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American Medical Writers Association-NY

Join us in June for an informational workshop on publication ethics for medical writers and editors. Enjoy conversation with your colleagues across the industry, learn from our panel discussion, and weigh in during break-out groups. Please email Elizabeth Yepez, elizabeth.yepez@informausa.com, program chair, if you want to recommend a panelist. Keep an eye out for more details in our next email or fax.

2) Save the Date: Networking Lunch on Sat. August 22nd, 1pm

Have brunch with your writing buddies on the Upper East Side at Galway Hooker (http://www.galwayhookernyc.com ) at 1 pm on Sat. Aug 22. Space limited. RSVP details in our next email.

2009 CAAM MEDIA FUND REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) seeks provocative and engaging project proposals from independent media producers. We provide funding for Asian American film and media projects through our Media Fund initiatives which are made possible with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Projects should be intended for public television broadcast.

OPEN CALL FOR PRODUCTION FUNDS

Deadline: 8/6/09 by 5pm Pacific *

For projects at post-production phase. To be eligible, a full length rough cut must be submitted with the proposal. Awards average $20,000 to $30,000 and CAAM monies should be the last monies needed to finish the project.

To apply visit the Media Fund website at: http://mediafund.asianamericanmedia.org

* PLEASE NOTE: Deadlines are not postmark deadlines.

ADL’S CAMPUS LEADERSHIP STUDY MISSION TO ISRAEL

Stacey

The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process, US-Israel relations, Hamas, Hezbollah and the threat of a nuclear Iran make daily headlines and often resonate on your campus. To learn about and assess these important issues first-hand, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is offering qualified campus leaders the opportunity to go on a FREE study mission to Israel.

ADL’s Campus Leadership Study Mission to Israel, to take place June 8-17, 2009, provides student journalists and politically active leaders with an up-close and personal perspective of Israel by learning about the strategic and social challenges facing Israel today. Mission participants will meet with key decision-makers, government and military officials, diplomats, journalists, students and everyday Israelis –Arab and Jewish — from diverse communities, cultures and backgrounds. Participants will visit sights of historical, religious and contemporary interest. The group will take all necessary security precautions and will avoid potentially dangerous areas. The group will travel by private bus.

Thanks to generous funding from the Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation, there will be no cost to selected participants. This includes travel to/from New York and Israel, accommodation and meals. Please refer to the attached Campus Leadership Mission Overview and Application for more detailed information. Students who have previously visited Israel are not eligible.

To apply for this unique opportunity complete the application form, accompanied by two letters of reference, your resume, and a 500 word essay. You can register online at www.adl.org/campusmission or fax your application to 212-490-0187.

The application deadline is April 15th. If you have any questions, please contact Stacey Popovsky, ADL’s Director of Campus Initiatives, at spopovsky@adl.org or 212-885-7837.

Sincerely,

Stacey Berkowitz Popovsky

Director of Campus and Confronting Anti-Semitism Initiatives

Anti-Defamation League

605 Third Avenue New York, NY 10158

t: 212-885-7837

f: 212-490-0187

spopovsky@adl.org

The Great Issues Forum

Alex De Waal, General Barry McCaffrey & Thomas Ricks

Does military intervention work? What is the role of non-military and multi-national groups in regime change and peace-keeping efforts? Three distinguished participants discuss their perspectives on peace keeping and regime change. Featuring Alex de Waal, program director of the Social Science Research Council, General Barry McCaffrey, four-star general of the United States Army (retired). and Thomas Ricks, The Washington Post’s Special Military Correspondent. Thomas Weiss, Presidential Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center will moderate.

March 10th 2009, Tuesday, 7:00 pm

Proshansky Auditorium

The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Reservations required.

Please visit www.greatissuesforum.org or call (212) 817 8215 to register.

Enhancing Your Relationship:
A Workshop for Couples

Do you already have a strong foundation for your committed relationship, but want to see it get even better? This might be the workshop for you!

This hands-on, sequential 3-session workshop will provide practical tools for couples who wish to strengthen their relationship. Topics include:
- Understanding Relational Expectations and Beliefs
- How to Nurture the Positives in the Relationship
- How to Improve Problem Solving Ability and Communication Skills

When?
Tuesdays: April 14, 21 and 28, 2009
What time?
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Where?
Counseling and Psychological Services
Alfred Lerner Hall, 8th Floor
Conference Room

For: Couples only (one member of couple must be a Columbia student who
has paid the health services fee)

To reserve a spot or for more information, please e-mail:

Dr. Yaniv Phillips at py2120@columbia.edu
or
Dr. Lakeasha Garner at lg2418@columbia.edu

Andrew W. Mellon Seminars in the Humanities at The Center for the Humanities

The Skylight Room (9100)

Two pioneering political and cultural theorists discuss the historic tensions between western secularism

and gender equality. Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California - Berkeley.

Joan Wallach Scott is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Moderated by Anthony Alessandrini,

Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY.

Martin E. Segal Theatre

Join two prominent scholars of American civic life for a discussion about the past and continuing influence of

religious thought on American politics. Featuring Randal Balmer, Professor of Religious History at Columbia University,

and Douglas Kmiec, Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University. John Torpey, Professor of Sociology

at the Graduate Center, will moderate.

Co-presented as part of the Great Issues Forum. For more information, please visit www.greatissuesforum.org

What is Faith Today?

The Skylight Room (9100)

Two leading social scientific analysts of global religion discuss the nature of religious faith today and

the prospects for better understanding of the ever-elusive problem of religious faith in modern society. Bryan Turner

is Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney.

Philip Gorski is a Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Moderated by John Torpey, Professor of Sociology at

The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Elebash Recital Hall

Do we live in a secular age? What does it mean to say that we do? Join Bill Connolly, Professor of Political

Science at Johns Hopkins University, Simon Critchley, Professor of Philosophy at the New School University, and

Hent de Vries, Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, as they discuss these and other questions.

Moderated by Jill Stauffer, Resident Mellon Fellow at the Center for the Humanities.

Does the State

The Skylight Room (9100)

Join two legal and political theorists as they examine religious threads running through modern secular

philosophy, political theory, and the state itself. Paul Kahn is Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for

International Human Rights, Yale University. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of

Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College. Moderated by Jill Stauffer, Resident Mellon Fellow

at the Center for the Humanities.

All events take place at

The European Institute

RSVP to Myrisha Lewis, msl2155@columbia.edu

We have three complimentary tickets to the event below.

We are giving the three tickets out on a first-come basis.

Asia Society and Oxfam America invite you to:

The Global Food Crisis: Time for Another Green Revolution?

Friday, February 20, 2009 — 8:00 - 9:30 AM

In recent years, erratic weather due in part to climate change, fluctuations in energy prices, and increased demand for commodities are all contributing factors to drastic spikes and volatility in food prices. Adding now the impact of the global financial crisis, the number of people around the world considered food insecure has soared to nearly one billion, and counting. Can technological innovation produce another “green revolution” to increase food supply? What role can genetically modified crops play in raising crop yields amidst changing weather patterns and resource scarcity? How can global agriculture production accommodate a growing world population and increasing demand for grain and meat in emerging economies? With agricultural productivity stagnated for decades in Africa and Asia, identifying root causes and finding durable solutions to this ongoing food crisis is imperative, more now than ever before.

Panelists:
Kevin L. Eblen, Vice President, Public Policy and Sustainability Lead, Monsanto
Doug Gurian-Sherman, Senior Scientist, Food & Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Dr. Robert Zeigler, Director General, International Rice Research Institute
Raymond C. Offenheiser, President, Oxfam America (Moderator)

This Wednesday, December 17 from 12:00pm – 4:00pm, head to College Walk for three ways to spread a little cheer to neighbors in need this holiday season:

Bring your unwanted clothing and textiles to donate to Wearable Collections. They will accept: any used clean clothing, including shoes, hats, handbags, and belts; household items such as curtains, linens, and towels; and clean clothing or textiles in any condition. Your old, ripped jeans can be recycled into new pillow stuffing! Wearable Collections will distribute wearable items to people who need them, and recycle the unwearables, enabling them to raise money for charitable organizations.

Gently used winter coats will be collected to benefit New York Cares’ 20th Annual Coat Drive. The donated coats are distributed to thousands of men, women, and children in New York City who would otherwise go without this winter.

Non-perishable food items and toiletries (like shampoo, soap, shaving cream,
etc.) will be collected for donation to our neighbors at Broadway Community, Inc. (BCI) at 601 West 114th Street. Their mission is to provide emergency food, clothing, and shelter to those in need, as well as long-term support aimed at healing the body, mind, and spirit. BCI impacts the lives of hundreds of people with meals, showers, shelter, counseling, healing workshops, internships, and training.

If you’d like to support any or all of these great causes, please bring your donations to College Walk on Wednesday, December 17 from 12:00pm – 4:00pm.

Wishing you a happy, healthy, and warm holiday season. Brought to you by the Office of Environmental Stewardship, Housing Services, and Public Safety.

First Annual PEN Prison Writing Program Benefit Reading

With:

Breyten Breytenbach, Francine Prose, Suheir Hammad, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Susan Kuklin, Wesley Stace, and other special guests

New York City—On October 20th at Parson’s School of Design’s Kellen Auditorium, PEN American Center will hold its first-ever Prison Writing Benefit Reading to support this program with nearly four decades of experience assisting men and women who are incarcerated in Federal, State and local prisons in their practice of writing.

Since 1971 PEN’s Prison Writing Program has sponsored an annual writing contest, published free handbooks for those in prison, provided one-on-one mentoring behind bars, conducted workshops for formerly incarcerated people, and sought to make the work of writers in prison available to the public through literary publications and readings.

Now collaborating with the Anne Frank Center USA, PEN’s Prison Writing Program has helped give more than 150 people in prison their own journals along with a copy of The Diary of Anne Frank. Following Anne’s example, here various life experiences get recorded and these completed diaries explore confinement, surveillance, and the minutia of a life under the guard of correction—soon the diaries will travel to various museums across the United States, as well as be published online.

Poets Breyten Breytenbach and Suheir Hammad, fiction writers Francine Prose and Wesley Stace, non-fiction writer Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, and children’s book writer Susan Kuklin, along with other special guests, will read the prize-winning stories and poems written by the men and women who participate in the Prison Writing Program.

All of the proceeds from the night will go towards PEN’s Prison Writing program to support a place for people in prison to express themselves freely with paper and pen and to encourage the use of the written word as a legitimate, and an essential, expression of power. $50 ticket includes program and wine and cheese reception.

Don’t miss an extraordinary opportunity to ensure the health of this very important 37 year-old PEN program!

Monday, October 20, 2008, 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Kellen Auditorium – Parsons School of Design

66 5th Ave
(between 11th & 12th Streets)

Subway: The 4, 5, 6, N, R, Q, W or L trains to 14th Street and Union Square.

$50 (includes post-event reception) Tickets can be purchased at www.pen.org/pwpgala

Deadline to fill in the form: Monday at 9 a.m…

If you fill in the form below, your name will be on the guest list… Tell ‘em you are from Columbia Journalism School.
Quoting… “we’ll hold all badges at the door for pickup - starting at Noon - on Monday, Oct. 13 - lobby of the Time Warner Corp. headquarters, entrance on 58th St. west of 8th ave. - tell the students not to go into the Mall - just the next building down the street.”

You can attend just the parts that fit your sked.

Full program here: http://www.digitalhollywood.com/Politics2008.html

Let us know how it goes: dos[at]jrn.columbia.edu

LAUNCH of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life

Thursday, November 6, 1-6:30pm, Rotunda, Low Memorial Library Convened by co-directors Mark C. Taylor, Chair of Department of Religion and Alfred Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government.

1-2:30 pm The Past and Future of Religion and Toleration Toleration Faculty Working Group: Karen Barkey, Rajeev Bhargava, Akeel Bilgrami, Ira Katznelson, Sudipta Kaviraj, Alfred Stepan, and Nadia Urbinati with Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University

3-4:30 pm Art, Religion and Politics: Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Thomas Krens, Director of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

5-6:30 pm Literature and Terror
Salman Rushdie, whose Midnight s Children (1981) was recently named the best novel to have received the Man Booker Prize Opening remarks by Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University Introduction by Orhan Pamuk, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature

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Dear Colleagues:

Two events on Wednesday and Thursday this week downtown… Thanks to Prof. Ann Cooper for arranging both these events.

Social Media Club NYC September 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 from 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM

The Social Media Club is hosting a discussion Wednesday night on bloggers versus journalists – or, to reflect the more collegial tone they hope both sides are beginning to take, bloggers NOT versus journalists. It’s inspired in part by Prof. Ann Cooper’s essay in CJR: http://www.cjr.org/essay/the_bigger_tent_1.php

The organizers have said any students interested in attending should register at the $5 members rate. Details are here:

http://smcnycsept.eventbrite.com/

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THURSDAY: A conversation with Daniel Lak, author of “India Express: The Future of the New Superpower” and BBC reporter who has covered India and Pakistan for 12 years.

All are welcome at this free, public event. Journalists in other cities who wish to contact Lak’s publicist can do so at lauren.dwyer[at]palgrave-usa.com (she will attending the event below).

The New York Chapter of South Asian Journalists Association presents:

A conversation with Daniel Lak, author of “India Express: The Future of the New Superpower” and BBC reporter who has covered India and Pakistan for 12 years.

Thursday, Sept 25, 2008
6:30-8 pm
FREE event, no charge or RSVP required

at TamarindArt Gallery
142 East 39th Street (between Lexington & Third, near Grand Central Terminal)
New York, New York 10016

http://www.tamarindart.com
212-990-9000

program:
6.30-6:45: Networking
6:45-8: Reading, conversation and Q&A
MODERATOR: Sree Sreenivasan, SAJA co-founder and Columbia Journalism professor

ABOUT DANIEL LAK
Daniel Lak is a reporter with the BBC who reported on the Indian sub-continent for twelve years, working from Pakistan and New Delhi. He reported on the rise and fall of the Taliban, Kurdish refugees in Iran, India’s 1999 war with Pakistan over Kashmir, and the hijacking of an Indian aircraft by Islamic militants in what later became known as a dry-run for 9/11. Lak now lives in Toronto reporting for the BBC from the Americas and making documentaries.

ABOUT “India Express: The Future of the New Superpower”
In evocative prose and with street-level reporting, Daniel Lak argues
that India has become a global superpower because of its religion,
caste, politics, and poverty, and not in spite of it. He looks
presciently to the future, and concludes that the strength that
democracy gives it means that India is much better positioned to
sustain its newfound status than China, whose political system is sure
to eventually hinder it.

As an expert who has covered the region for the BBC for the last
twelve years, Lak weaves together his substantive knowledge of Indian
politics, economics, and culture with fascinating stories of everyday
people.

India Express incisively explores the most urgent challenges facing
India in the 21st century:

· The governance and development of the most religiously,
culturally, and linguistically diverse population on the planet

· Crushing poverty–with 300 million on less $2 a day–despite the
rise of the largest middle class the world has ever known

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We receive notices about a lot of outside events and post most of them in a special category on the The Daily Plan-It, the DOS blog:
http://deanstudents.blogsome.com/category/outside-events/

On occasion, we will send out a note via e-mail, to highlight events we think you should be aware of. Please contact the relevant folks in the announcements, not us..

All the relevant J-school events will continue to be listed on the Google Calendar: http://snurl.com/columbiajschool
and the list of all-class lectures (with new additions!): http://snurl.com/tuesdaylectures

To start us off, two outside events next week…

From: “Alyson Cluck”

The Museum of the City of New York will be hosting a special program featuring Ted Sorensen and Nicholas Lemann on Wednesday, October 1, at 6:30 pm. I thought your students and colleagues at the Columbia School of Journalism might be interested in attending this program, as well as viewing the exhibition Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election, which will be open to program attendees prior to and following the discussion.

Museum of the City of New York
Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election
Public Program Series

Ted Sorensen with Nicholas Lemann: A Life in Politics
Wednesday • October 1 • 6:30 PM

Theodore C. Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to
President John F. Kennedy and author of the New York Times
bestseller Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History (HarperCollins, 2008),
will talk about his life, his wide-ranging political experience, and
his time working for JFK with Nicholas Lemann, Dean and Henry Luce
Professor at the Columbia School of Journalism. Mr. Lemann is a journalist,
editor, and author of five books, including Redemption: The Last Battle of
the Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). A book signing will follow.

Reservations required.
$5 for Museum members, seniors, and students;
$9 for non-members

This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition
Campaigning for President: New York and the American Election.
Please note that the exhibition will be open to program attendees
prior to and following the discussion.

For reservations and program information,
call (212) 534-1672, ext. 3395,
or visit www.mcny.org/public_programs/.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
(212) 534-1672
www.mcny.org

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From: marc@nationalactionnetwork.net [mailto:marc@nationalactionnetwork.net]
Subject: From Rev. Al Sharpton’s Office

Greetings,

Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network (NAN) would like
to invite Columbia students to join the activities at the NAN’s Annual
Fall Conference October 3rd and 4th. This year hundreds of students,
educators, civil rights leaders, members of the media, and community
leaders alike will gather for two days to discuss a wide range of
issues facing our nation. NAN will be hosting a Media Panel on Friday
October 3rd from 10:00 to 11:30 AM. The Panel “Media in the Light of
the Presidential Campaign: How is the Media Addressing Race?”, will
include Eric Burns, President of Media Matters for America, Errol
Lewis of the NY Daily News, Geraldo Rivera- Geraldo at Large, and
Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post Editorial Board. We invite
your students to join us for this memorable event at the Sheraton New
York Hotel and Towers located at 811 7th Avenue at 52nd street in
Manhattan. Students can call 212-690-3070 or logon to our website at
www.NationalActionNetwork.net to register. The event is free! Please
see attached schedule of for all events.

Thank You,

Marc P. Brumer
Marc@NationalActionNetwork.net
212.690.3070

Dear MA, PT and PhD students:

Wanted to alert you to two parallel events that you might like to consider attending on Monday.

The first is a special J-school panel aimed at the full-time MS class about connecting the Wall Street crisis with the everyday residents in NYC. We have a terrific set of speakers. See details below. All of you are welcome to attend.

The second is an event that’s part of One Web Day and takes place downtown at Washington Square Park by NYU (you can attend, or volunteer to help out). Details below. Because the other event runs exactly at the same time, we are not advertising this to the full-time MS students.
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Two J-School students are eligible to serve on the Earth Institute Student Advisory Council whose role is to develop student and academic activities for the campus around the issues of earth systems science and sustainable development.

You will serve for one academic year and will receive a $500 stipend.

Members of the Council will assist in the development of events including: panels, seminars, exhibits, and media screenings. Members will help to foster relations between student groups, departments, and schools on campus. They will also advise and assist in the development of professional resources that will help students gain experience in the field.

If you are interested in joining the council, please e-mail your resume and a brief note explaining your interest in these issues to mgh2@columbia.edu.

DEADLINE: Thursday, September 25, 9 a.m.

Melanie Huff
Assistant Dean of Students

Urban Health Journalism Workshop
Presented by the Association of Health Care Journalists
Oct. 17-18

Come get the tools to better investigate, understand and relate the health of your city.
Sessions this year will focus on how urban life affects our health and the health of our readers, viewers and listeners. They will explore the impact of violence on neighborhood health, how the built environment affects public health, trends in urban aging, the real story on emergency rooms, gauging the financial health of city hospitals and more.

Highlights: a field trip to school-based health clinics, ands-on CAR training, a New York Times reception, included meals and a variety of
panel sessions.

Columbia University journalism students are eligible for discounted registration and association membership:
$25 membership (regularly $30)
$10 workshop registration (regularly $30)

Check out the planned sessions at http://www.healthjournalism.org/calendar-details.php?id=137&EventType=1&EventSubType=2&Topic=calendar
[www.healthjournalism.org].

Complete a registration form. Insert the prices mentioned above. Mark “Columbia University student” as your affiliation. Fax in the form.

Register today. Space is limited.

Len Bruzzese
Executive Director
Association of Health Care Journalists
Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
573-884-5606
bruzzesel[at]missouri.edu
www.healthjournalism.org

The Arts Initiative at Columbia University
www.cuarts.columbia.edu
Discover the arts. Discover New York

The Arts Initiative and all its programs are here to make the arts and the culture a part of your educational experience here at Columbia. Whether you’re an artist, a performer, an audience member or an occasional onlooker, the Arts Initiative is your portal to the arts on and off campus. From discounted Broadway tickets to a list of all arts-related student organizations - graduate and undergraduate - to a centralized calendar of most major campus events, you can find your 24/7 campus culture connection here. These programs include:

* CU Arts, the website and portal to Arts @ Columbia, all Arts Initiative programs and many other on and off campus arts resources.
* Arts Initiative Weekly E-newsletter, the best way to stay on top of arts and culture on and off campus
* The Ticket and Information Center (The TIC), a centralized box office for on and off campus events including discounted movie vouchers ($6.50 - $8.50) for faculty, staff and students.
* The Gatsby Charitable Fund, a fund for individual students and student organizations who produce arts-related campus events and projects.
* The Passport to New York, free museum entry with student CUID to over 30 major cultural institutions in New York City
* Columbia Alumni Arts League (CAAL), an alumni program whereby members join for $25 and enjoy discounts and special benefits to over 50 cultural NYC organizations as well as connect with fellow alumni at CAAL Events.

We would not exist without your questions, IDEAS and comments! Please send them to cuarts[at]columbia.edu. Thank you and have a great fall.

www.cuarts.columbia.edu
www.tic.columbia.edu

Best,

Chad Miller
Events and Outreach Coordinator

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Events and Outreach Coordinator
Arts Initiative at Columbia University
212.851.1875
www.cuarts.columbia.edu
www.tic.columbia.edu
facebook group: cuarts

Dear Students:

WHY and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism will be honoring the winners of the 2007 Harry Chapin Media Awards on Tuesday, October 7 starting at 6 pm at CUNY. The event will begin with a cocktail hour and CBS News Sunday Morning anchor Charles Osgood will give a keynote address.

Prior to the awards ceremony, the winners will participate in a panel discussion from 3-5 pm moderated by Trudy. The confirmed participants are: Carlos Caminada of Bloomberg Markets; Bent-Jorgan Perlmutt, a director of Lumo; Scott Haissen from The Miami Herald; Jonathan Cohn, author of Sick; John Bowe, author of Nobodies; Mona Reeder of The Dallas Morning News and Donald McNeil Jr. of The New York Times. The journalists will discuss their work and the challenges they face reporting on poverty-related issues.

Thank you so much!

Best,
Lisa

Lisa Ann Batitto
Communications Director
WHY

505 Eighth Ave., Suite 2100
New York, NY 10018
Telephone: 212-629-8850
Fax: 212-465-9274

Nina Bernstein
Reporter, New York Times

Children Lost and Found: Thirty-Five Years After Wilder
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
12:30 - 1:30 (Room C03) (more…)

Attention Students:

Prof. Joe Cutbirth is looking for a half-dozen or so volunteers to work and hang out at Headlines & Headliners, the 13th annual New York benefit for the National Lesbian-Gay Journalist Association.

The event will be emceed by Today Show co-host Meredith Vieira and hosted by Bill Keller, executive editor of The New York Times. It is set for 6-10 p.m.

March 12 at The Times Center, 242 West 41st St.

A big part of the evening is presentation of thousands of dollars in college scholarships from the NLGJA student project to high school students and undergraduates interested in journalism careers.

As appearances by and support from Matt Lauer, Geraldo Rivera, Jeanne Moos and others on the event committee shows (at least Cutbirth thinks) you don’t have to be gay to be part of this star-studded, professional evening.

For more info, go to: http://www.nlgja.org/newyork.htm. E-mail questions and replies to Prof. Cutbirth at jhc2003 at columbia.edu.

Work Block Group Available

Location: Counseling and Psychological Services: Lerner Hall 8th Floor

Day and Time: Monday 1-3PM

For 6 sessions: February 25, March 3,10,24, 31 and April 7

To register or for more information contact Dr. William Sommer at 212 854
2878 or email wgs2@columbia.edu

FROM: The New York Coalition for Professional Women in Arts and Media

Call for entries for the 2008 Collaboration Award

The New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media (NYCWAM) will present the second biennial Collaboration Award recognizing Women Working with Women.

The $1000 award aims to encourage professional women in the arts and media to work collaboratively with other women on the creation of new works. Eligible teams are those who have completed a work, are readying a new work, or are continuing a work in progress.

Applicants may suggest any form of creative collaboration. Submissions will be judged on the basis of artistic excellence and clarity of the proposal, with special attention given to those proposals involving more than one discipline and which reflect the goals of the Coalition: to advance women and women’s issues. The team that has been selected, plus two runners up, will be invited to present a portion of their work at an awards ceremony in New York in October 2008. Women outside of New York may send a designee to present their project. NYCWAM does not pay for travel expenses.

Teams of two or more women working together on a creative project may apply for a Collaboration Award. Applicants must be members in good standing of an organization with full membership in NYCWAM. Those organizations are: Actors’ Equity Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Dramatists Guild, League of Professional Theatre Women, New York Women in Film & Television, Screen Actors Guild, Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, and Writers Guild of America, East.

Funding for the 2008 Collaboration Award has been provided by playwright, Elsa Rael, and by Back Stage editor, Sherry Eaker. The first Collaboration Award was presented in 2006 to playwright Jennifer Maisel and director Wendy McClellan for their play BIRDS.

Applications may be downloaded from the NYCWAM website: www.nycwam.org

or by mail by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:

The New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media

P.O. Box 2537
Times Square Station
New York, NY 10108
Completed Applications must be postmarked by May 1, 2008.

For further information after reviewing guidelines and application contact:
Deborah Savadge
Phone: 212-592-4511 or 212-595-2582
E-Mail: Collaboration@NYCWAM.org

The Earth Institute at Columbia University would like to invite you to join them on October 23rd from 4 to 7pm in the Low Library Rotunda for a Columbia University Environmental and Sustainable Development Programs Open House, where you will be able to find out about the many resources available to Columbia students interested in earth systems, environmental policy and sustainable development. From majors in environmental studies to degree programs in Environmental Engineering, Environmental Policy, Climate and Society, Columbia has a great deal to offer.
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A lot of people have asked me about going to the opera. I just purchased a ticket for the Saturday, April 14, 8pm performance at the New York City Opera. They will do Madama Butterfly - and the production promises to be scintillating.

If you are interested, you can purchase a ticket here:

https://www.nycopera.com/
I bought an inexpensive ticket ($25).

If people like, we can have a meeting that week to talk about opera and such.

Send an e-mail to cjp2118@columbia.edu

You are cordially invited to a lecture and book signing with author and NBC chief foreign correspondent Andrea Mitchell.

Ms. Mitchell is the author of Talking Back…to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels, published by Penguin. Her reports are featured on NBC Nightly News, Today, and Meet the Press.

She is the former chief White House correspondent for NBC and has reported on presidential politics since 1972.

Monday, April 30, 2007

8 p.m.

The Joyce B. Cowin Center at Teachers College

Copies of her book will be available for purchase and signing that evening.

RSVP by Friday, April 13 at 212.678.3955

or by email at tcinvite@tc.edu

Headlines and Headliners, the 12th Annual New York benefit for the National Lesbian Gay Journalists Association needs five volunteers to help with logistics and registration for a couple of hours on March 15 (Thursday).

You’ll receive much-coveted complimentary admission to the event.

Anderson Cooper is NOT expected to attend (baby steps…), but many fine well-known journalists who are not gay contribute time and energy to an exceptional program and social evening.

Non-gay volunteers are welcome.

This year, the program includes: Brian Ross, ABC; Meredith Vieira, Today; Soledad O’Brien, CNN; Jason Bellini, CBS News on Logo.

Additionally, Martina, a couple of the Queer Eye guys, and dozens of the usual suspects will be there.

The event is 6:30-9:30 p.m. at ABC Times Square Studio. For more details, go to NLGJA Web site.
http://www.nlgja.org/news/newyork07.html

Contact: Joe Cutbirth, jhc2003@columbia.edu; 212.873.2827.

“POLITICS WITHOUT SOVEREIGNTY?”

DATE: Saturday, February 24

TIME: 12:30-2

LOCATION: Lindsey Rogers Room, 7th Floor International Affairs Building

What is the ‘Unholy Alliance Against Sovereignty’?

Can Sovereignty Be Defended?

Has the sovereign state been superceded by the UN,

EU, Global civil society, or US Empire? Should it?

can we have politics without sovereignty?

Come find out, as the editors of

‘Politics Without Sovereignty: A Critique of Contemporary International Relations’ (Routledge)

Alex Gourevitch (Columbia),

Chris Bickerton (Oxford),

Philip Cunliffe (King’s College London)

discuss their new book with Professor Jack Snyder.

Saturday, February 24th, 12:30pm at Lindsey Rogers Room, 7th Floor International Affairs Building

Discounted copies will be available at the launch.

For more information on the book go to www.said-workshop.org/book.php

The Religion Graduate Students Association of Columbia University is accepting registration now through March 23, 2007 for:

“Pop Goes Religion: Exploring the Relationship between Religion and Popular/Consumer Culture”

Thursday March 29, 2007
Columbia University, New York
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/

Featured Guests:

Keynote Speaker: Ronald Inden, Professor Emeritus of History and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

Closing Discussant:

Laurel Kendall, Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History and Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University.

Description:

This conference will investigate the impact of popular and consumer culture on religious practice, worship, and experience, including how they are shaping and reforming the understanding and self-understanding of different religious traditions and religious practitioners. Also under consideration are the ways popular and consumer cultural practices have influenced scholarship on and the actual teaching methods of religion, particularly in the field of religious studies. Finally, we will likewise explore the impact of religion and religious themes and ideas on popular and consumer culture.

Columbia University Sponsors:

Department of Religion, Department of Anthropology, Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC)

For schedules, panel information, abstracts, and bios, please go to: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion-gsa/

A Feast of Authentic Chinese Art and Culture Rich with the Spirit of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance!

New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), a leading Chinese-language network is bringing to life the ancient Chinese heritage led by morality and spirituality with the stunning Chinese New Year Spectacular: “Myths and Legends.” Glimpse into an ancient civilization and magical realm with an international cast of more than 200 distinguished vocalists, musicians, and classical Chinese dance artists in magnificent attire and breathtaking settings to present the most glorious era in China’s 5,000-year history — The Great Tang Dynasty!

This 30-city, worldwide tour will come into town by showcasing the myths and legends that have shaped Chinese spirituality and culture. Audiences will go on a journey inspired by the traditional Chinese moral values of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance and be transported across centuries and oceans to a world that has not been seen since the days of the great emperors of the Tang Dynasty. Rated the 7th largest show in February 2006 by Billboard Magazine, the Chinese New Year Spectacular is the largest overseas Chinese New Year’s celebration, is anticipated to play to at least 100,000 live audience members in 2007! View the photo gallery and video highlights of previous shows at http://www.BestChineseShow.com

Location: Radio City Music Hall (1260 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10020)

Show Time: 2/14/2007 (Wed.) 8pm; 2/15 (Thu.), 11am, 8pm; 2/16 (Fri.), 11am, 8pm; 2/17 (Sat.), 2pm, 8pm
(2/16 11am show is for group tickets only, call 888 683 4338 for details)

We have negotiated a special price for the Columbia community this year, so you can buy one get one free for February 14 (the Valentine Day) or February 15 shows. Please, stop by the Box Office in Lerner Hall to pick up your tickets before February 9, between 11am and 6pm.

Here are some useful links:
www.shows.ntdtv.com
http://ticket.ntdtv.com/?city=ny&lang=en

You can also contact me directly if you have any questions Thank you!
Kind regards,
Wuyi Liu
liu@phys.columbia.edu