For the first time, the Paris Center is hosting a summer program in Neuroscience.
“Climate change is the biggest challenge of our generation.” Juan Carlos Jobet
Chile’s President Sebastián Piñera has appointed Griffith-Jones, financial markets director at Columbia’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue.
Gasparov, professor emeritus of Slavic Studies, came to the Santiago Center to research Romanticism at the turn of the 19th century.
Professor Qin Gao is director of Columbia's China Center for Social Policy and is on the faculty advisory committee at the Beijing Center.
Daniel Naujoks directs the International Organization and UN Studies specialization at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.
it was just a concept—a university like Columbia needed to connect to the world, but be humble and really learn from the world. That idea has now become a reality in multiple ways. Through the Committee on Global Thought, where I have been privileged to work with lots of different colleagues, and with Global Centers, we've really taken to heart that our connection to the world can actually happen through the Global centers, such as in Istanbul.
My own relationship with the Istanbul Center is now more than 5 years old. When I first started thinking about arts and culture in megacities, I immediately thought, of course, of Istanbul. It was one of the locations that I wanted to work from and to discuss the role that arts and culture can play in the presence of a city. Since then, we've been working on the idea of arts and its intersection with political developments, with the new rise in populism, with social media, things of that sort. Because of the Global Center in Istanbul and their local connections, I've been very privileged to now have established relationships with local curators, local leaders, and with the art leaders. These are the kinds of networks that (Columbia faculty) could not (easily) establish or develop without the help of friends and colleagues right here at the Center.
The other project that we've been involved with is Youth In A Changing World. This idea came up because of my discussions with the Global Centers, where all nine Centers, one way or the other, felt that in this current climate we needed to pay attention to how young people are engaging with the world and are being affected by the world. That project has now had workshops— we did one in Rio, in Amman, in Tunis. We are doing one here in Istanbul and will do another one in Nairobi in a couple of weeks. All of this is to suggest that the idea of global is not simply to understand what we have in common with the idea of global, but to understand the local specificities of an issue that may have global implications as well as understanding how you do comparisons and understand each other, What is different and particular to that community? So these are really the ways that we can redefine how to think globally, critically and learn from local dimensions of globality. Thank you.”
Dr. Vishakha Desai is Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President of Columbia University and chairs the Committee on Global Thought.
Monette Zard directs the Forced Migration and Health Program and is associate professor of Population and Family Health.
Jennifer Dohrn is assistant dean of Global Initiatives and associate professor of Nursing at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Carolyn Sun is an adjunct associate research scientist in the School of Nursing's department of Nursing Scholarship & Research.
Yu-Hui Ferng is director of Global Health at Columbia University.
Christopher Stone is adjunct senior research Scholar of International and Public Affairs for Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.