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

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."

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).

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.

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."

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.

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

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.

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

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

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."

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.

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

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, 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?"

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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!

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

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."

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

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

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."

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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.

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."

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.

Barry Connors, PhD, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University. Title of his talk: Wiring the Thalamocortical System: Electrical and Chemical Synapses of Inhibitory Networks.

The Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies (CCHPS) welcomes Dr. Kenneth Prager, chairman, Medical Ethics Committee, Columbia University Medical Center, to its grand rounds, speaking on Ethical Dilemmas in Treating the Homeless Patient.

Daniel A. Knopf, Stony Brook University: "The Role of the Organic Aerosol Fraction on Ice Cloud Formation"

The Harriman Institute presents a lecture entitled "From the (Opera) House of the Dead: Leos Janacek's Dostoevskian Farewell," with guest speaker David Shengold, journalist and independent scholar.

A lecture as performance by Greil Marcus, marking the republication of "Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century."

Caroline Bynum, Professor of Western European Middle Ages at the Institute for Advanced Study will speak on "What Is Happening in History Now?" This event is free and open to the public. No Tickets, no reservations required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) presents the George W. Ball Lecture entitled, "Globalization after the Great Crisis of 2008-2009: Continuity or Fundamental Change," with Kemal Dervis, George W. Ball Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at SIPA and former head of the United Nations Development Programme.

Title: Challenging Assumptions Speaker: Dana Carney, Columbia University Graduate School of Business

This day long conference is free and open to the public. No Tickets, no reservations required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis.

The African Diplomatic Forum is an annual conference that gathers African diplomats, academics, students and activists to discuss the continent's interests and role in international affairs.

Speaker: Michael Bender, Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University

Alan Pauls - Author/Visiting Professor, Princeton University

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).

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

Caroline Muller, M.I.T. will present a talk at the Applied Mathematics Colloquium.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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