Public Speaker Series: Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul maintains a speakers series with distinguished academics, intellectuals, business leaders, and artists on a broad scope of issues with regional and global impact. The speaker series aim to attract a wide audience with thought provoking lectures focusing on the most compelling issues of our time and create a lively platform for exchange of ideas and conversation.
Conferences and Workshops: The Istanbul Center cooperates with partners on campus and in the region to organize a variety of conferences, workshops and seminars throughout the year. The Center gathers local and international experts that provide important opportunities for academic dialogue and intellectual engagement. Many of these events are also open for the public to attend.
Student and Alumni Relations: The Istanbul Center creates a hub for Columbia students and alumni in the region by organizing regular gatherings, where current and prospective students, parents and alumni learn about the centers, projects and programs, meet with the team and gain awareness of Columbia's mission on global education.
Our Events
Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul Launch Reception
Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul Launch
Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) Istanbul
Chaplain Jewelnel Davis Visits Istanbul
Alumni New Year Reception
Columbia Business School Visit
Columbia Business School Executive MBA Trip and Reception
Roundtable Discussion on Syria with the International Crisis Group
How Turks Can Travel Freely in Europe
Istanbul Forum on the Turkish Energy Outlook
Studio-X Opening!
Turkey’s Energy Strategy: Regional and Global Outlook
The Impact of The Lausanne Peace Treaty in the World
Columbia Business School Reception
Studio-X Hosts Ceasar McDowell
Cemetery of Architects at Studio-X
Workshop on Contested Sites and Historical Dialogue
Panel on "Ankara after September 12 Military Coup"
Abandoned City: Istanbul’s Armenian Past
The Future of the Liberal Order Conference
The Future of the Liberal Order Conference
Growing up in a Growing Metropolis
Growing up in a Growing Metropolis
Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing
Experimental Preservation: Dispatch from Istanbul
Strategies for Fighting Ebola: A Columbia University Summit to Help End the Epidemic
Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing
Aromar Revi of the United Nations visits Istanbul
Blue Voyagers Concert: Featuring Standard a la Turc
Workshop: Time and Trauma – Memory in Global Perspective
Elif Shafak: Storytelling in the Age of Conflict
Cine-forum: Elia Kazan's "America America"
Changing Health Needs in the Middle East and Turkey
Choman Hardi Poetry Reading: Considering the Women
Engaging with the World Humanitarian Summit
Side-Event at the First World Humanitarian Summit
Black Sea Networks at Columbia University
2017 Students and Parents Reception
Whither Turkey?
Artistic Expression in Contested Terrains
Artistic Expression In Contested Terrains
Unfinished Revolutions: How Tunisia Became the Only Democracy to Emerge from the Arab Spring
Social Media in an Age of Polarized Politics: Turkey and Beyond
Cosmic Symbolism on Religious Architecture in Mongol Anatolia
Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies Inaugural Event
The Rising Tide of Populist Majoritarianism: Constitutional Reform in Greece and Turkey
2018 Summer Residency Program
Film Screening and Talk on "Strange Weather" with Writer-Director Katherine Dieckmann
Students & Parents Send-Off Dinner 2018
Bridging Academia and Activism through Gender Studies
Treasure Hunt Workshop
Simone de Beauvoir, Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Augmented Mechanics, Research- and Student-Centric Education
Public Policy and Syrians Under Temporary Protection in Turkey: Daily Life, Survival, Access to Public Services, and Social Inclusion
ReelLife Film Series: A Thousand Girls Like Me
Frontiers in Organ Transplantation
ReelLife Film Series: Survivors
Shifting Power Dynamics in the Middle East: Prospects for Democracy and Pluralism
Breaking News: Greece, Turkey, and the Media in the New Political Landscape
ReelLife Film Series: Saf
Eğitimi Gündeme Koymak: Bir Sivil Toplum Deneyimi Olarak Eğitim Reformu Girişimi
Imagining Justice through Oral History
Eurasia and China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Potential Impact, Potential Disputes, and How to Address Them
Renan Koen: Holocaust Remembrance / Before Sleep
Book Launch: "The Struggle for Modern Turkey: Justice, Activism, and a Revolutionary Female Journalist"
Before the Last Glacier Melts
X-Raying Turkey: Current Realities and New Aspirations
Iraida Barry Thomas Whittemore & Istanbul's Russian Moment
Daron Acemoğlu - The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty
Darülfünun: Osmanlı'da İlk Modern Üniversite Nasıl Kuruldu?
The Role of Literature in Social Transformation: Serenade for Nadia
Emergency Urbanism and Preventive Infrastructures
Digital Information, Mapping Tools, and Planning
The Making of “Europe Knows Nothing about The Orient"
Yeşil İyileşme (Green Recovery)
Unlikely Dialogues in Art
Çalışma Hayatında Toplumsal Cinsiyet Temelli Ayrımcılık
Ottomans and their "Others": Uses of Soft Power
Watching the Classics
Politics of Literature
Rethinking Health and the City
Social Entrepreneurship Workshop for High School Students
Bodies, Technologies, Spaces
Sayılar ve Ötesinde Türkiye'de Göçmenler ve Mülteciler
Turkey through its Cinema: Bir Başkadır (Ethos)
Politics of Archaeology II
Turkey through its Cinema: Kış Uykusu (Winter Sleep)
Rules of Science
Turkey through its Cinema (Film Series)
Turkey through its Cinema: Umut (Hope)
Funding Independent & Quality Journalism
Turkey Through its Cinema: "The International" (2006)
Medyada Ötekileştirme, Nefret Dili ve Hak Haberciliği
How did gender move to the center of democratic struggles?
REACH4Health App Meets with NGOs and Refugee Youth and Women in Hatay
Turkey Through its Cinema: "O Beautiful Istanbul" (1966)
House of Chats | Fad or Future: Are NFTs the Next Big Thing?
What Can Tunisian History Teach Us About the Ottoman Empire?
Women, Cities, and Climate Change
Turkey Through its Cinema: "Invisible to the Eye" (2020)
Social Entrepreneurship Workshop for High School Students
Our News
Turkey through its Cinema
A Film Series Organized by Zeynep Çelik, Richard Peña, and A. Tunç Şen.
Collaboratory | A Three Part Webinar Series on Afghanistan with Undergraduate Global Education
This series, with Undergraduate Global Education, addressed several of issues facing Afghanistan.
Kapuscinski Development Lecture with Emeritus Professor Deniz Kandiyoti
How the politics of gender has come to occupy a place in debates over citizenship, national belonging, and the future of democratic governance.