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XVIII Annual Meetings of the LACEA / IADB / WB/ UNDP Research Network on Inequality and Poverty

Friday, April 20, 2012 - 08:30

Accompanying Conference Papers

Business and Politics: Which Drives Which

Friday, February 24, 2012 - 08:30
8:30am-4:30pm

Location: 

The Italian Academy (Teatro), Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10027

Business and Politics: Which Drives Which

Presented by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) and the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School

Cost: Research faculty members and doctoral students who would like to attend this symposium should contact: leadershipethics (AT) gsb (DOT) columbia (DOT) edu. Other students and members of the public can register online: http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/leadership/research/feb2012

Indigenous Spaces: Pushing the Boundaries of History, Bodies, Geographies, and Politics

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 09:00
9:00am-6:00pm

Location: 

Room 420 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University

A GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM:

Presented By: The Collaborations on Indigenous Studies Project (CISP)

In Conjunction With: The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race's Indigenous Forum Series

9:00 - 9:30 — REGISTRATION + BREAKFAST

9:30 - 9:45 — OPENING REMARKS

9:45 - 10:45 — OPENING ADDRESS: David Cornsilk (Cherokee activist/historian/tribal court lay advocate)

Freedmen and Citizenship: When do we get to rest?

10:45 - 11:00 — Coffee Break

Beyond Security: Democratic Contestations in Bangladesh and Pakistan

Friday, October 14, 2011 - 09:00 to Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 06:15
9:00am-6:15pm

Location: 

International Affairs Building, 15th floor

Friday, October 14

9:00am – 9:10am

Welcome by Janaki Bakhle (History, Columbia University and Director, South Asia Institute)

9:10am – 9:30am Introduction by Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations

9:30am - 11:00am First Panel: Nation/State/Geographies/Identities

Injured Cities, Urban Afterlives Conference

Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 22:00 to Saturday, October 15, 2011 - 07:15
9am-6:15pm

Location: 

Miller Theatre and Wood Auditorium

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What are the effects of catastrophe on cities, their inhabitants, and the larger world? How can we address the politics of terror with which states react to their vulnerability? In a series of presentations and conversations, an international group of artists, writers, activists and individuals directly affected by urban injury will imagine creative modes of reinvention in response to urban disasters.

FRIDAY: Miller Theater

Inventing Global Health: Conflicts and Concepts

Friday, October 14, 2011 - 08:00
8:00am-4:00pm

Location: 

President's Room, Faculty House, Columbia University

Seminar hosted by the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health and the Center for the Study of Culture, Politics and Health. Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Disciplinary Perspectives on Gene-Environment Interactions: Economics, Sociology, and Political Science

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 08:30
8:30am-1:00pm

Location: 

Room C05, School of Social Work 1255 Amsterdam Avenue (at 122nd St) New York, NY 10027

8:30 Light Breakfast

9:00 Welcome

9:10 Overview and Opportunities in Gene-Environment Research

Christopher Chabris, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Neuroscience Program, Union College and Assistant Professor of Neurology, Albany Medical College

9:50 Session I – Economics

Moderator: Irwin Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Columbia University

Daniel Benjamin, Assistant Professor of Economics, Cornell University

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