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This spring, highlighted by a robust series of programming throughout March and April, the Columbia Global Center Beijing hosted comprehensive initiatives designed to support students across their entire academic lifecycle—from recent admission to career development. 

In late March, the Columbia Global Beijing Center hosted a dialogue between two leading intellectual figures, Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University, and Wang Hui, Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University. Titled China, the West, and the Making of the Modern World, the event explored how different historical traditions shape the way we interpret today’s world. The conversation then quickly moved beyond history, turning to how we make sense of the present moment.

Reid Hall Faculty Visitor Mirna Giordano's two-week visit to Paris pediatric hospitals sparked a transatlantic research collaboration aimed at identifying what the French and American healthcare systems can learn from each other, particularly around opioid management and surgical care protocols.

Columbia forums in Beijing brought together faculty, alumni, and industry leaders to explore sustainability, AI, and global development, while strengthening cross-regional dialogue and the Center’s role in connecting global knowledge with local engagement.

To explore the connection between statistics and AI, the Columbia Global Beijing Center hosted an online panel led by Professor Tian Zheng of Columbia University’s Department of Statistics, with three alumni joining the discussion.

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.