Nicholas Lemann, Dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, cordially invites you to the annual Hearst Foundation New Media Lecture

Brian Storm
Thursday, April 3, 2008 (6:30-9 pm)
Columbia Journalism School
116th St & Broadway (#1 train to 116th St)

Join us to hear Brian Storm, president of MediaStorm.org and former director of multimedia for MSNBC.com – one of most exciting and influential minds in journalism today (bio below). See the work of his company at http://mediastorm.org

6:30-7:00 pm -  reception – drinks and light food
7-9 pm – lecture + Q&A (dessert will be available after the Q&A)

No charge; no RSVP required; all are welcome.

Read/hear previous Hearst New Media Lectures: (more…)

THE NAKED LENS FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, February 23
511 Dodge Hall (Lifetime Screening Room)

The first ever Columbia University GLBTQ film festival.  Sponsored by the Columbia University School of the Arts student group QuArt (Queer Art) and the Office of the University Chaplain.

Saturday, February 23 at 3pm, join us for a panel discussion with award winning filmmakers Tom Kalin (Swoon, I Shot Andy Warhol) and Rose Troche (Go Fish, The Safety of Objects) and Columbia University faculty member Mark J. Huisman on the current state and future of gay and lesbian cinema.

Then, at 7pm, join us for screenings of several short films by SoA students and faculty, followed by a reception. Both events take place in the Lifetime Screening Room (511 Dodge Hall).

Tickets are free, but please RSVP for a seat to nakedlensfilmfestival@gmail.com as seating is very limited.

For a complete schedule of the day’s events, click here—> (more…)

The Columbia University School of the Arts Writing Division is pleased to announce its remaining 2007-2008 Creative Writing Series Lectures. So far this year, lecturers have included Judith Thurman, James Wood, Francine Prose, Sven Birkerts, Jorie Graham, Lee Abbott, Philip Gourevitch and Jonathan Lethem:

We invite you to join us for our next lecturer: Kurt Anderson.

Thursday, February 21
7:00 pm
413 Dodge Hall
Kurt Anderson

Co-founder of Spy magazine and Inside.com, former editor-in-chief of New York magazine; award-winning journalist, host of Studio 360 on WNYC-FM; author of Heyday, and New York Times Notable book of the year, Turn of the Century.

Upcoming lectures: (more…)

A Foundation Center event presented in collaboration with Fractured Atlas:

How You Can Afford to Be an Artist:
Ideas for Creating a Sustainable Career
Free Admission
This event is offered free of charge, but advance registration is required. Please go to the Foundation Center website for details.

Thursday, October 4, 2007, 3:00-5:00 pm,
2:30 pm: Check-in and refreshments
The Foundation Center
79 Fifth Avenue/16th Street
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10003

A special "Funding for Arts Month" program. It takes more than hard-to-get grants to survive and sustain your work over time. The panel presentation will focus on resources available to individual artists and emerging arts organizations working in various disciplines of the arts. Topics will include accessing space, insurance, materials and other non-cash resources. Come to share your own experiences and tips.

The Writing Division in the School of the Arts is pleased to welcome the second speaker in our Creative Writing Lecture Series:

James Wood
Close Writing: Reliable and Unreliable Narration

8:15 pm
Dodge Hall 413
4 October, 2007

James Wood is a Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard, an adjunct professor at Columbia, and a staff writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of three books: two books of essays (The Broken Estate; The Irresponsible Self) and a novel (The Book Against God). A new book, How Fiction Works, will come out from Farrar Straus and Giroux next spring (2008).

The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University presents:

Gerald Edelman, Nobel Laureate
Lorraine Daston

"The Origins of Norms:
The Place of Value in a World of Nature"

Thursday, April 26, 2007  8pm
501 Schermerhorn Hall
This event is free and open to the general public.
Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.
No tickets, no reservations necessary.
Co-sponsored by the Philoctetes Center (more…)

The Columbia Unviersity Heyman Center for the Humanities presents: 

Art Spiegelman, "Comics—Marching into the Canon"
April 9, 2007. Low Plaza. 7pm

Pulitzer prize winning graphic novelist, Art Spiegelman is in residence at the Heyman Center for the Humanities for the Spring 2007 Semester.

This event, which is free and open to the general public on a first-come, first-served basis, will take place outdoors on the Low Plaza, in front of Alma Mater.

"From Sodomy Laws to Marriage Amendments: A History of Sexual Identity/Politics"

Please join President Lee C. Bollinger and Vice Provost of Diversity Initiatives Jean Howard at a lecture by
Professor George Chauncey of Yale University

Date:    Wednesday, April 11, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Location:  Low Library Rotunda

Space is limited and registration is required.  Please register by visiting this site.  (more…)