September 2019
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the Obama administration launched Rebuild by Design, an innovative design and planning competition for projects that promote resilience in the face of climate change. This event brings together two people closely involved in this effort — Shaun Donovan, the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Kate Orff, an Associate Professor at Columbia GSAPP, the Director of GSAPP’s Urban Design Program, and the founder of SCAPE studio. They will discuss how we might design successful, inclusive urban planning interventions in an era of climate crisis.
Find out moreColumbia University hosts Manhattan Community Board 9’s General Board Meeting on Thursday, September 19th at The Forum. Community board meetings are free and open to the public. For more information contact info@cb9m.org. Event Contact Information: Manhattan Community Board 9 212-864-6200 info@cb9m.org
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Introduced by Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts Renowned Danish-Icelandic visual artist Olafur Eliasson’s large-scale works such as Ice Watch and New York City Waterfalls spark critical dialogue about climate change and our relationship to nature. His work is driven by interests in perception, movement, embodied experience, and feelings of self, engaging the broader public sphere through architectural projects, interventions in civic space, arts education, policy-making, and issues of sustainability. Co-presented by The Forum Event Contact Information: Gavin Browning 212-851-9567 gdb2106@columbia.edu
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Pathways to Apprenticeship is currently recruiting for our next Direct Entry Building Trades Pre-Apprenticeship class, which can lead to a Building Trades Apprenticeship where you learn a trade while working. This class will have a priority for residents of West Harlem. Participant Benefits: • Construction Skills Training • Tours of Union Training Facilities • Interviews with NYC Building and Construction Trade Unions • Personal Protective equipment • OSHA 30, Scaffold Safety, and Flagger Certifications Requirements: • High School Diploma or High School Equivalency Diploma (GED/TASC) • Physical capacity for construction work (lifting and carrying 50 lbs) • Drug Free Please join us at one of our information sessions: Wednesday, September 25 10 AM Jackie Robinson Senior Center – Grant Houses 1301 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027 Wednesday, September 25 6 PM WHDC Skills Training Center 500 W 134th St, New York, NY 10031 Tuesday, October 8 6 PM The Forum, Columbia University [...]
Find out morePlease join us for a panel discussion with: Vũ Thảo, Founder, Kilomet 109 Valerie Steele, Director, Fashion Institute of New York Hazel Clarke, Professor of Design Studies and Fashion Studies, The New School Dorothy Ko, Professor of History, Barnard College Moderated by: John Phan, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Panel Discussion 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Catered Trunk Show This is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute 70th Anniversary event. For press inquiries, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. October 10, 2019 4:30 PM – 8:00 PM The Auditorium & Foyer at the Forum (125th Street & Broadway) Event Contact Information: Athina Fontenot 212-854-6916 af3018@columbia.edu
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A conversation at The Forum presented in partnership with Emeritus Professors in Columbia (EPIC) and The School of Professional Studies, Columbia University with Dr. David Evans, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, and Peggy Shepard, Executive Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Inc. Introduced by Mary McGee, Executive Director, The Forum, and Margaret Jo Shepherd, Professor Emerita of Education, Teachers College There is increasing recognition that toxic chemicals in the environment, as well as poverty, racism, and inequitable access to medical care, contribute to both pediatric and adult disease. The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health has conducted research in Central and West Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx since 1998 to assess the impact of prenatal exposure to suspected environmental health hazards on growth and development throughout childhood. We Act for Environmental Justice, Inc., Columbia's community partner, fights for environmental health and justice through community organizing and advocacy for legislative change. Dr. Evans and [...]
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A conversation with Dr. David Evans, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, and Peggy Shepard Executive Director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Inc. introduced by Mary McGee, Executive Director, The Forum, and Margaret Jo Shepherd, Professor Emerita of Education, Teachers College There is increasing recognition that toxic chemicals in the environment, as well as poverty, racism, and inequitable access to medical care, contribute to both pediatric and adult disease. The Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health has conducted research in Central and West Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx since 1998 to assess the impact of prenatal exposure to suspected environmental health hazards on growth and development throughout childhood. We Act for Environmental Justice, Inc., Columbia's community partner, fights for environmental health and justice through community organizing and advocacy for legislative change. Dr. Evans and Ms. Shepard will describe their collaborative work to address these problems over the last two decades. FREE [...]
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Daan Roosegaarde will discuss WATERLICHT and other visionary projects such as Gates of Light, Van Gogh Path, Smog Free Project, and Space Waste Lab with Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University School of the Arts. His new Phaidon monograph will be available for purchase from Barnes and Noble. Co-presented by Columbia University School of the Arts and The Forum Check-in will begin one hour prior to start time. Seating is limited and first come, first served. Advance registration does not guarantee seating; early arrival is suggested. Register Photo by Willem de Kam
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Columbia University’s fall 2019 Blood Drive Campaign is dedicated to increasing awareness of this disease and providing support to cancer patients as well as others in need of donated blood. Cancer patients are the number one recipient of blood because of the loss they encounter during surgery, or in order to compensate for the side effects of chemotherapy drugs they receive. Event Contact Information: Junior M. Benjamin 212-854-3716 jb2058@columbia.edu
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Join Jameel Jaffer of the Knight First Amendment Institute and Amy Davidson Sorkin of The New Yorker for a conversation with Edward Snowden (via video feed) about secrecy, surveillance, security, and the role of whistleblowers in exposing government wrongdoing. An audience Q&A will follow. Tickets are limited to the Columbia University community through October 16, 2019, and will be available to the General Public starting on October 17, 2019. Event Contact Information: Madeline Wood 646-745-8615 madeline.wood@knightcolumbia.org
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Featuring Kelsey Martin, MD, PhD, Dean, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Gerald S. Levey Chair, Professor of Biological Chemistry, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles REGISTER HERE Columbia's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Department of Neuroscience and Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute present the Inaugural Eric R. Kandel Lecture. Kelsey Martin, MD, PhD, Dean, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Gerald S. Levey Chair, will be delivering the lecture. The title of her presentation is "Regulating Gene Expression to Store Long-term Memories." About Dr. Martin Kelsey C. Martin, MD, PhD, is the Dean for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She received her undergraduate degree in English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University. After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, she entered the MD‐PhD program at Yale University where she studied influenza virus-host cell interactions in the laboratory of Dr. Ari Helenius, [...]
Find out moreNovember 2019
Followed by conversation with Dean Amale Andraos and Thelma Golden November 7th, 2019, 6:30pm - 8pm, The Forum Auditorium. Registration is required. Register with Eventbrite here. Co-presented with the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, & Preservation and the School of the Arts Adjaye, the award-winning architect and lead designer of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will give a lecture about how art, architecture and design can promote more ethically-minded cities. Following the talk, Adjaye will speak in conversation with Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem. With reflections on Adjaye’s own work, including the forthcoming new facility at the Studio Museum, they will discuss how socially-minded architecture in urban centers can draw together and lift up communities, encourage exchange and prompt recognition of underheard voices. This conversation will explore how architecture can promote inclusive, dignified outcomes, especially [...]
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Follow your passion and learn about higher education opportunities in the arts! We invite you to speak with college representatives about the admissions process, academic offerings, student life, financial aid and more. Free and open to the community! Event Contact Information: The Forum 212-853-6786 theforum@columbia.edu
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In this Community Scholars Lecture, Eric K. Washington discusses the Harlem Renaissance-era labor figure James H. Williams, subject of his just-published biography. In a timely reclamation, he uncovers the nearly forgotten life of James H. Williams (1878–1948), the chief of Grand Central Terminal’s iconic Red Cap porters. That multitude of Harlem-based black men not only once formed the essential labor force of America’s most august railroad station, but often infused the lifeblood of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Washington reveals that despite the highly racialized and often exploitative nature of the work, the Red Cap was a highly coveted job for college-bound black men determined to join New York’s burgeoning middle class. Examining the deeply intertwined subjects of class, labor, and African American history, Washington chronicles Williams’s life, showing how he successfully navigated the segregated world of the northern metropolis, and in so doing ultimately achieved financial and social influence. With this biography, Williams must now [...]
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Join us as the holiday lights are turned on for Manhattanville Lights and Bites. From 4:30-5PM - join us in the small square as we celebrate the lighting of the trees. Then from 5-7PM - join us in the forum where graduates of the SBDC Harlem Local Vendor Program provide bite size samples of their delicious offerings. Featured Vendors Second Brain Foods Janies Tres Leches Stylish Spoon Mama’s One Sauce Ginjan Event Contact Information: Victoria Mason-Ailey 212-854-3887 vm116@columbia.edu
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Register here: https://10th-anniversary-new-york.eventbrite.com Climate change will increasingly impact every aspect of every life in every region around the world. Through the lens of the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia faculty will share their perspectives on the impacts of climate change in different regions around the world and how each region has been working to mitigate these effects. Panelists: - Ruth DeFries (University Professor; Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development) will speak on agriculture in India - Faye McNeill (Professor of Chemical Engineering) will speak on air pollution in Africa and India - Kate Orff (Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation) will speak on water and urbanism in the Middle East - Lisa Sachs (Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment) will speak on how extractive industries are addressing the climate crisis in Latin America Moderator: Alex Halliday, Director of Columbia's Earth Institute Seating is limited and first [...]
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