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A New York Minute COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SIPA Admissions Blog You may have heard the expression New York minute before.   The long time host of The Tonight Show, Johnny Carson, once described a New York Minute this way: Its the interval between a Manhattan traffic light turning green and the guy behind you honking his horn. The expression is meant to convey a hectic and busy pace, and you could say that events at SIPA seem to happen almost every minute.   Here is the latest update on current and upcoming events at SIPA. Monday, April 5 Sunday, April 11 THIS WEEKS FEATURED EVENT April 6, 2010 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm SIPA, International Media And Communications Conference: Facing the Fracture: Media Economic Understanding with Columbia University professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, associate editor of the Financial Times Martin Wolf and many other top journalists, scholars, and activists International Affairs Building, Room 1501 Monday, April 5 April 5, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Modern Tibetan Studies Brown Bag Conversation: Cinema in Tibet with Pema Tseden and Rigden Gyatso, filmmakers International Affairs Building, Room 918 April 5, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute Talk: Daniil Andreev: The idea of integration of the global cultural space with Dmitri Ahtyrsky, Visiting Scholar, Columbia University. In Russian. International Affairs Building, Room 1219 April 5, 2010 from 12:15 pm to 1:45 pm Middle East Institute Brown Bag Lecture: Turkeys Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan: End of the Dance? with Alexander Murinson, author of Turkeys Entente with Israel and Azerbaijan. Knox Hall, Room 207 606 West 122nd Street (between Claremont and Broadway Avenues) April 5, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm SIPA, Economic and Political Development Brown Bag: With Sienna Baskin, Staff Attorney of the Sex Workers Project at the Urban Justice Center International Affairs Building, Rm. 1401 April 5, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 7:45 pm SIPA, International Economic Policy IFEP APEC Study Center Distinguished Speaker Series: Chinas Currency and U.S.-China Relations International Affairs Building, Room 1512 Tuesday, April 6 April 6, 2010 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm SIPA, International Media And Communications Conference: Facing the Fracture: Media Economic Understanding with Columbia University professor Joseph E. Stiglitz, associate editor of the Financial Times Martin Wolf and many other top journalists, scholars, and activists International Affairs Building, Room 1501 April 6, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute Talk: Kosovos Difficult Future: Challenges Ahead with Ilir Deda, Executive Director, Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED) International Affairs Building, Room 1219 April 6, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lecture:: The Slippery Matter of Trademarks: Copycat Soap Companies, the Question of Authenticity, and Sino-British Diplomacy in 1930s China.from the series Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society. Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Legal Studies (CCLS) at Columbia Law School. Jerome Greene Hall Case Lounge, Room 701 April 6, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm SIPA, Economic and Political Development Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series: Building Partnerships for Social Ventures with Yasmina Zaidman, Director of Communications, Acumen Fund. Reception to follow. International Affairs Building, Room 1512 April 6, 2010 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm SIPA, Student Group Talk: The Face of the Voiceless: Iraqi Orphan Initiative. Please join us to learn about the sad realities on the ground for Iraqi orphans and learn how you can help. Co-sponsored by the Network of Arab American Professionals of NY (NAAP-NY). International Affairs Building, Room 410 Wednesday, April 7 April 7, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm Harriman Institute BookTalk: with by Pauline Jones Luong, Brown University. The discussion will on the authors new book (written with Erika Weinthal, Duke University) entitled Oil is Not a Curse: Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States (forthcoming), This is a meeting of the Comparative Politics Seminar, jointly sponsored by the Harriman Institute and the Department of Political Science. International Affairs Building, Lindsay Rogers Room (7th Floor) April 7, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm SIPA, Human Rights Working Group Panel Discussion: Raise Hope for Congo addresses the conflict in eastern Congo, specifically the scourge of conflict minerals and the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the region. With John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, Roger Luhiri, a former fistula doctor at Panzi Hospital in DRC and Lisa Jackson, director of the film The Greatest Silence about rape in the Congo. International Affairs Building, Room 1501 Thursday, April 8 April 8, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture: Recent Trends in Divorce and Divorce Law in Hong Kong, with Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University. International Affairs Building, Room 918 April 8, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm Middle East Institute Brown Bag Lecture: The Lineages of the Neo-Mamluk State with Richard Bulliet, Professor of History at Columbia University Knox Hall, Room 208 606 W. 122nd St. April 8, 2010 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm SIPA, UN Studies Program UNSP Working Lunch: The Responsibility to Protect: Perspectives from the Non-Aligned Movement with the Ambassadors of Egypt and Cuba Permanent Mission of Egypt to the UN April 8, 2010 from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies Grand Rounds: With Dr. Richard Warner, internationally recognized by the mental health care community as a leader in schizophrenia treatment and recovery research and development. Columbia Medical Center Psychiatric Institute All-Purpose Room, 6th Fl., Rm 6602 168th Street and Haven Avenue April 8, 2010 from 6:15 pm to 8:00 pm School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute Lecture: Czech Writers Under Siege and Czech Literary History with Professor Holý, Institute for Czech Literature and Literary Studies at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague. Co-sponsored with Columbia Universitys Slavic Department. International Affairs Building, Room 1510 April 8, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Talk: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics or Did We Ask the Wrong Question with David Monk, NERA Economic Consulting Hamilton Hall, Room 503 April 8, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Harriman Institute Screenings and Commentary: Revisiting Soviet TV with Jonathan Sanders, a consultant on international broadcasting and Russian affairs. Part of the Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World International Affairs Building, Room 1219 Friday, April 9 April 9, 2010 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Earth Institute New York City Water Summit: With academic, governmental and industrial leaders in the fields of drinking water and waste water International Affairs Building, Altschul Auditorium April 9, 2010 from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute Workshop: Convened by the Harriman Institute and co-sponsored by the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus International Affairs Building, Room 1512 April 9, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Earth Institute Seminar: Tailoring seasonal climate forecasts for hydropower operations in Ethiopias upper Blue Nile basin with Paul Block, Associate Research Scientist, Hydroclimatology and Water Resources Management, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, The Earth Institute, Columbia University Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924 Register April 9, 2010 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm Harriman Institute Freedom and Democracy Twenty Years After Are we there yet? The Czech Republic in Europe and in the World with a keynote address by Jan Fischer, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Followed by a question and answer session with the audience. Light lunch will be served. Online registration is required International Affairs Building, Kellogg Center, 15th Floor Register April 9, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Harriman Institute Talk:The Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920 and its Legacy: A Yugoslav Perspective with Dejan Djokic, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History; Director, Centre for the Study of the Balkans Goldsmiths College, University of London. Co-sponsored by the Njego Endowment for Serbian Language Culture at Columbia University International Affairs Building, Room 1219 Saturday, April 10 April 10, 2010, All-Day Event Harriman Institute Third Annual OASIES Student Conference: Power and Movement Across Asia, presented by the Organizations for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies at Columbia University, New York University, and Yale University International Affairs Building, Room 707 April 10, 2010 from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Harriman Institute Conference: Georgian Modernism with panels covering Tbilisi Avant-Garde Art and its Cultural Milieu and Georgian Modernism and its Development International Affairs Building, Room 1512 Sunday, April 11 No Events Scheduled UPCOMING EVENTS Monday, April 12 â€" Sunday, May 2 Monday, April 12 April 12, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm South Asian Institute Distinguished Lecturer Series: Brahman communities and the making of social critique in western India, c. 1600-1850 by Rosalind OHanlon,Oxford University Knox Hall, Room 208 606 West 122nd Street between Broadway and Claremont Avenue April 12, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm Committee on Global Thought Discussion:Financial Market Reform with Phil Angelides, Chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission; Gary Gensler, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Arthur Levitt, former Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ; and Joseph Stiglitz, Chairman of the Committee of Global Thought. Low Library Rotunda Register April 12, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion Book Signing: with Nicholas D. Kristof. two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and columnist for the New York Times Journalism Building Lecture Hall, 3rd Floor Tuesday, April 13 April 13, 2010 from 4:20 pm to 6:10 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lecture: The Exclusionary Rule in a State of Flux: China, Taiwan, and the United States with Margaret K. Lewis. The lecture is a part of the series Colloquium: Chinese Law and Society Jerome Greene Hall, Case Lounge, Room 701 Wednesday, April 14 April 14, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture:The Politics of Presence: Voice, Deity Possession, and Dilemmas of Development Among Tibetans, with Charlene Makley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Reed College. International Affairs Building, Room 918 Thursday, April 15 April 15, 2010 from 6:45 pm to 8:45 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Modern Tibetan Studies Film Screening: The Silent Holy Stones from the series Soul-Searching in Tibet Films by Pema Tseden (Wanma Caidan) Asia Society 725 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 Friday, April 16 April 16, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Earth Institute Seminar: An Integrated Framework for Analysis of Water Supply in a Developing World City with Veena Srinivasan, Post-doctoral Scholar, Department of Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford University Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924 Register Monday, April 19 April 19, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture: Governance and Local Economic Policymaking: Vietnam and Indonesia, with Alasdair Bowie, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, the George Washington University International Affairs Building, Room 918 April 19, 2010 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Panel Discussion: Private Lives of Public Women â€" Disrupting the Figure of the Prostitute in South Korea, with Sealing Cheng, Wellesley College; Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College; Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University; and Carole S. Vance, Columbia University. International Affairs Building, Room 918 April 19, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture: Governance and Local Economic Policymaking: Vietnam and Indonesia, with Alasdair Bowie, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, the George Washington University International Affairs Building, Room 918 Wednesday, April 21 April 21, 2010 from 9:00 am to 10:30 am Harriman Institute Please join the Harriman Institute in welcoming Jeri Laber, Russian Insitute 54, Founder of Human Rights Watch Pupin Laboratories 301 April 21, 2010 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm School of International and Public Affairs, Harriman Institute Talk: The Moscow Kremlin Museum: Who needs this museum? with Svetlana Kostanyan, Kremlin Museum Research Library International Affairs Building, Room 1219 April 21, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm Harriman Institute Discussion: Old Print Journalism Meets New Media Theory with Yassen Zassoursky, Dean of the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University versus his grandson Ivan Zassoursky, Director of the New Media Department. Part of the Media Dialogues Across Boundaries series (Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World) Faculty House, Presidential Room 2 Thursday, April 22 April 22, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm SIPA International Conflict Resolution Program Working Lunch: Environmental Restoration: a Tool for Peace Building in Serbia The Italian Academy at Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th Street and 118th Street) Register Friday, April 23 April 23, 2010, All Day Event SIPA International Conflict Resolution Program Environmental Conflict Resolution Series: Environment as a Source of Cooperation in Iraq Local and Regional Perspectives The Italian Academy at Columbia University 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th Street and 118th Street) Register April 23, 2010 from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Earth Institute Seminar: With Paolo DOdorico, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924 Register Monday, April 26 April 26, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion and South Asian Institute Annual Mary Keating Das Lecture: No Longer Pakistani, Not Yet Indian Migration and the Meaning of Citizenship with Niraja Gopal Jayal (Visiting Professor, Princeton University; Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University) Knox Hall, Room 208 Tuesday, April 27 April 27, 2010 from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Harriman Institute Screenings and Commentary: Soviet TV with Donna Bahry, Department of Political Science, Penn State University. Part of the Harriman Core Project 2009-2010: New Modes of Communication in the Post-Soviet World International Affairs Building, Room 1219 Wednesday, April 28 April 28, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Harriman Institute Talk: Democratization v. Reconciliation: Post-Nationalist Memories of the Battle of Kosovo with Dr. Anna Di Lellio, commentator and policy analyst on post-war Kosovo, author of The Battle of Kosovo 1389. An Albanian Epic (I.B. Tauris 2009) and the editor of The Case for Kosova. A Passage to Independence (Anthem Press 2006). International Affairs Building, Room 1219 April 28, 2010 from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm a SIPA Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion and South Asian Institute Discussion: With Yogendra Yadav, Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and Co-Director of Lokniti, a research programme on comparative democracy. Knox Hall, Room 509 Thursday, April 29 April 29, 2010 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Harriman Institute Book Discussion: Russia Against Napoleon: The True Story of the Campaigns of War and Peace with Dominic Lieven, Professor of History at the London School of Economics. Co-sponsored by the Dual Master’s Degree Program in International and World History and the European Institute. International Affairs Building, Lehman Center, Room 406 April 29, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy Seminar: With Sanjay Reddy, New School for Social Research Hamilton Hall, Room 503 Friday, April 30 April 30, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Weatherhead East Asian Institute Brown Bag Lecture: China in the 21st Century â€" A Cultural Historians Take on Contemporary Events and Contemporary Dilemmas with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. International Affairs Building, Room 918 April 30, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Earth Institute Seminar:With Douglas James, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University Seeley W. Mudd Building, Room 924 Register To publicize an event, submit your entry at http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news_events/submit_event.html, by 5:00 pm on Wednesday. Columbia University Homepage| SIPA Homepage | SIPA Events| Subscribe to News Feed via RSS