The Middle East Institute and The School of International and Public Affairs presents the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations, Ambassador Hamid al-Bayati, at the first lecture of a series entitled, "Iraq's Transition to Democracy."

Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Salomé Zourabichvili, leader of the political party “The Way of Georgia” and a former Foreign Minister of Georgia (2004-2005).

From Turf Cottage to the Cover of TIME, is a new documentary about the life of Sveinn Kristjan Bjarnarson, aka Holger Cahill, acting director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), national director of the WPA and Head of the US Contemporary Art Exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

“American Football, Development, and the Concept of 'tautua': Transforming the Chiefly System in American Samoa”

Caroline Muller, M.I.T. - "The response of the hydrological cycle to a change in climate"

Speakers: Charles Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering, President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Farouk El-Baz, Director, Center for Remote Sensing; Research Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University

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

The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS), Columbia University, presents Colin Kahl, deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East speaking on, "The Obama Administration and the Future of the U.S.-Iraq Relationship."

The Institute of African Studies (IAS) presents Evelyne Achan, one of nine human rights leaders currently in residence at Columbia University with the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP), talking about her role within these organizations.

The Middle East Institute (MEI) presents a brown bag lecture with Dr. Devrim Umit entitled, “From American Protestant Missionaries in the Ottoman Empire to New Evangelicals in Today’s Turkey.” 

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, "Political Tsunamis and Financial Meltdowns: Malaysia and the World," with Thomas Pepinsky, Assistant Professor of Government, faculty member of the Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University.

The School of International and Public Affairs' Energy and Environment Program (EEP) hosts Ambassador Jones, who will draw on the results of the new World Energy Outlook 2009 to provide a comprehensive update of energy demand.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) presents an Asia Society event entitled, "APEC 2009 Meeting: Sustaining Growth, Connecting the Region."

C. Sinan Gunturk, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU - Title TBA

Speaker: Patrick L. Kinney, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Health Sciences Center

Join us in welcoming Benjamin Isakhan as he discusses the complex inter-relationships between cultural and historical destruction, and national identity, social cohesion, sectarianism, violence and democracy.

Alice Boone, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, lectures on “Candide in the Preserving Machine.” Open to public.

Paolo Nogueira Batista, Brazil's Executive Director to the International Monetary Fund will give a lecture on Brazil and the reform of the International Financial Institutions.

A senior partner at McKinsey & Associates, Joanna Barsh discusses her new book which raises provocative questions about whether feminine leadership traits (for women and men) are better suited for our fast-changing, hyper-competitive and increasingly complex world.

Join the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) for a conversation with David Shipley, deputy editorial page editor and op-ed editor at “The New York Times" and was special assistant to the president in the Clinton administration; moderated by Mark C. Taylor, chair of the Department of Religion.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) presents a Brown Bag Lecture entitled, "Japan's Economy and Politics after its Historic Election," with Shijuro Ogata, former Deputy Governor for International Relations, Bank of Japan.

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

The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies Grand Rounds is pleased to present Peter Stastny, MD, Psychiatrist, speaking on "Preventing Homelessness among Persons Diagnosed with Schizophrenia."

Paul Dirmeyer, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies - Title TBA

“Putting a spin on chemical processes” Presented by Prof. Nicholas Turro, Department of Chemistry

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returns to the Heyman Center to deliver the 5th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture.

Topic: Mathematical Operations Throughout the Lifespan Speaker: Koleen McCrink, Barnard College Department of Psychology

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) presents a Brown Bag Lecture entitled, "Insights into High Politics: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang," with the translator and editor, Bao.

This World Leaders Forum program features a keynote address by William C. Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, followed by a question and answer session with the audience.

Yang Xu, PhD, Molecular Biology, University of California at San Diego. p53 and Stem Cells. Hosted by Wei Gu, PhD.

The Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies presents “Napalm, An American Biography, 1942-2009” with Bob Neer

Andreas Hielscher, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Prof. Paul Janmey of University of Pennsylvania, Physiology Coffee and donuts will be served at 3:30 pm in 824 Mudd

Ezra Tawil, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, will speak on "American Exceptionalism and the Question of Style." His Columbia colleagues Andrew Delbanco and Ross Posnock will serve as commentators.

Janet Parks highlights some of the architectural archives at Avery as part of our Curators at Home lecture series.

Dan Jacob, Harvard: "Arctic pollution: early results from the ARCTAS aircraft mission"

Speaker: John Horgan, Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology

Topic: Extending the American Dream: Black Ethnic Cultural Distinctions and Linked Fates Speaker: Christine Greer, Fordham University Department of Political Science

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.

Robert Field, University of Toronto - Large-scale and microphysical controls on water isotopologues in the atmosphere"