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Page 1: It’s happening at Columbia · Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II 8:00 p.m. 620 Dodge, Morningside campus Farah Griffin, Columbia University,

This is a small sampling of the public events at Columbia. For additional CUID events or general information visit www.columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2871. For Columbia sports info, visit www.gocolumbialions.com.Guests in need of disability services should call (212) 854-2284 prior to the event.

Saturday, March 1–Saturday, May 31, 2014

Exhibition: The Raging ’70s Latino New York as Seen by El Diario’s Bolívar Arellano10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.420 Hamilton, Morningside campus

For more info, call (212) 854-0507 or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/cser.

Saturday, March 1–Saturday, March 15

Exhibition: Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington’s New York SculptureMiriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 826 Schermerhorn, Morningside campus

For more info, call (212) 854-7288 or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach.

Wednesday, March 5

GED Classes and Job Readiness Training 3:00 p.m.Columbia University Employment Information Center, 3180 Broadway

Sessions include interviewing skills, résumé building, job search strat-egies and tips on how to dress for success. An additional session will be held April 2. Registration required. For more info, call (212) 851-1551 or visit www.community-jobs.columbia.edu. Columbia also has a number of outreach programs for local youth ages 16-24. Columbia Community Impact offers a GED experience that combines traditional classes with the College Road program, which adds tutoring, college prep and mentoring. For more info, call (212) 854-1116 or visit www.news.columbia.edu/youthoutreach.

Thursday, March 6

Exhibition Tour: Publisher as Provocateur3:00 p.m.Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Butler Library, Morningside campusThe exhibit highlights literary contributions of publisher Sam Roth. RSVP to [email protected]. For more info, call (212) 854-7309 or visit http://library.columbia.edu/news/exhibitions.

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II8:00 p.m.620 Dodge, Morningside campus

Farah Griffin, Columbia University, will discuss her latest book Harlem Nocturne. For more info, call (212) 851-9272 or visit www.jazz.columbia .edu/events/upcoming.

Thursday, March 6–Friday, March 14

The History of Poverty in Africa: A Central Question?Second Floor Common Room, Heyman Center, Morningside campus

This conference brings together a wide range of scholars working on the history of the poor and poverty in Africa. For more info, call (212) 854-8443 or visit www.heymancenter.org.

Friday, March 7

Lecture: Retranslating Literary Classics11:00 a.m.Miller Theatre, Morningside campus

Panel on Cervantes, Montaigne, Dostoevsky with translators Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear, Wyatt Mason and Edith Grossman. For more info, call (212) 854-7309 or visit http://library.columbia.edu/news/exhi-bitions.

Men’s Basketball vs. Penn7:00 p.m.Dodge Physical Fitness Center, Morningside campus

For more info, call (212) 854-2535 or visit www.gocolumbialions.com.

Saturday, March 8

Men’s Tennis vs. Binghamton2:00 p.m.Dick Savitt Tennis Center, Baker Athletics Complex, 218th Street and Broadway

For more info, call (212) 854-2535 or visit www.gocolumbialions.com.

Music at St. Paul’s: The Bach Society 6:00 p.m.St. Paul’s Chapel, Morningside campus

For more info, call (212) 854-1487 or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/earl/music.

Men’s Basketball vs. Princeton7:00 p.m.Dodge Physical Fitness Center, Morningside campus

For more info, call (212) 854-2535 or visit www.gocolumbialions.com.

Saturday, March 8–Friday, March 14

Screening: The Act of Killing5:30 p.m.Lifetime Screening Room, 511 Dodge, Morningside campus

Shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, The Act of Killing follows former Indonesian death squad leaders as they reenact their war crimes of killing Chinese communists in the 1960s. Following the screening, director Joshua Oppenheimer leads a discussion about trauma, memory and the power of filmmaking. For more info, call (212) 854-2875 or visit www.arts.columbia.edu.

Monday, March 10

Café Columbia: What Does The Universe Really Look Like?6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.Columbia Alumni Center, 622 W. 113th St.

Speaker: David Schiminovich, Columbia University. $10 per person. Seating is limited. For more info, call (877) 854-2586 or visit www.cafes.columbia.edu.

Tuesday, March 11

Symposium on Mary Lou Williams11:00 a.m.East Gallery, Buell, Morningside campusSpeakers: Farah Griffin, Columbia University; Father Peter O’Brien, Williams’ manager; Dwight Andrews, Emory University; and pianist Jason Moran. For more info, call (212) 851-9270 or visit www.jazz.columbia.edu/events/upcoming.

Putin’s Presidency: Two Years After ElectionNoon1219 International Affairs, Morningside campus

Speaker: Andranik Migranyan, Institute for Democracy and Cooperation. For more info, call (212) 854-4623 or visit www.harriman.columbia.edu/events.

A New Civics for Smart Cities1:00 p.m.114 Avery, Morningside campusSpeaker: Anthony Townsend, New York University. For more info, call (212) 854-3414 or visit www.arch.columbia.edu/events.

An Inconsolable Memory: Selected Films of Aryan Kaganof5:30 p.m.

The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave.

South African filmmaker Aryan Kaganof will present and discuss some of his films, most of which have never been seen in the United States. He will be joined in discussion by Richard Peña, Columbia University School of the Arts; Hlonipha Mokoena, Columbia University; Sean Jacobs, The New School; and Anna Grimshaw, Emory University. For more info, call (212) 854-2306 or visit www.italianacademy.columbia.edu.

Music at St. Paul’s: Manhattan Chorale6:00 p.m.St. Paul’s Chapel, Morningside campus

For more info, call (212) 854-1487 or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/earl/music.

Wednesday,March 12

Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in BrooklynCivil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the 20th CenturyNoonLehman Center, International Affairs, Morningside campus

Speaker: Brian Purnel, Bowdoin College. For more info, call (212) 854-2927 or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/lehmancenter/seminars.

Thursday, March 13

Texts, Risks and Revolution: Holding Up a Mirror to the Arab World6:15 p.m.Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard campus

Playwright and director Sulayman Al Bassam in conversation with his collaborator Georgina Van Welie, co-founder of the SABAB Theatre discuss their 10-year Arab Shakespeare project and Sulayman’s new play, The Petrol Station. The play follows the lives of a pair of brothers as they vie for the loyalty and favors of their aging father against the backdrop of a vicious civil war of a neighboring country. The Petrol Station will play at The Kennedy Center on March 18, 2014. For more info, call (212) 854-8443 or visit www.heymancenter.org.

Composer Portraits: Unsuk Chin8:00 p.m. Miller Theatre, Morningside campus

Tickets $20/$30. For more info, call (212) 854-7799 or visit www.millertheatre.com/events.

Friday, March 14

Mellon Visiting Artist & Thinker Program A Time for Everything: Diagrams6:00 p.m.Prentis, 632 W. 125th St.

In the third and final segment of Matthew Ritchie’s Mellon projects, he and Frederik Stjernfelt, author of Diagrammatology, together with Kenneth Rogers, will examine art historical and political concepts of mutuality particularly through the emerging culture of diagrams. RSVP requested. For more info, call (212) 854-2875 or visit www.arts.columbia.edu.

European Big City At Home: Foreign Popular Culture in Belgrade Between the Wars7:15 p.m.1219 International Affairs, Morningside campus

Speaker: Jovana Babovic, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For more info, call (212) 854-4623 or visit www.harriman.columbia.edu/events.

Thursday, March 20

Lecture: Conversations on Online Learning3:00 p.m.203 Butler Library, Morningside campus

Speaker: Marcia Linn, University of California, Berkeley. For more info, call (212) 854-7309 or visit www.library.columbia.edu/news/exhibitions.

Tuesday, March 25

Book History Colloquium LectureMapping the Bookstore: Retail Cartographies in

Antebellum Manhattan6:00 p.m. 523 Butler Library, Morningside campus

Speaker: Kristin Highland, New York University. For more info, call (212) 854-7309 or visit http://library.columbia.edu/news/exhibitions.

Wednesday, March 26

Women’s Lacrosse vs. Princeton7:00 p.m.Baker Athletics Complex, 218th Street and Broadway

For more info, call (212) 854-2535 or visit www.gocolumbialions.com.

Thursday, March 27

Lecture: Decentering Authority Building a Collaborative Oral History of Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn6:00 p.m.509 Knox, Morningside campus

Speaker: Sady Sullivan, Brooklyn Historical Society. For more info, call (212) 854-7309 or visit http://library.columbia.edu/news/exhibitions.

Core Series: Activist Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically6:30 p.m.Wood Auditorium, 100 Avery, Morningside campus

Speaker: Chantal Mouffe, University of Westminster. For more info, call (212) 854-3414 or visit www.arch.columbia.edu/events.

Friday, March 28

Stargazing and Lecture: Our Hungry Black Hole8:00 p.m.301 Pupin, Morningside campus

Speaker: Yuan Li, Columbia University. Lecture will be followed by star-gazing with telescopes, weather-permitting. For directions, weather and more info, visit http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu.

Friday, March 28-Saturday, March 29

Communities in Action: Access to Quality Education for Latino StudentsTeachers College

The conference serves as a platform for understanding issues and chal-lenges faced by Latino students in the K-12 system, as well as sharing experiences and strategies for overcoming these challenges. For more info, call (212) 854-0507 or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/cser.

Saturday, March 29

Women’s Tennis vs. CornellNoonDick Savitt Tennis Center, Baker Athletics Complex, 218th Street and Broadway

For more info, call (212) 854-2535 or visit www.gocolumbialions.com.

Monday, March 31

Core Series: Entertainer: Lifestyle Hotels Today6:30 p.m.Wood Auditorium, 100 Avery, Morningside campus

Speakers: Ian Schrager, of Ian Schrager Company, and Vishaan Chakrabarti, Columbia University. For more info, call (212) 854-3414 or visit www.arch.columbia.edu/events.

It’s happening at

in Columbia March

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES BRAIN AWARENESS MONTH

Friday, March 7

Stargazing and Lecture: Brain-gazing: A Visual Journey From the Cosmos to the Self7:00 p.m., 301 Pupin, Morningside campus

Join astronomer Matt Turk, Columbia University, and neuroscientist Jonathan Fisher, New York Medical College, to preview Neurodome, a planetarium show about the brain. Lecture will be followed by star-gazing with telescopes, weather-permitting. For directions, weather and more info, visit http://outreach.astro.columbia.edu.

Monday, March 10

Screening: Neural Imagining: The Brain Seen Through Film7:30–9:00 p.m., 417 International Affairs, Morningside campus

Curated by Imagine Science Films, this film explores how the brain is depicted using documentary, science fiction, essay, and cutting-edge neuro-imaging. Panel discussion to follow. For more info, visit https://neuralimagining.eventbrite.com.

Wednesday, March 12

Community Brain Expo3:00 p.m., Kolb Annex, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 40 Haven Ave.

Students, parents and teachers are invited to test, trick and learn about their brain at Columbia University Medical Center. For more info or to RSVP, visit www.brainexpo2014.eventbrite.com.

Wednesday, March 19

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Autism: Human Social Behavior and Communication6:30 p.m., Miller Theatre, Morningside campus

Speaker: Catherine Lord, Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, Columbia University. RSVP required. For more info, visit www.news.columbia.edu/braininsight.