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March 2023

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The Fight for Climate Justice

The Fight for Climate Justice

March 02, 2023
12:15pm-1:30pm

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International Affairs Building, Room 802

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This pizza with your prof event will be an intimate conversation on the effectiveness of climate action, between ISHR faculty Jackie Dugard, Noah Chasin, and guest speaker Lydia Gibson. Our professors will discuss how human rights practitioners, climate activists, and scholars combat climate change, from strategic litigation at the international level to environmentally conscious urban planning and design in NYC, to address challenges of data justice and epistemic violence to marginalized communities.

 

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How Can America’s System for Making Secrets Get Back Under Control?

How Can America’s System for Making Secrets Get Back Under Control?

March 07, 2023
6-7:30pm

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420 W 118th St 420 West 118th Street International Affairs Building Room 1501 New York, NY 10027

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Join us for a panel discussion about the history, and future, of official secrecy, featuring discoveries from Columbia’s History Lab.

Please click here to register. 

Every year, the U.S. government creates tens of millions of new secrets. Top secret documents have been turning up in the strangest places, triggering Justice Department investigations of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. What are the consequences for national security and democratic accountability? And what can possibly be done to advance a more rational, risk-management approach to safeguarding dangerous information while accelerating the release of public records?

Join us for a panel discussion about the history, and future, of official secrecy. It will feature new discoveries from Columbia’s History Lab, which has been using artificial intelligence to analyze the world’s largest database of declassified documents. Participants will also bring fresh perspectives from the frontlines of law, journalism, and data science, and discuss whether it would be possible – and wise – to build a “Declassification Engine.”

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Emily Bazelon, Senior Research Scholar in Law, and Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School

Matthew Connelly, Columbia professor of history and author of The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals about America’s Top Secrets

Barton Gelman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and staff writer at The Atlantic

Timothy Naftali, founding director of the Nixon Presidential Library and clinical associate professor of public service at NYU

Chris H. Wiggins, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia and Chief Data Scientist of The New York Times
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History and Climate Change: How Histories of Trees and Peoples Can Help West Africa Plan for the Future

History and Climate Change: How Histories of Trees and Peoples Can Help West Africa Plan for the Future

March 22, 2023
4:30pm

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Please join us and register for the second History and Climate Change Workshop of Spring 2023, on Wednesday, March 22nd, at 4:30PM, featuring Michela Biasutti and Boniface Fosu for a discussion on How Histories of Trees and Peoples Can Help West Africa Plan for the Future. 

 

This event is in-person only in 513 Fayerweather on the Morningside Campus.

 

Across West Africa, the environment varies from the desert to rainforests. In between, monsoon rains support grasslands and savannahs, and the livelihoods of farmers and herders. Local practices have evolved to manage the large spatial and seasonal variations in rainfall, but droughts and floods are common and devastating, and are likely to get worse.

 

Planning a development pathway that is resilient to climate requires understanding both the expected range of climatic conditions and how climate affects people's choices. We present two early-stage projects that address the link between drought and the movement of people in the present and the past. The common thread is a preliminary, centuries-long, tree-ring-based drought atlas. The atlas provides (i) an observational-based estimate of natural variations in drought severity to use in games assessing the adaptation strategies of transhumant herders, and (ii) a history of drought patterns that can be compared to population-level migrations in pre-colonial times to compare the effects of environmental pressures against other societal drivers.

 

These projects are still getting off the ground, and we will openly discuss the challenges deriving from disciplinary barriers in language and methods and from the limitations of the drought atlas itself.

 

The event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and by the Center for Science and Society (CSS). 

 

Please click here to register.
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The Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop in Sustainable Development (IPWSD)

The Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop in Sustainable Development (IPWSD)

March 24, 2023 to March 25, 2023
Friday, March 23, 8:30am-8:30pm, and Saturday March 24, 9:30am-5:10pm

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IAB 1512

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Welcome to IPWSD 2023!  We are excited to bring you the 14th annual Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Workshop in Sustainable Development.

The sustainability of development presents some of the most important policy challenges concerning the future of our planet. None of these central issues can be understood from the sole perspective of a traditional discipline, whether in the social, natural, engineering or health sciences. The IPWSD provides a forum for young researchers working at the intersection between human development and the environment to present, receive feedback on, and discuss their research work. It also aims to foster a network among students pursuing research across disciplines generating a broader interdisciplinary dialogue around sustainable development.

The workshop is targeted at PhD candidates who seek feedback on their research. Participants should expect to present for 20 minutes with plenty of room for discussion. Students in the dissertation stage of their PhD will be given priority for presentation slots, though advanced masters students and post-docs are also encouraged to apply. Some slots will also be available for participants who do not wish to present but who are likely to provide valuable feedback to presenters. In the past, participants have included students from university departments in economics, earth and environmental sciences, ecology, political science, engineering, epidemiology, and geography. Besides presentations, there will be at least one keynote address by a leading researcher in the field of sustainable development (name TBA), as well as a roundtable discussion on the challenges and chances of interdisciplinary work.

There is no fee for participating in the event and light breakfast & lunches will be provided. This year, we are pleased to be able to offer a limited number of need-based travel scholarships in line with the Sustainable Development Doctoral Society’s commitment to fostering an inclusive and diverse academic community. For up to 10 participants we can support expenses for bus, train, and flight tickets with up to $500. Please indicate in the application form if you wish to be considered for need-based travel funding to allow your in-person participation.

Applications for IPWSD 2023 are now closed.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the planning committee at cu.sdds.ipwsd@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you this spring!

The Fourteenth IPWSD Planning Committee.

Friday, March 23, 8:30am-8:30pm, and Saturday March 24, 9:30am-5:10pm
 
 
 
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A Conversation with European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel

A Conversation with European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel

March 27, 2023
11am-12:15pm

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Kellogg Center, Room 1501, School for International and Public Affairs

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Registration is required, please register here.
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PER Distinguished Lecture with Eric Maskin

PER Distinguished Lecture with Eric Maskin

March 29, 2023
3-4pm

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International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027 Room/Area: Kellogg Center, Room 1512

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Link to event: http://events.columbia.edu/go/maskin

Event Contact Information:
Program for Economic Research
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econ-per@columbia.edu
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