Istanbul News

Columbia University’s Global Center in Istanbul will continue the Voices of Emerging Scholars Program in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.

Columbia Global will bring together Columbia World Projects, the Columbia Global Centers, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and other global initiatives.

The Center hosted a hybrid event on forced migration and possible innovative solutions in social inclusion on July 7 with Professor E. Nezih Orhon.

The purpose of the workshop was twofold: to increase the capacity of young researchers on migration and health research and to establish a communication network between academicians, doctoral students, residency assistants and young experts working on migrant health.

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

A symposium and memory walk to explore the cultural life of the refugees who fled from the former Russian Empire during the Civil War and emigrated to Istanbul between 1919 and 1923

A Film Series Organized by Zeynep Çelik, Richard Peña, and A. Tunç Şen.

This series, with Undergraduate Global Education, addressed several of issues facing Afghanistan.

Refugees Act and Communicate Health (REach) Project is designed to aid refugees and local youth living in urban settings via digital technologies.

How the politics of gender has come to occupy a place in debates over citizenship, national belonging, and the future of democratic governance.