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This event will be held in English.

Organized by Columbia Global Centers | Paris. With the support of the 1991 Project and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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Columbia Global Centers | Paris is pleased to invite you to the launch of Reid Hall’s new podcast, Atelier.

Atelier highlights some of the unique discussions that take place at Reid Hall, a third space at the threshold of academia and beyond. Engaging across borders and disciplines, these conversations feature some of the people who inspire us most and explore a vast range of topics, from art and science to social justice and climate. With Atelier, you can tune in from anywhere.

Atelier is produced by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, a Columbia University initiative housed at Reid Hall.

This special evening – held intentionally on International Women’s Day – will showcase the sounds of Reid Hall, both then and now. The evening will include: excerpts from upcoming episodes of Atelier; a chamber music performance of the podcast’s theme music, Nocturne, by Lili Boulanger; a DJ set created by the founder of Future Female Sounds, a non-profit making DJ culture more accessible to girls, women, and gender minorities; and a cocktail dînatoire by Meet my Mama, a startup supporting the culinary talents of women from around the globe, providing sustenance for dancing. 

Please join us to celebrate, listen, and dance!

Organizers

Columbia Global Centers | Paris addresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.

Sponsors

Each year the Institute for Ideas and Imagination brings together a cohort of 14-15 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation. The Institute fosters intellectual and creative diversity unconstrained by medium and discipline through the interaction of the arts and academia.

The 1991 Project is a non-profit association whose purpose is to promote Ukrainian music in France and in the Western world. It is led and inspired by Anna Stavychenko, a musicologist, music critic and classical music producer. The production of concerts, cultural, and educational events gives visibility to the Ukrainian musical repertoire, in its tight connections to European cultural traditions. In 2023–24, it is the project-in-residence of the Reid Hall Displaced Artists Initiative.

Venue

Nestled in the Montparnasse district, Reid Hall hosts several Columbia University initiatives: Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Undergraduate Programs, M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by Columbia’s network of Global Centers, whose mission is to expand the University's engagement in the world through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.

This event will take place in Reid Hall’s the Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc, built in 1912 and extensively renovated in 2023 thanks to the generous support of Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc.

The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of Columbia Global Centers | Paris or its affiliates.