How does the brain cope with Complexity? How do we make decisions when confronted with practically infinite streams of information? A three-day conference dedicated to the idea that Curiosity and Creativity play key roles in this process will be hosted at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute on May 23-25, 2023.
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 17:15 to Saturday, April 29, 2023 - 18:00
April 27: 5:15pm-8pm
April 28: 10:30am-5pm
April 29: 11am-6pm
May 4 - 6: TBD
By way of Black Critical Thought,this colloquium excavates the moves, attachments, and structures of desire that stabilize critical lexicons around (re)production and regimes of valorization, as well as their implications at the level of political and libidinal economy.
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 03:00 to Friday, February 24, 2023 - 08:45
In 1978 Guillermo Calvo published the paper “On the Time Consistency of Optimal Policy in a Monetary Economy”. This paper shows how a conflict between the interests of the current government with those of a future government, both of which share the same objective of maximizing social welfare, gives rise to a credibility problem.
Friday, September 23, 2022 - 06:00 to Saturday, September 24, 2022 - 09:00
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Please join Yale's Black Sound & the Archive Working Group, as we celebrate the pathbreaking scholarship of Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin, Yale PhD '92 and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African American & African Diaspora Studies (Columbia University)
Monday, March 28, 2022 - 12:00 to Friday, April 1, 2022 - 14:30
12 noon - 2:00pm ET each day (closes at 2:30pm final day)
Location:
Virtual Symposium - Registration Required
Explore the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and look to the future alongside an outstanding line-up of global leaders during this 5-day virtual #VaccineSymposium. Our panel of experts will discuss the topics that have shaped the world as we know it for the past two years—such as vaccine hesitancy, issues surrounding vaccine inequity, political responses to the pandemic, and the status of existing and new vaccines—and offer insight into how we can anticipate and prepare for new viral threats.
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