Talita Nascimento holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Master's degree in education from Teachers College, focusing on International Education and Development. Throughout her career, she has served in the investment bank investment bank BTG Pactual, in the Ministry of Education (MEC) and spent three months at the United Nations (UN) in a project focused on gender equality at the Youth Forum on the Status of Women.

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April 17, 2018

Alumni News: Thesis for MA in Museum Anthropology wins a Special Award from Chile’s Ministry of Culture

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April 12, 2018

Columbia’s Chemistry Nobel Prize Meets with Chilean Young Scientists

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April 12, 2018

Paris Center Stories: John Kamfonas, CC '09

Pianist John Kamfonas, CC '09, recently performed at the Paris Center with cellist Eric Edberg as part of the Columbia Sounds Concert Series. He shares his experience in Paris, his apprenticeship with Jean Fassina, and his thoughts on the lost art of classical piano improvisation.

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April 09, 2018

Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk, and the Creation of Fusion

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April 06, 2018

Exposições Internacionais de Arte ‘No-Boundaries’ reúnem Juventude Global

Como promover a conscientização e o engajamento de jovens de diferentes culturas para que possam impactar no futuro? Para Baitong Yan, fundadora da organização não-governamental No-Boundaries, a resposta está na arte. Instigar a criatividade e a imaginação de crianças e de adolescentes para retratar seus pontos de vista sob uma questão relevante inspirou a ex-aluna da Teachers College, da Universidade de Columbia, a criar uma plataforma internacional de arte e de educação visando conectar jovens artistas sem fronteiras de nacionalidade, de idiomas ou de cultura.

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April 06, 2018

Paris Center Stories: The Little Tin Church

Once a month we share a photo from our archives. Today, we rediscover "The Little Tin Church" that used to sit in Reid Hall's back garden.

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April 05, 2018

'Aid means continuation of hostilities': Scholar reviews Yemen conflict developments, ramifications

“We all know aid is the beginning of a sustainable conflict, as aid is more of an apology than a problem solver,” Muslimi said at the event organised by the Columbia Global Centres in Amman.

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April 04, 2018

Donation of Altan Ünver’s Personal Archives to Columbia Library

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March 31, 2018

Columbia Alumni Forum and Gathering Event in Zhejiang were successfully hosted

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March 29, 2018

Dialogue: The Status Quo and Prospects of China's Natural Gas Market

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March 28, 2018

Rio Center Stories: Tonia Casarin, Teachers College alumna

Tonia Casarin holds a Master’s degree in Education from Columbia University, she’s a Lemann Fellow and a Global Salzburg Fellow. Entrepreneur in the area of education, Tonia works with the development of socio-emotional competencies. She is the author of the children's book "I Have Monsters in the Belly", which became a bestseller in Brazil.

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March 28, 2018

Columbia Alumni Go Deep Underground to visit Santiago’s New Subway Line

March 28, 2018

Santiago Center’s Advisory Board Meets

March 27, 2018

Rio Center Stories: José Edmilson da Silva, panelist at Rio Center's 5th Anniversary

José Edmilson da Silva holds a Master's degree in Physical Activity Science from Universidade Salgado de Oliveira (UNIVERSO), RJ. A milestone in his career was to implement and direct the first school geared to the sport of Brazil. to E.M. Juan Antonio Samaranch - Olympic Gymnasium Experimental, the GEO of Santa Teresa. Currently serves as Advisor I in the Municipal Department of Education Rio de Janeiro - SME / RJ, Rio de Janeiro City Hall. José Edmilson was one of the panelists during the event celebrating the 5 years of Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro in March, 2018.

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March 27, 2018

Santiago Center Awards Two Fellowships for Course on Investigative Reporting

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March 26, 2018

Santiago Center Stories: Columbia Astronomy Graduate Student Interns at Universidad Católica de Chile

Emily Sandford, a graduate student in the Astronomy Department at Columbia University, spent a month in Santiago working with Universidad Católica’s professor Andrés Jordán, an expert in observations of transiting exoplanets. Emily is the fifth Columbia student to participate in the exchange program on astrophysics between Columbia and Universidad Católica, as part of the President's Global Innovation Fund (PGIF).

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March 26, 2018

Columbia Scientist to Deliver Keynote Address at Major Remote Sensing Conference

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March 24, 2018

Atatürk was inspiration for founder of Tunisia, Habib Bourguiba: Safwan Masri

One of the reasons why the Arab Spring succeeded in Tunisia was the fact that the country has strong similarities with Turkey, rather than the rest of the Arab world, according to Safwan Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University.

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March 24, 2018

The Fifth Columbia Entrepreneurship Panel

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March 23, 2018

China and the West: The Role of the State in Economic Growth

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March 22, 2018

Model International Mobility Convention Launch in Nairobi

Columbia Global Centers Nairobi hosted the launch of the Model International Mobility Convention. This brought together participants in the areas of refugee law, human trafficking, economic migration, labour rights, public policy, international law, labor migration and forced migration. The event was moderated by Prof. Sarah Deardorff, an Adjunct Professor with Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. The panel of speakers were drawn from government, academic and NGO sectors. These were; Mr.

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March 20, 2018

IADB’s IndexAmericas is launched in Chile

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March 19, 2018

Discussion about teacher training and education challenges in Brazil celebrates Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro’s 5th Anniversary

Susan Fuhrman, President of Columbia University’s Teachers College, Claudia Costin, Former Director for Education at the World Bank, and Maria Helena Guimarães de Castro, Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Education (MEC), were main speakers during the event on March, 13.

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March 19, 2018

Teachers College´s President Susan Fuhrman in Chile

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March 19, 2018

Pic Speak: Columbia Business School Immersion Program meets Equity Bank CEO

Equity Bank CEO Dr James Mwangi with the 2018 MBA graduating class from Columbia Business School, during the Global Immersion Programme visit to the Bank. The students who were accompanied by Assistant Prof Jonas Hjort (with a book) were taken through the bank’s unique business model, sustainable competitive advantage, differentiation strategy, high socio-economic impact and future growth strategy.

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March 16, 2018

A Global Framework for Migrant Rights

As part of its ongoing efforts to study the future of the global economy, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai partnered with Columbia University’s Global Policy Initiative to organize a workshop focusing on the Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC). The MIMC, which provides a global framework for the rights and protections of migrants crossing international borders, was designed after reaching a consensus with more than 40 academics and policymakers from around the world.

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March 16, 2018

Public Lecture on Architecture, Urban Planning, and Sustainability was successfully hosted

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March 15, 2018

Paris Center Stories: Le Filon

On March 8, the Paris Center and Reid Hall celebrated International Women's Day with a fundraiser benefitting Le Filon, an association helping homeless women in Paris. The following is an interview with Perrine Boyer, president of the association.

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March 13, 2018

CBS' Information Session and Public Lecture were successfully hosted

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March 12, 2018

A Recital and Master Class with Dr. Magdalena Stern-Baczewska

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March 10, 2018

International Women's Day Kenya Celebrations

In marking International Women Day, Columbia Global Centers Nairobi partnered with a working committee of women leaders from the African Gender Taskforce - a virtual forum comprising of about 130 women who are passionate about all issues pertaining to and that affect women. The Women deliberated on plans / programs to empower women through training in key areas such as in productivity, security, sustainability, personal development and assertiveness.

The committee established 5 thematic areas under which training would be established and implemented. These are;

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March 09, 2018

International Women's Day 2018 at the Paris Center

On March 8, Reid Hall members, students, and faculty celebrated International Women's Day with a fundraiser for Le Filon, a local association that provides shelter and support for homeless women in Paris.

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March 07, 2018

Women Directors in Cinema

To mark International Women's Day, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai and the US Consulate General in Mumbai organized a public lecture and panel discussion celebrating women directors in cinema. The lecture focused on the career of Ida Lupino, a popular Hollywood actor from the 1940s who went on to become a pioneer in the field of independent filmmaking. It was followed by a panel discussion on women in the Indian film industry with filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava.

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March 06, 2018

Paris Center Stories: Yasmine Benabdallah (CC '16)

Columbia College alumna Yasmine Benabdallah has found a home away from home in the Paris Center.

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March 02, 2018

Columbia Global Centers | Beijing Wishes You a Happy Lantern Festival

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March 01, 2018

The Columbia Scholarship Program for Displaced Persons

Columbia University has launched a scholarship program to support individuals who have been displaced as a result of the conflict in Syria. These students will receive full tuition, housing, travel, and living assistance while pursuing their undergraduate degree at Columbia University's School of General Studies.

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March 01, 2018

The Columbia Scholarship Program for Displaced Persons

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February 28, 2018

Exchange Program on Respiratory Infections

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February 26, 2018

Columbia Global Centers | Beijing Wishes You a Wonderful Year of the Dog !

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February 22, 2018

Astrophysics Exchange Program Columbia-Universidad Católica

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February 21, 2018

Call for Papers: “Pluralisms in Emergenc(i)es: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference” – Tunis

The Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life and Columbia Global Centers are organizing a conference entitled "Pluralism(s) in Emergencies: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference" in Tunis, Tunisia on July 11-12, 2018. The project is being organized with support from the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) at the University of Oslo; and the Centre for Religion, Conflict, and Globalization at the University of Groningen.

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February 16, 2018

Paris Center Stories: Yasutomo Uemura, Professor of Physics

Yasutomo Uemura is Professor of Physics at Columbia University, and presently visiting Paris as a Visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, supported by the Alliance faculty exchange program.

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February 15, 2018

Columbia Scientist to Teach and Conduct Research in Punta Arenas

Mike Kaplan, an associate research professor at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), will be spending two months in Punta Arenas, at Universidad de Magallanes’ Centro de Investigación Gaia Antártica (CIGA). This visit is supported by Chile’s National Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT), which provided an award to CIGA’s directo

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February 13, 2018

Paris Center Stories: Maria Paula Carvalho (JRN '13)

In her new book, Brazil: A Reconstruction, journalist Maria Paula Carvalho (JRN '13) shares insights on the current state of political and economic affairs in her home country.

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February 13, 2018

American scholar highlights cultural preservation techniques in war-torn countries

Columbia Global Centres in Amman on Friday organised a lecture titled “From Destruction to Documentation: a Talk by Sheila Canby”, which saw the attendance of a number of academics and experts in heritage preservation, in the presence of Tourism Minister Lina Annab.

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February 12, 2018

Evidence-Based Approaches to Enhancing Educational Quality

To address the challenges of measurement in the education system and share latest research in the field, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai organized a workshop on February 12 for academics, educators and stakeholders entitled ‘Evidence-Based Education (EBE) for Enhancing Educational Quality.’ The workshop was led by Madhabi Chatterji, Professor of Measurement, Evaluation, and Education and Founding Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Research Initiative at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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February 09, 2018

Making Invisible Groundwater Visible

We have heard of the impending water crisis in the coastal city of Cape Town in South Africa with the city’s taps likely to run dry. But the scenario in India could be far worse if we don’t sit up and take note, warned Rohini Nilekani, Chairperson and Founder, Arghyam. Nilekani, a pioneering philanthropist in the water sector, was in conversation with Dr. Ravina Aggarwal, Director, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai, as part of an ongoing lecture series investigating groundwater issues in India.

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February 09, 2018

Call for submissions: No-Boundaries International Art Exhibit

Columbia Global Centers, in partnership with the No-Boundaries Committee, have launched the third annual 2018 No-Boundaries International Art Exhibitions to foster global awareness and social responsibility in young citizens around the world.

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February 06, 2018

Columbia College Parents Fund Wishes You a Happy Chinese New Year with Abundant Health, Luck, and Prosperity!

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February 05, 2018

Apply to the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures

The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School is now accepting applications for the Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. This Fund provides seed grants of up to $25,000 to nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid early-stage social and environmental ventures around the world.

February 01, 2018

The Third No-Boundaries International Art Exhibition was Launched on February 1st

The Third No-Boundaries International Art Exhibition (NOBO) was Launched on February 1st.

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January 30, 2018

Earth Institute Graduate Students Scholarships

The Earth Institute has recently opened its call for proposals for researches in the fields of peacebuilding, negotiation, and conflict resolution or conflict management to be presented at the next International Association for Conflict Management IACM in Philadelphia this July 8-10, 2018

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January 28, 2018

The 4th Women Leadership Panel: Women in Finance

On January 28, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing hosted the 4th Women Leadership Panel: Women in Finance.

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January 26, 2018

Leadership Expedition to Patagonia

During January, twenty-six students from Columbia Business School (CBS) went on a 10-day backpacking expedition to Chile’s Patagonia region, led by Michael Morris, a professor in both CBS’ Management Division and at Columbia’s Psychology Department, and with instructors from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

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January 25, 2018

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! 2018 Reframing Gendered Violence Workshop Series

2018 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul is pleased to invite undergraduate students in their senior year and graduate students to an interactive workshop series to be held as part of the Reframing Gendered Violence Project. The application deadline is February 1!

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January 25, 2018

Public Lecture on Planning for Urban Disaster Resilience

On January 25, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing invited Jeff Schlegelmilch, the Deputy Director for the National Center for Disaster Preparedness to deliver a presentation on Planning for Urban Disaster Resilience, followed by a panel discussion featuring special guests Dr. Jianhua Xu, Associate Professor of Department of Environmental Management at College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University and Dr. Xiaoli Lyu, Associate Director at Tsinghua's Center for Crisis Management Research.

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January 23, 2018

SIPA Alumna Appointed Chilean Minister of Sports

Pauline Kantor, a journalist with a Masters Degree in International Affairs from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), will become Chile's new Minister of Sports. The announcement was made by President-elect Sebastian Piñera, who will take office on March 11. Kantor, who graduated from SIPA in 1990, has worked as a reporter, writer, editor, and media consultant. During the first government of President Piñera (2010 - 2014), she was in charge of organizing the commemorative events celebrating Chile's Bicentennial as an independent republic.

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January 19, 2018

Incentivizing Safe Drinking Water in Rural India

Arsenic contamination of groundwater has been recorded in more than 150 districts across 21 states in India and includes rural areas, where piped water supply is limited. Exposure to arsenic can inhibit intellectual development in children, cause severe skin lesions and even lead to fatal cardiovascular disease and cancers. Much of this risk, however, can be mitigated. According to Alexander Van Geen, Lamont Research Professor and member of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, “Arsenic contamination is highly localized.

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January 18, 2018

Conference on the Role of Development Banks

In January, Stephany Griffith-Jones, Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, presented the main conclusions of a two-year research project led by Columbia University, co-directed by José Antonio Ocampo, that studied the role of Development Banks (DBs) in seven countries: Germany, China, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. The study will be published as a book by Oxford University Press.

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January 17, 2018

Lecture on Marketing Strategy

How to manage marketing in the 21st Century was the focus of a lecture delivered in mid- January in Santiago by Noel Capon, a professor of International Marketing at Columbia Business School (CBS).

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January 17, 2018

New Fellowship Will Support Students From Tunisia

A fellowship gift from the Rambourg Foundation of Tunisia will cover the full cost of attendance for one student each year over a period of five years.

January 16, 2018

Paris Center Stories: Cindy Liu (CC'18)

Pianist Cindy Liu, CC '18, has twice graced the stage at the Paris Center. Her latest performance of works by Russian composer Serge Prokofiev for the Columbia Sounds Concert Series on Nov. 7, 2017 drew a capacity crowd to the Grande Salle.

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January 16, 2018

New Fellowship Will Support Students From Tunisia

Signing ceremony of a new scholarship for Tunisian students through the Rambourg Foundation and SIPA. The signing will take place at SIPA 3-4PM in room 1512. SIPA'S Dean, Merit Janow, and Olfa Rambourg, of the Rambourg Foundation, will attend.

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January 16, 2018

Center on Sustainable Investment’s Involvement in Chilean Project

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute has partnered with Dinámica Plataforma, a consulting company focused on stakeholder management, to develop a social intervention project in the Huasco Valley, located in the region of Atacama in Northern Chile.

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January 16, 2018

Our European Crisis

Journalist Igor Stokfiszewski reflects on the cultural crisis underpinning the growth of rightwing populist movements in Europe. This article based on his intervention at the conference "L'Europe face au populisme" which took place at the Paris Center on Oct. 2-3, 2017.

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January 15, 2018

Balancing Climate Policy and GDP Growth in India

“Of the 250 million families in India, about 50 million families are still not on the grid,” said Jairam Ramesh, former Union Minister and Rajya Sabha member, speaking at an event organized by the Chazen Institute’s India Business Initiative at Columbia University on January 15 in Mumbai. Per capita electricity consumption in the country is at one-quarter the level it is in China, one-tenth that of Europe and one-thirteenth the level in the United States.

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January 15, 2018

Leading Expert on Education Meets with Chilean Teachers and NGOs

In a continuously changing world, teaching in the traditional way has become a challenge. Academics, school teachers and students themselves need to identify and determine how best to nurture the intellectual abilities that will prepare young people for lifelong learning, work, and citizenship.

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January 13, 2018

Art Exhibition and Public Talk with Mr. Jian Wang, Ms. Jin Li, and Abigale Wang

On January 13, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing successfully held an art exhibition for oil painters Mr. Jian Wang, Ms. Jin Li, and Abigale Wang, an undergraduate student at Columbia University's Columbia College, showcasing some of their signature paintings. A public lecture was included during the exhibition.

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January 12, 2018

Chilean Entrepreneurs on Campus

Five Chilean companies are participating in the 2018-2019 version of the Columbia Business School’s Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Latin America (ECLA), which targets entrepreneurs from mid-sized Latin American companies seeking to expand and better compete in today’s global environment. The program consists of six modules, the first of which took place on Columbia's campus in New York on January 3-12.

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January 11, 2018

Nutritional Care for Children with Cancer

Nutrition not only improves the quality of life of children with cancer, but also increases their survival rates. Speaking at a public lecture organized by Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai in January, Professor Ladas said “Research has shown that poor nutrition of children has resulted in increase in length of their hospitalization and chances of re-admission, increased side effects of cancer therapy and could even result in them abandoning cancer therapy.”

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January 10, 2018

New Initiative in Public Health

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University are pleased to announce a new initiative to advance science and improve public health outcomes in India enabled by a generous gift from the distinguished philanthropist, Dr. Yusuf Hamied. Through fellowships, public lectures, and the creation of pedagogical resources, the 'Yusuf Hamied Faculty Exchange Program in Health' will promote mutual learning and collaboration.

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January 09, 2018

Series of Events on the Future of the Labor Market

Automating business, industrial and financial activities is increasingly being adopted by companies to reduce costs and improve productivity. Estimates predict that around half of jobs in the US and the EU are at risk due to robotization and/or automation. In addition, demographic transformations, especially population aging and changing lifestyles, require that countries design and implement policies to address the economic, social security, and public health challenges related to the future of their labor force.

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January 09, 2018

French ambassador asks: ‘Does the Middle East need a new honest broker?’

AMMAN — France is willing to become one of the new honest brokers in the Middle East especially after the wave of condemnation and regional tensions rooted from President Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, French Ambassador to Jordan David Bertolotti told the audience in a packed auditorium at the Columbia Global Centres on Sunday during a lecture titled “Does the Middle East need a new honest broker?”.

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January 08, 2018

Lecture on the End of Stalin’s Reign of Terror

A riveting account of the months before and after Stalin’s death in March of 1953 was the focus of the last lecture of the series on the 100 years of the Russian Revolution organized by the Santiago Center in association with three local universities. The presentation included a tale of the plotting by Beria, Malenkov, Khrushchev and other “comrades in arms” to take power after the dictator’s passing as well as of the failure of President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to match the Kremlin’s conciliatory gestures.

January 08, 2018

"La Tunisie n’est pas un modèle pour le monde arabe"

L’universitaire Safwan Masri soutient, dans un entretien au « Monde », que la transition démocratique tunisienne s’explique par des facteurs endogènes difficilement reproductibles.

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January 06, 2018

Alumnae Gathering for Barnard College

On January 6, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing successfully hosted an alumnae gathering event for Barnard College. This event brought together alumnae representing different backgrounds and industries to connect with each other, to reminisce about their school days, and to share their learning and experiences along with career advice to current students.

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January 05, 2018

Columbia Scientists participate in Environmental Workshop

A delegation from Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), led by Gisela Winckler, a researcher at LDEO and adjunct professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences traveled to Chile in early January to participate in a workshop entitled "The Role of Dust in Climate Change: A biogeochemistry perspective".

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January 05, 2018

2018 SIPA Delegation: To Deepen Understanding of All Aspects of China

On January 5, 2018, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Columbia University's 2018 SIPA China Delegation co-hosted the 2018 SIPA China Delegation X Alumni Night. This is the second year the Beijing Center supports SIPA Delegation after the Innovator’s Night panel in 2017.

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January 02, 2018

Book Launch - Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut will be hosting a book talk event that will include a discussion between Maha Yahya, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, and Safwan M. Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University, for the launch of his new book on January 9, 2018.

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January 02, 2018

Newsletter: The Second Janet Abu-Lughod Seminar, Led by Khaled Malas

Led by Khaled Malas and taking place over the course of eight meetings, a group of applicants viewed the encounter with Qusayr ’Amra as a singular lens into the continuities and distinctions associated with contemporary understandings of the first centuries of Islamicate space-making and visual culture.

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January 02, 2018

Newsletter: The Metropolitan Museum of Art & Columbia University Joint Cultural Heritage Workshop

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in partnership with Columbia University, will be holding the third regional cultural heritage workshop, The Future of the Past: Addressing the Cultural Heritage Crisis in Iraq and Syria.

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January 02, 2018

Newsletter: Where now for the Palestinian Right of Return: Special Balfour Centenary Workshop

To commemorate the one hundred year anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Columbia Global Centers | Amman hosted a workshop in partnership with Dr. Ghada Karmi, Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, on October 28.

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December 31, 2017

Newsletter: Mental Health and the Psychological Impact of War on Individuals, Families and Communities in Yemen

This project remains ongoing and aims to address the adverse effects of armed conflict on the mental health of individuals, families and communities in Yemen, to bring mental health concerns into Yemen’s peace and reconciliation processes, and to strengthen recognition of the human right to mental health in Yemen and internationally.

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December 31, 2017

Newsletter: Soraya Salti Youth for Youth Series Year 2

Based at Columbia Global Center in Amman, this initiative reaches out to young people to promote and advance youth leadership development. Four young leaders from the MENA region were hosted during the first year of the program, from November 2016 to May 2017, who spoke and interacted with fellow youth who stand to benefit from positive role models.

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December 27, 2017

Film Screening and Dialogue: Above the Drowning Sea

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December 26, 2017

Newsletter: How is Violence Framed and Treated in Relation to Gender?

What role does religion—and particularly Islam—play in naming, framing, and governing violence against women (VAW) and gender-based violence (GBV)?

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December 26, 2017

How is pluralism activated in emergency situations?

Thinking of pluralism as a technology of power that helps to organize people and their interactions, and often articulated with special attention to religious difference, this conference addressed how pluralism becomes activated in emergency situations and is utilized in different ways and towards different ends.

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December 24, 2017

Around 200 Columbia Alumni Celebrate the Holiday Season at the Beijing Center

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December 21, 2017

Exciting Executive Courses offered by the Business School

We are delighted to invite Chilean professionals who wish to spend some days in New York to review the top, high-impact, short executive courses offered by Columbia Business School in 2018 in the areas of Leadership, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Social Enterprise and Talent management.

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December 18, 2017

Professor Richard Peña Talking about Film in Beijing

On December 18, Columbia Global Centers I Beijing in collaboration with Beijing American Center presented a talk by Professor Richard Peña, Professor of Film at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Former Program Director of the Film Society at Lincoln Center, and Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival, themed on Inventing Independent Cinema: A Celebration of Maya Deren, 1917-1961.

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December 18, 2017

Law School Student Teaching in Chile

Marianne González Le Saux, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University in the field of Latin American history, is currently teaching legal history at Universidad Alberto Hurtado’s Law School.

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December 15, 2017

Top Business School Faculty Members Participate in Workshop on Dynamic Pricing

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December 13, 2017

Columbia Researcher works on a project to prevent Wildfires in Chile

Chile’s 2016-2017 fire season was the worst in history. More than 500,000 hectares of wildfires affected cities, towns, and rural areas, including national parks and reserves.

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December 12, 2017

Preparing for Storm Surge in New York and Mumbai

When a team of researchers from Columbia University set out in January 2017 to study the risk of cyclones to the city of Mumbai, the likelihood of the city experiencing a phenomenon that had never occurred seemed remote. When their lead researcher returned in December 2017, Cyclone Ockhi had narrowly passed the city’s coastline, increasing the significance of their work. With a view to bringing research on urban climactic hazards into the public domain, the Center hosted a public lecture on December 12, 2017 by Dr. Adam Sobel.

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December 12, 2017

President's Global Innovation Fund Request for Proposals

Dear fellow members of the Columbia community:

We are pleased to share with you the sixth Request for Proposals for the President’s Global Innovation Fund. Launched in March 2013, this fund is designed to provide support for faculty who would like to use the resources or facilities of one or more of the University’s nine Global Centers for teaching or research activities. The Columbia Global Centers are a global network of regional hubs intended to enhance the quality of research and learning at the University.

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December 12, 2017

Co-Chair of the Parent Leadership Council at Columbia College Meet with Parents at the Beijing Center

On December 12, 2017, Columbia Global Centers I Beijing invited Dr. Ya-Ning Amy Hsu, Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Teachers College and Co-Chair of the Parent Leadership Council 2017-2018 at Columbia College, to share with parents of Columbia University's undergraduate students on the evolving mission of Columbia University, the academic advancement and the dynamic student life at Columbia.

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December 05, 2017

Beyond The Music

‘Beyond the Music’, a much anticipated event at Columbia Global Centers - Nairobi, took place on December 5^th 2017. The event was moderated by activist and writer – Mr. Kevin Mwachiro and the artists on the panel were Victoria Kimani, Kennedy Ombima (King Kaka), Antony Mwangi (Anto NeoSoul), Fena Gitu, Patricia Kihoro, and Judith Nyambura (Avril).

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December 05, 2017

More than 25 Alumni of Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences Program Gather at the Beijing Center

On December 5, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing successfully hosted an alumni networking event for Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences program.

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December 04, 2017

Public School Children Construct Memory Through Art

"The Route of Freedom and Hope" was the name chosen by the children from primary school Escuela Republica de Israel for the one-day art intervention they organized at Plaza Yungay, one of Santiago's most emblematic public spaces, to remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust. They had been learning and reflecting on diversity and human rights in their History, Language, Religion and Art classes throughout the semester in the framework of an innovative educational project implemented by this public school’s principal and teachers.

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December 03, 2017

The Third Women Leadership Panel Series: Women who Startup

On December 3rd, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing hosted the 3rd Women Leadership Panel Series: Women who Startup.

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December 03, 2017

Renowned Oil Painter Mr. Jian Wang Speaks about European Oil Paintings at the Beijing Center

On December 3, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing invited Mr. Jian Wang, a renowned oil painter and parent of Columbia University Columbia College's student, to introduce how to appreciate the European oil paintings from Italian Renaissance to Neoclassicism. In the meantime, Mr. Wang also delivered an introduction on his paintings to the audience.

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December 01, 2017

Obama Town Hall India

On December 1, the Obama Foundation hosted a Town Hall in New Delhi with former US President Barak Obama and a selected group of young Indian leaders from across the country. The Town Hall expanded upon the conversations during similar events in Germany, Indonesia, and Brazil – exploring how the Obama Foundation can support leadership development for making an impact in the world.

November 30, 2017

Rio Center Stories: Monica Vianna, Global EMPA alumna

Monica Vianna, Global Executive Master of Public Administration (Global EMPA) alumna, shares her experience during the Master’s program, which combined video lectures and exercises with face-to-face instruction via Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro and on campus in New York.

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November 29, 2017

Planning Meeting for the 2nd International Forum on Environment and Health in 2018 Concluded Successfully

On November 29th, in partnership with Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing co-hosted a close-door workshop on Environment and Health, which was also the planning meeting for the 2nd International Forum on Environmental Health in 2018. The main purpose of this workshop and the International Forum in 2018 is to translate the latest scientific evidence and lessons learned to further opportunities for policy change and public health advancements.

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November 29, 2017

Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination Fellowship

The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination will open its doors in Paris in fall 2018. Its annual cohort will comprise seven Columbia University faculty fellows and seven fellows - scholars, writers and creative artists - from outside the USA. Its purpose is to question the established ways in which knowledge is defined, produced, and taught.

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November 28, 2017

Rio Center Stories: Washington Bonfim, Leadership in a Challenging Century alumnus

Washington Bonfim, Leadership in a Challenging Century alumnus, shares his experience during the two-week executive education program held on campus in New York.

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November 28, 2017

Rashid Khalidi in Chile

On November 21-23, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, visited Chile to participate in the XIII Conference on Arab Culture, organized by the Center for Arab Studies at Universidad de Chile’s School of Philosophy and Humanities.

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November 28, 2017

Public Lecture with Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University Press

On November 28, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing invited Jennifer Crewe, Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University Press, to speak about the past, present, and future of the Columbia University Press.

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November 28, 2017

Discovering Prokofiev: Music and the Archive

On November 7^th, the worlds of music and documentary archives intersected in an exceptional concert highlighting the works and life of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev.

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November 27, 2017

Safwan M. Masri and Andrew Hussey discuss Masri’s book, Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly

A young and diverse public gathered at the Paris Center on October 17 to discuss Safwan M. Masri’s recent book, Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly.

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November 25, 2017

Archiving the Mill Lands

Real estate is a hugely contested asset in Mumbai. As part of its Mumbai as a City of Knowledge series, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai recently hosted an exhibition from November 20-25 on the erstwhile mill lands of Girangaon documented through the eyes of the people who lived and worked there. The exhibition was inaugurated by Nandita Das, film artist and social activist, and followed by an opening panel discussion. The exhibition was based on ‘Mythologies of Mumbai,’ a seven-year project of PUKAR.

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November 23, 2017

Lecture on Russian History: The 1904-07 Revolution

A different Russian Revolution, occured ten years before 1917, tells us more about Russian politics and society than the one being commemorated in its centenial and is linked to global developments in deeper ways than the latter. This was the argument developed by Columbia’s history professor Catherine Evtuhov in a lecture entitled “Was There a Revolution in 1917? A View from Russia’s Imperial Period”.

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November 20, 2017

Second Alumni Social Gathering of the Year

In mid-November, the Columbia alumni community in Santiago met for the second time this year for a social gathering at the rooftop of Chile’s second tallest building, the Titanium La Portada skyscraper.

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November 20, 2017

President Lee C. Bollinger Announces Launch of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination

The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination will open its doors in Paris in fall 2018.

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November 17, 2017

Columbia Engineering for Humanity

In November, Mary C. Boyce, Dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University visited India to share the School’s new strategic vision, Columbia Engineering for Humanity. “This vision is a collective vision, where we feel we are as engineers at Columbia. It’s a very powerful school with over 1,600 undergraduates and over 2,600 graduate students,” she said. The greatest percentage of Columbia alumni in India comes from the school of engineering.

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November 16, 2017

Alumni News: Welcome LaBot!

Two Columbia alumni, both of them renowned local journalists, teamed-up with a third colleague to create the first Chilean news chatbot called Labot. This computer program interacts with her followers mostly through mobile phones, using two platforms -- Facebook Messenger and Telegram.

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November 16, 2017

Fellowship for a Course on Investigative Reporting in Cartagena de Indias

The Santiago Center in conjunction with Columbia University’s School of Journalism invites journalists working in Chile to apply to a fellowship that will cover tuition and travel expenses to participate in a course on Investigative Journalism for Latin America held in collaboration with the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Ibero-American Journalism – FNPI.

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November 14, 2017

Danielle Haase-Dubosc: 1939-2017

Director of Reid Hall from 1975-2010. Associate Provost of Columbia University from 1987-2010.

November 14, 2017

Alumni News: Award for Social Entrepreneur

Marisol Alarcón (MPA-DP ’13) received the annual “Social Entrepreneur of the Year” award granted by Sábado magazine and the NGO Sistema B.

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November 12, 2017

Columbia Entrepreneurship Panel in Shenzhen

On November 12th, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Columbia Alumni Association of Shenzhen successfully hosted the Columbia Entrepreneurship Panel in Shenzhen, celebrating the establishment of CAA Shenzhen.

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November 09, 2017

2nd Women Leadership Panel Series: Opportunities for Women Leadership in the Digital Era

"I am very proud to say that the majority of deans at Columbia are now women," said Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, during his opening remarks at the panel discussion Opportunities for Women Leadership in the Digital Era.

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November 09, 2017

President Bollinger's Exclusive Interview with People's Daily

On November 9, 2017, Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, had an exclusive interview with People’s Daily, the biggest newspaper group in China, speaking about China’s recent achievements and U.S.-China cultural and educational exchange.

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November 09, 2017

Discussions on Corporate Governance and Capital Markets

In early November, the Santiago Center teamed-up with Carey, Chile’s largest law firm, to organize several events featuring professor Merritt B. Fox, who teaches international securities regulation, corporate finance, and capital markets regulation at Columbia’s Law School.

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October 30, 2017

Financial Times: Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly by Safwan M Masri

In his book explaining why Tunisia is an “Arab anomaly”, Safwan Masri says it was “predisposed to democracy because of ingredients that are uniquely indigenous to it”. This is a controversial proposition but Masri sustains it, in a hymn to Tunisia that is also an examination of Arab shortcomings elsewhere — above all in education.

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October 30, 2017

Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly, by Safwan M Masri

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October 30, 2017

‘Balfour Declaration: an ongoing process of injustice for Palestinians’

On the occasion of the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, marked on November 2, a conference titled “One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration: An Ongoing Palestinian Tragedy” was held at the Columbia Global Centre Amman on Sunday.

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October 29, 2017

Women Leadership Panel Series: Women's Leadership in Technology

On October 29, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing hosted the Women Leadership Panel Series: Women's Leadership in Technology.

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October 24, 2017

On Campus: Discussion on Chile’s Public Policy Challenges

During a two-day gathering in New York, more than a hundred students, scholars, and researchers met to address the most pressing topics currently at the top of Chile’s public policy agenda. This annual event, in its fourth version, was hosted by Columbia and New York University (NYU) and sponsored by the Santiago Center.

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October 23, 2017

Columbia Astronomy Students Participates in Research Program in Chile

Kirsten Blancato, a Ph.D. student in the Astronomy Department at Columbia University, spent the month of October visiting Santiago working with Thomas Puzia at Universidad Catolica's Institute for Astrophysics.

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October 23, 2017

Raúl Zurita on Campus

Chilean poet Raúl Zurita was invited to Columbia University in September to participate in a series of events marking the launching of the Sawyer Seminar on “Global Language Justice” organized by the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and financed by a two-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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October 21, 2017

2017 Columbia Engineering Information Session ft. Senior Vice Dean Soulaymane Kachani

On Oct. 21, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing successfully held an information session featuring Senior Vice Dean of Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Professor Soulaymane Kachani, who is also the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning.

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October 19, 2017

Poetry event: Anna Akhamtova, the Tragic Spirit of the Twentieth-Century Russia

In mid-October, Wellesley College’s professor Marjorie Agosin – also a poet, human rights activist, and literary critic—spoke about Akhmatova´s life and work in the context of the series the commemorate the one hundred years of the Russian Revolution jointly organized by the Santiago Center and local universities Católica de Valparaíso, Católica de Chile and Universidad de Chile.

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October 13, 2017

Undergraduate Engineering Students in Chile

Three undergraduate Columbia Engineering students --Temitope Akinade, Sofía Barbosa, and Lance Avery Murphy—participated in an "International Seminar for Engineering Leaders" (ISEL), held in Santiago in late September.

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October 12, 2017

5 Questions: Safwan Masri on His New Book ‘Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly’

In his new book, Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly, Safwan Masri, executive vice president for Columbia Global Centers and Global Development, traces Tunisia’s history of reform in education, religion and women’s rights, arguing that the seeds for today’s relatively liberal and democratic society were planted as far back as the middle of the 19th century.

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October 12, 2017

Universidad Católica Ph.D Student to Intern at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Rodrigo Soteres, a Ph.D. candidate in Geography at Chile’s Universidad Católica, will spend three months at Columbia University’ s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) working with scientists Mike Kaplan and Joerg Schaefer.

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October 11, 2017

Rio Center Stories: Daniella Diniz, Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro

Diniz (GSAS ’09, ’16) designs and implements programs and events intended to foster an exchange between Columbia and Brazil. They include symposia, lectures, courses and research involving faculty, students and staff. She also represents Columbia in Brazil, acting as a liaison with institutions and individuals interested in forging partnerships with the University and with students and faculty interested in developing projects in Brazil.

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October 09, 2017

Columbia Reasercher works on a project to prevent Wildfires in Chile

Chile’s 2016-2017 fire season was the worst in history. More than 500,000 hectares of wildfires affected cities, towns, and rural areas, including national parks and reserves.

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October 06, 2017

Discussion on the Challenges of Investigative Journalism

The Panama Papers and the report “Vacations in no Man’s Sea” were portrayed as two examples of serious, thorough and uncompromising investigate reporting, as well as of good instances of joint-collaboration between media outlets and journalism schools, in an event featuring Ernest Sotomayor, Dean of Student Affairs & Director of Latin American Initiatives at Columbia School of Journalism.

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October 04, 2017

Program on Forced Migration and Health

Training humanitarian aid workers to ensure a more effective, informed, and consistent response.

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October 04, 2017

Regenerating Urban lakes

Most discussions on water supply and shortage in cities focus on rainfall, rivers, and piped water supply. Lakes rarely find a mention in this urban water story, though they form a significant part of the urban ecosystem, playing a crucial role in water storage, groundwater recharge, biodiversity, and as a buffer against floods. As part of its ongoing series investigating issues related to groundwater, the Center hosted a lecture by Dr. Veena Srinivasan, a Fellow at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).

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October 04, 2017

2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Prof. Joachim Frank

Columbia University congratulates Joachim Frank, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics and of biological sciences, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017, shared with Richard Henderson and Jacques Dubochet “for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.”

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October 03, 2017

Türkiye’deki sanatçıların geleceğiyle ilgili bir tahminde bulunmak kolay değil

Türkiye’nin yanı sıra dünyanın pek çok ülkesinde artış gösteren ifade özgürlüğü ihlallerine dair geçtiğimiz hafta Studio X’te gerçekleşen Çatışmalı Alanlarda Sanatsal İfade panelinin konuklarından biri de eski Uluslararası PEN Direktörü Sara Whyatt oldu.

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October 03, 2017

Uprising 13/13: A Reading Group

Following our fruitful collaboration with the Nietzsche 13/13 seminars led by Professors Bernard Harcourt and Jesús Velasco on the Columbia campus, the Paris Center will once more host a reading group in parallel to this year’s Uprising 13/13 seminar series focusing on dissent and revolution.

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September 30, 2017

Sanatsal İfade Özgürlüğü

Columbia Global Centers Istanbul, İsveç Konsolosluğu ve DEPO işbirliğiyle sanatta sansür konusunu ulus ötesi perspektifte tartışmak amacıyla önceki akşam ‘Tartışmalı Alanlarda Sanatsal İfade’ isimli bir panel düzenledi.

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September 28, 2017

Artistic Expression in Contested Terrains

Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul and the Consulate General of Sweden, in collaboration with DEPO is organizing a panel with international experts to discuss current obstacles to artistic freedom of expression, different modalities of censorship, and existing and possible forms of struggles against rights violations in a comparative perspective.

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September 28, 2017

‘Knowing yourself is the first step in creating social impact’

AMMAN — In today's busy world, emotional intelligence can help individuals to stay focused and healthy as well as empower them in making better choices, according to a lead facilitator.

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September 21, 2017

Scholar raises awareness on sustainable energy

AMMAN — A young Arab engineer on Wednesday took his audience at the Columbia Global Centre Amman on a trip to Antarctica, bringing first-hand stories of his personal experience to the southernmost continent.

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September 18, 2017

The Paris Center Announces Fall 2017 Programming

Focusing on the theme of resistance, our Fall 2017 programs will begin in September and run through mid-December. We invite all interested members of the public to attend. We're looking forward to very engaging and thought-provoking semester.

September 17, 2017

Columbia Entrepreneurship Panel in Shanghai

On Sept. 17, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Columbia Alumni Association of Shanghai successfully hosted the Columbia Entrepreneurship Panel in Shanghai.

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September 17, 2017

Anthropologist enquires: Who determines choice of Muslim women?

A conference titled “Muslim Women and the Right to Choose Freely” was held on Wednesday at the Columbia Global Centres (CGC) in Amman, by noted Anthropologist Lila Abu Lughod who presented a “new way to think about the choice of Muslim women”.

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September 16, 2017

2017 China’s Non-profit Sector Remuneration & Talent Development Practice Report” launched at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing

On Sept.16th, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and A Better Community (ABC) jointly launched the 2017 China’s Non-profit Sector Remuneration & Talent Development Practice Report.

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September 15, 2017

Learning from Mumbai

Nivita Arora is studying computer science at Columbia University’s School of Engineering but her internship this summer had little to do with her major. In fact, the only connection between the two was that she used a computer for both. According to her, the fact that it was unrelated to prior life experiences, made the internship all the more rewarding. “It changed the way I view the job industry, and made me re-evaluate how I want to spend my life,” she said.

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September 08, 2017

It’s All Relative: Condensed Matter Physics at the Paris Center

Every Friday this fall, the Paris Center will host a series of lectures on condensed matter physics led by international leaders in the field.

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September 03, 2017

Düşünceyi kontrol etmenin yolu sanata saldırmaktır

Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul ve İsveç Konsolosluğu’nun DEPO’yla işbirliği içinde düzenlediği Çatışmalı Alanlarda Sanatsal İfade başlıklı panel, ifade özgürlüğü ihlalleri konusunda çalışan üç uluslararası ismi Studio X’te bir araya getirdi.

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August 27, 2017

The River Ganga: India’s Iconic Water Machine

The mythological, cultural and agricultural significance of the River Ganga has long captured the country’s imagination, but few realize it is also one of the most hyper-engineered landscapes of the world. Over the past 150 years, the ancient river has been transformed into India’s iconic water machine. This transformation is more than just a cartographic concern, it merits greater scrutiny.

August 26, 2017

Snapshot: behind the Flourishing of Chinese Private Museums

On August 26th, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing invited Columbia University Columbia College student, Shaun Wang, to conduct a special talk on his independent project. For the past three years, Shaun has conducted independent interviews with more than 40 Chinese private art museums, art centers, and art foundation; 54 art museum founders, directors, and CEOs.

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August 25, 2017

Seminar on Waste-to-Energy Technologies

The rapid growth of waste materials generated by humanity and the ever-increasing scarcity of landfill space worldwide have resulted in a major environmental problem. Faced with this challenge, municipalities and companies are seeking alternative solutions to the age-old method of landfilling. The only proven alternative for the management of the post-recycling waste, that means the waste with no value in the market or recovery potential, is thermal treatment for the recovery of energy (waste-to-energy or WTE).

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August 25, 2017

Opportunity for Joint-projects with Chilean Scholars and Scientists

Chile’s National Commission for Science and Technology (CONICYT) launched a call for proposals targeting young Chilean researchers who obtained their Ph.Ds. between 2010 and 2017, aimed at supporting collaborative projects with foreign counterparts across all scholarly areas, with funding up to USD$28,000.

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August 24, 2017

Richard Peña Rocks Chile’s Film Industry and Audiences

With an extremely successful festival on Film Noir –featuring presentations, reviews and commentaries on “Double Indemnity” (1944), “The Lady from Shanghai” (1947) and “Kiss me Deadly”(1955)-- Richard Peña ended his one-week visit to Chile in late August.

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August 24, 2017

Neurology Symposium on September 9-10

Every year, millions of individuals suffer from acute stroke, the second leading cause of death globally, as well as other neurological emergencies. Stroke, severe traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and spinal cord injury all cause significant morbidity and mortality. Often in resource-limited settings, delays in diagnosis and appropriate management lead to poor outcomes such as death or permanent and significant neurological deficits.

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August 20, 2017

SEAS Undergraduate Students visit Chile

Three undergraduate Columbia Engineering students --Temitope Akinade, Sofía Barbosa, and Lance Avery Murphy-- will participate in the "International Seminar for Engineering Leaders" (ISEL), to be held in Santiago on September 24-30.

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August 19, 2017

Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence

On Aug. 19, three leading experts from the industry of artificial intelligence gathered at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and joined a panel discussion on the Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence. The panelists include Xin WANG, SVInsight co-founder, former Grape Venture partner, and Geek Academy co-founder, Zhao HUANG, Turing OS Intelligence Strategy Officer, former Tencent Product Manager, and Xuchen YAO, the founder of KITT-AI.

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August 19, 2017

In Between Spaces — Philippines Art Exhibition

On Aug. 19, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing held an opening ceremony for "In Between Spaces — Philippines Art Exhibition." In Between Spaces aims to forge a link by using video art and photography as a lens to view the Philippine contemporary art landscape. The exhibition brings together artistic visions and investigations from four contemporary Filipino artists whose works explore themes of traditions and modernity; collective and personal memory; and the consciousness found in urban spaces. The Exhibition features Dex Fernandez, Paulo Vinluan, Jay Campos, and MM Yu.

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August 16, 2017

ECLA and Business School Information Sessions in Santiago

Maggie Hopkins, Program Coordinator at the Columbia’s Business School’s Entrepreneurship and Competitiveness in Latin America program (ECLA) traveled to Chile in mid-August to meet with local entrepreneurs and start-ups interested in applying to the program.

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August 16, 2017

Paul Beatty talks about racism for a receptive audience in FLUP

The professor was invited to participate in the panel “Variações Sobre um Velho Tema” (Variations on an old theme) together with the writer Joana Gorjão Henriques (Portugal) and the Brazilian anthropologist Julio de Tavares to debate racism, the African diaspora and colonialism.

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August 14, 2017

The Questions Board Members Should Ask

The questions board members should ask and how/when to ask was the focus of a very successful seminar on corporate governance held by the Santiago Center as part of its joint series with Columbia’s Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership on “The Role of Directors in Creating Long-Term Value.”

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August 10, 2017

Flip's roundtable reveals the power of translation and its challenges

The power of the translation and its challenges and peculiarities were the theme of a discussion at FLIP this year at the table "The translation in Brazil - transcending borders" at the Silo Cultural Institute

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August 09, 2017

Week-end des Écrivains du Monde

La capitale parisienne offrira une fois de plus un rendez-vous littéraire autour de l’Afrique et des Caraïbes.

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August 05, 2017

Narrating Latin America

Radio Ambulante is an award-winning Spanish language podcast, distributed by NPR, which uses long-form narrative radio journalism to report on Latin American and Latino stories. Since its creation in 2012, it has covered themes, events, and people from all over the continent in a groundbreaking, unique audio sequence that includes reporters’ descriptions, interviews, dialogues, and realistic backdrop sounds.

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August 04, 2017

Writing Projects with the School of the Arts

In early August, Joshua Furst, adjunct assistant professor of writing, and Alicia Meier, Communications and Global Programs Manager, both from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, travelled to Chile in an exploratory mission to discuss possible joint projects with local authors and universities. Their visit followed a very successful Advanced Creative Writing Workshop held in conjunction with the Rio Center and Instituto Vera Cruz in São Paulo.

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July 28, 2017

Is International Immigration in Crisis?

Immigration has become a hot button issue, churning electoral politics around the world. In 2015, 1 million refugees crossed the Mediterranean to arrive in Europe, fueling concerns among the public about immigration, leading to the rise of far-right political parties across most of the continent and ultimately galvanizing Brexit – United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. In Asia, rising resentment towards expats led to a new policy, giving Singaporeans priority over expats in the job market while Malaysia and Thailand turned away hundreds on migrant boats.

July 27, 2017

Science for a Sustainable World

What role does scientific evidence play in helping us manage our natural resources? How can science inform better decision-making? In what instances do science and technology support each other and where do they come under conflict? These are just a few of the questions the Center Global Centers | Mumbai addressed through two public lectures that probed the role of science in driving sustainable development.

July 26, 2017

Interview: Richard Peña on Independent Cinema, Hollywood, and the New York Film Festival

But Professor Peña served as the program director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, as the Professor of Professional Practice at the School of The Arts at Columbia University, and as Chairman of the Selection Committee of the New York Film Festival. Singing his praises are the likes of Michael Moore and Olivier Assayas. He is an expert on directors like Egypt’s Youssef Chahine, Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami, and France’s Sacha Guitry.

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July 25, 2017

الاميرة منى تؤكد اهمية تطوير البحوث السريرية

عمان - بدأت في كلية التمريض في جامعة كولومبيا امس، برعاية سمو الأميرة منى الحسين، راعية التمريض والقبالة في إقليم شرق المتوسط، ورئيس المجلس التمريضي الأردني، اجتماعات القمة الثالثة لقادة التمريض والقبالة في 22 دولة من جنوب وشرق افريقيا وشرق المتوسط.

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July 25, 2017

Nurses continually challenged with new, emerging issues — Princess Muna

Participants from 22 countries met in Amman for the 3rd Global Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research Development Initiative Summit, a two-day platform for experts from the southern and eastern African and eastern Mediterranean regions to discuss issues related to clinical research and ways to improve health services in the midst of conflicts and wars.

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July 24, 2017

الأميرة منى تدعو للاستثمار في العاملين بالتمريض

بدأت في كلية التمريض في جامعة كولومبيا أمس الاثنين، برعاية الأميرة منى الحسين، راعية التمريض والقبالة في إقليم شرق المتوسط، ورئيس المجلس التمريضي الأردني، اجتماعات القمة الثالثة لقادة التمريض والقبالة في 22 دولة من جنوب وشرق افريقيا وشرق المتوسط

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July 23, 2017

The Tamer Center for Social Enterprise: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures

The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures (“the Fund”) provides seed grants to nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid early-stage Columbia University affiliated social and environmental ventures. Preference will be given to start-up ventures that have the potential to be financially self-sustaining in the longer term.

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July 23, 2017

الأردن يستضيف قمة تجمع قادة التمريض والقبالة

عمان - يجتمع قادة التمريض والقبالة من إقليمي جنوب وشرق أفريقيا وشرق المتوسط في القمة الثالثة والأخيرة في الاردن خلال يومي 24 و25 تموز الحالي لمناقشة أولويات الأبحاث السريرية التي تساهم في تطوير سياسات فعالة وتحديد آليات تطوير الرعاية الصحية على المستويين الإقليمي والعالمي في ضوء أزمة اللاجئين والاحتياجات الصحية المتزايدة

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July 22, 2017

Columbia University Undergrad Students & Parents Gathering

On July 22, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing successfully held an event of Columbia University Undergraduate Students and Parents Gathering. Thirty-three Columbia undergraduate students, including 13 newly admitted students and 20 current students, 7 Columbia alumni, and 17 parents participated in the event.

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July 21, 2017

Global nursing, midwifery summit to be held in Amman July 24-25

AMMAN — A global nursing and midwifery summit, to be held in Amman on July 24-25, will address large global health disparities and the development of a robust nursing and midwifery profession, a critical goal in regions with challenged human resources for healthcare services, a statement by the organisers said.

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July 21, 2017

Film Professor from Columbia University holds courses in Amman

Believing in the power of cinema and the role it plays in people’s everyday lives, Richard Peña has been tracing film history all over the world and has been spreading knowledge about the industry. ...Peña, professor of Professional Practice at the School of The Arts at Columbia University in New York City, held courses over the week at the Columbia Global Centres in Amman named “On the Margins of American Cinemas”.

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July 20, 2017

Artist as Explorer: FormLAB Intercultural Arts Research and Exhibition in Brazil, Mongolia, and China.

On July 20, Dr. Les Joynes, Visiting Scholar in Art and Education at Columbia University, visited Columbia Global Centers | Beijing to join an event of "Columbia Beijing Summer" arts series.

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July 16, 2017

Panel Discussion for Entrepreneurship and CU 2017 New Student Send-off Gathering Held

On July 16, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing successfully held a panel discussion on entrepreneurship. Five Columbia alumni were invited to join the panel including Anna Fang-Hamm, CEO and Partner of ZhenFund, Advisory Board member of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing; Tianyi Tony Jiang, Co-Founder and Partner at Ocean Link; Yingnan David Zhu, Founder and CEO of ResumeHack; Bing Wu, Founder of Shimo; and Jun Andrew Hu, CEO of WonderMatrix.

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July 14, 2017

First Public Release of V. K. Wellington Koo’s Archive of Personal Papers: Exhibition and Symposium Held at CGC丨Beijing

On July 14, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and the Institute of Modern History of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences jointly hosted the exhibition and symposium: First Public Release of V. K. Wellington Koo's Archive of Personal Papers. The event is aimed to retrospect V. K. Wellington Koo and his legendary life and to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the July 7th incident.

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July 13, 2017

Chilean researcher obtains funding for project on Aging

Esteban Calvo, member of the Columbia Aging Center (CAC) faculty, adjunct assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, and professor of public policy at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile, was part of a three-member group that was awarded funds by the CAC to develop aging science. Their project, titled “Aging well with alcohol?

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July 08, 2017

Panel Discussion about the Fate of the Planet by Professors from the CU Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory on July, 8th 2017

The scientific panel discussion, titled "The Earth Cannot be Silenced: Columbia Climate Research and the Fate of the Planet," was successfully held at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing on July 8, as an event of "Columbia Beijing Summer" Experience Columbia in Beijing series.

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July 07, 2017

Prof. Wei Shang, Leng Shuang and Poetess Zhai Yongming Talked about Chinese New Poetry on July, 7th 2017 at CGC | Beijing

“If there exists an era for long poems, it must be today’s era.”

This is what SHANG Wei, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at Columbia University said during the poem sharing session of “Retrospect and Prospect: Problems & Potentials of Chinese New Poetry Composition.”

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July 05, 2017

Cultivating Asian Media Perspectives

Despite a growing audience for Asian cinema around the world, few opportunities exist for students to immerse themselves in its comparative study. In light of this, the Columbia Global Centers in Mumbai and Beijing launched an intensive six-week summer program on Media Practices in India and China. Led by Columbia University film scholars, 12 undergraduate students got an opportunity to pursue learning in real-world settings.

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July 04, 2017

Debate on Chile’s Presidential Election

On November 19, Chile will hold Presidential and Congressional elections. In early July, two of the three main political coalitions, the center-right alliance Chile Vamos and the leftist partnershipFrente Amplio, held primaries to select their presidential candidates, a process in which former President Sebastián Piñera and journalist Beatriz Sánchez were elected, respectively.

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July 02, 2017

Public Talk and Panel Discussion about Creative Labor and Economies of Trash by Director Liang Jiuliang on July, 2nd 2017

My friend once said if only Chinese media wasn’t restricted. Then I asked him: ‘let’s say we were free of control now and you were the big boss of the New York Times, which one would you choose, money or truth?’ He was shocked and said the answer would still be money.”

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June 30, 2017

Rio Center Stories: Manoj Pooleery, Columbia Business School

Manoj Pooleery is one of the instructors of Columbia Business School’s Venture for All® (VFA) program. He is also the Founder and CEO of M-Phi Innovators, a specialized technology services company that provides full range of innovation services to businesses. He provides end-to-end technology and business strategy definition and implementation to both startups and established businesses.

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June 30, 2017

Cilmate Action and Megacities

The risks of climate change and the adverse effects of greenhouse gases can only be mitigated by effective action at the local and global level. Given that urbanization has exacerbated climate risks, cities need to be at the forefront of reform. The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is one such innovative initiative, serving as a platform for a network of the world’s megacities. The C40 Cities network acts locally – at the level of multiple city leaders such as mayors and municipal commissioners.

June 30, 2017

Seminar on Equitable and Sustainable Public Urban Transportation

The Santiago Center, in association with Chile’s Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CEDEUS), organized a seminar in late June entitled “Promoting Equality through Sustainable Public Transportation."

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June 26, 2017

Columbia Lion Lunch on Family Consumption Evolution in China Held on June 26th, 2017 in Shanghai

The lifestyle of Chinese families has changed drastically in the past ten years, especially the way of parenting. Regarding the ways of fulfilling needs, Chinese families have gradually moved from desktop to mobile.

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June 24, 2017

Prof. Jane Gaines Lectured on Chinese Movies in Beijing on June, 24th 2017

On June 24, Professor Jane Gaines from Film Department at Columbia University was invitied to deliver a public lecture on how to make Chinese cinema great again at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.

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June 24, 2017

Call for Papers – Pluralism in Emergencies: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference

The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University is requesting paper proposals to present for its conference series “Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference,” which will convene first in Amman and then in Tunis.

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June 24, 2017

Call for Applications: Janet Abu-Lughod Library Seminar with Khaled Malas

Open Call for Participation: Encountering Qusayr ’Amra. Building Expenditure? The Second Janet Abu-Lughod Seminar, led by Khaled Malas

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June 23, 2017

Columbia Engineering for Humanity: Columbia Engineering Dean Mary Boyce, Shi-Fu Chang, Jingyue Ju and Yuan Yang visiting Beijing Center

On June 23, Dean Mary Boyce, from The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University, and three leading Columbia Engineering Professors Shih-Fu Chang, Jingyue Ju, and Yuan Yang visited Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.

June 22, 2017

Pizmon Surprises and Enchants Chilean Audiences

Pizmon, a Jewish a cappella group from Columbia, Barnard College, and the Jewish Theological Seminary visited Chile in a mission led by University’s Chaplain, Jewelnel Davis, and partly funded by the Kraft Global Fellows Program. They sang in several public events, surprising and moving audiences with their extraordinary voices and, and, especially, by the charm of its ten members.

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June 21, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS! “Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference”

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June 19, 2017

First Light: The International Silent Cinema, 1894-1934

Following last summer’s series on French and American film noir, the Paris Center presents highlights from cinema’s earliest years.

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June 16, 2017

Teachers In Crisis Contexts Workshop

The INEE Teachers in Crisis Contexts (TiCC) Working Group, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development’s Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (USAID ECCN) coordinated the “Teachers in Crisis Contexts Introduction, Contextualization and Implementation Workshop for Kenya,” from June 12-16, 2017 at Columbia Global Centers Nairobi. The workshop brought together practitioners, teacher trainers, policymakers and academics. Participants were introduced to the Training Pack for Primary School Teachers in Crisis Contexts, which was launched in April 2016.

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June 16, 2017

‘US stands to lose as much as Africa if Fogarty closes’

A proposal to cut funding for the John E Fogarty International Center from the upcoming United States federal government budget by President Donald Trump’s administration has prompted an outcry from academics and educators across Africa.

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June 16, 2017

Governments must work with Universities on Climate Change

East African governments should work with universities to build knowledge on climate change with a view to building the capacity and resilience of local communities, who largely depend on rain-fed agriculture, to mitigate the consequences of climate change.

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June 16, 2017

New guidelines set high publishing bar for Academics

Kenya’s Commission for University Education has issued stringent new guidelines for the appointment and promotion of academic staff in a system that gives heavy emphasis to publication in reputable, peer-reviewed journals and discourages publication in so-called predatory journals. While the move is intended to raise academic standards, it has also raised concerns about the hurdles to publication facing many Kenyan academics.

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June 13, 2017

Dr. Yishi Liu Lecture on the Construction of New Beijing Held on June 13th, 2017 in Beijing

On June 13, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing invited Dr. Yishi Liu from School of Architecture, Tsinghua University to deliver a public lecture on the construction of "new Beijing" in the first decades of the P.R. China. Prof.Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Culture at Columbia University, was the moderator.

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June 12, 2017

World Writers' Weekend 2017: Maroc Autrement

The closing day of the World Writers' Weekend 2017 took place at the VIP lounge at La Vallée Village with a series of intimate discussions with Moroccan writers.

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June 10, 2017

New PHD Scholarship on Food Security and Nutrition

The rare opportunity – the first in Africa – is a major collaboration with Columbia University. The ANSRC is a partnership that brings together academic and research institutions across the East African region with the goal of building a PhD training programme in basic research in nutritional and agriculture science. The main aim is to address food insecurity in the region and raise the number of trained manpower in the selected fields of study across East African universities.

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June 09, 2017

Week-end des Écrivains du Monde – Résonances Afrique Caraïbe

La capitale parisienne offrira une fois de plus un rendez-vous littéraire autour de l’Afrique et des Caraïbes.

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June 09, 2017

Quand les intellectuels africains pensent leur continent

Les écrivains Achille Mbembe et Felwine Sarr rassemblent les réflexions d'une trentaine d'intellectuels sur le destin de l'Afrique dans un livre décapant.

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June 08, 2017

(Dis)Conference: Hacking the Bureaucracy attracts over 150 people to discuss open government and new technologies for the public sector

Full-day event discussed themes such as open government, open data, open decision-making processes, transparency and public participation.

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June 08, 2017

Après les artistes, Paris célèbre les penseurs et écrivains d’Afrique

Alain Mabanckou, Emmanuel Dongala, Achille Mbembe et Christiane Taubira sont parmi les invités du « Week-end des écrivains du monde »

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June 08, 2017

President’s Global Innovation Fund 2017

Provost John H. Coatsworth has announced the fifth round of grants from the President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) on June 1, 2017. 11 projects received awards this year after being selected by a review committee of senior faculty drawn from both the Morningside and medical campuses.

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June 08, 2017

Columbia University faculty awarded Innovation Grants

Columbia University faculty members Kavita P. Ahluwalia and Kavita Sivaramakrishnan have been awarded grants from the President’s Innovation Fund for global research programs.

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June 02, 2017

Calls to boost universities’ PhD science Training Capacity

Strengthening the capacity of East African universities to train PhD and post-doctoral academics in areas such as human nutritional sciences, agriculture, technology, engineering and mathematics is urgently needed to develop local scientific capacity and help the region to achieve its development goals.

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June 01, 2017

Info Session about Columbia Business School Held in Beijing

On June 1st, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing successfully hosted an information session about Columbia Business School. More than 110 individuals arrived on the scene along with more than 12,000 people watched live through iFeng live-streaming.

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June 01, 2017

Provost Announces Faculty Winners of 2017 President’s Global Innovation Fund

June 01, 2017

The World Writers' Weekend: Focus on Africa and the Caribbean

This year, the World Writers’ Weekend will showcase and promote the vibrancy of African and Caribbean writing in the European context.

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May 30, 2017

Research Methods for Sustainable Development

The focus of this year's Alliance workshop series is a timely one.

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May 30, 2017

Marcel Agüeros, Associate Professor in Columbia's Department of Astronomy, visited Chile

In May, Marcel Agüero gave a departmental colloquium on his work to understand the evolution of low-mass stars,
developed plans for future joint projects with his collaborator Julio Chanamé.

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May 30, 2017

First Light: The International Silent Cinema, 1894-1934

Come celebrate the summer with “First Light,” a richly curated selection of classics of the international silent cinema, many featuring live musical accompaniment.

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May 29, 2017

Columbia and Barnard Undergraduates take a field trip through Latin America

The Global Scholars program aims to explore the historical origins and contemporary realities of urban life in Latin America through research and travel in five cities that capture its cultural diversity.

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May 28, 2017

The 2nd Annual ‘No-Boundaries’ International Art Exhibition Pre-Exhibition was successfully held at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing

Co-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and No-Boundaries International Art Exhibition Committee, the 2^nd Annual ‘No-Boundaries’ International Art Exhibition Pre-Exhibition opening ceremony was successfully held on May 28 at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.

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May 25, 2017

Columbia University and China Baotou Steel Launched U.S.-China EcoPartnership Joint-Venture on May 25th, 2017

“The U.S.-China EcoPartnership Opening Ceremony and Press Conference” was successfully held at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing by China Baotou Steel (Group) and Columbia University on Thursday, May 25th, 2017.

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May 25, 2017

Brazil Lab launches its 2017 Challenges in Rio

The Civil Society organization arrives in Rio just a year after it was founded in São Paulo. The institution aims to help start-ups who want to engage more with the public sector.

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May 20, 2017

Professor Joe Cacaci teaches TV Writing Master Class to full audience in São Paulo

TV Writing Master Class takes place in São Paulo for the first time after successful editions in Rio.

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May 18, 2017

Climate Change: Impact in Chile´s Forests, Glaciers and Agriculture Sector

During the last few years, Chile has been hit by record-high temperatures and an ongoing drought. This combination, which has had a strong impact in the agriculture sector, was a key determinant behind the wave of wild fires that struck the Central-South of the country last January.

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May 17, 2017

Prof. Capon and Prof. Zheng Talked about Marketing

Professor Capon is a world-famous master of marketing and account management. Over the past years, he has cultivated thousands of entrepreneurs and senior managers. This year he will turn 80,” said Professor Zheng. “As Columbia and China are increasingly close, we are more than honored to have Professor Capon today speaking about his experiences in marketing at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.”

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May 17, 2017

Anti-corruption and Corporate Ethical Behavior

Recent scandals involving corporate misconduct both globally and in Chile have increased mistrust in business among investors, consumers and the community in general. In mid-May, the Santiago Center organized a conference entitled “Corporate Governance and Corruption: Global Trends and Local Challenges”.

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May 16, 2017

Prof. Ben Liebman and Prof. Rachel Stern Lecture on "Big Data and Future of Litigation"

On May 16, two leading scholars in the field of law, Professor Benjamin L. Liebman and Professor Rachel Stern, were invited to speak at a public lecture titled “Big Data and Future of Litigation.” Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and AmCham China co-hosted the event.

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May 15, 2017

Deanna Kuhn Lecture and New Book Signing Event Held

“In America, the term ‘argue’ even has a connotation of ‘fight,’ and children then will use arguments to argue and come up with reasons,” said Professor Deanna Kuhn at an informative talk and book signing event for her recent book : Argue with me: Argumentas a path to developing students’ thinking and writing (Routledge, 2016).

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May 10, 2017

Why World is Facing Uncertain Future

Gone are the days when you could predict the next course of action along the dominant ideologies.

For more than 50 years, the works of economist John Maynard Keynes dominated capitalist governments.

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April 26, 2017

Columbia Global Centers bring scholars and specialists together for “Global Think-In” world-wide discussion

Discussion brought together scholars and specialists from a broad spectrum of fields from all over the world to participate in a discussion about themes that have impact locally and globally.

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April 26, 2017

Film depicts struggles and lives of Pakistani porters in shadow of K2

The power of arts and culture to speak about the human condition is a primary motivation for director Iara Lee, who has recently finished her sixth film, tackling subjects as diverse as human rights, psychology, wildlife protection and education.

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April 24, 2017

Globalization and the Indian Experience

Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai partnered with the Committee on Global Thought on a project intended to discuss pressing issues affecting globalization in the world today and to do so in conversation with colleagues in different parts of the world in academia, government, business, journalism, and civil society. The Mumbai component of this Global Think-In, organized on April 24, 2017, took the form of a virtual video conversation among experts from India and the Columbia University campus.

April 24, 2017

Nairobi - Global Think-In Event

The Global Think-In Event titled, ‘Thoughts On A Changing World’, was held on 24^th April 2017. It brought together academics and experts in various fields discussing the global issues facing and affecting Kenyans.

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April 20, 2017

Professor Albert Fishlow launches his new book in Brazil

The launch tour in Brazil also covered the cities of São Paulo on April 19 and Brasília on April 18.

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April 18, 2017

Higher Education for Refugees by Professor Bruce Usher and Kim Gittleson

In 1940, a young refugee named Arno Penzias fled Nazi-controlled Germany and settled in New York City. He went on to study at the City College of New York and Columbia University, where he received a Ph.D. in physics in 1962.

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April 17, 2017

Sustainable Waste Solutions for Global Cities

Municipal solid waste has tripled globally since 1950 and is expected to be six times greater by 2030. So, how will global cities manage their ever-increasing mounds of waste? One thing that clearly emerges from years of research is that we need to put an end to open dumping. Evidence for this argument was presented by Athanasios Bourtsalas, Adjunct Professor at the Earth and Environmental Engineering Department, Columbia University, and the Manager of the Earth Engineering Center at Columbia University.

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April 16, 2017

CGC Beijing Salon Series Vol.2 “New York, Columbia, and I"

On April 16, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing successfully held the second event of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing Salon Series, themed on “New York, Columbia, and I.” Four Columbia alumni, LIN Nan (SIPA ’16), WANG Xin (SIPA '16), Kailey Xi (SIPA ’15), and LIANG Mudi (TC ’15), together with nearly 30 alumni from Columbia initiated a discussion on the history, traffic systems, architectures, and arts in the New York City.

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April 12, 2017

Preserving Groundwater, Recycling Greywater in Mumbai

Greywater recycling is a potential solution for urban areas to address their acute water shortages. It decreases the demand for freshwater, lowers the discharge of wastewater into the environment, and helps recharge the groundwater table. As part of its ongoing Groundwater Series, the Center invited Rakesh Kumar, Director, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute to share his insights on how greywater reuse can be implemented in Mumbai.

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April 12, 2017

The Evolving Visa and Border Regime by Elizabeth Redden

President Trump has said he wants “extreme vetting” and ideological testing of visa applicants. What will that look like, exactly? As American colleges wait to hear whether accepted applicants will take up their admission offers for the fall, what can they expect students who are coming from other countries to encounter when they apply for visas and when they show up at border security checkpoints at U.S. airports?

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April 11, 2017

The Future of Chile's Copper Industry

Chile is the largest copper exporter and holds the world’s greatest proven reserves. However, the industry is facing several challenges: Production fell 3.9% in 2016 because of weak international commodity prices, lower productivity rates, technical challenges, higher labor costs, and increasing conflicts between companies and the communities in which they operate.

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April 09, 2017

قراءة نفسية للأمين: ‘‘داعش‘‘ منح القاتل فرصة لتحويل جريمته لقضية عليا

عمان - قدم الصحفي والكاتب في "الحياة" اللندنية حازم الأمين، مقاربة حول صلة علم التحليل النفسي بظاهرة منتسبي "داعش"، من خلال قراءة استكشافية ميدانية للعشرات منهم، أظهرت وجود دوافع غير منسجمة فيما بينهم للالتحاق بالتنظيم و"الانتحار والقتل" كظاهرة جماعية، فيما اعتبر ان "داعش" "ابن انقسام مذهبي وفشل سياسات المجتمع الدولي والأنظمة العربية".

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April 05, 2017

First TC Alumni Gathering Event Held on April 5th, 2017 at CGC丨Beijing

On April 5, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Columbia University Teachers College Alumni Association of China, Beijing jointly held the very first TC alumni gathering event of the season in 2017. Around 40 alumni attended the event along with ZHANG Ni, a TC alumna ’06 with a master degree in International Education Development and the founder of the Children’s Museum Research Center at Beijing Normal University China Philanthropic Research Institute, as the special guest to deliver a speech about education.

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April 04, 2017

Rio Center Stories: Antonio Prata, Visiting Scholar at the School of the Arts

Antonio Prata is a Brazilian writer, chronicler and screenwriter. He has already published over 10 books, including “Nu, de botas” and “Meio Intelectual, Meio de Esquerda”. This semester, Prata is a Visiting Scholar at the School of the Arts and teaches about the literary genre chronicle or “crônica” (in Portuguese), which is characterized by short texts about everyday life and is widely cultivated in Brazil.

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March 26, 2017

Columbia University Honored at 2017 Tunis International Book Fair

The organizing committee of the Tunis International Book Fair announced that Columbia University in the City of New York and the Lebanese Republic will be the guests of honor for 2017. The 33^rd Tunis International Book Fair takes place on March 24 - April 2 in the city of Tunis, Tunisia. The University’s participation in the book fair shows the growing ties between Columbia and Tunisia. Honored guests at previous fairs have included France and Egypt, among others.

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March 25, 2017

Wujie Art Exhibition and Arts Lecture Series Held on March 25th, 2017 at CGC丨Beijing

On March 25, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and No-Boundaries International Art Exhibition jointly held the third event of the 2017 No-Boundaries International Art Exhibition Arts Lecture Series – “From Doodle to Art, the Space We Need to Give to Children”at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.

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March 23, 2017

Columbia Global Centers | Amman 2016-2017 Annual Report is now available online

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March 21, 2017

Thomas DiPrete´s Lecture on Gender Gap in Sciences and Engineering

Thomas Di Prete, Giddins Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University, visited Santiago and spoke on Gender Inequality in STEM Education in an event organized by the Santiago Center, Comunidad Mujer, COES, and the School of Economy and Business of the University of Chile.

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March 21, 2017

Promoting Women's Involvement in Clean Energies

Strengthening the participation of women in the clean energy revolution that Chile is experiencing, as well as promoting their inclusion in leadership positions within the sector’s companies, universities, government, and non-profit institutions, was the main objective of an extremely successful workshop organized by the Santiago Center in conjunction with the Chilean Renewable Energy Association (ACERA).

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March 19, 2017

The Very First Event of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing Salon Series Held

On March 19, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Hireading Club jointly held the very first event of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing Salon Series – a book panel on The Empire of the Steppes. Dr. LIN Nan from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), who is also a Columbia SIPA alumnus, was invited to lead the panel. The event attracted around 40 participants.

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March 17, 2017

CU-Tsinghua World Economy and the Role of the State in Economic Growth

On March 17, the international conference of the World Economy and the Role of the State in Economic Growth was successfully held in Beijing.

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March 17, 2017

CIFLTE Teacher Training Programs Workshop Held

On March 17, the Center for International Foreign Language Teacher Education (CIFLTE) of Columbia University Teachers College held a workshop for its two teacher training programs at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. Dr. LIU Lening, Director of the Confucius Institute at Columbia University and Director of the Chinese Language Program, was invited to attend the event.

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March 15, 2017

Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro celebrates its 4th anniversary

Professor Kartik Chandran (Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science) and professor José Luis Vallejo (School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation) were guest speakers at major events during the week.

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March 13, 2017

Biomedical Engineering Symposium Columbia-UC

A delegation of nine faculty members, scientists and students from Columbia visited Chile in mid-March to participate in a PGIF-funded "Biomedical Engineering Symposium", organized by the Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering at Universidad Catolica (UC) in conjunction with the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia.

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March 13, 2017

Columbia Biomedical Engineering Team in Chile

A delegation from Columbia’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) traveled to Santiago to participate in a joint-symposium with Universidad Católica’s (UC) Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering, which was part of Columbia's 2016 President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF).

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March 11, 2017

Opening Ceremony for CU Chinese Alumnus Hu Shih's Exhibition Held

On March 11, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, joined with the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of Peking University and Peking University Library, hosted an opening ceremony for the exhibition titled “Hu Shih in the Intellectual History of the 20th Century in China” to commemorate Columbia alumnus Hu Shih and his legacy. HAN Xiao, Assistant to the Director of Peking University's Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences and ZOU Xinming, Associate Director of Special Collections Division at Peking University Library, also joined the event.

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March 10, 2017

Perspectives on World Cinema

Social revolution and cinematic movements have been strange bedfellows in the history of Latin American countries since the 1950s. Richard Peña, Professor of Film Studies, Columbia University, and former Director of the New York Film Festival, offered a glimpse into Latin American cinema through the evolving histories of Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Argentina through a four-day lecture series and film screenings at the Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai.

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March 04, 2017

The Insidious Harm Of The Turn On Immigration

The cost of the Trump administration’s abrupt changes in immigration policy, to individuals and families, to companies and communities, and to our nation’s standing as a place of tolerance and opportunity, are enormous. Far more sinister than travel bans and policy changes is the undeclared, and now seemingly common, practice of profiling on the basis of religion and origin.

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March 04, 2017

The Insidious Harm Of The Turn On Immigration - The Huffington Post Op-Ed by Professor Safwan Masri

Ways of life long relied upon are being overturned.

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February 10, 2017

The Lucky Few: a historical perspective on migration with Professor Robert Young

We went into the vault for today’s episode, all the way back to a lecture that Professor Robert Young gave last year at the Columbia Global Center in Amman. We chose this particular lecture because Professor Young offers a historical perspective on an issue facing today’s society: migration.

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February 10, 2017

The Lucky Few: a historical perspective on migration with Professor Robert Young

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January 29, 2017

Bollinger condemns Trump’s immigration ban as “discriminatory, damaging”

University President Lee Bollinger denounced President Donald Trump's executive order banning immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the United States and advised community members and visitors from the designated countries to postpone international travel.

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January 27, 2017

New Film Series Highlights Refugee Crisis

Columbia Global Centers | Paris is partnering once again with the Columbia Maison Française to present a special film series

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January 19, 2017

The Science of Creativity

Creativity, which is considered to be a key driver of innovation, is often characterized as an indefinable and innate quality possessed by a few people. The Center organized a presentation and panel discussion with Gita Johar, Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and writer Aparna Piramal-Raje to demystify the concepts of creativity and innovation.

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January 17, 2017

Request for Statements of Interest - Tinker Chair at Columbia University for 2018-2019 Academic Year

Columbia University is one of five major universities to have a professorship endowed by the Edward Larocque Tinker Foundation.

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January 15, 2017

Global Education Connection (GEC) Chinese Students Visit to Nairobi Center

China-Africa-US Initiative

Global Education Connection (GEC) Chinese Students Visit to Nairobi Center in an initiative that seeks to connect the world by conducting research projects that are of relevant to US, Africa and China,

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January 12, 2017

Learning About Religion in India

Building upon the Center's goal of advancing global education by designing learning programs about India, the spring cohort of the Kraft Global Fellows visited Mumbai, New Delhi, and Agra from January 4 - 15, 2017, for an intensive field study on Religious Pluralism. Through site visits and interactions with academic and sector experts, the group learned about the history, practices and contemporary issues related to different religions in India.

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January 12, 2017

Cyclones, Storm Surges, and Climate Risks to Mumbai

Extreme climate events are on the rise globally, raising concerns about the future of coastal cities. Enabling cities to become resilient to climate-induced changes has emerged as a priority in local and global agendas. As part of an ongoing initiative to build knowledge on Urban Climate Resilience, the Center organized a round-table discussion, bringing together scientists and urban experts, to assess the potential risks of a catastrophic flood in Mumbai due to a tropical cyclone-driven storm surge.

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January 11, 2017

Izzet Kebudi, a Turkish student at Columbia University and a member of SEAS Class of 2019, has been elected the Senator of School of Engineering and Applied Science

Izzet Kebudi, a Turkish student at Columbia University and a member of SEAS Class of 2019, has been elected the Senator of School of Engineering and Applied Science by the votes of undergraduate engineers and will represent undergraduate SEAS at the University Senate for two academic years

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January 09, 2017

Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Professor Wei Shang: A Liviely Illusion: The Visualization of the Grand Prospect Garden in the Eighteenth Century

On January 9th, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Professor Wei Shang from Columbia University's Department of East Asia Languages and Cultures delivered a public lecture at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA).

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January 08, 2017

Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Professor Wei Shang: Vernacularization of the Chinese Language and the Establishment of Nation-State

On January 8th, Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Professor Wei Shang from Columbia University's Department of East Asia Languages and Cultures joined a seminar on "Vernacularization of the Chinese Language and the Establishment of Nation-State".

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January 05, 2017

Du Family Professor Wei Shang: Vernacular Literature and Novels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Professor Wei Shang is a Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

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January 02, 2017

Columbia Nursing: Changing Lives that Change the World

The imperative to provide education, resources and networks to positively impact global healthcare has never been more urgent. In an increasingly interconnected world, there is a rapidly growing awareness of the global health issues and inequities affecting millions, calling for new ways of thinking and problem solving.

Read the fall/winter 2016 Columbia Nursing Issue here

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January 01, 2017

Thirteen Ways to Look at Nietzsche

Can re-reading Friedrich Nietzsche shed light on our troubled times? A new reading group organized by the Paris Center and the Columbia MA in History and Literature thinks so.

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December 27, 2016

How to Understand a Kid with OCD

El trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo puede debutar en la infancia. Con terapias específicas sus pacientes logran una vida armónica. Aquí, el psiquiatra argentino Pablo Goldberg, uno de los grandes expertos en este tema, explica por qué el éxito depende de la consulta temprana.

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December 15, 2016

Refugee Crisis Reveals Critical Gaps in Support for Millions Fleeing Conflict

“As the world faces the worst humanitarian disaster since the Second World War, the refugee crisis demands a new level of response from our institutions,” says Professor Safwan Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University and Director of Columbia Global Centers | Amman.

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December 09, 2016

In the Times of Dr. Ambedkar

To mark Dr. Ambedkar’s 125^th birth anniversary and celebrate the centenary of his graduation from Columbia University, CGC | Mumbai organized a public panel at the Godrej India Culture Lab and an all-day workshop on December 9-10. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is best remembered today for leading a powerful struggle for untouchable rights and self-representation, for his extensive writings on caste as a form of inequality and historical injustice, and for his enduring effect on Indian trajectories of democratic justice and affirmative action policy.

December 05, 2016

A Surprise Visit from a Former French President

Former French President, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, made a surprise visit to the Paris Center on November 30^th.

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December 01, 2016

The Future of Energy Markets

Amidst climate change threats and geopolitical struggles, can nations afford to take an isolationist perspective in determining their energy policies or is global thinking and interdependence the way for a sustainable and stable future? What are the latest trends in global oil and natural gas markets and what implications do these have for countries like India? A panel discussion on this issue was organized by the Mumbai Center featuring energy experts from Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at the India Merchants Chambers on December 1.

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December 01, 2016

Africa Nutritional Sciences Research Consortium (ANSRC)

The consortium is being facilitated by Professors Richard Deckelbaum and Debra Wolgemuth of the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University, Dr. James Ntambi, professor of Biochemistry and Nutrition at the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, adjunct professor at the University of Nairobi.

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November 28, 2016

All that Jazz: Cabaret Highlights Talented Students

By day, it was a conference room. By night, it became a cabaret hall. On November 18, the talents of the students at Reid Hall were on full display

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November 26, 2016

Alumni Club Honored

On October 8, the Columbia University Alumni Club of France was honored at the annual Columbia Alumni Leaders’ Weekend for its dedication and creativity in connecting the French alumni community with the Alma Mater.

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November 24, 2016

Elections 2016

On the night of November 8, Americans in Paris were glued to their screens as they followed the voting in the U.S. The Paris Center offered an election day livestream of CNN and broadcast of France 24, to allow people to watch the big day from both French and American perspectives.

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November 22, 2016

Reform Learning to Enable Arab Democracy - Financial Times Op-Ed by Professor Safwan Masri

To understand the despondent state of affairs in the Arab world today, one need only look at the region's education systems and how they have evolved through decades of deliberate attempts to suppress the Arab mind. Hyper-nationalist propaganda, exclusionary rhetoric and dogmatic religious discourse have been their defining features. The result has been that generations of Arabs have not only been deprived of a good education, but they have been taught to be narrow-minded, intolerant and ill-equipped for participation in a globalised world.

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November 18, 2016

Building Globally-Conscious Classrooms

Global citizenship emerged as a buzzword among Mumbai citizens on November 19, 2016, with the metropolis hosting the Global Citizen Festival featuring British rock band, Coldplay. In the afternoon preceding the landmark event, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai partnered with the festival organizer, The Global Education and Leadership Foundation (tGELF) to organize a workshop to explore ways in which citizenship could be practicably realized in classrooms.

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November 18, 2016

Why the world needs a new model for universities - Professor Safwan Masri

Civil conflict, terrorism and public health scares are only some of the concerns causing unprecedented disruptions across communities worldwide. These crises take on greater immediacy and importance today due to their increasingly global nature.

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November 10, 2016

President Bollinger and Dean Becker Attending Panel Discussion with CAFA Artists： Challenge of Art Education in the New Age

On November 9, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, in partnership with Columbia University School of the Arts and the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), host a panel titled “Art, Artists, and Education in Contemporary Societies––China and U.S. Perspectives” successfully. Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University, and Xinping Su, Vice President of CAFA were invited to deliver opening remarks.

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November 10, 2016

Opening up life to endless possibilities is a wise and practical advice from David Madigan

Opening up life to endless possibilities is a wise and practical advice from David Madigan, Executive Vice-President for Arts & Sciences, and Dean of Faculty at Columbia University.

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November 10, 2016

Youth-oriented activities honour memory of Soraya Salti

The Soraya Salti Youth for Youth Series was launched on Wednesday with the support of Waleed Al Banawi, the founder and chairman at JISR Venture Partners

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November 09, 2016

President Bollinger and Dean Becker Attending Panel Discussion with CAFA Artisits： Challenge of Art Education in the New Age

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November 08, 2016

Columbia PhD (c) to visit Universidad Católica

During November, Miao Li, a PhD candidate at the Columbia University Astronomy Deparment, spent time in Chile working with Xian Chen and Jorge Cuadra from Universidad Católica, as part of the exchange program between both Universities.

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November 06, 2016

Columbia Global Center announces Soraya Salti Youth for Youth Series

Columbia Global Centers — Amman, a hub for Columbia University research and educational initiatives in the Middle East and one in a network of eight global centres around the world, has announced the Soraya Salti Youth for Youth Series.

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November 06, 2016

Columbia University global centres aim to prove university’s ‘relevance’

How can universities ensure that they stay relevant in an increasingly globalised world?

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November 03, 2016

Columbia University Global Centers aim to prove university’s ‘Relevance’

Columbia’s Safwan Masri says that to understand a region today, you must consider the entire world. "There’s a very different feel and a very different impact that’s realised by being on the ground and having real conversations and dialogue that I think advances the notion that universities are relevant and neutral places of inquiry,"

Universities must adopt global, rather than international, outlooks, says scholar.

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October 28, 2016

Linda. P. Fried, the Dean of Mailman School of Public Health,Columbia University, accepted the interview from ICS (the International Channel of Shanghai)

Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Fudan University’s School of Public Health hosted a three-day summit "The Columbia-Fudan Global Summit on Aging & Health: A Dialogue on Research, Policy, Health Systems and Industry Initiatives", with scientists, policymakers and industry experts on aging all around the world.

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October 28, 2016

Experts look for new ways for elderly to contribute after retirement

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October 24, 2016

Columbia University School of Professional Studies Programs – Information Session Held Successfully

On October 24, Columbia University School of Professional Studies successfully held an information session in Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. David Madigan, Ph.D., Executive Vice-President for Arts & Sciences, and Dean of the Faculty, addressed a speech on “The University in the Global Age”.

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October 24, 2016

David Madigan visited Beijing on October 24th and 25th

David Madigan, Executive Vice President for Arts & Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences , Professor of Statistics, at Columbia University, addressed a speech at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing titled "The University in the Global Age" on October 24. He also accepted interviews with Xinhua News Agency, China Daily, People’s Daily, Financial Times China and others afterwards, and shared about the Columbia Art & Science Education, Columbia online course development and his view on education globalization.

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October 23, 2016

Columbia University School of Social Work Programs Admissions Information Session and Faculty Lecture in Beijing Held Successfully

On October 23rd, Columbia University's School of Social Work successfully held an information session and faculty lecture in Grand Skylight CATIC Hotel Beijing. Dr. Jeanette C. Takamura, Dean of the School, faculty, and administrators including admissions staff attended the event, introduced social work curriculum and admissions process to the audience and answered their questions.

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October 17, 2016

Forging Cultural Collaborations with the Mumbai Film Festival

The city of Mumbai is perhaps best known globally for its film industry; films are a vital part of its political economy and cultural imagination. In October 2016, the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) organized the 18^th Mumbai Film Festival to bring art house cinema as well as from Bollywood, Hollywood and other international movies to audiences in the city. The Mumbai Center facilitated the formation of a vibrant educational and cultural network for the festival by coordinating a series of brainstorming sessions with academics and civil society organizations.

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October 13, 2016

Refugee Integration: Developing a New Paradigm

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October 13, 2016

Our Story is Our Story: Reflections on Race and Racism

With the approach of the American elections and the debate on police accountability fueling the Black Lives Matter movement, Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the MA in History and Literature decided to dedicate the first week in October to a series of events organized around the topic of “Race and Racism: Global Perspectives.”

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October 13, 2016

Refugee Integration: Developing a New Paradigm

Columbia Global Centers | Amman and Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul are organizing a workshop and public panel on campus on October 13-14, 2016 that will bring together Columbia faculty in mutual conversations with practitioners from the Middle East.

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October 12, 2016

Call for Research: Columbia Social Science Research Training Workshop for Chinese High School Students

The Columbia Social Sciences Research Training Workshop is a program jointly initiated by Columbia University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics（INCITE）, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, and Teenager Innovation and Challenge Projects(ICProjects).

October 11, 2016

British filmmaker examines water theft in Jordan

Is water a human right or a commodity? This is the question British filmmaker Laila Khan set out to answer in her latest documentary, “Stolen Water”. Khan’s short documentary sheds light on water theft in Jordan and the measures that authorities are taking to curb violations on the water network.

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October 04, 2016

Kuo Ping Wen - Scholar, Reformer, Statesman - A book panel and signing event

C.V. Starr East Asian Library, in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia Confucius Institute, and Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, hosted a book panel and signing event for Kuo Ping Wen: Scholar, Reformer, Statesman, edited by Ryan M. Allen and Ji Liu (San Francisco: Long River Press, 2015), at the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University, on Oct. 4, 2016.

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October 02, 2016

PODCAST: Walter Benjamin, and other Illegal Migrants - A Talk by Robert Young

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October 01, 2016

Opening: Join the Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul team!

Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul welcomes applications for the position of Program Officer. This is a stimulating and intellectually challenging role with considerable growth potential, ideal for a versatile, committed and energetic person with an interest in working at the intersection of higher education and civil society.

Qualified and interested candidates are kindly requested to send a cover letter and CV by October 24, 2016 to: Gülden Çolakel, Administrative Officer, gc2526@columbia.edu.

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September 30, 2016

Rio Center Stories: Interview with Professor Annika Sweetland, Mailman School of Public Health

Annika Sweetland, Assistant Professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, is conducting a research in Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro, to look for the correlation between depression and tuberculosis (TB) and effective treatment for both diseases. The two-year research project has already found important results. We sat down with Professor Sweetland to talk a little bit about her research while she was in Rio.

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September 29, 2016

Race and Racism: Global Perspectives

In celebration of the launch of the exhibition “The Color Line” at the Musée Quai Branly, the Center will dedicate the first week of

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September 27, 2016

Groundwater and Group Interest

Are rural communities willing to pay for clean drinking water? How does household income influence the decision making of citizens regarding prioritizing water for agriculture or drinking purposes? How do you provide water to people in a sustainable manner? What are the incentives for a community to manage its common water resources? Dr. Katherine Alfredo, a research scientist from Earth Institute, Columbia University presented her ongoing research on some of these complex questions in a Lecture and Discussion organized by the Mumbai Center.

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September 22, 2016

Researchers attend Conference about National Development Banks in Rio

During September 15^th and 16^th, Economists from all over the world discussed Development Banks’ roles and their future during a Conference that took place place in Rio de Janeiro.

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September 21, 2016

Exploring a Region in Transition as Change Sweeps the Middle East

Historic waves of migration, unprecedented digital activism, challenges to religious pluralism: amid all of these developments in the Middle East, Columbia Global Centers – Columbia University’s network of eight education and learning centers around the world – are exploring the implications of these changes on culture, health and safety, and politics in the region.

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September 20, 2016

Economists discuss social policies for Rio de Janeiro

Columbia University Professor and former United Nations’ Deputy Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, José Antonio Ocampo, and Finance Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), Stephany Griffith-Jones, discussed social policies and their roles in the pursuit to reduce inequality, on Wednesday (September 14) in an event in Rio de Janeiro.

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September 20, 2016

Adressing Urgent Global Issues

As Europe experiences continuing challenges to its social and economic security, the Paris Center is a hub of discussion and debate of today’s most critical issues.

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September 20, 2016

Revisiting the Works of Gérard Koch

This new exhibit highlights artist Gérard Koch’s large-scale sculptures and mural works, including his iconic “Chute Libre,” as well as smaller drawings and forms.

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September 16, 2016

The Paris Center Announces Fall Programming

As summer comes to an end and a new crop of students arrive at the Paris Center for the fall semester, we are pleased to present

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September 15, 2016

World leaders must do more to educate refugee children, say top academics and influencers

We, 20 leading academics and influencers from across the world, have joined forces today in an open letter to world leaders - asking that they do more to ensure refugees obtain an education.

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September 13, 2016

Redefining a University’s Role for a World in Crisis

NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- "With civil conflict, terrorist threats, and major health crises causing unprecedented disruption in communities all over the world, universities must step up to a new level of globalism in our outlook and in our activities," says Professor Safwan M. Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University.

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August 31, 2016

University of Jordan and Columbia University to Cooperate on Refugees

The University of Jordan (UJ) President, Prof. Azmi Mahafzah received in his office on Tuesday an academic delegate from Columbia University (CU), New York, to discuss a joint academic project on refugees.

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August 29, 2016

Reception for Parents of 2016 Columbia Chinese newly-admitted students held successfully

On August 29th, Columbia Global Centers | New York and Beijing co-hosted a reception on campus in New York to welcome parents of 2016 Columbia Chinese newly-admitted students.

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August 24, 2016

Saving The Internet

Why did Facebook’s Free Basics program, available in 37 countries around the world, fail in India? What were the processes used by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in its judgement against Free Basics? How were the values of freedom, access, and digital equality invoked by the opposing sides? And finally, why does Net Neutrality matter in a country with such low rates of Internet penetration? Taking these questions offline, the Mumbai Center organized "Saving the Internet" as a conversation between Apar Gupta and Dr. Ravina Aggarwal.

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August 23, 2016

Columbia Teachers College held a meeting and happy hour event in Beijing

On August 23, Columbia University Teachers College held a meeting and happy hour event in Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, providing an opportunity for faculty and students from TC currently in Beijing as well as their local partners and friends to meet and network.

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August 17, 2016

“Symposium 2016 Beijing Summer Boot Camp” held successfully with support from Columbia Beijing Center

The Symposium 2016 Beijing Summer Boot Camp held from August 8 to August 14 at the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University (ESBNU), organized by students from Columbia University and supported by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. This year, the Symposium provided discussion sessions, workshop sessions and outing events in the past few days. More than 40 people were in attendance.

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August 08, 2016

Summer Practicum for Students of Public Health

Beginning in June, 2016, the Mumbai Center partnered with the Mailman School of Public Health to introduce a practicum that enables graduate students to complete a planned, supervised and evaluated field experience in India. The Center reached out to multiple organizations to house four student interns. The three organizations that were selected include Society for Nutrition, Education, and Health Action (SNEHA), Khushi Baby in Udaipur, and Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research (PUKAR).

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July 29, 2016

Xinhua News Agency highlighted that U.S. scholars optimistic about China’s ability to achieve 2016 growth target

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July 25, 2016

Gender and Agency

The Paris Center pursued several joint initiatives this spring on the theme of gender and agency.

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July 25, 2016

State of Grace: The 2016 series on architecture and collaboration continues

Paris Center has organized a series of encounters featuring prestigious speakers from the world of architecture, design and urban development

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July 22, 2016

CGC | Beijing, together with Columbia Teachers College, held an Info Session and Happy Hour

On Friday, July 22, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing on behalf of Teachers College hosted a Happy Hour for its incoming students.

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July 22, 2016

Open Lecture addresses reforms for Human Resources Management in Brazil’s public sector

On July 18th, representatives from Human Resources Departments of several public sector entities in Brazil came together to debate strategies for human resources management in public institutions with Professor Barbara Nunberg (Columbia/ SIPA) and Antoine Lusao (Director of Staff and Management at State Institute of Environment - INEA).

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July 21, 2016

Nansong Huang Piano Recital A Great Success

On July 21, a special piano performance was held at the Columbia Global Center | Beijing which showcased talented Columbia University and Juilliard School pianist Nansong Huang. The event was co-sponsored by the Columbia University Department of Music.

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July 21, 2016

Beijing Center hosted an Orientation for newly-admitted undergraduate students

On July 21, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing hosted a New Columbian Welcome Reception. Jackson Tse (CC’15) addressed a group of incoming undergraduate students and their parents.

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July 19, 2016

Nursing experts discuss regional healthcare challenges in Amman

Recognising the role of nurses as the “backbone” of the healthcare system, leaders in the profession are examining the needs and challenges of nurses in the region.

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July 18, 2016

Global Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research Development Initiative

Columbia Global Centers | Amman will host the Global Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research Development Initiative on July 18-19, 2016.

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July 17, 2016

“2016 Beijing Energy Week” held successfully with support from Columbia Beijing Center

2016 Beijing Energy Week (BEW) was held with great success from July 16- 20 in Beijing. A 4-day-workshop convened at Columbia Global Center | Beijing, Tsinghua University, and other places.The workshop brought together students, leaders from academia, and energy practitioners around the world to network and debate about the energy and sustainable development issues.

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July 14, 2016

Columbia School of Social Work held an information session about the Master’s of Social Work program at the Beijing Center

Dean Jeanette C. Takamuraand Associate Professor Qin Gaofrom Columbia School of Social Work had an information session about the Master's of Social Work program, as well as Ph.D program, at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing on a rainy night of July 14^th.

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July 12, 2016

Jordan to host global nursing, midwifery summit

Jordan will host experts from 22 countries for a global nursing and midwifery summit on Monday under the patronage of HRH Princess Muna, organisers said. The summit is the initiative of the Columbia Global Centres in Amman and New York’s Columbia University School of Nursing.

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July 11, 2016

Literature and translation lead to full audience in Rio, São Paulo and Paraty

Professors William Wadsworth, Administrative Academic Director of the Creative Writing Program at Columbia University’s School of The Arts, and Paulo Henriques Britto, from the Literature Department of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro talked on the Master Class “Word for word: Creative Writing and Literary Translation”, held at Estação das Letras (Rio de Janeiro) on July 6th.

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July 09, 2016

New Columbian Orientation and Welcome Reception was held with success

On July 9, the Beijing Center co-hosted an orientation and welcome reception for newly-enrolled students in partnership with the Columbia University Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CUCSSA) and the Columbia Alumni Association of Beijing.

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July 08, 2016

José Antonio Ocampo talks about Realizing the Potential of China’s G20 Presidency

José Antonio Ocampo, Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, and Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, has recently published an article titled Realizing the Potential of China’s G20 Presidency (published before Brexit vote). This article reviews briefly the uncertainty that today’s global economy especially the emerging world is experiencing.

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July 07, 2016

Workshop on Inequality highlights racial and gender challenges Brazil faces

Organized by Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, the goal of the meeting was to present the preliminary results from two collaborative researches between Interdisciplinary Center for Inequality Studies (NIED/UFRJ) and the Center for Studies of Wealth and Inequality (CWI/Columbia University) to a group specialized in stratification in Brazil.

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July 06, 2016

Global summit aims to develop sustainable network to support nursing and midwifery clinical research

On July 18-19, 2016, Columbia Global Centers | Amman and Columbia University School of Nursing will host the Global Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research Development Initiative in Amman, Jordan. Experts from approximately 22 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean region will meet to identify, prioritize, and gain consensus on how to address critical regional health needs.

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July 06, 2016

“Stereotypes matter”, says Columbia Professor on Gender Inequalities Master Class

Organized by Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with Department of Sociology at Columbia University and Interdisciplinary Center for Inequality Studies, from Federal University of Rio, the class brought a variety of themes related to gender inequalities that are being discussed.

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July 01, 2016

G-20 Energy Workshops in Beijing

As the G-20 Energy Ministerial Meeting was underway in Beijing, a workshop was held on June 28 which focused on the problems facing the solar power industry. The workshop, called “Financing Challenges for Solar Power”, was co-organized by the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy in partnership with the Clean Development Mechanism Fund of the Ministry of Finance, the Energy Development Research Center of the China Investment Association and the New Era Renewable Energy Alliance.

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June 24, 2016

Alliance Summer School in Science and Policy

For the fifth year, the Paris Center welcomed in June the Alliance Summer School in Science and Policy in Paris.

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June 24, 2016

Beijing Center hosted In-Country Orientation and Mixer

On June 15, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing held a Beijing In-Country Orientation and Mixer event for students who have their local internships under CEO and CU-GO programs, sponsored by the Center for Career Education (CCE).

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June 22, 2016

Columbia Beijing Week

The Columbia Beijing Week (June 14-19), organized by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, highlighted Columbia’s eminent professors and senior academic leadership, joined by renowned international and Chinese scholars, artists, film directors, critics and writers. The events are well attended by Columbia Alumni, students, parents and members of the media.

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June 22, 2016

Janet Abu-Lughod Library Seminar: Discussion and Closing Celebration

In March 2016, Studio-X Amman, in partnership with Sijal Institute for Arabic Language and Culture, launched the Janet Abu-Lughod Library seminar, a series of meetings led by Zachary Sheldon, doctoral student in Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and Fulbright Research Fellow in Amman.

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June 14, 2016

New Chair and Center for Turkish Studies Created at Columbia

Columbia University has created the Sakıp Sabancı Chair and Center for Turkish Studies, the first such center in the United States. Established with a $10 million gift and named for its benefactor, a Turkish businessman and philanthropist, the goal of the center and the professorship is to increase knowledge and awareness about Turkey.

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June 14, 2016

Columbia Üniversitesi’nde Sakıp Sabancı Kürsüsü kuruluyor

Sabancı Üniversitesi Onursal Başkanı Merhum Sakıp Sabancı'nın yenilikçi ve girişimci vizyonu doğrultusunda, Sakıp Sabancı Ailesi ve Sabancı Üniversitesi, Türkiye için bir ilki gerçekleştiriyor ve Columbia Üniversitesi’nde Sakıp Sabancı Kürsüsü ve Sakıp Sabancı Türkiye Çalışmaları Merkezi kuruluyor.

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June 14, 2016

Book Launch of The Arab City: Architecture and Representation

On June 14, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted the book launch for The Arab City: Architecture and Representation, edited by Amale Andraos, Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and Architecture Advisor to the President, Nora Akawi, Studio-X Amman Curator and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

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June 14, 2016

Sakıp Sabancı Chair and Center for Turkish Studies Created at Columbia University

Thanks to a generous gift from the family of the late Sakıp Sabancı, Columbia University has created the Sakıp Sabancı Chair and Center for Turkish Studies. As the first center for Turkish Studies in the United States named for its benefactor, the Sakıp Sabancı Center will forge a new era of scholarly collaborations between Sabancı University and Columbia University and also the two countries.

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June 10, 2016

CEO Program in Mumbai

As globalization increases, international cultural exposure and work experiences become important to successfully navigating and meeting the demands of a changing work environment. Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai hosted the Columbia Experience Overseas (CEO) program that offers undergraduate students a high quality internship experience in a diverse array of industries and organizations through alumni and employer partnerships in eight cities across the world. Ten students spent two months from June to August interning with leading for-profit and non-profit organizations in Mumbai.

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June 09, 2016

Like You’ve Never Been There: Cinema and the Memory of Cities

On June 9-12, architects and filmmakers gathered at the King Ghazi Hotel in downtown Amman for a program of film screenings and conversations on cinema, cities, counter-narratives, and subjectivity.

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June 07, 2016

La Situation du Langage

To mark the publication of Claire Joubert’s new book Critiques de l’anglais, the Paris Center hosted a discussion surrounding the question of language in academic disciplines, in literary criticism, and in publishing

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June 07, 2016

La scène féminine dans la tragédie d’Euripide

On Tuesday evening, the Salle de Conférence was filled with an audience eager to hear Claire Nancy, artist, actress, and author, discuss the recent release of her book Euripide et le parti des femmes.

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June 07, 2016

Columbia University Honored Dr. Zhu Chen Doctor of Science Degree

Dr. Zhu Chen received honorary degree and the University Medal for Excellence at the annual Commencement of Columbia University on May 18, 2016. President Lee Bollinger spoke highly of Dr. CHEN for being a tireless public servant responsbile for the health and well-being of 1.3 billion people as Chinese Minister of Health by expanding medical insurance coverage and increasing funding to cope with unprecedented public health challenges.

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June 03, 2016

Understanding Religious Pluralism in India

India is a multi-cultural and a diverse nation with a flourishing history of pluralism that has been thriving for thousands of years. Among the many faiths represented here are Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Jainism. As the world’s largest democracy, India presents a unique opportunity to understand a long and multifaceted heritage of religious diversity. With this reality in mind, the Mumbai Center hosted University Chaplain, Jewelnel Davis, and four Kraft Global Fellows from May 24-June 3 for an intensive field study on Religious Pluralism in India.

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June 02, 2016

Open Innovation Day promotes innovative solutions for urban problems

Open Innovation Day brings students from Columbia University and from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro to present prototypes of innovative solutions for the challenges faced by big cities.

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June 01, 2016

Columbia and Bogaziçi University Kick-off Unique Course Collaboration

Students in New York and Istanbul are simultaneously taking “The World Responds to the Greeks,” an undergraduate seminar co-taught by Prof. Dimitrios Antoniou at Columbia and Prof. Matthew Gumpert at Boğaziçi University. The course is part of the ongoing Columbia Global Seminar on Byzantine and Modern Encounters, originally offered in 2015 by Profs. Karen Van Dyck and Martha Howell. Prof. Gumpert was on campus as the semester began, and Prof. Antoniou will be in Istanbul for the final week of classes.

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May 31, 2016

Soraya Salti Youth for Youth Series

Columbia Global Centers | Amman is launching a series inspired by the legacy of the late Soraya Salti, former President and CEO for Middle East and North Africa at INJAZ Al-Arab, a non-profit organization that supports youth education and training in the Arab world.

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May 24, 2016

We Demand Peace from Paris to DRC: High School Students Fight for Justice

Two high school students, fighting to draw attention to horrific conditions in the violence-torn Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, were at the forefront of last night’s event at the Paris Center.

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May 21, 2016

Karl P. Sauvant published an article titled China, the G20 and the international investment regime

Karl P. Sauvant, Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), has recently published an article titled China, the G20 and the international investment regime, Towards the 2016 G20: Global Analyses and Challenges for the Chinese Presidency, special issue of China and the World Economy (2016).

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May 18, 2016

Master Class on characters creation closes “TV Writing Intensive” week

On May 13th, Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro promoted the public Master Class “Creating compelling characters in the era of unpredictable changes”, taught by Professor Joe Cacaci at Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR).

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May 17, 2016

Columbia Global Centers | Amman 2015 Annual Report is now available online

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May 16, 2016

WOMEN ON THE MOVE - Report from the Inaugural Regional Workshop May 16-18, 2016 | Istanbul

UN Women and Oxfam brought together 60 representatives from some of the most active CSOs in MENA and Europe to discuss their experiences working with refugees to provide a platform for CSO networking on May 16-18, 2016 in Istanbul.

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May 11, 2016

The Republic of Imagination

Nearly 100 booklovers crowded into the Paris Center for a discussion of the Republic of the Imagination, the eponymous space defined in Azar Nafisi's latest book.

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May 11, 2016

Sabancı University Executive MBA Program signs a cooperation agreement with Columbia Business School

Sabancı School of Management entered a partnership with the Executive Education program at Columbia Business School, one of the leading business schools of the world with a century of experience.The partnership will enable Sabancı University Executive MBA students to attend a two-week Executive Education leadership program at Columbia Business School in New York.

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May 10, 2016

Graduate Students and Young Scholars Meeting (GYM) Workshop and Happy Hour

The Weatherhead Institute with the help of Columbia Global Centers | Beijing held a student engagement event –“Graduate Students and Young Scholars Meeting (GYM) Workshop and Happy Hour” from 6pm to 9pm on Apr. 6, 2016.

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May 09, 2016

PODCAST: Talk and book launch Return: A Palestinian Memoir with Ghada Karmi

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May 09, 2016

Talk and book launch of "Return: A Palestinian Memoir" with Ghada Karmi

In this talk, Ghada Karmi reviewed the history and importance of the Palestinian right of return and why no refugee has ever given up on it. She linked this with her latest book, Return: A Palestinian Memoir, and pointed to some future directions for how a solution to the conflict with Israel might include the right of return.

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May 09, 2016

2015-2016 Speaker Series

The Amman Center hosts regular public talks for members of the local community to engage with scholars and learn more about a wide range of topics, from current affairs, to history, to the arts.

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May 06, 2016

President's Global Innovation Fund 2016

Results for the fourth President’s Global Innovation Fund (PGIF) round this year were announced on May 6, 2016.

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May 04, 2016

PODCAST: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World - A Talk by Wade Davis

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May 04, 2016

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World - A Talk by Wade Davis

Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? Wade Davis led us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world’s indigenous cultures.

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April 29, 2016

Theeb at Columbia University: Film Screening and Discussion

Columbia Global Centers | Amman presented the Columbia University public screening of the film Theeb on April 29, 2016.

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April 27, 2016

Fostering Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education in Tunisia

In collaboration with the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), the Amman Center is working with engineering faculty at five leading Tunisian universities to introduce critical elements of an entrepreneurship curriculum and consult on how to build an ecosystem that will support entrepreneurial activities in the Tunisian context.

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April 26, 2016

Media and Democracy in Brazil: Under Challenge

On April 18th, Columbia Journalism School and Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro held a panel discussion on the media in Brazil and its current challenges.

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April 26, 2016

PODCAST: The Case for Lasting U.S. Engagement in the Middle East - a Talk by Ambassador Alice Wells

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April 26, 2016

Beyond the Rhetoric of False Choices: The Case for Lasting U.S. Engagement in the Middle East - A Talk by Ambassador Alice Wells

During the most tumultuous period the region has experienced in decades, the U.S. relationship with the Middle East has been the subject of intense interest and debate. Ambassador Wells made the case for why U.S. interests in the Middle East transcend the profound current challenges, and discussed how America’s national interests demand continued and deepened engagement with the region.

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April 19, 2016

The New Era of Extreme Bionics - A Talk by Hugh Herr

Hugh Herr is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Herr heads the Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab, which is creating bionic limbs that emulate the function of natural limbs.

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April 13, 2016

2016 Her Village International Forum themed “Inclusive Society, True Partnership”

2016 Her Village International Forum themed "Inclusive Society, True Partnership", organized by Sun Media Group and supported by Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, has successfully concluded on April 3rd.

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April 13, 2016

Former President of Central Bank of Brazil discusses competitiveness with Global EMPA Brazilian students

Last Thursday (April 7th), economist Gustavo Franco was a guest lecturer at the Global Executive Master in Public Administration (Global EMPA), a program offered by the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University (SIPA), at Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro.

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April 11, 2016

The Search for a Mideast Solution: A Discussion between Professor Safwan Masri and Nicolas Pelham

On April 11, 2016, Columbia Global Reports hosted a discussion about the book Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East, published by Columbia Global Reports in 2016. The speakers included author of the book, Nicolas Pelham, Middle East correspondent for The Economist and Professor Safwan M.

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April 08, 2016

Synthetic Biology and Study Abroad: An Interview with Columbia Student Deja Robinson

Columbia student Deja Robinson was recently selected to participate in the iGem competition, as part of a team at the Pasteur Institute.

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March 30, 2016

Columbia University Board of Trustees Extends Lee C. Bollingers Term to 2022

University President Lee Bollinger will continue to lead Columbia until at least 2022, the board of trustees announced on Monday.

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March 28, 2016

Woman and City: A Conversation with Wang Anyi

In collaboration with Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing co-hosted a public lecture on“Woman and City: A Conversation with Wang Anyi” at Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University, on March 21.

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March 23, 2016

High-level Roundtable Conference on the Role of the State in Economic Growth was held in Beijing

On March 18, 2016, Beijing Center co-hosted a high-level roundtable conference on the Role of the State in Economic Growth, at which three Nobel Laureates Joseph E. Stiglitz, Edmund S. Phelps, and A. Michael Spence were invited to give the keynote address and participate in a discussion. Other participants consist of world-renowned scholars and professionals, including Merit Janow, Jeffrey Sachs, Yingyi Qian, Lan Xue, Martin Feldstein, Kenneth Lieberthal, Peter Jungen, David Li, and Lawrence J. Lau, to name just a few.

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March 23, 2016

Rio Innovation Hub launches new Design Challenge on “Sensing and the City”

Another Design Challenge was launched in the scope of the Columbia Innovation Hub in collaboration with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

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March 22, 2016

South China Morning Post reports on “the Role of the State in Economic Growth Roundtable”

On March 18, 2016, Beijing Center co-hosted a high-level roundtable conference on the Role of the State in Economic Growth, with the Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG), the Columbia University Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Tsinghua University, at which three Nobel Laureates Joseph E. Stiglitz, Edmund S. Phelps, and A. Michael Spence were invited to give keynote address and participate into discussion.

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March 22, 2016

Edmund Phelps Shares Perspectives on “the Role of the State in Economic Growth Roundtable”

On March 18, 2016, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing co-hosted a high-level roundtable conference on the Role of the State in Economic Growth, with the Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG), the Columbia University Initiative for Policy Dialogue and Tsinghua University.

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March 19, 2016

PODCAST: Is the American Century Over? - A Talk by Joseph Nye

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March 19, 2016

Is the American Century Over

For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now, some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that the American Century is over? Will China's rapid rise spark a new Cold War between the two titans?

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March 18, 2016

Studio-X Rio celebrates its fifth anniversary with exhibition on housing alternatives of social movements

On March 15th, Studio X Rio celebrated its fifth anniversary

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March 18, 2016

Roundtable with Columbia academics and Brazilian specialists addresses new horizons on Public Health

The roundtable Future Cities + Health, held on March 15th at the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, brought together specialists in the field of Public Health to address the biggest demands of global cities.

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March 17, 2016

Global Executive Master in Public Administration welcomes its class of 2017

On January 15th, the Global Executive Master of Public Administration (Global EMPA) program welcomed its second class of students. The 18-month degree program was launched last year through the Columbia Global Centers |Rio de Janeiro with an inaugural cohort of 22 students from government, non-profit, and private sectors throughout Brazil.

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March 17, 2016

Questions on Gender: International Women’s Day at the Paris Center

The Paris Center celebrated International Women’s Day with a program of events designed to highlight and reflect upon the ongoing struggle for gender equality.

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March 14, 2016

Panel “Building the Cities of Tomorrow” addressed future challenges for a more sustainable growth

Columbia professors and Brazilian specialists engaged in the discussion of topics such as environment, urban planning and public health issues in the world’s largest cities.

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March 12, 2016

Cities of Knowledge: Displaying Archaeological Knowledge in the Public Spaces of Amman

This travel seminar explored the urban development of the city of Amman through its two major archaeological sites – the ancient buildings of the Roman city of Philadelphia, with its amphitheater, Odeon theater and the Nymphaeum, and the Qala'a (Citadel) – the Umayyad Palace.

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March 11, 2016

Soraya Salti Youth For Youth Series

Columbia Global Centers | Amman, a hub for Columbia University research and educational initiatives in the Middle East and one in a network of eight global centers around the world, announces the Soraya Salti Youth for Youth Series.

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March 09, 2016

Jordan: Learning From Scratch

Schools are widely recognized as being on the frontline of countering violent extremism. And a campaign is now underway to push the Jordanian government to reform the nation’s education system.

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February 29, 2016

Prof. Levent Kurnaz of Boğaziçi University on using Prof. Jeff Sachs’s online SDSNedu course, ‘The Age of Sustainable Development’

Last semester, Jeffrey Sachs’s online educational course, ‘The Age of Sustainable Development,’ was roadtested by students at Boğaziçi University.

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February 25, 2016

Rio Innovation Hub launches its second Design Challenge

Columbia Engineering and Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro jointly launched a design challenge on February 15th focused around bringing innovative engineering, sensing technologies, Internet-of-Things, and big data analytics to the multi-faceted challenges of smart cities.

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February 18, 2016

When U.S. universities export their education to the Middle East

In the past two decades, there has been a significant increase in the presence of U.S. universities and colleges in the Middle East, with many elite schools setting up outposts in the GCC countries.

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February 15, 2016

Call for Applications: Sixth Annual Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Palestine Studies

The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University's Middle East Institute is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod (IAL) Award in Palestine Studies.

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February 10, 2016

Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color: An Opening Evening to Remember

Nearly 300 people gathered at the Paris Center on February 3 for the unveiling of Resonance of Form and Vibration of Color, an exhibition celebrating the works of Beauford Delaney.

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January 31, 2016

Third edition of School of The Arts TV Writing Program takes place at Rio Center

Another chapter of the ever frutiful partnership between Columbia University School of The Arts, Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro and RioFilme was written this past January 2016.

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January 25, 2016

Columbia Sounds – A New Concert Series at Columbia Global Centers | Paris

Starting in spring 2016, the Paris Center, in collaboration with the Department of Music, will host a new concert series focusing on the faculty, students, and alumni of Columbia University, which has long been one of the world’s most influential centers of music composition.

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January 14, 2016

Xu and Song Education and Culture Endowment Fund Established at C.V. Starr East Asian Library

The endowment, with initial principal funding of $500,000 was established by Chinese entrepreneur Jin Xu and his wife, Mengjun Song. The fund will support collection development, administration, public programming, and research at the Starr Library.

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January 14, 2016

Center Hosted “On the Margins of American Cinema” Themed Events by Richard Peña

Richard Peña, Professor of Film at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Former Program Director of the Film Society at Lincoln Center and Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival visited China and brought us a series of themed events named “On the Margins of American Cinema” hosted by Columbia Global Centers | East Asia (Beijing) from January 6th to January 14th.

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January 10, 2016

University President Lee C. Bollinger Met with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang

On the afternoon of January 6, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang met with Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, a professor of law, in Zhongnanhai in Beijing.

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January 08, 2016

University President Lee C. Bollinger met with Mr. Jining Chen, the Minister of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China

On Jan. 8, 2016, University President Lee C. Bollinger met with Mr. Jining Chen, the Minister of Environmental Protection of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing and they exchanged their views towards the mutual collaborations on environmental protection.

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December 25, 2015

Global Citizenship: A Conversation with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

In a time when questions of national identity and citizenship have taken on extreme importance, Atossa Abrahamian's discussion of her book, The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen was inevitably going to lead a lively evening at the Paris Center.

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December 16, 2015

“The World’ s Professor” Joseph Stiglitz and China’s Economic Reform

On Dec. 7th, Professor Joseph Stiglitz was invited by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to the China’s “13th 5-year-plan” planning experts symposium, which sparked worldwide concern.

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December 14, 2015

Save the Date: International Legal Dialogue—Middle East North Africa

The Columbia Global Centers | Middle East, Columbia Law School, and the American Society of International Law are holding a conference on the theme “International Legal Dialogue—Middle East North Africa” on December 14 - 15, 2015.

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December 09, 2015

PODCAST: Qatar: Small State, Big Politics - A Talk by Mehran Kamrava

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December 02, 2015

Thomas Trebat to deliver keynote speech at Oil and Gas Conference taking place at FGV

Thomas Trebat to deliver keynote speech at Oil and Gas Conference taking place at FGV.

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November 15, 2015

MENA religious leaders prepare strategy against incitement to violence

Middle East and North African religious leaders have developed a regional strategy to counter incitement to violence and agreed on steps for its implementation, according to a UN official.

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November 11, 2015

From the Retrenchment towards the Maximalism? --- Professor Stephen Sestanovich Talks on the America’s Foreign Policy Debate

The U.S. presidential primaries are currently in full swing, and one of the debate issues that attract observers from all over the world is the future of America’s foreign policy. As Professor Stephen Sestanovich explains in his book Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama, the diplomatic direction of the U.S. will be undoubtedly influential for the future of the world.

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November 10, 2015

Center Hosts Public Talk on Xiaomi and the Shift from Products to Services

Nov. 5th 2015, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing hosted a speech by Dr. Clay Shirky, associate professor at NYU Shanghai and author of several books including the newly released Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream from publisher Columbia Global Report, on the topic of Xiaomi and the shift from products to services. The speech was followed by a discussion facilitated by Kaiser Kuo, Baidu’s Director of International Communications. The event was highly successful and well-attended.

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November 09, 2015

PODCAST: Gulf States’ Hard Power vs. Soft Power: A Line in the Sand - A Talk by Sultan Al Qassemi

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November 06, 2015

China's Design Culture is Kicking off: Expert

Chinese companies like Xiaomi are living proof that "China's design culture is kicking off," American Internet expert Clay Shirky told Xinhua in an exclusive interview.

Founded in 2010 and now the world's third largest smartphone company, Xiaomi shows China's shift from a global manufacturer to a global innovater, Shirky said.

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October 30, 2015

Lucinda Childs: In Her Own Words

An icon of postmodern dance, choreographer Lucinda Childs spoke to a packed crowd at Reid Hall on Oct. 28. Her third appearance here as a guest of The Arts Arena, Childs reflected on her early career, her artistic partnerships with composers like Philipp Glass and John Adams, and discussed the revival of her work, Available Light, which will be performed in Paris this week as part of the Festival d’Automne.

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October 26, 2015

Center Host Themed Events on the Politics of Memory in Global Context

Under Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought, scholars in the social sciences and humanities, psychologists and neuroscientist, and curators of historical museums gathered at Columbia Global Center| East Asia (Beijing) on October 15 to participate in two-day themed events on the politics of war memory in East Asia and elsewhere.

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October 21, 2015

PODCAST: Living Through Innovation - A Talk by Hayat Sindi

You can now listen to the podcast of Living Through Innovation - A Talk by Hayat Sindi here

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October 20, 2015

Syria’s Refugee Crisis: Public Health Challenges

In March 2011, pro-democracy protests erupted in Syria. Violent conflict between demonstrators and government forces spiraled into what is now, four and a half years later, a civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people and forced more than 4 million people to flee the country, with millions more families displaced inside Syria’s borders.

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October 14, 2015

Columbia Global Centers Strategy Prioritizes Engagement

Columbia and New York University may both lead the pack when it comes to developing a presence abroad, but they have markedly distinct ideologies that have informed their global campus footprints.

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October 14, 2015

Urban Climate Change Research Network Opens its Latin American hub at FioCruz

The Latin American hub of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) was launched on October 13, in Rio de Janeiro.

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October 08, 2015

Columbia's global center strategy prioritizes engagement over NYU's 'one-way exchange of knowledge'

Columbia and New York University may both lead the pack when it comes to developing a presence abroad, but they have markedly distinct ideologies that have informed their global campus footprints.

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September 28, 2015

World Writers' Festival 2015: Edna O'Brien

Three hundred people turned out to hear Dame Edna O’Brien, hailed as one of Ireland’s greatest living writers, in the moonlit gardens of the Irish Cultural Center on Saturday night. Eighty-four year old O’Brien, an engaging story-teller, had the crowd laughing as she described anecdotes from her early years as a writer, some of which feature in her 2012 memoir, A Country Girl.

September 28, 2015

World Writers' Festival 2015: Yiyun Li

Chinese-American author Yiyun Li’s conversation with Sylvain Bourmeau on Day Two of the World Writers' Festival 2015 focused on her choice to write in English rather than Chinese, her mother tongue, and how this choice has informed her vision of America and China.

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September 28, 2015

World Writers' Festival 2015: AS Byatt

Booker-prize winning novelist AS Byatt spoke at the Ecole normale supérieure with a fascinating discussion with Le Monde’s Raphaelle Rérolle on creative inspiration, the nature of narrative, and the central role played by language, color and the senses in her writing process.

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September 24, 2015

Technical Report Delivery to Family Development Foundation

Given the current governmental priorities for social service development in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates, a trained cadre of professional social workers is needed in a fast growing economically, and socially evolving country to take on the multi-level roles of program design, development, implementation, evaluation and management.

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September 21, 2015

Columbia Global Centers’ Advisory Board Summit

The Columbia Global Centers held its inaugural Advisory Board Summit at Columbia University in New York on September 21 and 22. The meeting, which was chaired by President Lee C. Bollingerand Professor Safwan Masri, included over 30 members from across all eight advisory boards who met for the first time as a common group.

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September 09, 2015

Center Hosts Public Talk on BRICS by Marcos Troyjo

Marcos Troyjo, director of BRICLab and adjunct professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, spoke at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing on September 8th, examining the trajectory of globalization over the past 25 years and what the world might look like in 2030.

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September 04, 2015

Info Sessions were held in three cities for the Global Executive Master in Public Administration

Informational Sessions were held in São Paulo, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, where candidates had a chance to get to know more about the Global Executive Master in Public Administration.

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September 02, 2015

Center Hosts Policy Dialogue on China - Latin America Economic Relations

Columbia Global Centers | Beijing hosted a discussion on the economic prospects of Latin America and the bilateral implications for China-Latin America relations at an August 29 event that featured two Columbia professors.

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August 27, 2015

Chinese Translation Released of Jeffrey Sachs’ “The Age of Sustainable Development”

The Chinese translation of The Age of Sustainable Development by Columbia Professor Jeffrey Sachs was released this June.

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August 27, 2015

Columbia Global Seminar Scheduled in Istanbul for Spring 2015

Columbia's Office of Global Programs is delighted to announce a brand new spring semester study abroad program in the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul, Turkey.

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August 24, 2015

Center Hosts Discussion on Global Communications Networks

Richard R. John, professor of history and communications at Columbia Journalism School, gave a public talk on the history of global communications networks at the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing on August 20. He also met with prospective students to Columbia Journalism School for a discussion on journalism-related topics.

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August 24, 2015

Opportunity for Brazilian Scholar at Columbia University

The Coordination for Improvement of Graduate Level Staff (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Capes) seeks a scholar in Brazil to take part in teaching and research activities on Social and Sciences and Humanities at Columbia University.

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August 24, 2015

Professor Richard Peña attracts crowds in Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro

Richard Peña, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia's School of The Arts, made one of his highly anticipated visits to Brazil last week.

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August 21, 2015

Conference on Mobile Learning held by Columbia Center for Brazilian Studies in Brasília

On August 12th and 13th 2015, Columbia University's Center for Brazilian Studies held a conference on Mobile Learning.

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August 18, 2015

The Role of Local Government in Addressing the Impact of Syrian Refugees: Jordan Case Study

Nearly 4 million refugees have fled the war in Syria to date, and most are being hosted by neighboring states, in areas which already face significant economic and social challenges.

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August 12, 2015

Amman Cultural Trails Workshop

Studio-X Amman organized a summer workshop on August 12-23, 2015 led by Jyoti Hosagrahar, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (GSAPP), and Founder/Director of the Sustainable Urbanism International Lab.

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August 02, 2015

iSustain Initiative Awards Ceremony

Columbia Global Centers | Middle East will hosted the award ceremony of the iSustain Initiative on August 2, 2015.

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July 28, 2015

Academic Visit by Professor Ari Goldman

Ari Goldman, Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and Director of the Scripps Howard Program in Religion, Journalism, and the Spiritual Life, visited Jordan on 28-30 July, 2015 to prepare for his “Covering Religion” course at Columbia University.

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July 27, 2015

Visit to Tunisia

Professor Safwan Masri visited Tunisia on July 27 - August 1 in follow up to his week-long exploratory visit in January 2015 with Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and Jean Magnano Bollinger.

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July 23, 2015

The Global EMPA Class of 2016 has spent the summer in New York

The Global EMPA students went to New York this July to complete the program Summer term on campus.

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July 22, 2015

Brazil as Global Crossroads: how art forms travel to and from Brazil

This summer, Columbia University faculty has visited Rio de Janeiro to conduct research at the Instituto Moreira Salles and other institutions. This visit represents the first step in planning a conference and exhibit on the topic of “Brazil as Global Crossroads” to be mounted in Rio and in New York City.

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July 22, 2015

Alexander Alberro gives lecture on Contemporary Art

Professor Alberro, the Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College, offered an open lecture at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage

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July 17, 2015

Barry Bergdoll discusses Latin American Architecture in Rio de Janeiro

Barry Bergdoll, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Curator of Architecture at the Museu of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, came to Rio de Janeiro for a week in July.

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July 15, 2015

The Jordanian Ministry of Education begins a review of textbooks and curricula

As the Ministry of Education in Jordan continues the implementation of the first phase of a process aimed at developing curricula and textbooks, the views of education experts vary. Professor Safwan M. Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University, explained that the reform process of curricula seems superficial.

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July 15, 2015

Full house for open lecture by Jose Moya on African slavery at UFRJ

José Moya, Director of the Barnard College Forum on Migration and Director of the Institue of Latin American Studies at Columbia University, came to Brazil on a research duty.

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July 14, 2015

Graciela Montaldo debates popular culture in Latin American at the turn of the 20th century

Graciela Montaldo, Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University, was part of the Humanities group that came to Rio de Janeiro.

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July 14, 2015

Entrepreneur Addresses Second Edition of Nairobi Center Workshop

At the Thinking Big Workshop held recently at the Nairobi Center, Manilal Premchand Chandaria shared the values his family instilled in him.

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July 13, 2015

Little Research is Done in Africa by or for Nurses

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July 10, 2015

Moving the Agenda Forward for Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research in Southern and Eastern African Countries

Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi, hosted “Moving the Agenda Forward for Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Research in Southern and Eastern Africa”, on July 8th – 9th, 2015 in Nairobi Kenya. Partners included:

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July 09, 2015

Nursing Summit Preparatory Visit

Jennifer Dohrn, Assistant Professor of Nursing at Columbia University Medical Center and Director of the Office of Global Initiatives and its World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Advanced Practice Nursing, made a brief visit to Jordan on July 12-15, 2015.

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July 03, 2015

Director of C.V. Starr East Asian Library on Global Collaboration

Columbia University’s C.V. Starr East Asian Library sets itself apart as the home of one of the major collections for the study of East Asia in the United States. Possessing over one million volumes of rich materials of various kinds and languages, the library is crucial to the pursuit of rigorous intellectual inquiry and provides a place for students and scholars to satisfy their curiosity about all things Chinese.

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June 26, 2015

Columbia Among Greenest Universities (Bestcolleges.com)

There are many campuses that claim to be, and no doubt are, environmentally friendly to one degree or another. Which universities and colleges stand out, though? What does a campus do to make their grounds and carbon footprint greener than the next school?

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June 25, 2015

Announcing the fifth recipient of the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Award in Palestine Studies

Announcing the fifth recipient of the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Award in Palestine Studies, Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

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June 25, 2015

Register for Columbia GlobeMUN Istanbul, Nov. 5-8

High school students from Jordan and the region are invited to register for the Columbia GlobeMUN conference to be held in Istanbul on November 5 to 8, 2015.

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June 25, 2015

Public Health Professionals from Turkey Visit Mailman School of Public Health

Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia Global Centers | Turkey are pleased to welcome three health professionals from Turkey to the New York campus in June. Dr. Onur Özlem Köse, Deputy Director of the Istanbul Public Health Directorate, Dr. Pınar Ay and Dr. Serap Çifçili, both of Marmara University, will be participating in the Epidemiology and Public Health Summer Institute (https://cuepisummer.org), where they will be interacting with leading scholars from Mailman and other health professionals from around the world.

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June 25, 2015

International Aid Groups Release Report in Nairobi on Education Under Attack

A group of thirty key stakeholders from the education sector in Kenya gathered at the Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi to deliberate the future of education in areas plagued by insecurity and conflict.

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June 23, 2015

Group of Humanities Professors to visit Global Center in Rio de Janeiro

n the coming month of July, the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro will receive researchers and professors from different departments of Columbia University, who study the broader area of Humanities.

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June 22, 2015

New Masters program at UNIFOR in partnership with Columbia University

Columbia University and its partnership with the Edson Queiroz Foundation - University of Fortaleza is rendering more fruits.

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June 21, 2015

Global Centers Connect with Alumni in Greece

Professor Safwan M. Masri and Ipek Cem Taha met with Columbia University alumni in Greece on June 21, at a lunch reception held in collaboration with the Columbia Alumni Club of Greece, which is led by Maria Karageorgeou and a dedicated team of alumni leaders.

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June 10, 2015

Columbia Experience Overseas Program

The Columbia Global Centers | Middle East continues to hold the Columbia Experience Overseas Program (CEO), in partnership with the Center for Career Education at Columbia University. CEO is a unique eight-week internship offered for the fifth time in Amman on June 10 - August 8, 2015. The program was organized in coordination with Jill Burya, Associate Director, Center for Career Education.

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June 10, 2015

Workshop on Public Health and Resilience held in Rio de Janeiro

On June 9th, 2015, the Rio Center received a few guests to discuss Healthcare Practices in a Resilient City.

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June 09, 2015

Romancing the Crowd : Charlotte Rampling and Jane Birkin at the Paris Center

A capacity crowd gathered last Tuesday to celebrate German and English Romanticism with two iconic British actresses who have become a recognizable part of French popular culture – Charlotte Rampling and Jane Birkin.

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June 09, 2015

Experts Shared Perspectives on Promoting a Sustainable Supply Chain at Sustainability Policy and Business Practice Forum

On May 8, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and The Sustainability Consortium, in partnership with the Walmart Foundation and the China Environmental United Certification Center (CEC), hosted a high-level forum titled “Sustainability Policy and Business Practice Forum” to discuss Chinese enterprises’ experiences and strategies in sustainable development, focusing on the supply chain.

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June 08, 2015

The Urban China Initiative Calls For Photographic Submissions

Urban China Initiative Photo Contest 2015

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June 08, 2015

Columbia History Professor Discussed Women’s Citizenship

In the 40-minute talk, Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, unfolded the dynamic history of American women gaining and defining their citizenship. She began her remarks by commenting on the success of a 2013 book written by Sheryl Sandberg,the COO of Facebook, which urged women to assert themselves and accelerate career demands.

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June 08, 2015

PODCAST - The Tunisian Democratic Transition in Comparative Perspective: A Talk by Alfred Stepan

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June 04, 2015

Empowering Youth Globally for Sustainable Development Solutions: SDSN-Youth Launched at Columbia Global Centers | Europe

On the evening of June 4, 2015 in Paris, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) launched a new initiative, SDSN Youth (SDSN-Y).

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June 01, 2015

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Michelle K. Lee Shares Perspectives on STEM Education and Careers in the 21st Century

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Michelle K. Lee and the State Intellectual Property Office Deputy Director General Zhang Peng spoke at the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing on May 25 about education and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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June 01, 2015

Columbia Arabic Summer Program

The Center, in conjunction with Columbia’s Office of Global Programs, is holding the sixth offering of the annual Arabic language program and the second offering of the Columbia MENA Summer Program in May-August 2015.

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June 01, 2015

Hard Lessons: Improving Education in the Middle East is as Important as Ending the Region’s Conflicts

Safwan Masri is quoted in the second column of this viewpoint by Matt McAllester.

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May 31, 2015

Summer Program on Democracy and Constitutional Engineering in the Middle East

Columbia University offered a new intensive three-week summer program in May-June 2015 focused on democracy and constitutional engineering in the Middle East. The program is organized by Columbia Global Centers | Middle East, Columbia Global Centers | Turkey, and the Office of Global Programs.

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May 25, 2015

Columbia Summer Programs Now Open for Enrollment

Columbia Global Centers | Beijing is hosting a certificate workshop on energy and environment offered by Earth Institute this summer in Beijing, and co-sponsoring a certificate training program in teaching Chinese and a student summer program on social science at Columbia.

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May 24, 2015

PODCAST - Language, Landscape and Identity in Palestine: A Talk by Raja Shehadeh

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May 24, 2015

Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates Program

In conjunction with Columbia College and the Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability, the Center is offering the fifth iteration of the Summer Ecosystem Experiences for Undergraduates (SEE-U) Program in May-June 2015.

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May 21, 2015

Global Center signs agreement with the State of Rio de Janeiro for Tax Data Usage

Dr. Thomas J. Trebat, Director of the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro, has signed an agreement with Rio de Janeiro's State Finance Secretary, to allow researchers from Columbia University to use the data on tax revenue.

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May 12, 2015

Provost Announces Faculty Winners of 2015 President’s Global Innovation Fund

The President’s Global Innovation Fund awards grants for faculty members to leverage and engage Columbia’s global centers' network. The program is designed as a venture fund to enable the development of projects and research collaborations within and across these sites, in order to increase global opportunities for research, teaching, and service.

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May 11, 2015

The Law and Economics of Capital Market Regulations Course taught in Rio de Janeiro

Last week, the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro was glad to co-host - along with CVM, the Brazilian regulators of Capital Markets - the Program in Law and Economics of Capital Markets, which is offered jointly by Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School.

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April 30, 2015

Bearden Exhibit Explores Artists’ Odysseys

The Blue Voyagers exhibit opened with a splash April 15 in Istanbul—following a month-long run in Paris at Columbia Global Centers | Europe—and featured a reception, panel discussion and extensive coverage in the Turkish press. The exhibition will include a concert with Standard à la Turc on May 13 at Sismanoglio Megaro at 8 p.m.

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April 30, 2015

Rio Center Hosts Enterprise Risk Management Workshops

On April 28 and 29, the Dean of Columbia University's School of Continuing Education, Kristine Billmyer, came to Rio de Janeiro accompanied by Enterprise Risk Management Professor Sim Segal.

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April 20, 2015

The Rio Center receives group from Barnard College

From March 15 to 20, the Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro had the pleasure to welcome a group from Barnard College in Rio de Janeiro.

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April 20, 2015

City of Rio de Janeiro Partners with Columbia on Innovation Hub

Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro Director and the mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, were joined by two Columbia deans and the provost at a ceremony on April 16th to sign the agreement for creating the Rio Columbia Innovation Hub.

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April 18, 2015

Symposium: Global Think-In on Time and Trauma - Memory in Global Perspective

The Columbia Global Centers | Middle East hosted the Global Think-In on Time and Trauma: Memory in Global Perspective on April 18. The event included a film screening of "Letter to a Refusing Pilot" by filmmaker Akram Zaatari.

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April 17, 2015

Hear the Current State of Court Reform in China from the Experts

Over the past year China has announced and begun to implement the most important reforms to the legal system in years. On April 23, the Beijing Center was honored to bring to local community three top experts in the field of China's legal studies to discuss the current development of court reform in China. The discussion focused on efforts to increase transparency, reduce external interference in the courts, and professionalize the judiciary.

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April 16, 2015

Time and Trauma: Panel and Workshop

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey, in collaboration with Professor Edhem Eldem of Bogaziçi University, organizes a workshop and panel on "Time and Trauma", featuring Professors Carol Gluck and Rashid Khalidi of Columbia University.

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April 03, 2015

Q and A with Professor Carol Gluck

Historian Carol Gluck is the George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

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April 03, 2015

Centers in Istanbul and Amman to Host Global Think-Ins

Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought is going on the road again this month, taking its Global Think-Ins to Istanbul and Amman to extend the conversation about the national and international political tensions in public memory.

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March 27, 2015

Global Perspectives on Education brings more than 350 people in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

Columbia Global Centers | Latin America Rio de Janeiro hosted panel discussions on education in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo on March 18 and 19, respectively, featuring distinguished panelists to discuss education in Rio and Brazil.

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March 26, 2015

Applications Due April 13 for Summer Training Program on Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past

The Regional Network for Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past is now accepting applications through April 13 to its seven-day training program in Istanbul.

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March 24, 2015

Looking at Tunisia: A Series of Talks

The Columbia Global Centers | Middle East organized a thematic speaker series entitled “Looking at Tunisia” that ran at the Center from March-June 2015.

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March 24, 2015

The Global Search for Education: Being Global – An International Pre-Graduate Program

“We want students to be well informed and prepared before they apply to their top choice graduate schools.” — Tom Rock

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March 23, 2015

East Africa Oral Health Summit

Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi hosted the first ever regional Oral Health Summit that was held from 23 to 24 March 2016. The summit was hosted under a collaborative partnership between the Columbia University Medical Center, University of Nairobi, School of Dental Science and Unilever Africa, to address the topic; “Integration of Oral Health and Health”.

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March 19, 2015

Rio Center to develop collaboration with Brazilian National School of Public Administration

The Rio Center and ENAP – Brazil´s National School of Public Administration are evaluating possibilities of collaborations between ENAP and Columbia University.

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March 11, 2015

History, Monuments, Urban Life: Boğaziçi - Columbia Summer School in Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

Columbia University and Bogazici University are offering an exciting a joint summer program for undergraduate and graduate students which provides a unique opportunity to learn about the history, urban development, and historic monuments of the city of Byzantion/Constantinople/Istanbul.

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March 07, 2015

Prioritizing Women - Adapting Refugee Health Services for 21st Century Health Challenges

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey and Studio-X Istanbul hosted special panel discussion, the first of a series of public events designed to elaborate on the issues and themes of "The Good Cause: Architectures of Peace" and the "Vocabulary of Hospitality" exhibition.

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March 05, 2015

Call for Papers on Latin America-China Economic Relations

To foster the study and interest of Latin America-China relations in the context of a changing world economic structure, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue from Columbia University will join Southwestern University of Science and Technology from China to conduct an annual economic policy workshop in China.

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March 04, 2015

Certificate Program in Teaching Chinese Now Accepting Applications

Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2015 and Winter 2016 in the Certificate Program in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. The program will be hosted at Teachers College and will provide state-of-the-art training in Chinese pedagogy.

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March 01, 2015

Ravina Aggarwal Named Director of Mumbai Center

Ravina Aggarwal will become the new director of Columbia Global Centers | South Asia on April 1, 2015.

March 01, 2015

Center Hosts Sustainable Development Course for Columbia and Princeton Students

A joint team of students from Columbia and Princeton Universities attended a course in Nairobi at Columbia Global Centers | Africa as part of their Sustainable Development in Practice program. The course is designed to give the students a practical but broad-based understanding of sustainable development in East Africa.

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February 16, 2015

Sustainable Cities Expert Aromar Revi Visits Istanbul

Aromar Revi, the Director of Indian Institute for Human Settlements – India’s first prospective National University for Research and Innovation to address challenges of urbanization through an integrated program of education, research, consulting and advisory services.

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February 12, 2015

Social Science Summer Program at Columbia is Open for Enrollment to Chinese High School Students

Columbia University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics will return again to China this summer with the Social Science Summer Program at Columbia, in partnership with Columbia Global Centers | Beijing and Teenager Innovation and Challenge Projects. Launched a year ago, this summer program is designed for highly motivated Chinese high school students.

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February 12, 2015

Teachers College Launches First-of-its-Kind International Pre-Graduate Program

To accommodate a growing influx of international students and prepare them for the rigors of graduate work in the United States, Teachers College will launch a new International Pre-Graduate Program that will run from July 7 to August 17.

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February 10, 2015

Columbia’s East Asian Library Launches Online Exhibition on Cornelius Vander Starr

Columbia University Libraries/Information Services C. V. Starr East Asian Library is pleased to announce the opening of the online exhibition: Cornelius Vander Starr, His Life and Work.

To view the exhibition, visit
https://exhibitions.cul.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/cvstarr

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January 29, 2015

Columbia Global Seminar on Byzantine and Modern Greek Encounters Opens with Orientations at the Global Center and Studio-X Istanbul

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey is delighted to welcome four Columbia College students and Professors Martha Howell and Karen Van Dyck to Istanbul for a new semester-long course now being taught at Boğaziçi University. The program opened with an orientation given by Columbia Global Centers | Turkey, introducing students to the history of the city through two unique tours and a lecture about getting used to life in Istanbul.

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January 21, 2015

Online Applications for 2015 Academy “Global Aging: Danger Ahead?” Are Open

Applications for our 2015 Academy “Global Aging: Danger Ahead?” are now open and online. For members of the press, the Academy is a joint project of the Columbia Aging Center at the Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Journalism School. The Academy will be held from June 11-13, 2015. More information is below. The deadline to apply is February 6th.

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January 21, 2015

Women Mobilizing Memory Exhibition Travels to Vienna, Curators Interviewed by n.paradoxa

We're delighted to share that the Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing exhibition will be shown in Vienna at the Kunsthalle Exnergasse from March 19-April 3, 2015.

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January 15, 2015

Columbia Students and Parents Reception at Studio-X Istanbul

Columbia SEAS and College students and parents attended a cocktail reception on January 15 at our Studio-X location in Istanbul.

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January 07, 2015

Teachers College Launches Certificate Program in Teaching Chinese at Beijing Center

The Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL) Summer Program is a collaborative certificate training program co-organized by Columbia University’s Teachers College, Department of East Asian Language and Cultures, and Asia for Educators, co-sponsored by Beijing Language and Culture University and Columbia Global Centers | Beijing.

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January 02, 2015

Kraft Global Fellows Turkey Trip

The Office of the University Chaplain’s Kraft Global Fellows Program is an initiative of the Kraft Family Fund for Intercultural and Interfaith Awareness. At designated academic breaks, the Kraft Global Fellows Program will support up to five students who have a clear outlined research proposal to travel to one of the Columbia Global Centers as a team to conduct research for a particular set of questions or inquiries. Generally, Chaplain Davis will serve as Program Director and will be present for some portion of the time.

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December 29, 2014

Call for Research: Columbia Social Science Research Training Workshop for Chinese High School Students

The Columbia Social Sciences Workshop is a program jointly initiated by Columbia University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, and Teenager Innovation and Challenge Projects(ICProjects). This workshop is specially designed for highly motivated Chinese high school students interested in the study of social sciences (economics, sociology, political sciences, psychology, etc.)

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December 08, 2014

Reid Hall and Columbia Celebrate Golden Anniversary

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.

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December 05, 2014

In Memoriam: Talat Halman, Columbia graduate and the first culture minister of Turkey

We commemorate Talat Sait Halman, a graduate of Columbia University and the first Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey.

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October 23, 2014

US reacting to, rather than preventing terrorism in Middle East — journalist

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”.

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October 21, 2014

MPH Tradition Continues with PHocus 2014

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 13, 2014

Earth Institute Partners with the China Center for International Economic Exchanges on Sustainability Metrics

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.

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September 25, 2014

Columbia Brings Students to China Over the Summer

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.

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September 23, 2014

Professor Brian Perkins to bring his Leadership Workshop to Rio de Janeiro

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.

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September 22, 2014

Tsinghua University and Columbia University Launched a Dual Degree Program in Business Analytics

Tsinghua University and Columbia University jointly announced the launch of a dual degree Master’s program in Business Analytics.

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September 17, 2014

VIDEO - Panel 3 of Coming to Terms with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression: Gender, Memory, Activism

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September 17, 2014

VIDEO - Panel 2 of Coming to Terms with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression: Art, Performance and Memory

“Coming to Terms” with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression
Soykırım, Savaş ve Siyasi Baskıların Cinsiyetlendirilmiş Anılarıyla “Yüzleşmek” Public Roundtables

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September 17, 2014

VIDEO - Panel 1 of Coming to Terms with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression: Creating Alternative Archives

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September 13, 2014

Veteran’s take on state of our Local Film Industry

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.

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August 29, 2014

Columbia Professor Deciphers Columbia’s Core Curriculum to Chinese Students

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.

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August 29, 2014

Master Class at MAR Museum

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.

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August 09, 2014

Bridge Journalism Summer School Introduces Students to Freedom of Expression

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.

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July 14, 2014

From Berlin to Beijing: Global Scholars Arrive in Beijing

The journey began with a boat tour in Berlin, then six days and nights on train #44 of the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Moscow to Ulaan Baatar, and three days of exploring Mongolia. Finally, on July 3, Columbia students in the Global Scholars Program arrived in Beijing, China, the final destination of a four-week summer research workshop.

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July 04, 2014

Last Call for Applications: BRIDGE Program – Summer School of Journalism in Prague and Istanbul

The Prague Freedom Foundation, in cooperation with Zaostreno o.p.s. and Pro Publica, organizes a two-week intensive summer program, which will be hosted in Istanbul by CGC | Turkey.

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June 23, 2014

Columbia Students to Study and Experience Istanbul’s History, Monuments and Urban Life through the Columbia-Bogaziçi Summer School in Byzantine and Ottoman Studies

Columbia University and Bogaziçi University are offering a joint summer program for a select group of advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students which provides a unique opportunity to learn about the history, urban development, and historic monuments of the city of Byzantion–Constantinople–Istanbul through coursework and site visits that allow them to explore and understand Istanbul’s modern topography as an exciting palimpsest of empires, cultures, and religions first hand.

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June 07, 2014

Ensuring access to essential resources: Istanbul Think-In on “The Tragedy of Exclusion”

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey, Professor Katharina Pistor’s Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia University and Professor Fikret Adaman of Boğaziçi University will be joined by distinguished scholars from Turkey in a roundtable discussion that will look at the dynamics of ensuring access to essential resources.

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June 04, 2014

Faculty Travel Grant | New Opportunity

Since 2012, the Lemann Foundation has been supporting the Science without Borders (SWB) program at partner universities: Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and UCLA.

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May 23, 2014

Women Creating Change Returns to Istanbul in September to Focus on Mobilizing Memory for Action

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey has rolled up its sleeves to start planning for an exciting series of events in September with scholars of the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Professor Marianne Hirsch and Professor Jean Howard, and our Istanbul partners, Professor Ayşe Gül Altınay of Sabancı University and Asena Günal, Director of the DEPO Art Center and Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability 2014 fellow at Columbia Institute for the Study of Human Rights.

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April 07, 2014

Apply Now for Scholarships to Study Journalism in Istanbul and Prague

The Prague Freedom Foundation, in cooperation with Zaostreno o.p.s. and Pro Publica, organizes a two-week intensive summer program, which will be hosted in Istanbul by Columbia Global Centers | Turkey.

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April 02, 2014

Request for Proposals - FAPERJ/Columbia University

The Columbia Global Center| Rio de Janeiro is pleased to inform you of a recent agreement with the State of Rio de Janeiro through the State´s research funding agency, known as FAPERJ.

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March 27, 2014

Nobel Peace Prize nominee raises her voice for Somalia in second Columbia Global Centers | Africa lecture

“There is a generation of Somalis that is lost, due to the war. They have never seen a peaceful Somalia. This is dangerous for the entire world, when you consider that there are 9 million people that know only war and violence – how can you work together as a country to stop the fighting?”

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March 25, 2014

Failure of Education undermines the Arab world, Professor Safwan Masri reveals in Columbia Global Centers | Africa lecture

The event, held at Strathmore University’s business school, was the inaugural lecture in a series to be hosted by the Nairobi Center throughout 2014. Professor Masri’s distinguished academic career, including his current role as executive vice president for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University, provided the basis for his unique insight, shared with a packed hall of Kenyan university students, faculty, and Columbia University alumni and partners.

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March 22, 2014

Free Online Course suits Kenyan Students just fine

This is a collaboration between 617 global partners and 10 US state institutions such as Columbia University, Yale University, Stanford University, State University of New York and University of Kentucky.

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March 21, 2014

Ira Deutchman Connects with Istanbul’s Film Scene

Columbia University's School of the Arts Film Program Chair and Professor Ira Deutchman enjoyed connecting with Turkey’s up-and-coming film scene when he visited Istanbul from March 19 to 22.

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March 21, 2014

The Rio Center celebrates its first anniversary

The ceremony took place at the Guanabara Palace, home of the governor of Rio de Janeiro state, where President Lee C. Bollinger launched the eighth global center of the network exactly a year ago.

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February 28, 2014

Columbia Business Students to Explore Start Up Culture in Istanbul

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey welcomes Columbia Business School students who will be in Istanbul from March 16 to March 22 as part of a Global Immersion course focusing on Turkey’s start-up culture.

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February 05, 2014

President’s Global Innovation Fund Helps Launch Teledentistry Project in Kenya

Teledentistry – short for telemedicine in dentistry – uses digital and telecommunication technology to support long-distance health care, patient and professional health education, public health and health administration. This emerging technology includes wand-like cameras lighter than electric toothbrush, along with videoconferencing and streaming media.

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January 28, 2014

African Migration and Development Policy Center team visits CGC Africa

CGC | Africa was proud to host the team of the African Migration and Development Policy Centre (AMADPOC) in Nairobi, Kenya, headed by Professor John O. Oucho, PhD, on Monday 27 January 2014, as part of the E-Conference on the Health Consequences of Migration, hosted online across the Columbia Global Centers and the Columbia Population Research Center in New York.

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December 13, 2013

Columbia Global Debates meeting is hosted in Rio de Janeiro

Columbia Global Debates is a new format for public discussions on global issues filmed before a studio audience and streamed live around the world.

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December 09, 2013

The New York-Paris Students: From Paper Models to Ceramic Constructions

The 29 students in this year’s GSAPP New York-Paris Program have undergone an impressive transformation, the results of which were apparent to all present at Columbia Global Centers | Paris in May during their Intensif Workshop.

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December 09, 2013

President’s Global Innovation Fund Announced for 2014 Research Proposals

Columbia University has announced the second Request for Proposals for the President’s Global Innovation Fund.

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November 16, 2013

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Willem Dafoe, and Robert Wilson at Reid Hall

More than 200 guests came to Columbia Global Centers | Paris for an afternoon discussion with Robert Wilson, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe.

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November 13, 2013

Columbia School of the Arts Visits Rio de Janeiro, Plans New Programs

Columbia School of the Arts Dean Carol Becker recently visited Rio de Janeiro with Columbia Film Program Chair Ira Deutchmen and Professor Richard Peña to plan new collaborative programs for the coming year with local partners.

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November 11, 2013

Ideas Flow in Rio at Columbia’s Launch of Global Discussions Program

Columbia Global Centers recently hosted two discussions at its Rio de Janeiro Center to launch the inaugural Columbia Global Debates, a pilot program connecting all eight centers and the main campus with a live audience in Brazil.

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October 24, 2013

Roundtable on Social Innovation in Higher Education with Ashoka

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey and Ashoka co-hosted a roundtable on "Social Innovation in Higher Education" in the context of the 1st "Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit" in Istanbul. The summit, co-hosted by BMW Foundation, took place at SALT Galata, on October 24. 2013.

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October 04, 2013

Workshop in Istanbul Sparks Discussion on Regional Geopolitical Developments and Press Freedom

A one-day workshop on press freedom and geopolitical developments in the Middle East and Turkey brought together a distinguished group of more than 20 regional and international scholars, journalists, and researchers.

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September 25, 2013

Istanbul Workshop on Geopolitical Developments and Press Freedoms in the Middle East and Turkey

At a time when the rapid pace of events is causing profound uncertainty and turmoil across the region, this workshop aimed to offer a space for critical reflection and analysis of recent political events as well as the current state(s) of press freedom across the region.

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September 21, 2013

Opening Night of World Writers’ Festival 2013

Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger opened the World Writers' Festival at a reception attended by more than 200 people at Reid Hall in Paris, home of Columbia Global Centers | Europe.

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September 20, 2013

Ishmael Beah Shares War Experiences with Students at World Writers’ Festival

Author Ishmael Beah spoke with French students at Columbia Global Centers | Paris to share some of his experiences as a boy in the war in Sierra Leone. Beah, who also answered questions from the students, appeared as part of the World Writers’ Festival that opens today. The festival is hosted at the Paris Center and various locations around the city and is co-sponsored by Columbia University and Bibliothèque nationale de France.

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September 16, 2013

World Writers’ Festival — Opening Literature to Everyone: an Interview with Caro Llewellyn

September 15, 2013

Brownbag Seminar: Werner Baer “Economic Policy in Brazil After the Protests”

The Rio de Janeiro Alumni Club inaugurated a brownbag seminarseries at the Center on August 19th.

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September 15, 2013

University Chaplain Jewelnel Davis Visits Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro

Columbia University Chaplain Jewelnel Davis recently spent a week in Rio de Janeiro, following her trip to Chile.

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August 31, 2013

Liberal Education in Authoritarian Places

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August 02, 2013

Internationalism Evolves: Columbia and the Global Centers

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July 18, 2013

Studio-X Presentations at SALT Beyoğlu & Summer Design Workshop

Architect Rajeev Thakker will present Columbia University’s Studio-X project in Mumbai, which focuses on creating a collaborative platform for architects, artists, planners, developers, activists to engage in research, exhibitions, debates and various other processes with regard to the future of cities. Architects Jennifer Broutin Farah and Kamal Farah will present their current research and discuss strategies for cities as adaptive technologies.

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July 06, 2013

Roundtable Discussion on Syria with the International Crisis Group

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey hosted a presentation and roundtable discussion in cooperation with International Crisis Group on their recent report: “Blurring the Borders: Syrian Spillover Risks for Turkey.”

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July 06, 2013

Trauma Certificate Program Offers its First Graduates

The Trauma Rehabilitation Certificate Program, a year-long program offered by Bilgi University in partnership with the International Center for Trauma Studies, concluded its first year with a final seminar and a diploma ceremony.

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July 03, 2013

Launch of the Mediterranean SDSN Network (MED Solutions)

The Mediterranean Sustainable Development Solutions Network (MED Solutions) was launched July 3 in Siena, Italy. MED Solutions, hosted by the University of Siena, will coordinate the activities of a vast network of universities, research centers, and businesses interested in identifying and implementing solutions initiatives addressing sustainability challenges in the Mediterranean region.

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June 21, 2013

Byzantine Studies and Urban Mapping Summer Program Commences

Columbia University and Boğaziçi University’s joint summer program is now underway, offering a group of students from both universities a unique opportunity to learn about the history, urban development and historic monuments of Byzantion/Constantinople/Istanbul.

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June 06, 2013

How Turks Can Travel Freely in Europe

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey and the European Stability Initiative held a roundtable discussion June 6 on policy options regarding visa liberalization for Turkey, featuring Gerald Knaus (at right), chairman of the European Stability Initiative (ESI), who will present ESI’s more recent report, entitled, "Cutting the Turkey-EU Visa Knot: How Turks can travel freely to Europe."

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May 23, 2013

Diana Taylor Speaks on the Politics of Passion

Diana Taylor, NYU professor of Performance Studies and Spanish, gave a lecture titled "The Politics of Passion" at Columbia Global Centers | Turkey on May 23.

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May 22, 2013

Future of the Liberal Order Conference Features Debate on Democracy

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey’s conference on the "Future of the Liberal Order’" took place on May 22 and 23 in cooperation with the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University and the Transatlantic Academy of the German Marshall Fund.

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May 09, 2013

Columbia Business School Executive MBA Lecture

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey hosted a lecture on May 9 delivered by two key speakers for the Columbia Business School Executive MBA group that was visiting Istanbul between May 7 to 11. Professor Cevdet Akcay, chief economist of Koc, and Professor Ahmet Evin, advisory board member of the Turkey Center and the Jean Monnet Chair at Sabanci University, gave an extensive lecture to the group composed of 40 students and their Professor Bogachan Celen.

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May 08, 2013

Ashoka Fellow Jeroo Billimoria Speaks on Social Entrepreneurship

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey hosted a discussion on innovative approaches to social entrepreneurship and financial inclusion. The event featured Ashoka Fellow Jeroo Billimoria and brought together leading figures from Turkey's finance, private and social sectors with one of the world's most prominent social entrepreneurs.

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May 07, 2013

Columbia Business School Executive MBA Trip and Reception

Columbia Global Centers | Turkey organized the third Istanbul trip/block week of Columbia Business School Executive MBA program which took place on May 7 to 11, when Professor Bogachan Celen was in Istanbul with his 40 students.

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April 04, 2013

University Announces Fund for Faculty Endeavors at Columbia Global Centers

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger has announced plans to provide grants to faculty members to leverage and engage Columbia’s Global Center network.

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April 04, 2013

University Announces Fund for Faculty Endeavors at Columbia Global Centers

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger has announced plans to provide grants to faculty members to leverage and engage Columbia’s Global Center network.

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April 02, 2013

Columbia University 2013 Summer Sessions

Summer Sessions at Columbia offer access to undergraduate and graduate-level courses and certificate programs in over 50 subject areas. The Summer Sessions have classes for students already enrolled in degree programs, students looking to improve their knowledge in anticipation of applying for higher education programs, and professionals who want to move towards the next step in their career.

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March 29, 2013

Destination Istanbul: Students Flock to Center in 2013

Students from a wide range of Columbia programs have been visiting Istanbul in recent months to take advantage of new learning opportunities.

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March 08, 2013

Perpetrators Must Be a Part of Reformed Society

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February 28, 2013

CGC Africa Holds Africa Nutritional Sciences Research Consortium Workshop on PhD Graduate Training

The African Nutritional Sciences Research Consortium (ANSRC) held a two-day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, on the 24th to 25th January 2013. In total, 43 participants attended the ANSRC workshop, with regional representation drawn from Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda, and also from Tunisia (ADB representatives), USA and Italy.

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January 30, 2013

University Opens Its First Global Center in Africa

With the opening of the center in Nairobi, faculty, students, alumni and friends will have a new home base for engaging with the people and complex issues that confront Africa.

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January 14, 2013