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The Future of Europe: Pierre-André Chiappori and Thierry Grillet in Conversation
October 6, 2020, Columbia Global Centers | Paris launches a new collaborative series of debates dedicated to the future of Europe, featuring leading scholars from Columbia and prominent creative writers, intellectuals, and journalists from the European Union.
Economists Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Piketty Address Converging Crises on Inequality
The pandemic, the presidential election, globalization, climate change, and other issues are covered in a transatlantic forum.
Joie d'offrir, plaisir d'être fiché
Un entretien avec Prof. Bernard Harcourt dans Télérama.
The Art of Power
What role does art production play in contemporary geopolitics? How does the global art market reflect changes in a nation’s political, economic and cultural influence? French gallery owner Nathalie Obadia responded to these questions and more in her conversation with artist Valérie Belin.
Paris Center Stories: Anjana Tiwari, Alliance Summer School 2019
Anjana Tiwari, a participant in the Alliance Summer School in Sustainable Development, shares her experience in Paris and her latest projects in urban risk assessment.
Protecting Migrants and Refugees -- Terra Incognita and the Justice Gap
For people leaving the Mediterranean, the likelihood of dying is now much higher than what it was in 2016. This is according to the Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center, Craig Spencer, MD. Spencer, coordinated Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) national epidemiological response in Guinea during the Ebola outbreak and has provided medical care onboard a MSF medical search and rescue boat in the Mediterranean.
DNA and Designing Babies: Two Conferences on Bioethics
In February, the Paris Center hosted two conferences that charted the complex, under-explored world of bioethics in relation to US policy, professional practice, law, and designer babies.
Jacques Derrida, penseur de l’accélération technologique
Ce texte est publié dans The Conversation à l’occasion du colloque « Derrida et la technologie » organisé à Paris les 2, 3, 4 mai 2019 au Columbia Global Centers l Paris.
Celebrating Maryse Condé, a Writer for Our Times
The Paris Center welcomed acclaimed author Maryse Condé, recipient of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature, for a day-long celebration of her work and legacy.
Paris Center Stories: Maxime Riché, '05SEAS
Photographer Maxime Riché, ‘05SEAS, recently presented his Climate Heroes project at the Paris Center. He talks about the power of photography to inspire positive change and reveals more about his latest project “Worldkeepers.”
Le savant et le mouvement
Le Grand Continent a retranscrit et synthétisé la discussion sur le mouvement des gilets jaunes animée en janvier par Bernard Harcourt, au Columbia Global Centers de Paris. Un dialogue à plusieurs voix qui rassemble des intellectuels, historiens, philosophes, penseurs et spécialistes des mouvements sociaux.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Populist Power, Faith, and Precarity in Europe – Paris, France
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University in collaboration with the Columbia Global Center | Paris and co-sponsored by our partners in Europe, is organizing a conference entitled “Populist Power, Faith, and Precarity in Europe.” The conference will consider various forms of popular power in Europe by examining how populism is defined in various contexts, the role of historical movements in the present-day construction of populist narratives and rhetoric(s), how the use of religious identity shapes these movements, as well as the relationship between
Sex after '68
A conference organized in partnership with the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture examines the legacy of May '68 in contemporary sexuality.
CFP Students: Health Beyond Borders, CHCI Medical Humanities Network
FOR STUDENTS: “Health Beyond Borders”
The CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network is a partnership of over 30 universities worldwide working in the medical and health humanities. In 2019, the annual Summer Institute of the CHCI HMHN will be hosted by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, with the theme, “Health Beyond Borders.”
CFP: Health Beyond Borders, CHCI Medical Humanities Network
FOR CONFERENCE PROPOSALS: The CHCI Health and Medical Humanities Network is a partnership of over 30 universities worldwide working in the medical and health humanities. In 2019, the annual Summer Institute of the CHCI HMHN will be hosted by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, with the theme, “Health Beyond Borders.”
A Meeting of Minds (and Bodies) at the Three Souls Conference
French 'Artivist' Partners with 2018 Nobel Prize Winner to Help Victims of Sexual Violence through Dance
The Paris Center inaugurated its fall 2018 cultural season with an event that brought dancers, choreographers, and health professionals together to highlight the project Re-Creation by Loba, which uses dance as a tool for the physical and psychological transformation of victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Youth Climate Leaders Program Debuts in Paris
In July, the Paris Center hosted a day-long workshop with the Youth Climate Leaders (YCL) program, an initiative developed by SIPA alumna Cassia Moraes.
Paris Center Stories: Bolewa Sabourin
Bolewa Sabourin est danseur-chorégraphe et “artiviste”. Cofondateur de l’association LOBA, il intervient en France et au Congo pour faire de la danse un outil de lutte citoyenne et de reconstruction psychologique auprès des personnes les plus fragiles. Il présente cet automne à CGCl Paris deux événements organisés dans le cadre de notre saison culturelle, “Borderline”.
'Silvered Water': Director Ossama Mohammed in Conversation with Richard Peña and Madeleine Dobie
On July 16, Professor Richard Peña presented “Silvered Water: A Syrian Self-Portrait” by exiled filmmaker Ossama Mohammed at the Paris Center. A conversation with Mohammed and Professor Madeleine Dobie followed the screening.
Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak at the Paris Center
June 20-22, the Paris Center co-hosted a three-day colloquium honoring the works of Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
High School Students Imagine Solutions to Big Tech Questions
The ThinkNation Discovery Stage Workshop invited young people to work with mentors to identify the challanges and opportunities created by advances in technology.
Will We Ever Understand Each Other? Area Studies and Western Policy toward Russia
As tensions between Russia and the West reach increase, the Harriman Institute asks: “What role does the academy play in our current attempts to understand each other?”
Paris Center Stories: Le Filon
On March 8, the Paris Center and Reid Hall celebrated International Women's Day with a fundraiser benefitting Le Filon, an association helping homeless women in Paris. The following is an interview with Perrine Boyer, president of the association.
Paris Center Stories: Yasutomo Uemura, Professor of Physics
Yasutomo Uemura is Professor of Physics at Columbia University, and presently visiting Paris as a Visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, supported by the Alliance faculty exchange program.
Paris Center Stories: Maria Paula Carvalho (JRN '13)
In her new book, Brazil: A Reconstruction, journalist Maria Paula Carvalho (JRN '13) shares insights on the current state of political and economic affairs in her home country.
"La Tunisie n’est pas un modèle pour le monde arabe"
L’universitaire Safwan Masri soutient, dans un entretien au « Monde », que la transition démocratique tunisienne s’explique par des facteurs endogènes difficilement reproductibles.
Safwan M. Masri and Andrew Hussey discuss Masri’s book, Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly
A young and diverse public gathered at the Paris Center on October 17 to discuss Safwan M. Masri’s recent book, Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly.
Uprising 13/13: A Reading Group
Following our fruitful collaboration with the Nietzsche 13/13 seminars led by Professors Bernard Harcourt and Jesús Velasco on the Columbia campus, the Paris Center will once more host a reading group in parallel to this year’s Uprising 13/13 seminar series focusing on dissent and revolution.
It’s All Relative: Condensed Matter Physics at the Paris Center
Every Friday this fall, the Paris Center will host a series of lectures on condensed matter physics led by international leaders in the field.
Thirteen Ways to Look at Nietzsche
Can re-reading Friedrich Nietzsche shed light on our troubled times? A new reading group organized by the Paris Center and the Columbia MA in History and Literature thinks so.
A Surprise Visit from a Former French President
Former French President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, made a surprise visit to the Paris Center on November 30th.
Elections 2016
On the night of November 8, Americans in Paris were glued to their screens as they followed the voting in the U.S. The Paris Center offered an election day livestream of CNN and broadcast of France 24, to allow people to watch the big day from both French and American perspectives.
Our Story is Our Story: Reflections on Race and Racism
With the approach of the American elections and the debate on police accountability fueling the Black Lives Matter movement, Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the MA in History and Literature decided to dedicate the first week in October to a series of events organized around the topic of “Race and Racism: Global Perspectives.”
Race and Racism: Global Perspectives
In celebration of the launch of the exhibition “The Color Line” at the Musée Quai Branly, the Center will dedicate the first week of
Adressing Urgent Global Issues
As Europe experiences continuing challenges to its social and economic security, the Paris Center is a hub of discussion and debate of today’s most critical issues.
Alliance Summer School in Science and Policy
For the fifth year, the Paris Center welcomed in June the Alliance Summer School in Science and Policy in Paris.
Synthetic Biology and Study Abroad: An Interview with Columbia Student Deja Robinson
Columbia student Deja Robinson was recently selected to participate in the iGem competition, as part of a team at the Pasteur Institute.