of collecting, highlighting the communities that used these collections from the South Side of Chicago to Roanoke, Virginia. In each case, Helton argues, archiving was alive in the present, a site of intellectual experiment, creative abundance, and political possibility. Offering new ways to understand Black intellectual and literary history, Scattered and Fugitive Things reveals Black collecting as a radical critical tradition that reimagines past, present, and future.

Laura E. Helton is an assistant professor of English and history at the University of Delaware. She is a coeditor of the digital humanities project “Remaking the World of Arturo Schomburg.”