Events and Exhibitions in January & February

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Exhibition: January 28–March 28, 2009
Modernism and
Iraq
Miriam and
Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery862 Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue
www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach

Opening Reception: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 5:00–7:00 p.m.Panel discussion
“Curating Modernism and
Iraq: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 5:45 p.m.

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Exhibition: February 18–May 29, 2009
Victorian Imprints: Selections from the James G. Nelson Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Butler
Library, 6th Floor, East, 535 West 114th Street
www.columbia.edu/library/rbml

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Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
“A View from the ′90s”: Selections from the Collection of James G. Nelson

G. Thomas Tanselle, Vice President Emeritus, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Adjunct Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Sharon Marcus, Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Erik Gray, Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Butler Library, Room 523, 535 West 114th Street

James G. Nelson is renowned for his definitive scholarship on avant-garde writers and artists of the British 1890s and the publishers who dared to print them. Selected works from his collection of over 2,000 titles from this period over will be on display in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library from February 18 to May 29, 2009.

A reception and an opportunity to view the exhibition will immediately follow in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Butler Library, 6th Floor, East).

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RESEARCH WITHOUT BORDERS: THE CHANGING WORLD OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
Sponsored by the Columbia University Libraries/Information Services Scholarly Communication Program

Thursday, February 19, 2009, 3:00 p.m.
Open Science: Good for Research, Good for Researchers?

A panel discussion on the benefits and challenges of open science.

Jean-Claude Bradley, Associate Professor of Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences, Drexel University

Barry Canton, Co-Founder of Gingko Bioworks and the Open WetWare wiki

Bora Zivkovic, Online Discussion Expert, Public Library of Science and author of A Blog Around the Clock

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6:00 p.m.
The Children of Children Keep Coming: An African American Epic

A conversation with author Russell L. Goings about his epic poem on the African American experience

Jerome Davis, Secretary, Columbia University
Kim Bridgford, Professor of English,
Fairfield University
Moderated by Samuel Freedman, Professor, The
Journalism School, Columbia University

Faculty Room, Low Memorial Library, 535 West 116th Street (College Walk between Broadway and Amsterdam)

A reception and book signing in the Rotunda will immediately follow the presentation. Copies of The Children of Children Keep Coming: An Epic GriotSong, will be available for sale.

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Friday, February 27, 2009, 2:00 p.m.

How We Decide
Columbia Alumni Association’s Meet the Author: Jonah Lehrer, ′03CC

Moderated by Stuart Firestein, Professor, Biological Sciences,
Columbia University

Butler Library, 2nd Floor Lounge, Room 214, 535 West 114th Street

Jonah Lehrer is an editor at large for Seed Magazine and the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist. He graduated from Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

A book signing will follow.

To register for this event, please go to http://alumni.columbia.edu/register.
Sponsored by the
Columbia Alumni Association (CAA).

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