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This year, Reid Hall is celebrating a very special milestone: 50 years with Columbia University, after Helen Rogers Reid bequeathed to Columbia the property that had meant so much to her family and to the international community in Paris.
We commemorate Talat Sait Halman, a graduate of Columbia University and the first Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey.
In a lecture Wednesday at Columbia University Middle East Research Centre about America’s policy in the region, Ignatius said Iraq is the most obvious example of the “limits of American power to solve the region’s problems”.
Columbia Global Centers | Paris hosted the third annual PHocus Conference organized by students in the Master of Public Health of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique in partnership with the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University. Each year a student committee, known as “Team PHocus,” invites international experts in public health to participate in a professional daylong conference on a designated theme. PHocus 2014 has chosen "Politics and Health.”
October 1, 2014 – The Earth Institute Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management announces a partnership with the China Center for International Economic Exchanges. The partnership centers around joint research on sustainability metrics in order to design a measurement and evaluation framework adapted to China’s unique economic development situation. The importance of this work lies in the need for a standardized methodology to organize the vastly increasing amount of information on sustainability—in a way that enhances decision-making and performance improvement.
The summer of 2014 was exciting and eventful at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. While continuing student projects such as Global Scholars Program with Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Experience Overseas internship program with the Center for Career Education, the literature humanities reading salon Symposium China Project with a group of Columbia student. The Center also organized and launched a wide variety of new programs to further Columbia’s approach to global education.
Dr. Brian Perkins, Director of the Urban Education Leadership Program at Columbia University Teachers College in the Department of Organization and Leadership will teach a workshop on leadership practices at Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro.
Tsinghua University and Columbia University jointly announced the launch of a dual degree Master’s program in Business Analytics.
“Coming to Terms” with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression
Soykırım, Savaş ve Siyasi Baskıların Cinsiyetlendirilmiş Anılarıyla “Yüzleşmek” Public Roundtables
- In 1988 at the age of 34, he was named director of the same festival, and in his final year as head of the NYFF in 2012, he was on the committee that selected the Kenyan film Nairobi Half-Life for showing
- After retiring as NYFF director, Pena joined New York’s Columbia University as a professor of film studies. Last December Pena met CGCA director Dr Belay Begashaw, who asked him if he would do a film programme in Kenya
- With this in mind, Pena thinks the Kenya has not done enough to use the considerable talent of its actors to address its own social and political issues as well as to grow its film industry
The Master Class “How to Write Scripts for Television”, part of the second edition of our course TV Writing Intensive in Rio, was a success.
Columbia Global Centers | Beijing collaborated with Symposium China Project to invite Professor Richard A. Billows from Department of History at Columbia University to discuss liberal arts education, its values and challenges on July 25 in Beijing.
Columbia Global Centers | Turkey will be welcoming 25 aspiring journalists from universities in the US, Turkey, Austria, the Balkans, Belgium, Czech Republic, Morocco, Slovakia, Tunisia and Ukraine to Istanbul.