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The summer of 2014 was exciting and eventful at Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. While continuing student projects such as Global Scholars Program with Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Experience Overseas internship program with the Center for Career Education, the literature humanities reading salon Symposium China Project with a group of Columbia student. The Center also organized and launched a wide variety of new programs to further Columbia’s approach to global education.
Dr. Brian Perkins, Director of the Urban Education Leadership Program at Columbia University Teachers College in the Department of Organization and Leadership will teach a workshop on leadership practices at Columbia Global Centers | Rio de Janeiro.
Tsinghua University and Columbia University jointly announced the launch of a dual degree Master’s program in Business Analytics.
“Coming to Terms” with Gendered Memories of Genocide, War, and Political Repression
Soykırım, Savaş ve Siyasi Baskıların Cinsiyetlendirilmiş Anılarıyla “Yüzleşmek” Public Roundtables
- In 1988 at the age of 34, he was named director of the same festival, and in his final year as head of the NYFF in 2012, he was on the committee that selected the Kenyan film Nairobi Half-Life for showing
- After retiring as NYFF director, Pena joined New York’s Columbia University as a professor of film studies. Last December Pena met CGCA director Dr Belay Begashaw, who asked him if he would do a film programme in Kenya
- With this in mind, Pena thinks the Kenya has not done enough to use the considerable talent of its actors to address its own social and political issues as well as to grow its film industry
The Master Class “How to Write Scripts for Television”, part of the second edition of our course TV Writing Intensive in Rio, was a success.
Columbia Global Centers | Beijing collaborated with Symposium China Project to invite Professor Richard A. Billows from Department of History at Columbia University to discuss liberal arts education, its values and challenges on July 25 in Beijing.
Columbia Global Centers | Turkey will be welcoming 25 aspiring journalists from universities in the US, Turkey, Austria, the Balkans, Belgium, Czech Republic, Morocco, Slovakia, Tunisia and Ukraine to Istanbul.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.