12 Columbia University students traveled to Beijing, China for a nine-day field study on imperial art and architecture, while the Beijing Center created opportunities for direct engagement with local scholars and practitioners.
Columbia Global Center Rio de Janeiro is excited to announce the appointment of Ana Paula Vitelli as its new director.
As part of Columbia SIPA 2025-2026 Capstone Workshops in Sustainable Development Practice, a team of graduate students from Columbia University' School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) has been working with Kumulus Water, a French-Tunisian startup developing atmospheric water generation technology, on a project focused on supply chain optimization. The capstone model brings small student teams, finishing their MIA (Master in International Affairs) or their MPA (Master in Public Administration), together with external partners to work on practical, policy- and strategy-oriented challenges,…
By Athina Thanasi and Nikolas Aronis for iMedD: "A pianist at the edge of the stage, seated at the piano; minimal theatrical lighting; a projector; and six journalists taking turns at the microphone, recounting stories of resistance—this is how, on the evening of March 27 at Reid Hall (home to Columbia Global Centers in Paris), the atmosphere of a live journalism experience that is hard to forget took shape."
Columbia Global Center Tunis, in partnership with Paris Dauphine University | Tunis, hosted a conference by Dr. Nadia Ali, PhD in Economics from Columbia University (GSAS '26).
The talk, titled “What Is the Impact of Market Access Subsidies? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia”, presented findings from a randomized evaluation of the Tunisian government’s Tasdir+ export promotion program. The research, which was partly conducted under a PGIF administred by the Tunis Global Center, examined the effects of subsidizing firms’ fixed market-access costs and found that such support increases export…
A new international research initiative is placing community-led knowledge at the center of efforts to understand and address violence and inequality in the urban margins.
On March 19, 2026, the Columbia Global Paris Center hosted a panel on influencers, journalism, and democracy, as part of the Saving Journalism two-day conference.
A pediatric transplant cardiologist uses a visit to Reid Hall to find language for the hardest part of her work — the donor families whose loss makes her patients' survival possible.
Bianca Jones Marlin used a visit to Reid Hall to advance three collaborative projects — including a joint investigation into how fictive memories might be biologically encoded and passed to future generations.
A historian of science working on the political origins of climate pessimism uses a visit to Reid Hall to complete her book's final chapter and engage with European scholars reexamining how climate action became, against all odds, politically conceivable.
Hosted by Reid Hall journalist-in-residence Hanna Liubakova, “Agora. Belarusian Vector” brings Belarus back into European political focus by connecting EU policymakers and Belarusian voices to sustain international awareness and accountability.
The Columbia Global Center Beijing announces its relocation to Gateway Plaza in the city’s Chaoyang District, one of Beijing’s most dynamic areas for innovation, business, and culture. This move reflects the Center’s continuing commitment to strengthening Columbia University’s academic partnerships and engagement across China and East Asia.