The Harriman Institute and the Russian American Cultural Center are proud to present an exhibition of the works of Yuri Shalamov, a photographer who worked for top Soviet magazines and newspapers for over thirty years.

The Middle East Institute (MEI) and the New York Open Center present a conference entitled, "Islam, Sufism, and the Heart of Compassion: Living the Teachings of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi," with William C. Chittick, Stephen Hirtenstein, Salman Bashier, Sachiko Murata and Mohamed Haj Yousef.

The Middle East Institute (MEI) and the New York Open Society present the film, “Bab ’Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul,” which will be followed by a Q&A with Director Nacer Khemir.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) presents a Brown Bag Lecture entitled, "China's Science and Technology Talent Pool: Competitive Advantage or Critical Problem?" with Denis F. Simon, Professor, Penn State School of International Affairs and Cong Cao, Senior Researcher, The Levin Institute, State University of New York (SUNY).

The Middle East Institute (MEI) and The Institute for Research on Women and Gender present a talk by Amira Hass on "Palestine and the Israeli Occupation."

Speaker: Matthew Hahn, Department of Biology and School of Informatics, Indiana University

Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Dr. Louis Skyner.

The International Finance and Economic Policy (IFEP) Concentration from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) hosts lecturer professor Debra Steger, WTO Appellate Body Secretariat.

Legal Theory Workshop. Speaker: tba

What Is Café Science? Café Science is a series of informal discussions about some of the most pressing scientific questions of our day, led by Columbia University's foremost scientists.

The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) presents the SIPA Global Mayor's Forum entitled, "Urban Policy, Global Challenges: A Conversation with Syed Mustafa Kamal, mayor of Karachi, Pakistan."

Benjamin Cohen, Adam Posen, and Joseph Stiglitz will reflect upon the role of governments and central banks in overseeing a new financial architecture, and whether new institutional innovations, such as a new global reserve currency, are required.

Academic Lecture Speaker: Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Open to public.

Academic Lecture. Speaker: Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Please join the Harriman Institute in association with Programs in Comparative and International Education and International Education Development for a comparative analysis of the results from the 2006 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).

Please Note: The Book Club is open to Members of the Société des Amis de La Maison Française and Columbia University students with a valid and current CUID.

David Myers is Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angles. Open to public.

Gregg Crabtree, Neurobiology & Behavior PhD Candidate in Laboratory of Amy MacDermott, will present his thesis titled: TRPVI Modulates Synaptic Transmission by Acting as an Intracellular Ca2+ Leak Channel

Columbia University Faculty and Instructors: Register now for Wikispaces: Getting Started, the first part of the Columbia Wikispaces workshop series. Columbia Wikispaces provides a wiki to every active, registered course at Columbia University. Wikis are collaborative websites that enable users to add, edit, and share multimedia content using basic word processor tools.

Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Kristen Regina, Chief Art Librarian at Hillwood Museum & Gardens.

The International Media, Advocacy and Communications (IMAC) specialization at SIPA welcomes John Aravosis, editor of AMERICAblog.com, who will talk about the role of the liberal blogs in working with the Obama administration during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Columbia University Faculty and Instructors: Register now for Wikispaces Advanced, the second part of the Columbia Wikispaces workshop series.

Speakers: Various

Vadim Zharnitsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - "Near-linear dynamics in KdV with periodic boundary conditions"

Presentation of Global Cities Power Index report which ranks cities based on six overall categories: "Economy," "Research & Development," "Cultural Interaction," "Livability," "Ecology & Natural Environment," and "Accessibility."

Speaker: Klaus Lackner, Director, Lenfest Center on Sustainable Energy, The Earth Institute, Columbia Univesity; Chair, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science; Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Columbia University

Please Note: The Café Conversation is open to Members of the Société des Amis de La Maison Française and Columbia University students with a valid and current CUID.

Claudia Funke, Curator of Books, Avery Library, Columbia University presents, “The Creation of a Photographic Book in 1866: P. B. Wight’s National Academy of Design.” Open to public.

Speaker: Steven Cohen, Director, MPA Environmental Science and Policy; Executive Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

Please join us for a literary evening with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, while she reads from her latest book, "There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill her Neighbor's baby: Fairy Tales."

The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) hosts a lecture by Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and the 2008 Kyoto Prize.

Charles Taylor returns to speak on the question, "Can Human Action Be Explained?".

Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University and winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize and the 2008 Kyoto Prize speaks on "Can Human Action Be Explained?"

Suzanne Gardinier’s four books of poetry include the long poems 'The New World' and 'Dialogue with the Archipelago,' as well as a forthcoming book of elegies entitled 'Iridium.' “Gardinier is above all a poet whose language and images are completely integrated so that, in Keats’s words, every rift is laden with ore.” (Adrienne Rich) Matthea Harvey, “a master of the surprising, illuminating connection,” has written three books of poetry: 'Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form,' 'Sad Little Breathing Machine,' and 'Modern Life.' (Chicago Tribune) Katy Lederer is the author of two books of poetry, 'Winter Sex' and 'The Heaven-Sent Leaf,' which is “sparkling and strange, acrobatic but never evasive, clear-eyed about its own emotional life even as it takes semantics for a tumble.” (Stephen Burt)

Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Kimberly Marten of Barnard College and Columbia University.

Speaker: Desmond Beirne, Program Associate, Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U), Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC)

The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) presents, “Strategy Serving Tactics: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the New Way of American Warfare,” with Colonels David Gray and Gian Gentile.

Speaker: Glenn Denning, Director, MPA in Development Practice; Professor of Professional Practice, Faculty of International and Public Affairs; Associate Director, Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University

IN COLLABORATION | Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Andrea Zittel: Energetic Accumulators and Ideological Resonators Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 pm Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall

This Institute for African Studies (IAS) series will explore contemporary African cities as unique built environments with Abosede George, assistant professor at Barnard College, specializing in African history, women’s history, urban history of Africa, and the history of childhood in Africa.

The Department of Italian at Columbia University in the City of New York is pleased to announce Beyond Futurism: F.T. Marinetti, Writer, a two-day international symposium at Italian Cultural Institute in New York. Open to public.

The Podcasting Essentials workshop will provide in-depth information on how audio and video content is being produced for students in higher education, and will explain how podcasting has helped distribute educational media.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) presents a brown bag lecture entitled, "Japanese Politics from Tanaka to Hatoyama (via Koizumi)," with Margarita Estévez-Abe, Associate Professor of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Syracuse University.

"Frontiers of Translation: Poetry, Semiotics, and Popular Fiction", a panel discussion

Lin Mei, MD/PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Medical College of Georgia. Talk title: Neuregulin signaling in Neural Development and Synaptic Plasticity.

Jacqueline Olvera, Term Assistant Professor at Barnard College, examines how migrants, who are constructed as socially invisible yet physically present, negotiate the complexities that illegality introduces in their everyday lives. The BCRW Lunchtime Lecture Series allows Barnard faculty to share their most up-to-date research in a relaxed and informal setting. So brown-bag your lunch and join us in 101 Barnard Hall!

The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) presents a seminar with Dr. Robert O. Keohane, Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University, on "Social Norms and Agency in World Politics."

John Wilbanks of Science Commons joins CIESIN director Robert Chen and Epidemiology professor Andrew Rundle to consider the implications of open data initiatives.

Speakers: John Wilbanks, Vice President, Science Commons; Robert Chen, Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), The Earth Institute, Columbia University Andrew G. Rundle, Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

The Middle East Institute (MEI) presents a Brown Bag Lecture Series with Amelie Le Renard entitled, "Young Women in Riyadh: Between Transgressions of Islamic Rules and Consumerist Norms."

The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies (CCHPS) is pleased to welcome Dr. David Holtgrave, professor and chair, Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, as Grand Rounds speaker on "Economic Evaluations of the Housing & Health Intervention Study."

Speaker: Desmond Beirne, Program Associate, Evening Certificate Program in Conservation Biology, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC)

Britain’s pioneering industrial revolution holds important lessons for proponents of contemporary public health and development policy to ponder. Open to public.

Carol Sanger, Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, speaking on "Abortion and the Visual Construction of Loss" and Anne Higonnet, Professor of Art HIstory, Barnard, responding.

Institute for Research on Women and Gender presents "FEMINIST Interventions-Works in Progress" a public lecture series by members of the Columbia University Faculty. Abortion and the Visual Construction of Loss with Carol Sanger Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School

This is a joint-information session about conflict resolution programs, student groups, organizations, courses, etc., at Columbia University and affiliated institutions. Come hear about opportunities to get involved! A reception will follow. Open to public.

Colloquium Seminar: "Development and Application of Complexity-Building Reaction," presented by Prof. Jeffrey Johnson, University of North Carolina.

Speaker: Paige West, Pacific Curator, American Museum of Natural History; Associate Professor, Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University

John Weaver delivers the semi-annual Friends of the Burke Library lecture.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) presents a special lecture entitled, “Japan and the United States in Afghanistan: A Dialogue,” with Sadako Ogata, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency and M. Ishaq Nadiri, Jay Gould Professor of Economics, New York University.

A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH DAVID SMILEY, CIVIC LEADERS, ACTIVISTS, AND CITY PLANNERS With the recent turn to pedestrian zones, bike lanes and greenways in New York and in many cities around the world, there is a growing sense that a new kind of urbanism is possible, one no longer dominated by the culture and politics of the automobile. “Rights of Way” will examine the issues surrounding bikes and pedestrianization, and will explore sustainability, finance, public health, and the ways in which the street can serve as a fulcrum in debates about public space and urban life.

Topic: Social Influence and Autism Epidemic Speaker: Kayuet Liu – Columbia University, Paul F. Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences

Speakers: Various

The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) presents a workshop, bringing together scholars from different disciplines on, “Crime, Insecurity, Fear in Mexico.”

Talk Title: "Stones"

Speaker: John Delaney, Professor of Oceanography, University of Washington; Principal Investigator and Director, Regional Scale Nodes Program; Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks

Colloquium. Participants: Paul Julian Smith, Cambridge/CUNY; Gonzalo Aguilar, UBA/Harvard; Beatriz Jaguaribe, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro/Princeton; Richard Peña, Columbia

This workshop will explore how nonprofits leverage best practices from the for-profit marketing world to build relationships with key audiences.

Colloquium. Participants: Paul Julian Smith, Cambridge/CUNY; Gonzalo Aguilar, UBA/Harvard; Beatriz Jaguaribe, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro/Princeton; Richard Peña, Columbia

The Harriman Institute at Columbia University presents an exhibition curated by Günter Bischof and Lorenz Mikoletzky on the miraculous fall of the so-called Iron Curtain twenty years ago, and the impact and changes in Europe resulting from it.

Meir Shalev will speak on The State of Israeli Literture. Open to public.

The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) presents a discussion with Christophe Jaffrelot, Alliance Visiting Professor (Sciences Po-CERI, Paris), Thomas Blom Hansen, professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and Rajeev Bhargava, professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi and director of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) presents a Brown Bag Lecture from the series "The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast Asia" entitled, "Policy Responses to Bubbles in Japan and the U.S.," with David E. Weinstein, Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University.

Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Liudmila Evgen'evna Kalinova of the Rudomino State Library of Foreign Literature and Dr. Mikhail Veniaminovich Levner of the Library for Natural Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences with discussant Edward Kasinec, Harriman Institute.

The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) presents, "Managing Complex Democratic Decisions—Reflections on Afghanistan," with Tom Garwin.

Please join the Harriman Institute's Ambassadors' Forum in welcoming H.E. Oleh Shamshur, ambassador of the Ukraine to the U.SA.

The Institute for African Studies (IAS) presents Filip Reyntjens, who will address causes, outcomes, and extraordinary human toll of the successive wars in the Great Lakes Region of Africa since the early 1990s.

The South Asia Institute (SAI) presents a lecture by Kalyanakrishnan (Shivi) Sivaramakrishnan, professor of Anthropology, Forestry and Environmental Studies; and chair, South Asian Studies Council at Yale University on "Forests and the Environmental History of India."

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He will read a selection of poems, to be followed by an interview with Saskia Hamilton of the Barnard College English Department.

Willy Wriggers, D.E. Shaw Research/Weill Cornell Medical College - Title TBA

The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) conducts a workshop on the role of religion in India throughout its history, particularly the dynamics of conflict and accommodation between Buddhists and conventional Vedic religion.

"MicroRNAs in Development and Disease" Victor R. Ambros, Ph.D. Co-Director, RNA Therapeutics Institute Silverman Professor of Natural Sciences University of Massachusetts Medical School

Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Paolo Castagna, post-doctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute.

Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Florian Bieber of the University of Kent.

The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS), Columbia University, presents, "Afghanistan: Realities and the Road Ahead," with Professors Fotini Christia, Austin Long and Abraham Wagner.

"The Roles and Possibilities of Tiny RNAs" Gary Ruvkun, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute, Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development and Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University

Prof. Andreas Bommarius, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Coffee and donuts will be served at 3:30 pm in 824 Mudd

Please Note: The Café Conversation is open to Members of the Société des Amis de La Maison Française and Columbia University students with a valid and current CUID.

The South Asia Institute (SAI) and the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures present a talk by Farzana Shaikh, Royal Institute of International Affairs titled, "Identity, Ethnicity and Democracy: The case of Pakistan."

Join the Institute for African Studies (IAS) for a Brown Bag welcoming Elsadig Elsheikh, one of nine human rights leaders currently in residence at Columbia University for the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP).

Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Franjo Stiblar of the University of Ljubljana.

Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of Aleksei Mizgirev's film "Buben, Baraban."

The Center for Chinese Legal Studies presents, "Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Potential for Promotion of Labour Standards in China?"

Lecture Topic: "The state of the ordinary. Moral tangles after apartheid."

Please join the Harriman Institute for a screening of Nikolai Khomeriki's, "Tale in the Darkness."

Speaker: Desmond Beirne, Program Associate, Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates, Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC)

Join us on a 150-year journey that begins in the mighty Pyrenees and wends its way into such cities as Chino, Fresno, and Bakersfield, California. Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga, who writes extensively on French Pyrenean migration to the New World, takes us from Basque country to "The Golden State," and paints a valuable portrait of domestic and political power by examining how family structures, and women’s positions in them, changed (or failed to) in the wake of the great crossing. Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga is an Associate Professor at the University of Cergy-Pontoise, an Associate member of the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and presently a Fulbright Scholar in the United States.

Speakers: Various

"Wrong Color, Wrong Clothes: Accounts of Ethnic Profiling in France", a talk by Indira Goris