Please join The Columbia / Barnard Hillel for this year’s Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance (JOFA) Conference which explores the intersection of our feminist ideals with critical facets of halakhic lives and religious experiences, including race, sexuality, family, and political structures. This year’s theme “Charting Your Course,” focuses on empowering individuals and communities to navigate paths to make real progress.

On Saturday, January 14, at 8pm, at the Kraft Center, Amy Oestreicher will present “Post Traumatic Gifts.” Through interwoven song and dialogue, she will share a primal piece of live-storytelling – a powerful message that it’s possible to overcome obstacles with the foundational pillars of hope, resilience, and creativity.

Registration closes January 10th – Don’t forget to REGISTER here!

Please join the Program for the Study of LGBT Health for, “Complex Networks of Social Support: Exploring the Roles of Parents, Families, and Mentors in the Lives of Young Adult Gay and Bisexual Men,” with Jorge H. Soler, PhD, MPH, ICAP at Columbia University.

Join SAFA to make posters for the Women’s Marches in NYC, DC, or anywhere else this weekend! This will be our first general body meeting of the semester. We will provide markers, posters, and other fun materials to get your activist on!

NYC March: https://www.facebook.com/events/2169332969958991/
DC March: https://www.facebook.com/events/2169332969958991/

Please join Columbia Global Centers for a discussion between Yadh Ben Achour, former President of the High Authority of the Revolution in Tunisia, Yasmine Ergas, Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and Alfred Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government, on human rights in post-revolution Tunisia.

Register here.

Join members of the Asian American Alliance for a post-Women’s March debrief. This event seeks to create a safe space that centers Asian women/trans/gender non-conforming folks of color and their experiences with this weekend’s past march. Though all are welcome, please be mindful that this space will focus on Asian/Asian American voices and perspectives. Snacks will be served!

Location: Broadway Room, wheelchair accessible.

Due to space limitations, this event is open to Columbia University and Barnard College students only.

Please join Spectrum this Thursday for a casual meet-up to kick-off the semester with the new Spectrum Board. Friends and allies welcome! And don’t forget karaoke starts at 9 !

Please join The University Seminars: Sites of Cinema for : “The Postwar Queer Avant-Garde Cinema.”

Speaker: Ron Gregg, Yale University
Respondent: James L. Hoberman, Columbia University

Please join the Program for the Study of LGBT Health for “Theorizing Trans For Clinical Practice: Mirroring, Consciousness, and an Algorithm of Gender,” with SJ Langer, LCSW-R Private Practice, and Faculty at School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.

Save the date for the first LGBTQIA Students, Faculty, and Staff Meetup of the semester! Come discuss strategies to live and thrive in the age of a new administration.

The social is a space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual students, faculty, and staff to connect, share resources and be empowered by the presence of one of another.

Lunch from Falafel on Broadway will be provided.

Please join Columbia If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice and Center for Gender and Sexuality Law for a screening of Abortion: Stories Women Tell, to be followed by a discussion with Jenny Dodson Mistry, of National Institute for Reproductive Health. This event is part of CLS SPIN’s January theme: Agenda Setting Post-Election. Learn about restrictive abortion laws, and how organizations such as National Institute for Reproductive Health are setting their agendas to resist further restrictions and support laws that keep women safe, and allow them to make their own decisions.

Abortion: Stories Women Tell is an HBO documentary released in 2016 showing the lives of women living under restrictive abortion laws in Missouri. Women share their experiences, the factors that influenced their decision, and offer their stories of strength and ability to overcome and persevere through complicated and unexpected circumstances. This film presents a candid dialogue about one of the timeliest issues facing America today. Watch the trailer here: https://www.storieswomentell.com/.

Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to public.

Join IRWGS for their first action in the 10 actions/100 days plan: “Write to your Senators.”

Write to your Senators about what matters most to you – and how you’re going to fight for it in the days, weeks and months ahead.

Pour your heart out on any issue that you care about, whether it’s ending gender-based violence, reproductive rights and women’s health, LGBTQIA rights, worker’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, religious freedom, environmental justice or anything else.

January 31st

1-2 pm and 6-7pm

February 1st

6-7pm

Join IRWGS for their first action in the 10 actions/100 days plan: “Write to your Senators.”

Write to your Senators about what matters most to you – and how you’re going to fight for it in the days, weeks and months ahead.

Pour your heart out on any issue that you care about, whether it’s ending gender-based violence, reproductive rights and women’s health, LGBTQIA rights, worker’s rights, civil rights, immigrant rights, religious freedom, environmental justice or anything else.

January 31st

1-2 pm and 6-7pm

February 1st

6-7pm

Please join the Sexuality, Sexual and Reproductive Health Certificate Program for their lunch seminar with Professor Andrew Dolkart, who will be speaking on “Preserving LGBT History: The NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project” on Wednesday 2/1, from 11:30 – 12:50 in the B2 Conference Room in 60 Haven Avenue. Lunch will be provided.

Andrew Dolkart is a Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and served as Director of the Historic Preservation Program from 2008-2016. He is a historian specializing in the architecture and development of New York City, with particular interest in the common, yet overlooked building types that line the city’s streets. He is the author of several award winning books, including Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development, which received the Association of American Publishers’ award for best scholarly book in architecture and urban design; Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street, and The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929, which won the Society of Architectural Historians’ prestigious Antoinette Forrester Downing Award in 2012. He is currently working on a book on the architecture and development of New York City’s Garment District, having previously completed two article on this subject and curated an exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum. With two colleagues, Andrew is a founder of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project which is identifying extant sites of significance to LGBT history throughout the five boroughs.

Come support SIPA colleagues as they present their independent research in various fields regarding gender. Also join the Gender & Public Policy Specialization for lunch and student research.
Featuring Bhavya Narasimhamurthy on gender-based violence programming, and Marie Wavre on law for transgender communities in India, Pakistan and Nepal.

Join the Barnard Center for Research on Women for, “In the Wake: A Salon in Honor of Christina Sharpe.”

Christina Sharpe’s paradigm shifting new work, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the “orthography of the wake.” Invoking the multiple meanings of the term “wake”—the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness—Sharpe details how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and describes what survives despite insistent violence and negation. Formulating the wake and “wake work” as sites of artistic production, resistance, consciousness, and possibility for living in diaspora, In the Wake offers a way forward.

Welcome back to campus! Come meet members of WiCS at a welcome back event and enjoy some snacks.

Please join IRWGS for a book launch with Lisa Wade, Associate Professor of Sociology, Occidental College on her new book American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus.

Lean In at Columbia University and IBM are partnering to bring you Women@IBM, a panel conversation which will center on the challenges that women face in the predominantly male profession of consulting. The panelists, female consultants from IBM, will discuss their unique experiences at the company and the pros and cons of being a woman in the field. This session will be interactive: you will have the opportunity to ask questions and converse with the panelists.

The event will be held in the Conference Space of the Center for Career Education, which is left of Wien Hall and down the stairs.

Have you ever dreamed of writing for a magazine? Her Campus UGA is the college’s chapter of HerCampus.com, an online magazine written by college women, for college women. They are looking for writers, photographers, event planners, and social media lovers to join their team. Being a part of Her Campus is a great way to gain writing experience, make friends, and build your resume! Interested? Come to the information meeting to learn more about becoming a part of HC UGA!

Check out the website at http://www.hercampus.com/school/uga and make sure like them on Facebook at Her Campus UGA and follow them on Instagram and Twitter @hercampusuga

The first meeting of the University Seminar in Literary Theory this semester will be taking place Tuesday, February 7th, from 7:15-9:00PM at Faculty House. Robyn Marasco (Associate Professor of Political Science, CUNY-Hunter College) will be discussing her paper “On Womanly Nihilism: Beauvoir and Us,” and Elisabeth Ladenson (Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University) will be the respondent. If you are interested in attending the seminar, please email Victoria Wiet (vcw2106@columbia.edu) for a copy of the reading.

Looking to keep momentum from the marches going? Still curious why we needed to march? Columbia Law Feminist Society – CLFS invites Professor Laura Ciolkowski, Associate Director of the Columbia Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality to the law school to discuss what feminism is and why we still need it. Those with questions about feminism, men’s role in gender equality, and those looking to meet others thinking about those issues are encouraged to attend. We will also go over the mission of CLFS and upcoming events on campus. A non-pizza lunch will be served.

Now in its seventh year, the Athena Film Festival — a celebration of women and leadership — is an engaging weekend of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlight women’s leadership in real life and the fictional world. The four-day festival, which includes conversations with directors and talent and workshops for filmmakers, has quickly established itself as one of the most prestigious festivals of its kind. The films that will screen at the annual Barnard College event in New York, designed to celebrate female leadership, include HBO’s Carrie Fisher-Debbie Reynolds documentary Bright Lights and the fall theatrical release Queen of Katwe. Additionally, the festival will screen clips from the upcoming Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale.
The festival will be held Feb. 9 – 12, 2017 in the heart of New York — at Barnard, the most sought-after women’s college in the nation.

The festival has also partnered with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the U.S. premiere of The Women Who Run Hollywood, followed by a post-screening panel, with filmmaker Cari Beauchamp, who’s featured in the film, about pioneering female filmmakers in early Hollywood.

The festival will close with the New York premiere of Dolores, a documentary about feminist union organizer and Cesar Chavez cohort Dolores Huerta. The centerpiece film will be another documentary: City of Joy, about a community of the same name for female survivors of sexual violence in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Other films set to screen at this year’s Athena Film Festival include Denial, starring Rachel Weisz; Custody, starring Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere and Ellen Burstyn; Strange Weather, starring Holly Hunter; The Fits, starring Royalty Hightower; and documentaries Political Animals, Major! and Southwest of Salem. Additional programming includes a virtual reality program, panel discussions, a master class hosted by writer-director and festival honoree Patricia Riggen and a reading of the 2016 Athena list winner A Noble Affair.

Please join the Center for Korean Research for their Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies featuring John Song Pae Cho, Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College, moderated by Theodore Hughes, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Korean Studies in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. In recent years, postcolonial nations in East Asia and South-east Asia have witnessed the growth of vigorous LGBT movements that both mimic and challenge Euro-American models of identity, sexuality, and citizenship. Defying the thesis of queer globalization as Westernization, the rise of a regional sexual imaginary dubbed “Queer Asia” has taken place in tandem with the rise of certain Asian states as economic and technological powers. Building on the emerging scholarship on Queer Asia, Prof. Cho’s paper seeks to interrogate one key dimension of this phenomenon: family and queerness. Critics have noted that East Asian queers, due to concerns about parents and filial obligations, oftentimes reject an Anglo-American model of homosexuality that constructs gay identity as coming out of the blood family and joining alternative communities. Instead, they create marginal urban gay spaces that are shielded from the gaze of the family even as they are linked to global cultural flows.

Yet, if many East Asian queers refuse to exit the family to be gay, then how do the globalizing discourses of queerness remake not just their identities but also the families they inhabit as a site of ongoing contradiction and cultural hybridity? Working from the geo-political location of South Korea and the interdisciplinary perspectives of anthropology and queer studies, this paper thus asks, What happens to the South Korean family when queers refuse to become sexual exiles?

Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and the Korea Foundation

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy program for a company overview and lunch at Safari Energy. Safari Energy, a leading commercial scale solar provider, was founded in 2008 with a vision of reducing energy expenses for commercial customers while also helping the environment. Their services include:

Design
Financial Structuring
Engineering, Procurement and Construction
Operations and Maintenance
Energy Solutions

You will be meeting with the following experts:

Theresa Baker – Project Development Associate
Paige Shen – Solar Design Engineering Lead
Sarah Conde – Procurement & Estimating Manager
Kayla Harvey – Director of Recruitment
Dan Giuffrida – VP of Project Finance

To get the most out of the visit, please read more about the company on their website: Safari Energy.

This event is open only to current female grad students. Since space is limited, RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come basis until capacity is reached. Please RSVP only if you can commit to attending.

Reframing Gendered Violence is a two­-year initiative of Women Creating Change at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, supported by the Dean of the Humanities, the Columbia Global Centers, and linked to the project on “Religion and the Global Reframing of Gender Violence” supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. The event will include the talks:

“Rape Trees, State Security and the Politics of Sexual Violence along Migrant Routes in Mexico”
Wendy Vogt, Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

“Suppliants and Deviants: Gendering the Refugee/Migrant Debate on the EU Border”
Chloe Howe Haralambous, Graduate Student, English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

“When Home Won’t Let You Stay: A Collective Deliberation on Taking Refuge”
Isin Onol, Curator, Vienna and Istanbul

“Migrants and a New Mothers’ Movement”
Diana Taylor, University Professor, Performance Studies and Spanish and Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU

This event is free and open to the public. Columbia is committed to creating an environment that includes and welcomes people with disabilities. If you need accommodations because of a disability, please email tkr2001@columbia.edu in advance of the event.

This event will be videotaped.

Join the WIL board for the first General Body Meeting of the semester. This is an opportunity for you to find out about the WIL board, its plan for the semester and how you can contribute to make it even more awesome!

RSVP here.

On behalf of GendeRevolution (Columbia’s trans support and advocacy student group) and LGBTQ @ Columbia (part of Multicultural Affairs), we would like to invite you to the Trans T(ea) Party mixer for transgender and non-binary students, faculty, staff, and alumni to connect and build community over dinner, tea, and conversation. The event takes place on Monday, February 13, 2017 from 6-8pm in Lerner Hall, Broadway Room.

For any questions, please email any of the following:
grboard@columbia.edu
lgbtqa@columbia.edu

The genders we love…

The gender stereotypes we hate…

The genders who break our hearts…

For Valentine’s Day, come learn about gender with your SIPA classmates over food. Hear the answers to the questions you threw in the Gender Bowl at SIPAFest. This event especially aimed at non-gender specializers and those new to this topic so bring friends! Special giveaway for all who attend.

Co-sponsored by Gender Policy Working Group and SIPA Spectrum.

“Recent discussions of the affective dimension of democratic politics focus upon bodily energies, sensations and non-human actants. Dissensual experiences are believed to trigger responsiveness and provide democratic moments. While I agree that dialogue and argument are insufficient to understand political mobilization, there is little talk of how commitment is fostered or resilience cultivated. Persistence is urged, but having erased the subject and having glossed over the importance of emotion and commitment there are few resources to sustain democratic movements. In this paper, I turn to Simone de Beauvoir and put her in conversation with Gilles Deleuze, Jane Bennett and Teresa Brennan. In rethinking the subject as a “body in situation”, she avoids the rationalist humanism that is usually attributed to her. Furthermore, in acknowledging the significance of affects, emotions and bodily sensations as well as conscious commitment and creative projects, her theory of agency provides a much needed corrective to the current wave of democratic anti-humanists”.

More information about Elaine Stavro can be found here: https://www.trentu.ca/politics/stavro.php

Organized by the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Cosponsored by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; Columbia Center on Affect Studies; and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

For questions or to RSVP contact Anna Krauthamer at ak4035@columbia.edu

Light lunch will be served.

Please join the Columbia Population Research Center for the seminar, “How Does Gender Inequality Persist in the Modern World,” presented by Cecilia Ridgeway, Lucie Stern Professor of Sociology, Stanford University.

Video conference is available at: Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 1109.

Registration required.

Please join IRWGS for a graduate/faculty seminar with Hortense Spillers, English department, Vanderbilt University.

Space at this salon is limited so please arrive early to secure a seat. Priority for this event is given to current Columbia University Graduate Students and Faculty members. Please contact irwgs@columbia.edu for additional information.

Hortense Spillers considers the aftermath of the notion of partus sequitur ventrem—the “American ‘innovation’ that proclaimed that the child born of an enslaved mother would also be enslaved.” In her fall lecture, “Shades of Intimacy: Women in the Time of Revolution,” she deepens this ongoing exploration by engaging the idea of the “shadow” family as one of the tectonic shifts in the concept and practice of social relations in the New World from the 18th century forward. Join us for Spillers’ critical examination of this period of profound contradiction and change when dangerously hegemonic definitions of race, gender, and family took hold.

Registration for the evening lecture is preferred but not required.

WIL in collaboration with UNSWG, CEUSA and the Education Collaborative and is hosting a Welcome Back Happy Hour on Thursday, February 9, 2017 from 7 pm- 9 pm at Publique.

RSVP here.

Please join the Columbia Population Research Center for the seminar, “How Does Gender Inequality Persist in the Modern World?” presented by Cecilia Ridgeway, Lucie Stern Professor of Sociology, Stanford University.

Video conference is available at: Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 1109

Registration required at https://cupop.formstack.com/forms/rsvp

Join IRWGS for a fun feminist screening of the TV show followed by a discussion and pizza.

Please join LGBT Health for “An Exploratory Study of the Role of Religious/Spiritual Expression in the Lives of Lesbian Couples,” with Laura Kelly PhD, APN, Associate Professor of Nursing and Program Director Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at the Columbia University School of Nursing.

Are you interested in pursuing a career in Arts Administration? Is it your life long dream to become a museum curator or work at at first art auction house or are you simply curious to learn more about this creative career path? Join some of the extraordinary Barnard Alumnae working in the arts – as they discuss their careers, life in the artistic lane and what it really takes to exciting and rewarding the field (moderated by Donna Holder).

Panelists include:
Ellen Dulsky Watkins (’14)
Junior Accoun Coordinator
Fitz & Co.

Lindsay Griffith (’10)
Associate Vice President
Specialist, Prints & Multiples
Christie’s Auction House

Melanie Kress (’09)
High Line Art Assistant Coordinator
Friends of the High Line

Jenny Lyubomudrova (’12)
Research Associate
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC

Annie Ochmanek (’08)
Curatorial Assistant
Department of Painting and Sculpture
The Museum of Modern Art

All students are Welcome to expect. Space is limited. Please RSVP on NACElink to reserve your seat (click Events / Workshops)

Come prepared to ask questions. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Please join Barnard/Columbia American Studies and IRWGS for a talk by Jasbir Puar: “The Right to Maim: States of Debility/Capacity/Disability.”

Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She has also been a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Performance Studies at NYU and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999 and an M.A. from the University of York, England, in Women’s Studies in 1993.

Please join the Film Studies Program at Barnard College for a screening of “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes,” and discussion with Brett Story, Topeka K. Sam and Laura Kurgan.

Please join the Women in Energy (WIE) program for an interactive leadership workshop on discovering your personal leadership brand, led by Executive Coach & Leadership Trainer Valia Glytsis, CEO and Founder of The Paradox of Leadership.

In this workshop, Valia will walk you through the top 5 lessons on personal branding through the lens of leadership mindset. From discovering what you stand for and declaring your non-negotiable to unraveling the habits that stand in your way and choosing how you respond under stress.

You will walk away inspired, stretched, and armed with a very practical toolkit for tackling some of your most pressing challenges, including: confidence, self-advocacy, having your voice heard, and negotiating for what matters.

This event is open only to current female grad students. Since space is limited, RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come basis until capacity is reached. Please RSVP only if you can commit to attending the workshop.

This is the first Women in Energy event held at The New School.
About the Women in Energy Program:
The WIE program is aimed at increasing the presence of women in the energy sector, and over the mid to long term, the presence of women in senior and management roles across the energy space through a (1) variety of public outreach, networking and community building activities, (2) leadership training and mentorship, and (3) facilitating opportunities for paid internships and full-time career opportunities.The program seeks to empower students to take on leadership roles in the energy sector and realize their full potential, while building a thriving community of professional women.

Please reserve your seat here, using your UNI: https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/showEventMore.rdo

Please join the Gender and Public Policy Specialization for a panel discussion about the nature and visibility of gender discourse in 2017: new challenges, risks, and opportunities. Featuring Professors Dale Buscher, Katherine Franke, Jenny McGill, Sara Tjossem & Alexis Wakowski. Moderated by Professor Yasmine Ergas.

To RSVP, please email iep2106@columbia.edu

Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk with graphic reportage artist Victoria Lomasko about her new collection, an anthology of her work from 2009 to 2016, Other Russias (n+1, 2016). Bela Shayevich, translator of Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time, will translate.

Victoria Lomasko is a fixture at Moscow’s trials and protests, documenting the tumultuous processes that shape today’s Russia. Not content to limit herself to the political life of the country’s capital, Lomasko travels around the country and through the former Soviet republics, exploring the domestic, psychological, and spiritual condition of its diverse marginalized groups. Sex workers in Nizhny Novgorod, women in underground lesbian clubs, teachers in a remote village school, and children at the juvenile prison colonies where Lomasko volunteers as an art teacher have been some of the subjects of her sensitive, incisive portraits. With empathy at the heart of her approach, Lomasko is drawn to people who challenge her, whose stories do not necessarily illustrate her own political views. In her graphic reportages, we find a panorama of modern Russian society.

Professor Katherine Franke, the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law and the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project are pleased to host Chase Strangio for a lunchtime talk on recent religion-based backlash against LGBTQ rights, including the First Amendment Defense Act, and other pending legislation. The Public Rights/Private Conscience Project’s mission is to bring legal academic expertise to bear on the multiple contexts in which religious liberty rights conflict with or undermine other fundamental rights to equality and liberty. This lunchtime talk is part of the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project’s series of lunchtime talks on Law, Rights and Religion.

Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio) is a Staff Attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT & AIDS Project. Chase’s work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of LGBTQ people and people living with HIV across the United States. Chase has particular expertise on the treatment of transgender and gender non-conforming people in police custody, jails, prisons and other forms of detention.

Prior to joining the ACLU, Chase was an Equal Justice Works fellow and the Director of Prisoner Justice Initiatives at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, where he represented transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in confinement settings. In 2012, Chase founded the Lorena Borjas Community Fund, an organization that provides direct bail/bond assistance to LGBTQ immigrants in criminal and immigration cases. Chase is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law and Grinnell College.

This event is free and open to the public. A non-pizza lunch will be served.

If you require disability accommodations to facilitate your attendance at this program, please let the event organizer know.

Please join IRWGS for, “Hunting Girls: Patriarchal Fantasy or Feminist Resistance with Kelly Oliver.”

Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of over 100 articles, thirteen books, and ten edited volumes. Her authored books include, most recently, Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape, forthcoming from Columbia University Press (2016); Earth and World: Philosophy After the Apollo Missions, 2015 also with Columbia. Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishmentcame out with Fordham in 2013; Knock me up, Knock me down: Images of Pregnancy in Hollywood Film was published by Columbia in 2012; Animal Lessons: How They Teach us to be Human in 2009; Also, Women as Weapons of War: Iraq, Sex and the Media (2007); The Colonization of Psychic Space: A Psychoanalytic Theory of Oppression (2004); Noir Anxiety: Race, Sex, and Maternity in Film Noir(2002); and perhaps her best known work, Witnessing: Beyond Recognitionpublished with Minnesota in 2001.

She has published in The New York Times, and has been interviewed on ABC television news, various radio programs, and Canadian Broadcasting network. Her work has been translated into seven languages. Most recently, she has written two novels in the Cowgirl Philosophy Series, forthcoming.

Please join the Oral History in our Times Series for: “At the Intersection of Academia & Activism,” a public interview and panel with John D’Emilio, Columbia Alumnus and Professor Emeritus of History at University of Illinois-Chicago.

Please join Columbia Women Inventors for a Network Event:
Hosted by the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO), the Symposium will focus on women inventors, entrepreneurs and the importance of intellectual property. Register here.

Please join Columbia Women Inventors for a Network Event:

Julie Korostoff, Co-Chair of Mintz Levin’s IT Transactions & Outsourcing Practice, and Julia Siripurapu, Member, will discuss strategies for early stage companies negotiating commercial licensing deals with large strategic partners. This session will focus on issues including how to make good use of a “pilot” as a launching pad for more long-term commitment deals, when a pilot can work against you, and when it makes sense to compromise and when not. Topics to be covered will include: the anatomy of a contract; risk mitigation strategies; and protecting your secret sauce. Register here.

Please join IRWGS for an Open House and Sign-Making Workshop.

Register here.

The Beyond the Bars Conference, now going into its 7th year, is an annual event that brings together a trans-disciplinary group to advance the work of ending mass incarceration and mass criminalization and building a just and safe society. Each year the conference brings together scholars, students, activists, advocates, policy makers, government officials and those who have been directly impacted by issues of incarceration and criminalization: for four days, we work to deepen our collective analysis and develop new strategies for change. We are happy to have Angela Davis joining us in these discussions once again
This year’s conference, Transcending the Punishment Paradigm, will address the criminal justice system’s responses to violence focusing on the following four questions:

What are the root causes of violence within communities? What are the root causes of state violence? How do the two intersect?
What is needed to makes communities safe?
What are the existing narratives about people who have committed violent acts? How do we change those narratives?
When violence happens in the community, what are responses that decrease mass criminalization and incarceration and do not rely on the punishment paradigm?

CU Players presents The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls by Meg Miroshnik, intertwining reality with classic Russian folklore, and seamlessly placing them within a single world where we face evil witches, angry bears, and potatoes with minds (and eyes) of their own. This show is about magic, movement, fantasy, and the dark twisty bits of the mind. But more than that, this is theater that begs to be done in a post-inauguration world: we have found witches where we were expecting grandmothers and bears where we were expecting boyfriends. This show imbues courage that tells people this is not the time for running away or hiding. This is Diana Center, Barnard College
Broadway & 118th Street
New York, NYthe time to stand up and fight. This is a show about taking action.

VIP tickets include priority seating and a signed poster.

hap·tic
ˈhaptik/
adjective technical
of or relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch and proprioception [relative perception].

How are we, as global citizens, accountable to each other? Please join Barnard Center for Research on Women for this year’s Scholar and Feminist Conference explores the haptic—the perception and manipulation of objects using the sense of touch—as an ethics of being in the world. Feminist scholars, artists, and activists come together in this utterly unique two-day conference to examine the many ways in which touch helps us better understand the politics and aesthetics of embodiment, situatedness, and performance. Through a series of panels and artistic encounters, we consider how our senses—not only touch, but taste, sight, and sound—situate us as bodies in political and economic contexts (such as labor), as well as in personal and sensory ones.

RSVP to attend.

RSVP Here

Please join NYU’s Center for Global Affairs, the Energy Policy International Club (EPIC), and the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy program for a public panel focused on energy start-ups. There will be experts working in companies that focus on energy efficiency, clean energy finance, and technology joining us to share their experience entering these fields and offer advice on the types of skills companies are looking for. They will also provide insights on how the industry is evolving as well as the current state of women in the energy start-up sector.

The panel will include the following experts:
Ali Adler, Director of Partnerships, Sealed
Claire Johnson, ‎President, CBJ Energy; Founder, SunEdison
Mouchka Heller, Trade Commissioner, Infrastructure and Energy, Government of Canada
Angela Ferrante, Chief Marketing Officer, SparkFund (moderator)
Registration is required. This event is open to press. Please direct media inquiries to Jamie Shellenberger-Bessmann.

It will also be livestreamed at: energypolicy.columbia.edu/watch

A podcast of this event (in addition to other past Center events) will be available ~12 days after the date of the event through iTunes or via the website.

For more information contact: energypolicy@columbia.edu

Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, the new UN Deputy Secretary-General, is scheduled to speak at this year’s International Women’s Day celebration. Please save the date and join the conversation with DSG Mohammed and Prof. Elisabeth Lindenmayer, Director of the IO/UNS Specialization.

Click HERE to RSVP.

Please join IRWGS for The Lionel Trilling Seminar with Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago).

Please join LGBT Health for, “Leading the First Queer Movement in Iraqi Public History,” with Amir Ashour, founder and executive director of IraQueer.

Please join IRWGS and the University Seminar in Affect Studies for, “More Humorlessness: University Seminar In Affect Studies,” with Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago).

DSG Mohammed, who was the Minister of Environment of Nigeria, has just started her new position in New York. Join her in a conversation with Prof. Elisabeth Lindenmayer, Director of the IO/UNS Specialization.

Register here

In celebration of International Women’s Day, The SIPA Debate and Diplomacy Society and Women in Peace and Security have partnered up to host this semester’s next debate!

“This House Would eliminate the push for gender inclusivity in peace negotiations.”

Come watch your classmates debate and help determine the winner by voting!

If you are interested in debating, please contact Allia Mohamed on sipadebates@gmail.com and cc her on this email alm2273@columbia.edu

Please join WIL in collaboration with GPWG and WIPS for an internship panel with the following guests:

Danny Bradley (OutRight)

Ginger Whitesell (Human Rights Watch)

Ashleigh Montgomery (UN Women, WIPS)

Rachel Macauley (UNDP)

Please join Columbia University HeForShe & King’s Crown Shakespeare Troup for “Antigone.” Antigone is a multimedia theatrical event partnered with UN Women’s HeForShe Arts Week to encourage activist outcomes among a university audience. The event revolves around a student production of Anne Carson’s Antigonik, played on the stage, while audience members circulate to watch the show and carry out political action at different stations. Because of the environmental nature of the production, the play will run three times consecutively on March 8, with audience entering every hour at 7PM, 8PM, and 9PM. All ticket sales benefit UN Women projects.

Please join Columbia SIPA’s Gender and Public Policy Specialization for the Women in Finance Conference:

The role of women in finance has recently attracted considerable public attention as a result of a disparate series of factors. These include the heightened visibility of women in financial policy leadership positions (such as Christine Lagarde, Janet Yellen and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, among others); the acclaim and criticism garnered by microfinance, women’s banking and other practices designed to promote women’s access to financial resources in developing countries; the gendered effects of the financial crisis on employment, housing and access to social services; litigation that has turned a spotlight on gender bias in venture capital; press coverage of the scarcity of women in investment management, particularly in hedge funds; and the inclusion of a target regarding women’s full participation in economic life under Sustainable Development Goal 5, which commits states to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Echoing debates that have centered more generally on the role of women in the economy and in political life, two major concerns have dominated discussions of women in the financial sector. First, the ‘equality’ question centers on women as participants in, and clients of, the financial services industry. What are the obstacles responsible for the dearth of women in leadership positions and in parts of the financial sector such as investment management and private equity? Second, the ‘consequentialist’ question enquires into the benefits that increased female participation brings to the financial sector and to society as a whole. A third question also needs to be asked regarding the significance of the gender changes (or the lack thereof) in relation to the other changes in financial structure in recent years. Are changes in gender dynamics indicative of – correlated with though perhaps not causally connected to — other very significant changes in the financial sector since the global financial crisis (the ‘transformative’ hypothesis)? Or, are they a sign of the malleability of the sector’s institutions such that the gender composition of both staff and clientele may change while the basic organizational structures remain the same (the ‘assimilationist’ hypothesis)?
The primary aim of this workshop is to promote substantive discussion of the questions listed above, which should include a discussion of the reliability of existing data sets and the assumptions underlying indicators and indices currently in use, as well as the utility of widely used methodologies such as gender responsive budgeting.

The workshop will also serve two further aims. First, it will provide an opportunity to gauge the possibility of creating a network of persons interested in this field encompassing academia, financial services and policy institutions. Second, it will serve as a possible model for annual future workshops on the same theme, or for more frequent ongoing policy discussions in the form of periodic seminars, policy lectures and industry roundtables.

Workshop structure:

Thursday, March 9, 2017
8:00 – 9:00 am: Registration, continental breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 am: Welcome and introduction:

Welcome: Jacob J. Lew, Columbia SIPA, Former Secretary of the Treasury
Introductory Remarks: Patricia C. Mosser, Columbia SIPA, Harumi Urata Thompson, COO NYSAA

9:15 – 10:30 am: Women as Customers, Research paper presentation and discussion

Laurie Goodman, “Women are better at paying their mortgages than men”, Urban Institute, 2016
Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, “Gender, financial literacy and financial decision making”
Discussants: Enrichetta Ravina, Columbia Business School, Terrance Odean, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business

10:30 – 10:45 am: Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 pm: Promoting Equality in Finance, Views from the Top

Chair: Yasmine Ergas, Columbia SIPA
Panel of senior public and private sector executives.
Panelists: Christine Cumming, Columbia SIPA
Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg, Deputy Governor, Bank of Israel
Kathie Andrade, CEO, Retail Services, TIAA
Carlotta de Franceschi, Columbia SIPA, Action Institute

12:30 – 2:00 pm: Lunch and Keynote

Introduction: Merit Janow, Dean, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Speaker: Mary J. Miller former Undersecretary for Domestic Finance, US Treasury
Consequences: The impact of gender diversity on financial sector firms’ performance and the economy

2:00 – 4:00 pm: Women as financial professionals

Chair: Ailsa Roell, Columbia SIPA
Renee Adams (speaker), B. Barber and T. Odean, “Family, Values, and Women in Finance” (using CFA Institute data)
Elizabeth St. Onge, Oliver Wyman “Women in Financial Services, 2016”
Linda Bell, Barnard College “Women-led Firms and the Gender Gap in Executive Pay: The Financial Sector in Highlight”, 2017
Discussants: Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University, Adam Quinton, Lucas Point Ventures

4:00 – 4:15 pm: Coffee break
4:15 – 5:00 pm: Innovation and Inclusion: Women’s World Banking
5:00 – 5:30 pm: Summary discussion: Where should research go next?

Terrance Odean, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Yasmine Ergas and Ailsa Roell, Columbia SIPA

5:30 – 7:30 pm: Reception

Foyer, 15th floor, International Affairs Building

Papers to be discussed:

Laurie Goodman, Urban Institute, 2016, Women Are Better than Men at Paying Their Mortgages
Renee B. Adams (speaker), Brad M. Barber and Terrance Odean, Family, Values, and Women in Finance
Elizabeth St. Onge, Oliver Wyman, Women in Financial Services, 2016
Linda Bell, Barnard College, 2017, “Women-led Firms and the Gender Gap in Executive Pay: The Financial Sector in Highlight”
Tabea Bucher-Koenen, Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, 2014, Gender, financial literacy and financial decision making

WIL in collaboration with Diversity Coalition is hosting a Happy Hour on Thursday, March 9, 2017 at Publique from 7 to 9 pm

Register

In recognition of Women’s History Month, Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) will host Women Picturing Revolution: Focus on Africa and the African Diaspora, a one day Teachers and Scholars Institute (TSI) on March 11, 2017, that examines contemporary photography and the conditions under which women in and/or from Africa or the African Diaspora make images. Guest artists Nona Faustine and Ayana V. Jackson will be sharing their work in person. In-class content will also include analysis of photographic work and projects, partial film screenings, review of related literature, conversations with guest artists, and a look at how contemporary image-makers are using social media. Participants will leave Women Picturing Revolution: Focus on Africa and the African Diaspora with a certificate showing their achievement upon completing the seminar. Participants will also leave with a reference guide equipping them with tools to better understand how women in and/or from Africa or the African Diaspora document resilience, resistance, and creative survival. This seminar was co-created and will be taught by Zoraida Lopez-Diago and Lesly Deschler-Canossi. Please click here to learn more.

Photographers, art historians, undergraduate and graduate students, high school and college/university instructors, museum and archive professionals, and independent scholars and researchers are welcome to register.

Who: Thomas A. Di Prete, Giddins Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University.
Date: Monday, March 13, 2017
Time: 9:00 – 11:00 am
Place: Auditorium Price, FEN-UChile, Diagonal Paraguay 205, Santiago.

*Simultaneous translation will be available.

in association with Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social – COES and Comunidad Mujer)*

The event will discuss the bridge between relevant elements of the Beijing Platform for Action, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 5 and 11 and the New Urban Agenda to implement women’s and young girl’s economic empowerment in an urbanizing world. The Discussion will revolve around:

• Harnessing and strengthening the inclusion of women’s varied work in urban economies in monetary terms.
• Tools and indicators for the systematic implementation of gender equality in the formal and informal urban economies.
• Practical, people-centred approaches empowering women and youth and enabling their inclusion in sustainable urbanization. Launch of the PSUP Phase II report – successes and challenges and launch of PSUP Phase III.

The event will be followed by a Cocktail Reception in the GA building lobby from 8.30pm to 9.30pm to launch the PSUP II Impact Report and celebrate of the continuation and expansion of the programme through PSUP III.

Register here.

Please join LGBT Health for, “Coping with Transgender Development in the Context Hasidic Traditions,” with Abby C. Stein, Columbia University Student and Jewish Educator.

Dovetailing off Session I of Whose Justice?, this panel will feature Harvard Law’s Alex Whiting, Mark Drumbl of Washington and Lee Law School, and author Opiyo Oloya. It will also include Stephen Lamony of Amnesty International, and Ketty Anyeko (Global Leadership Scholar at UBC, and ten year veteran of work with war-affected communities in northern Uganda).

The discussion will grapple with the moral and legal ambiguities of Ongwen’s standing as a former child soldier, while also interrogating the merits of international versus local justice mechanisms in a case like Ongwen’s. Questions and topics of discussion for this panel include the following: Do the circumstances under which Ongwen became a war criminal mitigate his crimes? If so, how should they be weighed in his trial, and what implications might this have for the future treatment of child soldiers in the realm of international justice? Does international transitional justice in a case like the one at hand serve the victims, or might it in fact sideline them, while prioritizing optics and Western geopolitics? Many claim that local communities want Ongwen to face “traditional” justice measures, while others point out that by Ugandan law, Ongwen should have even been eligible for amnesty. Would it have been in the interest of LRA-affected communities to consider either of these options over ICC prosecution? In addition, many critics of the ICC point out that the Court erred by indicting only LRA commanders, while neglecting to level any charges against the Uganda People’s Defense Force (UPDF- the national military, which also committed heinous acts of violence against civilians during the LRA conflict). By failing to address UPDF crimes, has the ICC legitimized government violence and allowed itself to be used as a tool of victors’ justice in Uganda?
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Please join BCRW for “An Evening with Barbara Ransby.” Award-winning historian, writer, and longtime activist Barbara Ransby joins BCRW to give the 2017 Natalie Boymel Kampen Memorial Lecture in Feminist Criticism and History. Ransby is Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she directs the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative. Ransby is author of the highly acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, which received eight national awards and international recognition, and Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson. As an activist, Ransby was an initiator of the African American Women in Defense of Ourselves campaign in 1991, a co-convener of The Black Radical Congress in 1998, and a founder of Ella’s Daughters, a network of women working in Ella Baker’s tradition.

RSVP to attend.

Join the Economic and Political Development (EPD) Concentration at SIPA for a talk with May-i Fabros, Youth Commissioner of the Philippine Commission of Women, and member of Young Women Collective and WomanHealth Philippines
May-i likes to take risks, build and break things. She engages intersecting policies and political platforms with a central focus on expanding the role of young women in decision-making and development, in all situations, and at all times, particularly on the recognition of their bodily autonomy and agency. She is a member of WomanHealth Philippines, a nonprofit national women’s organization working on social and gender justice issues, particularly on the realisation of rights to health, participation, and sexual and reproductive self-determination, through policy advocacy and campaigns on maternal death audits, public health finance and social protection. She is also part of the Young Women Collective, a safe platform for young women to engage political issues and spaces on decisions that impact their lives, and is the Commissioner representing the Youth of the Philippine Commission of Women, the national machinery on women’s human rights and gender equality.

Please join LGBT Health for, “Asexuality: Variant of Human Sexuality or Diagnosis? A Case Report and Discussion,” with Robert M. Kertzner, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.

Please join LGBT Health for, “Asexuality: Variant of Human Sexuality or Diagnosis? A Case Report and Discussion,” with Robert M. Kertzner, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.

Join IRWGS for a screening of “Young Lakota”, and a conversation with Professor Barbara Gurr about reproductive justice in Native communities.

“Young Lakota” follows a number of Native American women, including Cecelia Fire Thunder, the first female president of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and their effort to oppose extremely restrictive abortion policies in South Dakota. In response to the South Dakota Legislature’s attempt to pass some of the most restrictive legislation in the country, Fire Thunder seeks to bring a women’s health clinic to Pine Ridge Reservation. This film highlights many critical issues including the fraught relationship between Native American tribes and state governments; the many barriers to reproductive health access that affect women of color; and the role young people can take on in mobilizing their communities for positive change.

Tea, coffee, and cookies will be served.

This event is free and open to the public. If you require any disability accommodations to attend or participate in this program, please let the event organizers know.

Brought to you by Native American Law Student Alliance, Columbia If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice, EWOC at Columbia Law, Columbia Law School Student Services, the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.

Please join the Columbia Law School for a Lunchtime Talk with Lucien Greaves, Co-founder and Spokesperson, The Satanic Temple.

This event is part of a series of lunchtime talks supported by the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project and the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law. This event is free and open to the public. A non-pizza lunch will be served.

If you require any disability accommodations to facilitate your visit, please contact Liz Boylan, Assistant Director for the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at eboyla@law.columbia.edu, or 212.854.0167.

Please join the Sexuality, Women and Gender project for, “Mapping LGBTQ History,”  with Andrew Dolkart on the hidden, underexplored historic  LGBTQ sites of NYC.

Please join the Njegos Endowment for Serbian Language and Culture at Columbia University’s East Central European Center and the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Jasmina Lukić, Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and Sibelan Forrester, Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

This joint lecture by Forrester and Lukić will shed light on the work of Milica Mićić Dimovska, one of the first women writers in the Balkan literatures to promote a gender perspective in contemporary fiction of the 1980s and 1990s. An engaging storyteller, exceptional stylist, and sharp observer of social life, Mićić Dimovska is also the author of one of the most important novels about the era of Slobodan Milošević. She deconstructs the institutional, cultural and media mechanisms of mass self-deception of the part of the Serbian population that supported Milošević’s prolonged rule. She unmasks the closed system of destabilization of all possible grounds for safe judgment, which produced a situation in which post-truth was effectively introduced in public spaces.

The 2002 novel Mrena, translated into Englsih by Prof. Forrester as The Cataract, was published in 2016, and it will be promoted at the lecture as an exceptional literary piece and a strong critical text that can speak to a number of comparable situations in today’s world.

Sibelan Forrester is Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. She has published numerous translations of fiction, folktales, poetry, and scholarly prose from Croatian, Russian and Serbian. Her translation of Mićić Dimovska’s novel THE CATARACT was published in 2016, with an introduction by Jasmina Lukić.

Jasmina Lukić is Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies with the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Budapest. In 2014-15 she has been Cornell Visiting Professor with Swarthmore College. Her publications include two monographs, and multiple articles and book chapters in the fields of literary studies, women’s studies and Slavic studies.

Join the Barnard Center for Research on Women for a Lunchtime Lecture on, “Harmattan Winds, Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment.”

Research on gender-based educational disparities in the Global South has focused on differential investment in the education of boys versus girls, higher costs and lower educational attainment among girls, and factors leading to these realities. In this lunchtime lecture, Belinda Archibong will extend this conversation to share her research on ways that public health and epidemics impact these gender-based disparities, focusing on the 1986 meningitis epidemic in Niger when investment in girls’ education decreased dramatically. Archibong will also share insights into what an intersectional analysis of gender, health, and educational disparities can offer in a time when climate change is expected to worsen the disease environment.

The Center for the Study of Social Difference and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Council are co-hosting a spring 2017 Keywords Roundtable Discussion on the keyword “justice.”

The emphasis in the Keyword Conversations is, indeed, on conversation, so we ask each participant to prepare only about ten minutes of critical reflections, which are followed by dialogue among participants and audience members.

Featuring:

Che Gossett
Community Archivist and Student Coordinator, Barnard College

Mark Hatzenbuehler
Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Co­Director, Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health, Mailman School of Public Health

Kathryn Kolbert
Constance Hess Williams Director of the Athena Center for Leadership, Barnard College

Carla Shedd
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Jennifer Wenzel
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Rachel Adams
Professor of English and American Studies, Columbia University and Director, Center for the Study of Social Difference

RSVP Here

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Women in Energy program for a panel discussion on energy insecurity. Energy insecurity is a conceptual framework that describes the interplay between the physical conditions of housing, household energy expenditures and energy-related coping strategies among low incomes groups in the United States. Defined as an inability to adequately meet basic household energy needs, this panel will outline the key dimensions of energy insecurity-economic, physical and behavioral- and related adverse environmental, health and social consequences. Implications for policy and advocacy will also be discussed.

Distinguished experts joining the panel will include:
Dr. Diana Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
Dana Bourland, Vice President – Environment, JPB Foundation
Dana Harmon, Executive Director, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute
Registration is required.

This event is open to press. Please direct media inquiries to Jamie Shellenberger-Bessmann (jas2453@sipa.columbia.edu)

It will be livestreamed at energypolicy.columbia.edu/watch.

A podcast of this event (in addition to other past Center events) will be available ~12 days after the date of the event through iTunes or via our website.

Please join the Heyman Center at Columbia University for, “The Clarice Factor: Aesthetics, Gender, and Diaspora in Brazil.”

Empowering Women of Color at Columbia Law School is proud to announce our third annual conference: Double-Consciousness: Women of Color as Advocates for Ourselves and Others. This year, we are thrilled to announce our partnership with the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law for a symposium issue in addition to our continued partnership with the African American Policy Forum (AAPF) and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies (CISPS).

Though many women of color professionally engage with their intersectional identities in individualized ways, the unique challenge of double-consciousness is one we all face in our work as advocates. This year’s conference will create a space for strategizing around that challenge through several panel discussions. Bringing together academics, legal practitioners, and community organizers, our discussions will center on understanding how we balance our reality as individual citizens who are subject to the law with our role as advocates armed with the power of the law. The conference will open with keynote remarks from Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam and will include a light breakfast and lunchtime networking event.

The Constance Baker Motley Gala will follow in the evening from 6:30-9:30pm. Attendance at the conference is free for registered guests. Additional information regarding conference registration and purchasing gala tickets will follow.

Join Spectrum, LASA and the HRWG for a lunch with SIPA alumni and LGBT activists from El Salvador. Come learn about their advocacy strategies and what they are doing to bring the case to the UN and to the Inter-American system.

Please join SIPA for, “Insights Into Gender, Land, and Corruption in Africa.” Speakers include: Annette Jaitner, People Engagement Coordinator, Transparency International, and Michael Okai, National Project Coordinator, Ghana Integrity Initiative, Transparency International.

Annette joined Transparency International (TI) in September 2009 to coordinate the multi-country project Poverty and Corruption in Africa. Before joining TI, she worked with various civil society and UN organisations in Africa for over ten years, mainly on participatory approaches to socio-economic development and civil society capacity building. Annette holds degrees in Agricultural Economics, Humanitarian Assistance, and Environmental Management from the Universities of Giessen and Bochum in Germany, and the University of London, Wye College.

Mr. Michael Henchard Okai holds a Master of Arts degree in Environmental Management and Policy from the University of Cape Coast and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Ghana. Mr. Okai also has a Diploma in Development Leadership obtained from the Coady International Institute in Canada and a Certificate in Socioeconomic Challenges of Nature Conservation from the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in Israel. Before joining GII, Mr. Okai worked as a District Customer Services Officer with the Forestry Commission in Ghana where he championed Community Based Natural Resource Management particularly equity in benefit sharing and livelihood opportunities for forest fringe communities.

Join Columbia Law School to celebrate the publication of this eye-opening book which explores the legal, social, and political contours of abortion in American life. In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, About Abortion arrives at a critical time for public examination of the dense interplay between law, culture, and abortion. Legal scholars, writers, and advocates will reflect on About Abortion and its importance in insisting on abortion as a fundamental right and on normalizing the experience.

Panelists Include:

Khiara Bridges, Professor of Law and Anthropology, Boston University School of Law

David Pozen, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Stephanie Toti, Senior Counsel, Center for Reproductive Rights & Lead Counsel, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt

Full information about the book may be found from the publisher, here: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674737723

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is recommended via Eventbrite. If you require any disability accommodations to facilitate your visit or attendance at this program, please contact the event organizer.

This event is co-supported by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Women’s Week Keynote Speaker: Emily Rafferty – President Emerita, Metropolitan Museum of Art – Monday, March 27th, 7-9PM, Uris 301

Emily Rafferty is the President Emerita of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the first woman to serve as President in nearly 100 years. She is also the Chair of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Ms. Rafferty is an inspiration and was named by Crain’s New York Business one of New York City’s 100 most influential women from 2009 through 2013. Refreshments will be served prior to the event.
Women’s Week Entrepreneurship Panel – Tuesday, March 28th, 7-9PM, Uris 142

On Tuesday, we will be hosting an Entrepreneurship Panel. Come hear how 3 female CEOs built their own companies and leading their innovating businesses. On the panel are Charlotte Cho, CEO of SokoGlam, Kat Vorotova, CEO of Try the World, Steph Korey, CEO of Away. Food will be served.
Women’s Week Women in Investing panel – Wednesday, March 29th, 7-9PM, Uris 140

On Wednesday, we will be hosting a Women in Investing panel featuring Lisa Frusztajer, an angel investor with Pipeline Angels; Lauren Young, Principal at Advent International and Cia Buckley Marakovits, Chief Investment Officer of Dune Real Estate Partners. Hear from these three inspirational women with extensive experience in angel investing, real estate and private equity on their career journeys and the different facets of investing. Food will be served.

Learn more about the Women’s Week here: https://www.cbswomen.org/womensweek

Please join GPWG for another great panel. Come to learn, come to converse, come to eat some lunch.

How can we apply a gender lens to ALL our concentrations?
Why does gender matter in my policy area?

Featuring Panelists:
Sandra Herrera (EPD)
Ana Gonzalez (USP)
Alexandra Maria Wilcox (HR)
Karen Chen (IFEP)
Aquilla Hines (ISP)
Astha Ummat (EE)

Please join IRAAS for their Annual Zora Neale Hurston Lecture, “BLACK GIRL VISION: Intergenerational Movement Building for Race & Gender Equity” with

JOANNE N. SMITH, MSW.
Founder & Executive Director- Girls for Gender Equity (GGE)
http://www.ggenyc.org/.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Join the Barnard Center for Research on Women for, “The Real Sister Act: Black Catholic Nuns and the Long Struggle to Desegregate U.S. Religious Life,” with Shannen Dee Williams, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Shannen Dee Williams is a historian of the United States and Black Catholic diaspora. Her research chronicles the epic journey of Black Catholic sisters in the United States from their fiercely contested beginnings in the 19th century to the present day. It also unearths the largely hidden history of Black sisters in the fight to dismantle racial and gender barriers in the U.S. church and wider American society.

Please RSVP to attend.

Please join the Reframing Gender Violence Initiative for a panel discussion on “Refugees and Gender Violence: Media and the Arts.”

For the fourth panel in the Reframing Gendered Violence series, speakers will include Bikem Ekberzade, Photojournalist, “The Refugee Project: Anatomizing Gendered Violence;” Susan Meiselas, Photographer, Magnum Photos, “A Room of Their Own;” and Sarah Stillman, Columbia School of Journalism, The New Yorker, “Global Migration Project.”

The event is free and open to the public; no RSVP necessary. Read more here.

Register Here

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy for a Women in Energy dinner with Kristen Graf, Executive Director, Women of Wind Energy (WoWE). Ms. Graf will discuss her current job, career paths, and perspectives on what it means to be a female leader in the energy industry.

This event is only open to current female grad students. Since space is limited, RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come basis until capacity is reached. Please only RSVP if you can commit to attending. Dinnerwill be provided.

For more information contact: jem2245@sipa.columbia.edu
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Biography
As WoWE’s Executive Director, Kristen is thrilled to be able to merge her passions for renewable energy and the advancement of women within such an incredible organization.

In 2013, Kristen was recognized for her work with WoWE and given the Award for Mid-Career Achievement in Mentoring and Education by the US Department of Energy’s C3E Initiative.

Before making her way to WoWE, Kristen spent five years with the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) in Boston. As the Clean Energy Program Coordinator and Research Associate at UCS she worked on renewable energy policy at the state and national level with particular focus on wind and biomass energy in New England as well as working to hone some of her nonprofit management skills.

In 2011, Kristen was named a Senior Fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program’s Eastern Region. She received her Bachelors Degree in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Cornell University. During her time there, Kristen worked for Cornell Cooperative Extension assisting in efforts to expand the role of renewable energy in agriculture around New York State.
In addition to her love of renewable energy, Kristen has spent many years working to develop women leaders. She has served as the Co-Moderator of the National Network of Presbyterian College Women and on the National Coordinating Team of Presbyterian Women. At Cornell, she was an active member of the Executive Team of the Cornell University Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.

Originally from Pittsburgh, Kristen now lives in Brooklyn where she loves being able to ride her bike to work, spend time with her niece and nephew, and practice surfing in the cold waters of Long Island.

Please join the Heyman Center for, “Mortality Mansions.”

An Evening of Poetry and Songs will be performed by Hall, Garfein, Richard Ford, Jean Valentine and Dr. Rita Charon

A collaboration of Donald Hall and Grammy® Award-winning composer Herschel Garfein, Mortality Mansions reflects on the themes of love, sexuality and bereavement in old age from Hall’s poems and traces the adoption of Hall’s work into the curricula of medical schools across the country. The world premiere performance features tenor Michael Slattery and Dmitri Dover, acclaimed pianist for the Metropolitan opera Lindemann Young Artist program, joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Richard Ford, National Book Award-winning poet Jean Valentine and Dr. Rita Charon, professor of Clinical Medicine and director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University, who will read Hall’s poems. Hall will participate via remote video link from his farmhouse in New Hampshire.

To REGISTER and for more information, click here.

Please join Gender and Public Policy Specialization & Monitoring and Evaluation Student Society for “Gender & Impact Evaluation: A Workshop.” The workshop will be lead by Michael O’Sullivan, Economist at the World Bank’s Gender Innovation Lab.
The workshop will include an introduction to impact evaluation methodology, and how best to identify gender differences in impact. Selected evidence on what works to barrow gender gaps and promote women’s economic empowerment will be discussed, with a regional focus on Sub- Saharan Africa. The last portion of the day will give participants to design their own gender – informed impact evaluation framework.
The Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) generates impact evaluation evidence to help policymakers and other development professionals better design interventions and policies to close gender gaps in earnings, productivity, assets, and agency. A conservative estimate suggests that for every dollar GIL has spent on research, it has directly influenced 46 project dollars.

Register Here

Please join the Center on Global Energy Policy for a Women in Energy coffee chat with SIPA Alum Jing Xiao, Upstream Consultant, IHS Markit. Ms. Xiao will discuss her current job, career paths, and perspectives on what it means to be a female leader in the energy industry.

This event is only open to current female grad students. Since space is limited, RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come basis until capacity is reached. Please only RSVP if you can commit to attending. Refreshments will be provided.

For more information contact: jem2245@sipa.columbia.edu
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Biography
Jing is a Consultant within Energy Insight at IHS. Based in Houston, she works within the Upstream Consulting Team. Jing is a petroleum economist with over 5 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. She specializes in asset valuations, advanced economic and financial modelling and commercial due diligence.

Prior to joining IHS, Jing has worked across the oil and gas industry value chain at Douglas Westwood in New York office. She has covered upstream exploration and production, midstream pipeline and processing, as well as oilfield service technology and equipment.

Please join IRWGS for Feminist Media(tions), a screening and discussion on the pilot episode of Empire.

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Please join the Women in Energy program for an immersion workshop exploring the root of courageous conversations and how to handle them with confidence, poise, and presence. What makes a difficult conversation actually “difficult”? Our mindset and the stories we create around challenging situations (aka fear!) deeply affects our ultimate performance and impact.

This session will help to excavate any limiting thought patterns that stand in the way of getting what you want – no matter what the conversation entails. One of the key outputs that we will create during the workshop will be your authentic “elevator pitch”. Once you are clear on what you stand for, what you say “yes” and “no” to, and how you decide on your non-negotiables, courageous conversations are something you might even look forward to!

Lunch will be provided.

This event is open only to current female grad students. Come on-time and for the duration of the session as the learning will be cumulative.

**Since space is limited, RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come basis until capacity is reached. Please RSVP only if you can commit to attending the workshop.**

For more information contact: jem2245@sipa.columbia.edu

Please join  BCRW and The Harlem Semester, a join initiative of BCRW and the Department of Africana Studies at Barnard College, for “Hearing the Hidden Stories: Walking as a Signature and Interpretation.”

Our public spaces are repositories of stories, many of which reveal both the nature of public life and the particularities of the lives that move through them. But in our attempt to understand public life, we tend to immerse ourselves in data, too often sidelining the rich variety of stories that helps us understand what animates people and gives them a sense of place. In effect, we’ve provided abstraction where a finely-textured portrait is called for. Our failure to understand public life, then, is a failure to hear the stories before us rather than a failure to measure the activity around us. It’s more than a failure in data–it’s a failure of story.

Please join LGBT Health for, “Fantasy in a Lesbian Psychoanalytic Patient: What’s sex got to do with it?” with Susan C. Vaughan, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University and Faculty member at Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic center.

Please join the Institute of Latin American Studies’ Ruth Cardoso Chair, Miriam Pillar Grossi, as she moderates a panel of academics, writers, and activists to discuss gender today.

Presenters:

Laila Rizk (Ain Shams University, Egypt)

Title: Women’s Activism in Egypt

Suzana Maia (Federal University of the Recôncavo Bahiano – UFRB, Brazil)

Title: Black Women/White Women: the possibilities and limits of alliances in Brazil

Sharmila Purkayastha (Delhi University, India)

Rethinking Women’s History: A Few Thoughts on Prison Writings from India and Latin America

Qinghong Xu (Anhui University, China)

The Impact of the Western Radical Feminist Writings on Chinese Academic/Feminist Thought and Women Writers

Moderator: Miriam Pillar Grossi (Federal University of Santa Catarina – UFSC, Brazil and Ruth Cardoso Chair, ILAS, Columbia University)

Please join the Barnard Center for Research on Women for a screening and discussion: “Our Voices: Trans Stories, Trans Justice, Trans Resiliency.”

In a time when transgender and gender nonconforming communities remain under attack, it is crucial to lift up stories of trans resiliency and power. This film screening and panel will highlight ways trans communities fight back, build community, and center the intersectional work essential to survival. Luce Lincoln of Global Action Project, Marin Watts of Trans Justice Funding Project, Olympia Perez and Sasha Alexander of Black Trans Media, and other social justice trans and gender nonconforming media makers will share work that highlights the legacy of trans leadership, organizing, and activism during this historic moment.

Please join the Weatherhead East Asian Institute for, “The Business of Handloom Fashion: The Future of Sustainable Dyeing and Weaving Workshops in India & Japan.”

SPEAKERS:
Annapurna Mamidipudi, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Maastricht
Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, Research Associate, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Research Associate, Institute for Okinawan Studies, Hōsei University
Moderated by Dorothy Ko, Professor of History, Barnard College

In China, whatever was left of the once ubiquitous handloom industry all but disappeared under Soviet-style industrialization programs in the early years of the People’s Republic in the 1950s. However, in India, an estimated 4.33 million craftspeople still made a living from handloom weaving in 2015. In Okinawa, traditional banana-fiber weaving workshops were revived under government auspices after Okinawa came under Japanese rule in 1972.

The contrasting fate of handloom workshops in India, Okinawa, and China is rooted in cultural and institutional forces such as government policies and the shape of the market. What does the future look like for workshops in India and Okinawa (and, say, embroidery workshops in China)? What are the sociotechnical keys to sustainability and development? In this roundtable, we survey the business approaches that work and ponder strategies for sustainable growth into the future.
Co-Sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. and the Center for Science and Society.
Event Contact Information:
Katherine Forshay
212 854 6916
kdf2116@columbia.edu

Please join the Barnard Center for Research on Women for a screening and discussion: “Our Voices: Trans Stories, Trans Justice, Trans Resiliency.”

In a time when transgender and gender nonconforming communities remain under attack, it is crucial to lift up stories of trans resiliency and power. This film screening and panel will highlight ways trans communities fight back, build community, and center the intersectional work essential to survival. Luce Lincoln of Global Action Project, Marin Watts of Trans Justice Funding Project, Olympia Perez and Sasha Alexander of Black Trans Media, and other social justice trans and gender nonconforming media makers will share work that highlights the legacy of trans leadership, organizing, and activism during this historic moment.

Please join the Center for American Studies for, “Historians and Abortion Rights at the Supreme Court,” a roundtable discussion with Alice Kessler-Harris (Columbia), Reva Siegel (Yale Law School) Kevin Fong and Christine Scheuneman (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP). Moderated by Michael Hindus (Center for American Studies, partner, Pillsbury, Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP).

Last year sixteen historians of women filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court in a case involving the attempt of the state of Texas to regulate abortion clinics in a way that would make abortion services unavailable to most women. Based on historical experience, the historians argued, any new law that claims to protect women’s health and safety should be scrutinized carefully to assess whether its ostensibly protective function actually serves to deny liberty and equal citizenship to women. Siding with the historians (and others), last year the Supreme Court struck down the Texas law.

Please join WEAI for a panel discussed titled, “Gender Inequality in China: New Evidence and Policy Directions.”

China’s economic boom, now in its fourth decade, has created an unprecedented number of employment opportunities. Yet in China as elsewhere, a gender pay gap persists, and many Chinese women continue to bear the burden of responsibility for child care, household duties, and care for the elderly. CSSW’s newest professor, Qin Gao, joins with two economist colleagues, Drs. Xiao-yuan Dong and Terry Sicular, to consider factors that could help to close this gap, such as changing care arrangements and women’s education. Economist Carl Riskin, author of the first two UNDP National Human Development Reports for China, provides commentary.

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Please join IRWGS for, “Feminist Media(tions): Paris is Burning,” a screening and panel discussion featuring Naiomi Cruz, member of the House of Xtravaganza, and Christopher Taylor Winter, former Member of the House of Milan.

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Please join the The Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School and the Center on Global Energy Policy for a Women in Energy lunch with Yera Ortiz de Urbina, Senior Liaison Officer at the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Ms. Ortiz de Urbina will discuss her current job, career paths, and perspectives on what it means to be a female leader in the energy industry.

This event is only open to current female grad students. Since space is limited, RSVPs will be accepted on a first-come basis until capacity is reached. Please only RSVP if you can commit to attending.

Lunch will be provided.

For more information contact: jem2245@sipa.columbia.edu
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Biography
Yera Ortiz de Urbina joined the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) in 2014 as representative of the Agency to the United Nations. At IRENA, her main duties entail engaging in relevant intergovernmental processes in the areas of sustainable development and climate change. She also supports IRENA’s global outreach strategy and its mission to support countries in advancing their sustainable energy agendas. Prior to joining IRENA, Yera was posted at the Spanish and then the European Union Missions to the UN, where she was responsible for the sustainable development portfolio. A career diplomat, she has also served as Chargée d’Affaires in Baghdad (Iraq), as well as in Amman (Jordan) and at the European Commission in Brussels. She brings to IRENA over 15 years of international experience with a focus on multilateral affairs and development. She is a Spanish national, married and has two children.

Please join Columbia Spectrum and Gender Policy Working group for, “How to be an Ally to LGBT Communities.”