The Columbia University Club of Fairfield County invites you to join us for a very special presentation by Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory researcher Klaus Jacob.

With Climate Change, Sandy, Irene, Fukushima and many other disasters occupying global and regional head lines, it is time to ask what is responsible for the apparent rise in disasters and related losses. Professor Jacob will tackle this question, by analyzing global trends, illustrated by examples, including Superstorm Sandy, and the effects of expected sea level rise on frequency and intensity of future coastal storm surges in particular. A generalized conclusions is that societal vulnerabilities increase often due to lack of sensible land use and urban planning. In short: we are in risk denial.

For RSVPs received before March 1, the price to attend is $30 for paid CUCFC members and their guests, $50 for all others for RSVPs. On or after March 1 the price will be $40 and $60, respectively. The price includes a delicious buffet and wine, beer, or soda.

Reserve your seat now! RSVP via email to cnathan1@optonline.com and then send a check payable to “Columbia University Club of Fairfield County” to Olga Kimmerlin, 73 River Road, Weston, CT 06833.

Or, send your RSVP to Claire and then pay via PayPal by clicking here for the alumni club member and guests early bird price, or here for non-members early bird price.

On or after March 1, click here for members & guests, or here for non-members.

Questions? Contact CUCFC club president Claire Nathan ’98SW at cnathan1@optonline.net.

Visit the Columbia University Club of Fairfield County online at alumniclubs.columbia.edu/fairfield.

Does playing softball in Central Park during spring and summer months with fellow Columbia University and Barnard College alumni sound like fun? 

To join, first please visit our Facebook page, then e-mail our team captain Howard Lipan at hkl11@caa.columbia.edu. In the e-mail, please be sure to include your UNI, school/degree (e.g. GSAS'11 PhD), skill set (fielding, pitching, hitting & base running, etc.), cell#, and how you heard of our team.

In May, we organize coached "spring training" practice sessions and intramural games; June to September, we compete in league and post-season tournament games with other university alumni teams. 

There are no fees to join or play. Our team is privately funded and all team equipment, ball field equipment, Central Park permits, tournament fees, etc. are provided. (Note that personal equipment and apparel are the responsibility of each player).

In May 2013, students from the Masters Programs in Museum Anthropology and Historic Preservation at Columbia University will hold an exhibition in Low Library to highlight archaeology's ability to preserve New York City's heritage. This exhibition features artifacts recovered during excavations of New York City sites such as Van Cortlandt Park, South Ferry, and Hanover Square. The exhibit is free to the public.

For more information visit http://saveourstories.tumblr.com/

Sponsored by Columbia University's Masters Programs in Museum Anthropology and Historic Preservation.

Please join the Harriman Institute for a conference on Late Imperial Epistemologies in Eurasia. This event is co-sponsored by the Blinken European Institute, the Middle East Institute, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the University Seminars.

Lime Connect partner, Goldman Sachs, is excited to announce that they are hosting the GS Undergraduate Camp, a two-day program for Black, Latino/Hispanic and Native American college freshmen (graduating in 2016) of all majors interested in learning more about Goldman Sachs and the financial services industry.

Participants will have an opportunity to explore the numerous career paths in the financial services industry and become familiar with the firm’s business, history and culture. The program features divisional overviews, case studies, career workshops and networking with professionals from across at the firm.

For students interested in attending, the application deadline is May 19 at 11:59pm. The attached flyer lists additional information and instructions on how to apply to attend the event. The Goldman Sachs Undergraduate Camp will take place on Friday, July 19 and Saturday, July 20, 2013 and selected participants will be notified by Monday, June 3, 2013.

Instructions:
To learn more and apply: please click this GS UNDERGRADUATE CAMP link: https://goldmansachs.tal.net/vx/lang-en-GB/mobile-0/system-51/brand-2/xf-b48a3a47515e/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/3/opp/6183-Goldman-Sachs-2013-Undergraduate-Camp-Application-Deadline/en-GB
Apply by: applications are due by Sunday, May 19, 2013 by 11:59pm
Notify Lime Connect: Email recruiting@limeconnect.com to let us know you’ve applied, so that we can send a note on your behalf to Goldman Sachs

The Baccalaureate Service is an interfaith service celebrating the completion of each undergraduate's academic career. This ceremony features a procession that includes undergraduate degree candidates from Columbia College, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of General Studies, and Barnard College.

School deans, the University chaplain, and faculty and administrators also participate. Some of the highlights of the service include hymns and musical selections performed by student musicians and choirs; and readings, reflections and speeches by students, including a Senior Reflection and a Family Tribute.

All undergraduate degree candidates and families are warmly encouraged to attend.

Students must register to participate. Tickets are not required for admission. 

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The boundary 2 Editorial Collective and Columbia University Global Cultural Studies present:

 Humanities and a Borderless World 

Panelists:
Rachel Adams
Emily Apter
Rachel Adams
Emily Apter
Jonathan Arac
Charles Bernstein
Paul Bové
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Ronald Judy
Evan Mwangi
Donald Pease
Bruce Robbins
Richard Jean So
Jennifer Wenzel

PANEL I - Paul Bové, opening remarks and moderator

Charles Bernstein (Pennsylvania), "Recalculating"

A pataqe(e)rical performance: reading from new collection of poems from the University of Chicago Press, with special reference to borders, borderlines, borderlessness and the impossibility of humanity.  From Recalculating: "I love humanity; it’s people I can’t bear ."  "I love people; humanity scares me."   "Breath is the door / from life to death / on the border of / hearing I hear not hearing / on the border of / death and life / hear not hearing?"

Jennifer Wenzel (Michigan), "Mountain, Poem, Planet: 'New" Criticism & Neoliberal Globalization"

This talk teases out historical and methodological affinities between Aldo Leopold's late 1940s articulation of a "land ethic"--what it means to "think like a mountain"--and Wimsatt and Beardsley's account of the poem as an autonomous object "detached from the author at birth [that] goes about the world beyond his power to intend about it or control it.” I juxtapose these critics' personifications of mountains and poems in the early years of the Cold War in order to think anew about current attempts to "think like a planet" in the era of globalization.

Rachel Adams (Columbia), "Disability Studies in An Inaccessible World"

My talk will make two claims about disability studies.  The first is that DS alerts us to how far we are from living in a borderless world. Merging theory and politics, scholars of disability study how built and social environments function to discredit certain kinds of bodies, while also demanding the creation of a more accessible world.  The second claim is that, despite its universalizing impulses, DS continues to be strikingly unworldly, focusing primarily on the United States, Britain, and the Anglophone world, and remaining relatively untouched by the comparative, transnational perspectives that have transformed other fields within the humanities.

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PANEL II - moderated by Jonathan Arac

Emily Apter (NYU), "Checkpoints & Sovereign States"

 “Border-crossing” has become such an all-purpose, ubiquitous trope of translation that its purchase on the politics of actual borders—whether linguistic or territorial—has arguably  been seriously attenuated. Prompted by recent work focusing on how sovereign legitimacy is tested by the architecture of walls, checkpoints, transit stations, and virtual barricades of surveillance —Jeremy Harding’s The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man’s Gate, Eyal Weizman’s Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation and The Least of All Possible Evils, Wendy Brown’s Walled States, Waning Sovereignty—I want to recall the force de frappe of the state in translation theory, and, with that, the physical borders of sovereignty more generally.  The paper will use the checkpoint to counter the overuse of border-speak, while at the same time acknowledging that, like borders, checkpoints involve an architecture of translation, especially in the context of wallfare" state function, and the deployment of matériel.

Bruce Robbins (Columbia), "Cosmopolitanism in Deep Time"

The cosmopolitanism with which we are familiar is geographical.  But geographical cosmopolitanism entails a temporal cosmopolitanism that is less familiar-- an expansion back in time to take in cultural texts and moments, like the classical canons of China and India, that are not merely non-European but also more or less untethered to Europe by any relation of unequal power.  This talk will explore some alternative but not mutually exclusive descriptions of this move into deep time.  Is it a depoliticizing shift from the postcolonial to “world literature”?  A necessary recalibration of the moral balance between “our” and “their” imperialisms?  A return of “grand narrative” in the name of ecology, or a “new” materialism, or evolutionary science?  An archaeological turn?  A long-delayed coming to terms with the unarticulated protocols of work in the humanities, which entails criticism in the negative sense but also forms of forgiveness and magnanimity that remain largely unmapped because the valuing and preserving of the past that demand them have seemed antithetical to the hyper-periodized historicism that now prevails?

Donald Pease (Dartmouth), “Not Without Rights: the Politics of the ‘No Borders!’ Movement”

  In this presentation, I intend to analyze the declaration “Not without rights” articulated by participants in the ‘No Borders!’ movement through a re-reading of the phrase the “right to have rights” in Hannah Arendt’s 1943 essay,  “We Refugees”.

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PANEL III - moderated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Evan Mwangi (Northwestern), “Ethnicity, Class, and New Borders of Language in Africa”

How can indigenous languages be used to preserve a society from economic and cultural predators while allowing it to take advantage of cross-border exchanges? This paper uses 21^st century East African literary texts that use a creole-like mixture of natural languages to examine borders as flashpoints of ethnic and class conflicts. I argue that the writers accept that most boundaries in Africa are fictional constructs and that these fault-lines should not be used as an excuse for senseless violence and economic dispossession. Yet boundaries become important in helping a marginalized society guard against predatory tendencies of dominant groups both within the nation-state and the larger neo-liberal global order.

Richard Jean So and Hoyt Long (Chicago), "Trade Imbalance in the World Republic of Letters: Transnational  Culture through the Lens of Big Data"

This paper examines the literary relations between the United States and East Asia (China and Japan, in particular) during the age of “modernism” (1915-1930) through the use of quantitative methods.  Specifically, we leverage large sets of data regarding publication records to produce network maps that reveal patterns of global textual circulation.  We are interested in revealing the larger structures that organize literary transactions between American and East Asian poets. And we are interested in how poets perceived and intervened within this structure.  Our paper deploys both macro-scale and close reading methods to explore the interplay between massive social structures and local articulations of literary style and form in the creation of transnational cultures.  We conclude by reflecting on the potential value of social-scientific methods (e.g. network analysis, text mining) for the practice of literary criticism and vice versa.

Ronald Judy (Pittsburgh), "Barking Dogs & Thinking in Disorder"

Taking up Plato's philosophical dog as an opening move in the long history of  philosophical reflection on the relationship between sustained cohesive thinking and social order, this talk describes a critter of another sort: al-hākīya, "the mimic," elaborated by al-Jāḥiẓ in his Book of Animals, in an effort to find a way past the crisis of the intellectual delineated, for instance, by Harold Cruse in his 1967 work The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. The principal postulate is that, pace Fanon, global imperialism is constitutively disorderly, and so calls for a style of thinking and expression that is concordantly global.

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Greetings Columbia Alumni from the Class of 1980 to the present! The Columbia University Club of Westchester County would like to invite you to an all-ages barbecue at the estate of our esteemed board member, Alexandra Tran Manbeck '90LAW.

Join us for an afternoon of socializing, networking, and fun. There will be swimming and tennis for adults and a petting farm, games, and pony rides for ColumbiaÂ’s future alumni! This is an absolutely free event!

Come one, come all—we’d love to meet you!

Price: Complimentary. Entertainments, BBQ, sodas, waters, and wine will be provided.

If you have questions or would like to RSVP, please contact Alexandra Manbeck at 914-763-2426 or courtney2@optonline.net.

Latino Graduation has a long standing history within the university and is a celebration of the accomplishments of CC, SEAS, GS, and Barnard Latino graduates. Latino Graduation was first initiated by students who wanted the opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments and recognize the important role that Latino students have played in shaping the landscape of Columbia.

Latino Graduation is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and is coordinated with the Latino Alumni Association of Columbia University, University Development and Alumni Relations, and the Latino Graduation Committee. This Rites of Passage ceremony provides an intimate setting for family, friends, alumni, faculty, staff, and students to recognize the accomplishments of the graduates while embracing their new important roles as Columbia and Barnard alumni.

The Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) and the Columbia Club of the Palm Beaches hope you will join us for an alumni luncheon as we welcome special guest, CAA President Donna MacPhee ’89CC.

Hear updates from Morningside Heights—a new campus in Manhattanville, Global Centers on five continents, new leadership and programs, new ways for alumni to connect—and share thoughts about Columbia’s future.

We hope you will join us and your fellow alumni to celebrate our Columbia community in the Palm Beaches!

Price: $20 includes lunch and parking.

Registration for this event has now closed. If you would like to RSVP, please contact Emily Fischer at ef2268@columbia.edu.

Please note the doors will open for guests at 7:30pm. The ceremony will begin at 8pm with a dessert reception following the ceremony.

Black Graduation has a long standing history within the university and is a celebration of the accomplishments of CC, SEAS, GS, and Barnard Black graduates. Black Graduation was first initiated by students who wanted the opportunity to celebrate their accomplishments and recognize the important role that Black students have played in shaping the landscape of Columbia. Black Graduation is sponsored and hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Black Students' Organization, and Black Alumni Council. This Rites of Passage ceremony provides an intimate setting for family, friends, alumni, faculty, staff, and students to recognize the accomplishments of the graduates while embracing their new important roles as Columbia and Barnard alumni.

Graduation party for the class of 2013 held at the Empire Hotel; tickets required. Please contact Mellissa Ahmed for more information at: mza2106@columbia.edu.

Join the alumni processional at the School of General Studies Class Day honoring the class of 2013! All GS alumni are invited to march in the processional and will be seated in the VIP section for the ceremony. A reception for the graduates, their families, and alumni will immediately follow.

8:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Class Day Processional and Ceremony
10:30 a.m. - Reception

Questions? Contact gsalumni@columbia.edu.

Can't stay for the ceremony?  Contact the Alumni Relations Office to make arrangements to depart at 9:30 a.m. after the processional. 

GS Seniors:  Tickets are not required for your guests to attend the GS Class Day ceremony.  For more information, graduates should visit the Class Day page on the GS website.  

Online registration is now closed for this event. 

"Results from a recent comparative effectiveness trial on depression interventions in Acute coronary patients; CODIACS" Featuring: Karina Davidson PhD, Professor of Behavioral Medicine. Lunch will be provided.

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As a condition of emploment, all Administrative Officers and Non-Union Support Staff are required to take the appropriate (Managers or Non-Supervisory course). Please note the Computer Lab is available only during the timeframe indicated. If you are unable to attend the initial time you selected, please register for another date.

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APAM faculty, staff, and students are invited to the Simon Prize presentation and reception in the APAM Department.

The Robert Simon Memorial Prize is awarded annually by the APAM Department to the graduate student who has completed the most outstanding dissertation.

Robert Simon (1919-2001) received a B.A. degree cum laude in Classics from the City College of New York in 1941, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.A. in Mathematics from Columbia University in 1949. From 1941-1944, he was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Armed forces serving in England, France, and Italy. He participated in the D-Day operation as a navigator for a plane that dropped paratroopers in the vicinity of Omaha Beach. General Dwight Eisenhower personally shook his hand and wished him well the night before the D-Day assault. He spent a lifetime making valuable contributions to the field of computer science. Starting in 1953, he worked for 15 years at Sperry's Univac Division in various capacities including marketing, planning, systems engineering, systems programming and information services. He also spent a year working at the Fairchild Engine Division as Director of the Engineering Computer Group. He personally directed the establishment of several company computer centers at sites throughout the U.S. Between 1969-1973, he was a partner with American Science Associates, a venture capital firm. Mr. Simon was a founder and Vice President of Intech Capital Corporation and served on its board from 1972-1981 and a founder and member of the board of Leasing Technologies International, Inc. from 1983 until his retirement in 1995.

Join us to celebrate the Columbia Baseball Team's Ivy League Championship and wish the team luck in Regional competition!

Join us for Café Columbia, a series of informal discussions, led by Columbia University faculty, focused broadly on the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Professor of English and Comparative Literature Sarah Cole
will discuss the Wells Era: A New Account of Modernism

Why have literary critics and general readers alike neglected H. G. Wells, a major force in twentieth-century thought, and what have they missed in overlooking him? Come hear Cole discuss Wells' significance for modernism and for our understanding of 20th century intellectual life. She will make a case for revaluing this great, underrated writer and for placing him among more familiar modernists, such as Woolf, Joyce, and Lawrence.

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Professor Sarah Cole

Columbia College and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science cordially invite you to a cocktail reception on campus for legacy families.

Faculty and senior staff will be present to congratulate legacy families on commencement and welcome 2013 graduates into the Columbia College and SEAS alumni communities.

Questions?
Please contact Janezee Bond:: 212-851-7834 or jb3556@columbia.edu

 

Internet Week is looking for volunteers for Monday, Tues, Wed, and Thurs. Ideally the volunteer would be available for the full day-- they would not need to commit to the whole week-- though we would welcome volunteers available for half days, too. Volunteers would help to check in guests, provide guidance and assist some of our speakers. In return the volunteers will receive credentials for the week of events. Interested volunteers should email samantha.fodrowski@gmail.com or call 617-697-4207.  Information about Internet Week can be found below.

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IWNY, taking place this year from May 20-27 2013, was launched in 2008 in cooperation with the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. It is a week-long festival celebrating Internet business and culture and will attract more than 45,000 Internet professionals, working across all sectors, attending 250+ events produced by IWNY and 150+ citywide event partners.

More information: https://internetweekny.com/
Registration: https://internetweekny.com/orders

Contact information: Caroline Waxler - caroline@internetweekny.com

IWNY, taking place this year from May 20-27 2013, was launched in 2008 in cooperation with the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment. It is a week-long festival celebrating Internet business and culture and will attract more than 45,000 Internet professionals, working across all sectors, attending 250+ events produced by IWNY and 150+ citywide event partners.

More information: https://internetweekny.com/
Registration: https://internetweekny.com/orders

Contact information: Caroline Waxler - caroline@internetweekny.com

South Lawn Morningside Campus

Alex Thiele, PhD, Chair in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, will speak on "Neuropharmacology of attention in the visual cortex".

Thesis Defense in Chemistry

"New Approaches to the Asymmetric Allylation of the Formyl and Imino Groups via Strained Silane Lewis Acids."

Presented by Alexander Buitrago Santanilla (Leighton Group)

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 11:00am
Room 320 Havemeyer

A graduation barbecue lunch to send off the class of 2013, to which students, administrators, faculty, and guests are invited.

Come learn how to use the new performance appraisal module of the Planning & Performance Tool.

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As a condition of employment, all Administrative Officers and Non-Union Support Staff are required to take the appropriate Doing the Right Thing training course (Managers or Non-Supervisory course). This session is for Staff (Non-Supervisory roles).

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Join the Columbia University Club of South Texas for this month's no-fee no-RSVP social mixers for the Ivy+ crowd.

Bar Sorrel for 2.0 (skews older) on May 21.

The Dogwood in Midtown on May 29.

Just show up and buy your own drink.

Questions? Please contact George Worthington at worthworldtx@sprintmail.com.

The Stanford Club of European Leaders and the Columbia Club of France in partnership with France-Amériques are pleased to invite you to a Cutting Edge Forum entitled "The Future of Media". High profile international journalists will share professional insights and swap views on "Journalism and Ethics" as well as "The Impact of the Digital Revolution on Media Journalism and Fiction".

The panel will also discuss: How is citizen journalism changing media content? How do journalists decipher the truth from the flow of information & images? What are the future business models for digital age media? How can media management practices enable ethical media content? Advertising ethics & consumer data privacy: which new rules should apply? Is journalism “fictional truth”?

Speakers:
Steven Erlanger (Paris Bureau Chief The New York Times)
Alison Smale (Executive Editor International Herald Tribune)
Christopher Dickinson (Paris Bureau Chief Newsweek Magazine and The Daily Beast)
Jim Bittermann (Senior European Correspondent CNN - tbc)
Natalie Nougayrède (Editor in Chief Le Monde - tbc)
Philippe Gélie (Head International Section Le Figaro)
Eleanor Beardsley (Paris Correspondent National Public Radio)
Sarah Herz (Director Digital Activities Conde Nast)
Richard Zimler (Professor of Journalism, Author)

Moderator:
Melisande Middleton, Co-founder and Director of the Center for International Media Ethics (CIME)

Following the panel discussions there will be a book signing session with Richard Zimler for his best selling novel "The Warsaw Anagrams" as well as Cocktail Reception with Champagne

Come and join us pour un verre de champagne and a unique discussion, on this very hot topic.

PRICE:
30€ : Members Stanford Club of European Leaders & Columbia Club of France 
39€ : Non-Members 
*Price includes a champagne cocktail reception.

Register here: http://www.amiando.com/futureofmedia.html

Questions? Please contact Maria Adle, Stanford Club of European Leaders, at maria.adle@gmail.com or by phone at +33 6 14 50 30 43.

The APAM Department will host a reception in 200 Mudd for all Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, Materials Science & Engineering, and Medical Physics 2012-2013 graduates and their families following the University Commencement on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

This Three-day official ITIL® Foundations certification course provides you with a general overview of the IT Service Management Life-cycle which is outlined in ITIL’s five core books – Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation and Continual Service Improvement. ITIL’s “service life-cycle” consists of 24 processes and four functions.

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As a condition of employment, all Administrative Officers and Non-Union Support Staff are required to take the appropriate Doing the Right Thing training course (Managers or Non-Supervisory course). This session is for Staff (Non-Supervisory roles).

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Muschel Lecture Professor Avraham Steinberg Isreal Prize Laureate, Chairman of the Ethics and Supervision Committee of the Israeli Association for Pediatric Neurology, Head of the Medical Ethics Unit, Shaare Zedek Medical Center Jerusalem

Native Graduation is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and Native American Council. This ceremony provides an intimate setting for family, friends, alumni, faculty, staff, and students to recognize the accomplishments of the graduates while embracing their new important roles as Columbia alumni.

530 West 120th Street (between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway)

As a condition of emploment, all Administrative Officers and Non-Union Support Staff are required to take the appropriate (Managers or Non-Supervisory course). Please note the Computer Lab is available only during the timeframe indicated. If you are unable to attend the initial time you selected, please register for another date.

Please know that you can bring your headphones to the Lab sessions.

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The Columbia University Club of Sarasota, in association with NYU Alumni & the Rotary Club of Sarasota, welcome you to attend their Arts Walking Tour on the Bayfront.

Cost: FREE 

Parking: FREE along Sarasota bayfront (do not back-in parking – new parking rule at Island Park)

Timeline:
5:15 pm: Meet at Sarasota Bayfront – Island Park
5:30 – 6:15 pm: Arts Walking Tour Led by Michael Shelton, Executive Director of Embracing Our Differences 

Please RSVP by May 15 to Carl Chorba'70CC at cchorbaosprey@verizon.net or (248) 974-8480.

Host Committee:
Andria Piekarz (Barnard alumna)
Terry McGannon (Teachers College alumnus)
Lee-En Chung'88SEAS 
Bill Fuller'67JRN, '67IA
Carl Chorba'70CC

The Columbia University Alumni Club of Turkey & AlumniTurk invite you to an evening of networking and conversation with Italy's Consul General to Turkey, Mr. Gianluca Alberini.

Price: Complimentary

To attend, please RSVP to Columbia Alumni President Ilknur Aslan (SIPA '98) at ia52@columbia.edu.

We look forward to seeing you ALL there !