This Week at Columbia: Events & Opportunities (9/24)
Dear Students,
We hope you’re enjoying the early fall weather and finding opportunities to get outside! Check out these upcoming events to connect with classmates, peers from across the University, and the broader community:
Events & Opportunities with University Life
All events below are in Eastern Time (ET), free, and open to all students unless otherwise noted.
- Survey: Center for Student Success & Intervention. The Center for Student Success and Intervention (CSSI) is seeking feedback from students who are first-generation graduate students, justice-impacted, a parent, and/or former foster youth. CSSI will use this feedback to develop its workshop and resources to better support you and future Columbia students. Share your feedback.
- Focus Groups: First-Generation Graduate Students & Student Parents. Calling all first-generation graduate students and students who are parents, the Center for Student Success and Intervention invites you to discuss your experiences. Your feedback will assist us in developing University services that will help meet the needs and goals of first-generation graduate students and students who are parents.
- Focus Groups for First-Generation Graduate Students:
- Focus Groups for Student Parents:
- Yoga Class (In-Person). Take a break and relax with yoga in Earl Hall hosted by Religious Life. Please bring your own mat and arrive 10 minutes early to sign in and set up! Thursdays, 7 - 8 p.m. Learn More.
- Sacred Music Concerts (In-Person). Religious Life is hosting sacred music concerts throughout the Fall semester. Find a moment for quiet reflection and beautiful music:
- Community Connections: Latinx (In-Person). In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, University Life invites you to join us for Community Connections: Latinx! Come enjoy some light refreshments as you connect with other Latinx students at Columbia. All students are welcome. This event is part of the Graduate Initiative for Inclusion & Engagement. Monday, September 30, 12 - 2 p.m. Register here.
Happening Around Campus
- Ambedkar Law Lectures: Reading Fanon (In-Person). Learn about Frantz Fanon at this lecture featuring Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah and commentators from Columbia and Yale. They will explore Fanon’s writings on colonialism, revolution, justice, governance, and equality. Tuesday, September 24, 5 - 6:30 p.m. Register here.
- Democracy Beyond Elections (In-Person). Join Columbia World Projects for a panel discussion about citizens’ assemblies with experts who have implemented these bodies at the local, regional, and national levels. Thursday, September 26, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Register here.
- American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous (In-Person) What does it mean to be a “diva”? Explore this shifting and loaded term with writing professors Deborah Paredez and Margo Jefferson as they discuss Paredez’s new book. Thursday, September 26, 6:30 - 8 p.m. Register here.
- Lenfest Kids: Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (In-Person). The Lenfest Center for the Arts hosts a screening of the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The movie follows Scientist Wayne Szalinski,who accidentally causes his two-year-old to grow over 100 feet tall, leaving the family to chase after him and try to return him to normal. This family-friendly event is open to the public. Saturday, September 28, 12 - 1:30 p.m. Register here.
- Pop-Up Concerts: Richard Carrick, L'Algérie (In-Person). Tune in to a free concert featuring the ensemble, Either/Or, at Miller Theatre for the New York premiere of L'Algérie (2024) by French composer Richard Carrick. Listen to how Algerian, Arabic, and Cantoral cultural influences blend together to create rich and layered melodies. Tuesday, October 1, 6 - 7:30 p.m. Learn more.
- Francophone Short Films in Harlem (In-Person). Watch six Francophone short films (with English subtitles) followed by a Q&A with filmmaker/producer Johanna Makabi and professor Binita Mehta. This event is organized by the Francophone Short Film Festival and Columbia Maison Française. Tuesday, October 1, 6 - 8 p.m. Register here.
Share Your Feedback
The Inclusive Public Safety Advisory Committee (IPSAC) invites your feedback. What makes you feel safe on campus? How can Public Safety best support you? How are campus security measures impacting you? Is there a safety issue on campus that you think has not been addressed?
The students, faculty, and staff who make up IPSAC want to hear from you. Acknowledging the unprecedented events of last spring and the ongoing presence of additional security on the Morningside campus, the Committee welcomes your feedback. Enter your UNI to access the feedback form. Share Feedback.
World Leaders Forum
This series of conversations with heads of state and other leaders spotlight pressing issues and offer Columbia students and scholars opportunities to ask questions of world leaders. Learn more about upcoming conversations and register below:
- President Gabriel Boric Font of the Republic of Chile
Wednesday, September 25, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
- Secretary-General Wamkele Mene
Thursday, September 26, 6 - 7 p.m.
See All Upcoming World Leaders Forum Events.
Climate Week at Columbia
Climate Week NYC convenes the most influential climate leaders in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly and in coordination with the United Nations and the City of New York to drive the transition, speed up progress, and champion change. Check out the many events hosted by Columbia schools and offices at the links below:
Take care,
Joseph Defraine Greenwell, Ed.D. (he/him/his)
Senior Vice President for Student Affairs
University Life
Ixchel Rosal (she/her/hers)
Senior Associate Vice President for Student Life
University Life