Calendar of Events

Moderator:
Marianne Hirsch, professor of Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Panelists:  
Randall Balmer, professor of Religion, Barnard College
Jay Lefkowitz, partner, Kirkland and Ellis LLP; special envoy on human rights in North Korea
The Rt. Rev. Catherine S. Roskam, the first female Bishop in the Episcopal Church in the state of New York
David Allen White, professor of Literature, United States Naval Academy

This panel explored the role religion plays in American politics, and how religious institutions exert their political power in elections in the United States. The panelists examined conflicts that arose when human rights issues interfered with religious teaching, and how those conflicts might be resolved.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/06/416_Kraft_religionPublicSphere/

Ruth Simmons, President of Brown University, addressed the complicated issue of diversity in higher education, citing scholastic diversity as a mechanism to counteract racism and build better democracies.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/04/simmons.html

Moderator:  
Lee C. Bollinger, president, Columbia University

Panelists:
Kent Greenawalt, professor of Law, Columbia University
Noah Feldman, professor of Law, New York University
R. Albert Mohler Jr., president, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Suzanne Last Stone, professor of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; director of its program in Jewish law and interdisciplinary studies
    
This panel debated the role of the courts in the intelligent design dispute and how far individuals’ beliefs should be interjected into public arenas.  
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/06/422_kraft_courts_church/index.html

R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Graduate School of Business, discussed how the MBA degree has contributed to the growth of American business and entrepreneurial capitalism worldwide.  
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/05/growth.html

The Fun Run is an annual five kilometer run/walk that begins on College Walk and goes through Riverside Park. The event is open to all Columbia students, faculty and staff and is co-sponsored by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education.

Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, explored the disparity that arose in the 17th century between the secular intellectual tradition and the divine sense of nature, and how those divergent thoughts apply to the modern world.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/11/bilgrami061108.html

President Lee C. Bollinger moderated a discussion between President Bill Clinton and President Václav Havel about the challenges facing today's emerging democracies. Discussion ranged from how to correct America's mistakes in Iraq to how to morph from state leader into a private citizen that can do public good.
http://havel.columbia.edu/conversation.html

Orhan Pamuk, the internationally acclaimed Turkish novelist and memoirist, was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mr. Pamuk is a fellow with Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought.