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Hello EPDers,
This past week has not been easy for our Columbia and SIPA communities. We hope that you have been taking care of yourselves and each other. We are here to support you. If you need any accommodation in any of your EPD courses, or any other support, please let us know.
That said, we are finally in the week of EPD Workshop final presentations! All the hard work the second years have been putting in is going to bear fruit this week. So take a deep breath, invite your friends (and whoever else you wish to invite) to your presentation to root for you, and cherish the presentation for which you’ve been putting so much work. Good luck, you deserve this!
Also, don’t forget to celebrate with us on the last day of classes. Three (of the coolest) concentrations – EPD, HRHP and EE – are coming together to celebrate the end of semester. We hope to see you all at the Baylander!
This week’s newsletter includes:
- Call for Volunteers
- SIPA events
- Career Advancement Center Events
- Events Happening at Columbia
- EPD Office Hours
Call for Volunteers
EPD is still looking for a few student volunteers to support our EPD Workshop Final Presentations on Thursday 4/25 and Friday 4/26! We are seeking students to serve as timekeepers to help our presenting teams stay on time with their presentations (timecards will be provided). Students will just need to bring a watch or their phone. We also need volunteers to help set up on both days (on 4/25 at Buell Hall and on 4/26 in 1501). In addition, on Thursday, 4/25 students will help monitor the entrance to Buell Hall. Interested students can sign up HERE. Those who sign up and volunteer for a minimum of two time slots will receive an EPD swag. Also, breakfast and afternoon refreshments will be provided on both days. Thanks for helping us make this a successful event!
Events at SIPA
When/Time/Where: Thursday, April 25 2024 | 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM | Buell Hall, East Gallery & Zoom
When/Time/Where: Friday, April 26, 2024 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM | IAB, Room 1501 & Zoom
The student teams in SIPA’s Workshop in Sustainable Development Practice (the EPD Workshop) have been working this year on cutting-edge projects with seventeen clients in over twenty-two countries. Notably, three of the projects involve SIPA alumni as clients, and five faculty advisors (as well as the workshop director) are alumni. This year’s projects support climate resilience and AI innovations in agriculture, education, social entrepreneurship, private sector investment (including gender lens investing), post-conflict reintegration, renewable energy, and indigenous trade. On April 25 and April 26, the teams will present highlights of their work in a hybrid conference hosted by SIPA.
Workshop clients, faculty advisors, members of the Columbia/SIPA community, SIPA alumni and the general public are warmly invited and encouraged to join any sessions of interest.
This event will be hosted in person (for CUID holders) and online. Registration is required to receive a Zoom link.
This year's workshop clients Enabling Qapital, Fundación Corona, globalbike, Inc., International Trade Centre, Kazakhstan's Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Oxfam Indonesia, Open Development Cambodia, Pencils of Promise, Rwanda Social Security Board, Sawiris Foundation for Social Development, United Nations Development Programme, UN Department for Peace Operations, UN Resident Coordinator’s Office in Mongolia and Pakistan, Value for Women, World Economic Forum India, and World Food Programme's Regional Center of Excellence against Hunger and Malnutrition.
Click here to view the final presentation schedule.
Click here for day 1 registration and here for day 2 registration.
- IO & UN Internship Preparation
When: Monday, May 29, 2024 | 10-11pm ET
Where: Virtual
RSVP: https://cglink.me/2e9/r1927662
As many of you are preparing for summer internships at international organizations, IO/UNS director, Professor Daniel Naujoks offers a platform to exchange on pointers on what to focus on. Regardless if you are doing a classic in-person or a remote internship, the meeting provides a space to share tips and insights and ask questions for all participants.
Join us on May 29, 10-11am ET for a discussion that will focus on your key goals and touch on what skills should you aim to build. How to use internships as a platform for robust networking? How should you influence the assignments you get? What do consider for virtual internships?
The discussion aims at helping you to proactively steer your activities, skill building and networking endeavors in the right direction.
When/Time: Monday, April 29, 2024 | 6.30-8.30PM
Where: The Baylander Steel Beach
Join us for the last event of spring 2024 before we sail away for the summer! EPD, HRHP and EE will join forces for an evening of fun on the Baylander, a boat docked (permanently) at the 125th street pier in Harlem. Each concentration will have its own designated area marked by a different colored balloon. Drinks and snacks will be provided. Those who feel inspired can get creative with a nautical dress code!
To register, click here.
Career Advancement Center Events
- Career Chat with Daniela Guzman Peña, Trust & Safety Policy and Partnerships
When/Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:000 pm
Where: IAB 413
Dress Code: Business Casual
Join SIPA alum Daniela Guzman Peña, Trust & Safety Policy and Partnerships at a global online marketplace, for a discussion about her time at SIPA, her career path thus far, and details about her current role and team. Please bring questions for Q&A.
For more information, CLICK HERE.
- APSIA Spring 2024 Fellowships Fair
When/Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Where: Virtual
Dress Code: Business Casual
The APSIA Fellowship Fair lets graduate students at and recent alumni from APSIA schools connect with fellowship programs in small, personalized conversations. Each program hosts a breakout room where they will give a brief overview of their program and answer students' personal questions. Attendees will be able to visit several breakout rooms throughout the fair.
For more information, CLICK HERE.
- Women in Business & Tech Virtual Fair
When/Time: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtual
Dress Code: Business Casual
The easy, effective way for Women in Business & Technology to meet Employers:
Who is invited?
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Students & Alumni from Colleges & Universities nationwide
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Women in Business & Tech seeking Full-time, Intern, & Co-op jobs
Where do I have to go?
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Nowhere, it all happens online! Attend the Fair from Anywhere
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Flexible Time Frame: Each organization chooses their own chat times during the event
Register here. For more information, CLICK HERE.
- NYS Civil Service Information Sessions for Career/Staff and Students
When/Time: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Virtual
Dress Code: Casual
We will be hosting the NYS Civil Service for a Career/Staff Information Session this coming Tuesday, April 2nd at 12pm. We anticipate the session will last around 1 hour and will cover the civil service merit system, the NY HELPs program, agencies, job/internship opportunities available, hiring/application process, qualifications and more. While we will be hosting this session in a hybrid format both in person and via Zoom, we anticipate most NASPAA schools will be attending via Zoom and please find the Zoom link below. Please fill out this brief google form to let us know how you plan to attend, and we will follow-up as the event approaches with additional details. Further, the NYS Civil Service Student Virtual Information Sessions will be held on the following dates and times via Zoom only (expected to last about 1 hour).
For more information, CLICK HERE.
- HIAS Employer Informational Session
When/Time: Monday, April 29, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: IAB 801
Dress Code: Business Casual
HIAS, the world’s oldest refugee agency, will be running an information session for students who might be interested in working there. This will be a hybrid event with HIAS‘s Chief People & Culture Officer who will share e Chief People & Culture Officer who will share information about working in refugee resettlement space, working at HIAS specifically, and how to best position yourself to apply for a job at HIAS. To RSVP, CLICK HERE.
For more information, CLICK HERE.
- Career Chat with Paula Lekanda, Product Policy Manager - Civic & Election Integrity at TikTok
When/Time: Monday, April 29, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: IAB 413
Dress Code: Business Casual
Join SIPA alum Paula Lekanda, Product Policy Manager - Civic & Election Integrity at TikTok for a discussion on her time at SIPA, her path to TikTok, and her current role and team. Please bring questions for Q&A.
For more information, CLICK HERE.
- NBR Summer Seminar 2024: The China Challenge Information Session
When/Time: Thursday, May 2, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Virtual
Dress Code: Business Casual
NBR is pleased to host a virtual information session about the NBR Summer Seminar on Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. PT/3:00 p.m. ET. Join us and learn more about the program and registration requirements from NBR staff and program alumni and ask any questions you may have. RSVP to receive login information. The fellowship application deadline is June 2, 2024!
The NBR Summer Seminar 2024: The China Challenge is an intensive, interdisciplinary eight-week seminar (June 17 to August 9, 2024) at NBR’s Seattle office. The program is open to current students and professionals interested in issues of strategic importance to the United States in Asia.
Participants spend a summer in-person at NBR’s Seattle office participating in roundtable discussions featuring high-level speakers from NBR’s network of experts, attending regional site visits to consulates, policy hubs, and military bases, joining relevant NBR events, and having the opportunity to present their research to NBR staff and select guests from the policy, academic, and business communities. If you plan to attend, please RSVP by May 1, 2024 (https://form.jotform.com/240355113167146 ).
For more information, CLICK HERE.
Short-Term Consultancy/Research Assistant Position with International Finance Corporation
The Economics and Market Research Department (CER) at the International Finance Corporation focuses on operationally relevant research on firms and private sector development in emerging and low-income developing economies. This includes overseeing country private sector diagnostics, working to identify the most impactful business opportunities, creating a series of reports, undertaking research for peer-reviewed journals, organizing conferences with academia, and providing analytical input to guide IFC’s strategy. The department is looking to hire a research assistant to support its growing research workstream, especially related to financial topics such as firm financing, financial markets, and investments. The selected candidate will report primarily to one member of staff, with assignments that may span several projects and staff in the department. Apply by April 30, 2024. Click here to view complete job description.
Events at Columbia
- The Smartness Mandate: Neo-liberalism, AI, & Politics
When: Thursday, April 25, 2024 12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Where: Heyman Center for the Humanities, 74 Morningside Dr., New York, NY 10027
Room/Area: Second floor common room
This talk interrogates the history of models of decision-making and agency in machine learning, neo-liberal economic thought, and finance in order to understand how reactionary politics , civil rights, and technology are being reformulated in our present. While the relationship between the Right, post-truth, suggestion algorithms, and social media has long been documented, rarely there has been extensive investigation of how ideas of choice and freedom become recast in a manner amenable to machine automation, financialization, and to particular brands of post-1970s alt-right discourses. An analysis of this history demonstrates a new logic within algorithmic and artificial intelligent rationalities that intersects with, but is also not merely a repetition of, earlier histories of reason, eugenics, sexism, and racism. This situation provokes serious challenges to political action, but also to our theorization of democracy, collectivity, and diversity.
Speaker: Orit Halpern is Full Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at Technische Universität Dresden. Her work bridges the histories of science, computing, and cybernetics with design. She completed her Ph.D. at Harvard. She has held numerous visiting scholar positions including at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, IKKM Weimar, and at Duke University. She is currently working on two projects. The first is a history of automation, intelligence, and freedom; the second project examines extreme infrastructures and the history of experimentation at planetary scales in design, science, and engineering.
She has also published widely in many venues including Critical Inquiry, Grey Room, and Journal of Visual Culture, and E-Flux. Her first book Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason (Duke UP 2015) investigates histories of big data, design, and governmentality. Her current book with Robert Mitchell (forthcoming MIT Press December 2022) is titled the Smartness Mandate. The book is a genealogy of our current obsession with smart technologies and artificial intelligence.
Register here.
- Ecology & Culture Seminar; Misreading Climate Change in Bangladesh
When/Time: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where: Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr., New York, NY 10027, Room/Area: Garden Room 1
Dr. Camelia Dewan is an environmental anthropologist focusing on the anthropology of development with a historical perspective.
She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology (SAI), University of Oslo where she is ethnographically examining shipbreaking in Bangladesh for the Norwegian Research Council-funded project (Dis)Assembling the Life Cycle of Container Ships.
Dr. Dewan's bio can be found here; http://www.cameliadewan.com/
Please rsvp to Stephanie Ratte, smr2224@columbia.edu by April 15, 2024, to attend this event.
- The Sociology of Literature
When/Time: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Where: Buell Hall, 515 W. 116 St., New York, NY 10027
Room/Area: East Gallery
Gisèle Sapiro, in conversation (in English) with Tristan Leperlier
Gisèle Sapiro, the leading theorist of the sociology of literature, will present her book The Sociology of Literature, recently published into English by Madeline Bedecarré and Ben Libman, for the first time in the U.S. Her book presents the history, methods, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds its origins in the French Enlightenment, and its most salient expression as a sociological pursuit in the work of Pierre Bourdieu. Sapiro refutes the common criticism that the sociology of literature does not take the text to be the central object of study. Sapiro describes methods for analyzing the roles and behaviors of agents and institutions (publishing houses, prize committees, etc.) in the circulation and reception of texts. The book emphasizes the rich interdisciplinary nature of the approach, which draws on literary history, sociology, postcolonial studies, book history, gender studies, and media studies, while also defending the sociology of literature as a discipline in its own right.
Gisèle Sapiro is CNRS Research Director and Professor of Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She is the author of The French Writers' War (1940–1953) (2014), and numerous other books in French.
Tristan Leperlier is a CNRS Associate Professor, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Columbia University where he taught a class on Sociology of literature last semester. A sociologist of literature himself, he has specialized in postcolonial and transnational issues.
This event is being presented in connection with a major conference on Pierre Bourdieu to take place at the NYU Institute of French Studies, April 25-26. It is co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS).
Register here.
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