CONFERENCE SERIES

The Color of Jazz

FALL 2011 CONFERENCE SERIES
The Color of Jazz: The Visual History of a Metis Music
6:00 pm at Reid Hall – Salle de conférence
PUBLIC WELCOME

This series, fruit of the collaboration between Sylvie Laurent and Robert O’Meally, focuses on the institution of Jazz, its representation and instrumentation, in a global perspective and with global repercussions. Discussions will begin with the importation and appropriation of the jazz aesthetic from America to Europe with echoes from Africa through iconic figures like Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Discussions will then open up to the world and to different realms of social life, from the Harlem Renaissance to la Négritude to pan-African emancipation to social outcry in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Jazz will be approached as a means of representation (Is jazz “black music”? Is it “primitive”?), an artifact of both local color and foreignness, and a mode of communication transcending “music” to inspire and encompass visual expression and political action. This series is an ongoing dialogue between international scholars and artists of jazz, with numerous guest speakers and honored attendees.

OCT 6 Primitivism and National Identity
Guest: Professor Robert O’Meally
Flyer can be found here.

OCT 20 Josephine Baker: Icon of Negritude
Guest: Professor Robert O’Meally
Flyer can be found here.

NOV 3 Reappropriating Jazz: Blackness, Hybridity, and Authenticity
Guest: Professor Robert O’Meally
Flyer can be found here.

NOV 17 Jazz Images and Africa
Guest: Photographer Hank Willis Thomas
Flyer can be found here.

NOV 24 Film Screening: Paris Noir
Guests: Filmmakers Anne and David Burke

NOV 25 Jazz Symposium
Flyer can be found here.

DEC 1 Visualizing Jazz as Social Protest
Guest (via skype): Lolis Elie, writer for the HBO series “Treme”
Flyer can be found here.

Thursday Seminars in Public Health

This series takes place at Reid Hall in Paris through the partnership between Columbia Global Centers | Europe, the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the École des hautes études en santé publique. It features eminent international speakers addressing fascinating and pertinent issues in public health on a global level. It is free and open to the public.

OCT 6 The USA Health Care System after Obama’s Affordable Care Act:
Still Exceptionalist?
Guest: Lawrence D. Brown
Flyer can be found here.

OCT 27 How Global is Global Health Care? Global Health and National Security
Guest: Patrick Zylberman
Flyer can be found here.

NOV 3 What Does and Should Count in Evidence-Based Practice and Policy?
Guest: Ronald Bayer, Gerald Oppenheimer, and Philippe Ravaud
Moderated by: Moise Desvarieux
Flyer can be found here.

NOV 17 The Legal Framework for Humanitarian Action
Guest: Caroline Brandao
Flyer can be found here.
Program can be found here.
Bibliography can be found here.

NOV 24 Réflexions sur le Manifeste pour une santé égalitaire et solidaire
Guest: Didier Tabuteau
Flyer can be found here.

DEC 1 The Epidemiology of Radiation
Guest: Dominique Laurier
Flyer can be found here.

Jan 5 The Effect of Population Structure on Avian Influenza Outbreaks
Guest: Parviez Hosseni, EcoHealth Alliance
Flyer can be found here

SPECIAL CONFERENCES

OCT 29-30 Threats to the Global Economy: Debt, Currency, Banking, and Structural Change

The Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and Sciences Po’s Department of Economics, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank’s Office of Regional Economic Integration (OREI) and the Earth Institute (EI) of Columbia University, are pleased to invite you to the International Policy Advisory Group (IPAG)’s Shadow G20 Conference.

The two-day meeting will focus on three themes:

• Progress report and different perspectives on the financial and economic crisis: an Asian panel, a European Panel, and a North American panel
• Cross-cutting issues: sovereign debts and fiscal policies, Eurozone problems, structural adjustment to globalization, and coordination of national policies
• Global imbalances and long-term growth: rebalancing growth and green growth

Flyer can be found here.
Program can be found here.

NOV 8-9 The One Percent: Contemporary Euro-American Elites in Sociological Perspectives
Organizers: Francois Denord (CNRS), Bertrand Reau (Paris 1 – CESSP), Shamus Khan (Columbia University)

The purpose of this two-day bilingual conference is to bring scholars, researchers, and graduate students of multiple disciplines and from multiple countries to engage in a workshop of ideas and exchanges revolving around the study of elites: internationalization, quantification, economic forms, comparative contexts, political manifestations, and reconfigurations in realms as diverse as philanthropy and the military.

Flyer can be found here.
Programs and participant biographies can be found here: Nov. 8 Nov. 9