Arts and Humanities News

With Professor Mario Klarer discussing his book: Barbary Captives - An Anthology of Early Modern Slave Memoirs by Europeans in North Africa.

In the same year that India became independent, how did a group of six nuns from Kentucky arrive in Bihar to establish a medical practice.

The story of how 100 years ago, Gabriela Mistral's first book, "Desolación," was published by Columbia's Instituto de las Españas.

Q and A with Souleymane Bachir Diagne.

The residencies were made possible by the Harriman Institute, the Institute for Ideas & Imagination, Columbia Global Centers | Paris, and a gift from the Ukrainian Studies Fund.

Diego Plaza, CC'23, discusses his work with Professor Ricardo Martínez of Universidad Diego Portales on computational literary analysis of poetry.

Columbia film Professor Richard Peña took part in programs with Universidad Católica, film editor Andrea Chignoli and the Jewish Museum of Chile.

In a flourish of literary expression, Columbia MFA in Creative Writing graduates Kai-Lilly Karpman and Zoe Engels presented their works.

Prof. Richard Peña gave lectures on three women directors who were hidden from history despite their impressive filmmaking.

Barnard’s Translating Theater and Acting in Paris programs are working in tandem to explore the world of contemporary French theater.

Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Columbia University Press co-hosted a virtual book talk and panel discussion for The Wuhan Lockdown, a new book by Professor Guobin Yang of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Meet master's student Leah Cahill Denison and learn more about the dual degree program in Modern & Contemporary Art: Critical & Curatorial Studies.