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.

Matthew and his sister Piper take into a magical adventure back in time, where they discover the Manhattan of the past held a very different Thanksgiving than the one we all know today.

Set in a darkening future, WHAT ONCE WE FELT follows a writer's journey through the political world of publishing, as her novel becomes the last print published novel ever.

Two twenty plus year veterans return home after their convoy is hit by an IED in Iraq. Torn between family and the call of duty, their war continues at home, opening old wounds of betrayal, fear, infidelity, and loneliness for them and their wives. In this touching, poetic, brutal and romantic commentary on current events, the veterans and their fractured families are forced into a surprising and bitter realism. And, only one thing is certain - the high cost paid by all.

Electra is determined to avenge her father Agamemnon’s death. Unfortunately, she’s powerless - a teenager stuck at home with nothing but a Greek chorus that just won’t go away. She will need to band together with her long-lost brother Orestes, their dim-witted sister Chrysothemis, their trusted friend Pylades and a torrent of raging hormones to set her plot for revenge in motion. But will vengeance lead to happiness? And why does puberty have to be so tragic?

This fall, Magis is investigating the work and life of the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay with a new piece called Her Name is Vincent. The work began with our interest in "Vincent" Millay's complex relationship with her sisters: close by necessity as children, but pulled apart by fame, competition and addiction. In the course of our work we discovered Vincent's early play Aria da Capo, written in the wake of the first World War and at the dawn of the avant-garde. We found striking parallels in her meditation upon conflict and greed and the issues that plagued her relationships during her adult life. Paired together, The Millay Sisters and Aria da Capo make a compelling evening of theatre. Her Name is Vincent will be performed this October in the heart of New York City's Theatre District just seven blocks from where Aria da Capo opened on Broadway in 1925.

An uprooted lily goes on a quest to wed a human bride and destroy The God of Nostalgia. Genre squishing Taylor Mac and a company of 40+ unravel our national pastime of melancholy remembrances. The Lily's Revenge is a 5 part extravaganza featuring live music, wild costumes, vaudevillian theatrics, macabre entr'actes, a million sequins, and a few flowers.

For Jan, it's been quite an eventful day. After twenty years absence, he has returned home to Europe to be reunited with his mother and sister. But as he anxiously awaits to reveal his identity to them, notions of love and family take on chilling new meanings in the hideous circumstances of his last few hours.

The Met has assembled a cast of powerful voices to match Aida’s epic scale, which in this grand production uses every stage lift in the house.

Burn the Floor, the electrifying Latin and Ballroom dance spectacular that has thrilled audiences in over 30 countries, will make its Broadway debut in a limited 12-week engagement in one of Broadway's most intimate venues.

Claire, along with Tom, Dick, and Harry, are locked inside Claire’s greenhouse as she races to create a new botanical species, Breath of Life. Will Claire’s new creation be her salvation? Who will she destroy in the process?

Bringing together characters and storytelling from Sephardic Jewish folklore and history and weaving from Spain to Israel to Morocco and back again, Granada explores issues of identity, both religious and national, and the uncanny link among followers of a tradition separated by continents but united by a state of exile.

From William Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida and Thomas Heywood's Iron Age. Adapted & Directed by Brian Kulick

In Stitches November 12 - December 19, 2009 Reception: Thursday, November 12, 6-8 PM http://www.ltmhgallery.com/

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.

Speaker: Ginny Catania, Research Associate, Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas

Art exhibition

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.

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 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.

The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) presents Ms. Worthington, a PhD student in medical anthropology in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia, on the ethical issues and complications of medical missions despite the noble intentions of all those who engage in this type of humanitarian aid.

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

Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Nadine Gogu, director of the Independent Journalism Center (IJC) in Chisinau, Moldova.

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."

Miller Theatre is pleased to continue its free Lunchtime Concerts series, presenting informal, one-hour concerts featuring performances by exceptional classical musicians.

Have you ever considered what it would be like to manage a business? The Center for Career Education’s Columbia Student Enterprise (CSE) program is currently seeking Manager Directors for their three student-run businesses.

CU Arts and the SoA Artists' Resource Center presents the Gatsby Student Arts Support Fund Information Session 407 Dodge Hall, 1pm

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."

Daniel Klocke, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology - "Evaluating climate feedbacks in a GCM: focus on methods and clouds"

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.

Toma un cafecito y practica tu español. Come Practice Your Language Skills!

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

A car cuts you off. Your boss gives you an emergency assignment late Friday afternoon. This workshop will help participants to understand the nature of stress, recognize both common and unique responses to stressful situations.

The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Alliance Program (AP) present Christophe de Margerie, CEO of Total, for a conversation with the audience.

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 Alliance Program and the School of International and Public Affairs present a debate about international relations. Open to public.

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.

RIGHTS OF WAY A New Politics of Movement in New York City

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.

Speakers: Various

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

Cinema: Ce soir ou jamais

A provocative, funny, touching and marvelously entertaining story about a young doctor and his wife set at the dawn of the age of electricity in the 1880s. Back then hysteria was a real diagnosis, and women were commonly treated with electrical stimulating machines to ease their condition! Playwright Sarah Ruhl wondered what exactly doctors were thinking when they used vibrator therapies on their female patients. And what did women think was happening to them? In the Next Room or the vibrator play looks at a young technology-obsessed doctor and the devoted wife who longs to connect with him -- but not electrically.

The Young Friends group of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center is having its 3rd Annual Art Rocks! Benefit on Thursday, November 12th, 2009, at the Bowery Hotel. The mission of Young Friends of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center is to raise money and awareness for the Berrie Center's pediatric diabetes program. We welcome you to join us!

By the Pulitzer Prize winning author of AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY, Tracy Letts, comes this new comedy-drama. Set in the heart of one of Chicago’s most diverse communities, SUPERIOR DONUTS explores the challenges of embracing the past and the redemptive power of friendship.

War is imminent. The city is held hostage by a conflict in its royal family. The overarching grasp of the individual has triumphed over the community. None of this is lost on the chorus, visitors from the East called Phoenicians. Civilization rests on the virtues of family and city. Featuring the MFA Acting class of 2010, directed by Karin Coonrod.

With this new production, voted Europe’s best opera staging for 2007, one of opera’s great visionaries makes his Met debut. Patrice Chéreau, renowned for his legendary centennial Ring cycle at Bayreuth, directs Janácek’s drama of human resilience inside a Russian prison. “The penal camp is a different society, parallel to ours, but there are many similarities between the two,” Chéreau declares. “Power, relationships, humiliation, passion—all those things exist in both worlds.” Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen also makes his Met debut, and Peter Mattei leads the ensemble cast.