Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Population Health at New York University's Langone Medical Center, will discuss his career in bioethics.

Dr. Caplan joined NYU Langone in June 2012. Prior to moving to NYU, he was the Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He was also a professor of medicine, philosophy, and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and a senior fellow of its Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

To R.S.V.P. or request more information, please contact Patricia Contino at pc2561@columbia.edu

For further information on the Master of Science in Bioethics Program, please go to: http://ce.columbia.edu/bioethics.

The 21st century is all about a mobile lifestyle in which immediate contacts are important. Place and time matter. Location makes the occasion, and in the occasion lays the opportunity. Are you ready to seize it?

New technologies pose new challenges, opportunities, processes, and best practices. mobile marketing solutions in general and location-based marketing in particular, can be powerful additions to your marketing mix, when implemented correctly. Foursquare, location-based messages, mobile coupons, geo games, mobile apps, indoor navigation, augmented reality, and many other tools are available. Where do you start?

This conversation will deliver key learning and best practices to incorporate mobile and location as part of your marketing mix, help to separate technology facts from buzz fiction, and provide the right lenses to avoid being blinded by technology.

Claudio Schapsis is the Chief Georilla Officer and founder of Georillas, a strategic location-based marketing group that works with businesses, agencies, and CMO's implementing mobile and location-based strategies into their marketing mix.

A market-driven technology evangelist, speaker and writer; he integrates cutting edge technologies into marketing strategies, particularly in areas of digital/mobile marketing, location based marketing, and location-based services (LBS).

Schapsis is a frequent speaker of mobile/location based marketing issues. He has given keynote and general session presentations at over 20 events in the last years, and served as the Chairman of the 2010 and 2011 Location Business Summit and the Location Based Services Conference for Latin America in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Schapsis is also a member of the Board of Directors of MENG, a national organization that associates over 1,500 top-level marketing executives.

A panel of admissions directors from Columbia’s varied schools, including the School of Continuing Education, Columbia Business School, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and School of International and Public Affairs, will discuss the attributes they seek in successful applicants to their top-tier programs. Topics include academic requirements, advice on writing stand-out personal essays, and creating a desirable application package.

Sponsored by the Columbia University School of Continuing Education Postbaccalaureate Studies and Graduate Programs.

Narrative Medicine Rounds are lectures, readings, and performances presented by scholars, clinicians, academics, writers, and artists engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care. Rounds are held on the first Wednesday of each month (September to May) from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the Columbia University Medical Center Faculty Club, followed by a reception. Rounds are free and open to the public. Students, staff, faculty, patients, friends, and interested others are warmly welcome to join us.

For More Information visit: http://narrativemedicine.org

In this interdisciplinary colloquium we will look at attachment, development and parenting in the context of new family constellations afforded by innovations in reproductive technology. We will attempt to re-examine our existing assumptions about the impact of these advances on the development and identity formation of children conceived variously through egg and sperm donation and surrogacy and then reared by heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples and single parents. Our speakers are experts in reproductive medicine and bioethics, researchers in attachment and large–scale longitudinal studies of these new family forms, as well as distinguished clinicians and psychoanalysts.

The goals of this symposium will be: to foster understanding of the various current avenues to reproduction, to reflect upon the ways parents and children may (and may not) be affected by these new reproductive options, and to discuss complex ethical and psychological aspects of disclosure. In addition, we will consider the unique emotional and psychological challenges and possibilities that are emerging from scientific innovations in reproductive technology.

Sponsored by the Margret Mahler Foundation and the Columbia University Master of Science in Bioethics Program.

A completed registration form and fee are required. You may also register on line and pay the fee by credit card here: http://www.ipbooks.net/2008/01/february-5th-conference-on-assisted-reproductive-technology/.

 A limited number of student scholarships to attend this event are available. Please contact Dr. Robert Klitzman at rlk2@columbia.edu for details.

For further information about the event, please contact the conference registrar:

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Kristine Billmyer, Ph. D.
Featured Speaker
Dean, School of Continuing Education
Columbia University

"Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition:Issues and Opportunities in Instructed Pragmatics"

Developing pragmatic competence is a neglected component of the Second and Foreign Language curriculum. This talk reviews research on interlanguage pragmatic development; discusses opportunities and challenges of an instructed pragmatics agenda; and offers a means of learner empowerment so students select linguistic resources to meet their communicative goals.

Shamus Khan, Ph. D.
Commenter
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Columbia University

This session advances the Series' mission to promote interdisciplinarity between social sciences and sociolinguistics.

Sponsored by ISERP and Columbia Linguistics Society

RSVP to Carmen Morillo at cm2714@columbia.edu

 

Dr. Daniel Druckman, a well-known scholar and practitioner in the field of conflict resolution, negotiation and peace studies, is coming to Columbia University to present and discuss his research on negotiated agreements, specifically those in the contexts of four issues domains: peace agreements, trade, environment and arms control.

Daniel Druckman is Professor of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University and Distinguished Scholar at the Public Memory Research Centre at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. He has been the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Professor of Conflict Resolution at George Mason, a professor at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, a member of the faculty at Sabanci University in Istanbul, and a visiting professor at the Australian National University, University of Melbourne and at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology in Taiwan. He has published widely on such topics as negotiating behavior, nationalism and group identity, human performance, peacekeeping, political stability, nonverbal communication, and research methodology. He is a board member or associate editor of eight Journals. He received the 1995 Otto Klineberg award for his work on nationalism, a Teaching Excellence award in 1998 from George Mason University, awards for the outstanding article published in 2001 and the outstanding book published in 2005-2006 from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM). He is the recipient of the 2003 Lifetime Achievement award from the IACM.

No RSVP is required.

What does sex education and bedroom behavior have to do with social media? More than you would think.

Like sex education, social media success is more about what you know. Students will see how the size (and use) of their social media tools can effect brand awareness, empower consumers and deliver measurable ROI. By the end of the class, students will know how and when to implement social media, and will learn ways to monitor its effectiveness.

Grayson M. Bass is managing director at Mayor Wilson, Strategic Consulting. Bass takes leadership roles within an organization as an executive-in-residence in order to roll out and/or develop new products, help companies enter new markets, and build out and train sales and marketing teams. He has lived and worked in Asia, North and South America in a variety of industries including energy, IT, consulting, advertising, mobile, manufacturing, publishing, legal and finance. His research is on strategy and competitive advantage in networks.

This event is full and no longer accepting RSVP's.