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Global Symposium: Montparnasse and Its Legacies
Columbia × Penn × Harvard × LBS: Cross-Industry AI Forum
In Other Words: Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Christina Nakou
News from our centers
Why Is “Primitivism” So Hard to Shake?
Reid Hall Faculty Visitor Zoë Strother spent several weeks in Paris studying the French edition of Leni Riefenstahl’s controversial photobook of the Nuba peoples and researching the restitution of African objects at the Musée du Quai Branly.
Voices, Memory and Cross-Border Networks: Dialogues Between Kurdish Women and Plurinational Feminisms in Latin America
Columbia Global Emerging Scholar Dilan Bozgan presented her anthropological research on the cross-border circulations, representations and women’s networks in the Global South.
This Giving Day, Help Columbia Global Bring New Ideas to Shared Challenges, From Local to Global
Today, Oct. 28, give to Columbia Global and power the students, scholars, faculty, and partners turning ideas into action.
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Featured Webinars From Our Centers
Watch the discussion from February 9. Forced migration experts from Columbia University, UNHCR, and award-winning film director Jonas Poher Rasmussen, explore trauma, resettlement, and the mental health impact of the forced migrant experience in a beautifully illustrated animated documentary Flee. This film, which just made Oscar history with triple nominations for Best Documentary, Best Animation, and Best International Feature, tells the true story of one man’s journey from trauma to healing. Panelists will share their perspectives on how tragedies experienced in flight make it challenging to achieve physical and mental wellness, and how this should be addressed in various relief settings.
Forced Migration: A Global Centers Signature Focus
“Forced migration is a global humanitarian tragedy. It disrupts the lives, hopes, and potential of so many, in ways that are profound and long lasting. The Global Centers leverage the strength of Columbia’s intellectual assets and resources to address the complex challenges posed by forced migration, through signature initiatives such as our Committee on Forced Migration, the Scholarship for Displaced Students, our Mellon Foundation Fellowships, and, as a response to the Afghanistan crisis, with the initiative to host displaced Afghan scholars. These efforts are making a difference."
Safwan M. Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development, Columbia University
Meet the 2021 Displaced Student Scholarship Recipients
The Columbia University Scholarship for Displaced Students - Columbia's first-ever University-wide scholarship, and the world's first scholarship of its kind - supports displaced students from anywhere in the world by offering them full scholarships to pursue undergraduate or graduate degrees across Columbia’s 19 schools and affiliates.
We are pleased to announce our second cohort of 15 students, who join Columbia from 11 countries and attend 10 different Columbia schools. Click on their individual profiles below to learn more about their incredible journeys.
Across its first two cohorts, the Scholarship has now supported 33 students from 19 countries attending 14 schools.
(Note: some scholarship students wished to remain anonymous due to their sensitive statuses and are not profiled below.)
