This event will be held in English.
Co-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
For the 2023-2024 year, the Reid Hall artist-in-residence is Afghan-Iranian writer Aliyeh Ataei. The project-in-residence is the 1991 Project, a non-profit association whose purpose is to safeguard and promote Ukrainian music.
Aliyeh Ataei will read from and present her work in progress, accompanied by a photo and video presentation. This will be followed by a 20-minute musical performance from the Quatuor Bleu et Or, organized by Anna Stavychenko, Artistic Director and founder of the 1991 Project. Ataei and Stavychenko will answer questions from the audience. A reception will follow, featuring Iranian savories and Ukrainian desserts.
Musical program
Valentyn Silvestrov, String Quartet No. 3, Serenade, 2011
Guillaume Connesson, Quatuor à cordes, Furieux, 2010
Zoltan Almashi, Carpathian Song, 2020
Hennadiy Yeriomenko, Vivtcharski zabavy
DISPLACED ARTIST INITIATIVES
Co-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Displaced Artist Initiatives are designed to support artists who have had to leave their countries of origin due to extreme circumstances (war, natural disaster, political oppression).
The year-long residency includes a stipend, administrative support, and a small office space at Reid Hall, from September 2023 to June 2024. Recipients are invited to contribute to the activities at Reid Hall in the form of public lectures, exhibits, podcasts, workshops, or conferences.
ALIYEH ATAEI
Writer | Iran
Aliyeh Ataei is an Afghan-Iranian author and screenwriter whose books have won major literary awards in Iran, including Mehregan-e-Adab for Best Novel. She was born in 1981 in Iran, and grew up in Darmian, a border region situated between the South Khorasan Province in Iran and the Farah province in Afghanistan. Ataei was a border dweller, with part of her family living in Iran and the other part in Afghanistan. Widely recognized as a strong adherent of women’s rights, Ataei is deeply influenced by personal accounts of growing up as a female minority in Iran, and her work takes on themes such as identity and the émigré life. She finished her high-school in Birjand and left for the capital to continue her studies at Tehran University of Art where she earned an undergraduate and a graduate degree in Screenplay Writing.
In addition to publishing books, Ataei has worked for several magazines such as Hamshahri, Tajrobeh, and Nadastan. Her short stories and essays have been translated and published in numerous American and French magazines, including Guernica, Words without Borders, Michigan Quarterly Review, Adi Magazine, and Kenyon Review. Her collection of personal essays, titled Kursorkhi in Persian, was published by Gallimard in April 2023 as La frontière des oubliés.
1991 PROJECT
Non-profit association | Ukraine
The 1991 Project is a non-profit association whose purpose is to safeguard and promote Ukrainian music, by helping Ukrainian musicians preserve their artistic skills 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, and its connections to European cultural traditions.
The initial programs of the project target the most urgent needs of Ukrainian musicians exiled in France with their families, by providing income, psychological support, and social assistance. These musicians come from renowned orchestras in Ukraine, such as the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the National ensemble of soloists, "Kyivska kamerata," or the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra.
The first major event presented by the 1991 Project was the Silvestrov Days in Paris in May and June 2023, co-organized with Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Ukrainian Culture Center in Paris, and the Embassy of Ukraine in France. The festival was dedicated to the Ukrainian contemporary composer, Valentyn Silvestrov.
The 1991 Project is currently preparing the 2023-2024 season, in collaboration with the Ukrainian Embassy in France, Columbia Global Centers | Paris, Reid Hall, UNICEF, and the University Paris 8 | Vincennes - St. Denis.
The Place
For nearly sixty years, Columbia University students and faculty have come to study, teach, or pursue their research at Reid Hall, an exceptional space in the world of international education and cultural exchange. Our public events draw on the rich resources of the Columbia campus and our local partners, creating a "third space" of intellectual exploration and research that resists easy categorization. Our workshops, lectures, and performances bring together a diverse audience to address pressing issues through creative, rigorous, and open dialogue.
Today, Reid Hall is home to several Columbia University initiatives: Columbia Global Centers | Paris, Columbia Undergraduate Programs, M.A. in History and Literature, Columbia’s architecture program, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by Columbia Global’s network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement the world over through educational programs, research collaborations, regional partnerships, and public events.
Organizers
Columbia Global Centers | Paris is part of a network of eleven Global Centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The Centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.
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 at the intersection of art and academia. Together with Global Centers | Paris, it supports Columbia scholars and faculty who come for brief visits to carry out research, organize meetings and talks, or collaborate in arts outreach with its Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative.
The views and opinions expressed by speakers and guests do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, or their affiliates.
