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In partnership with the African Development Group at Columbia University and the Columbia Alumni Association, Columbia Global Centers | Tunis and Columbia Global Centers | Nairobi organized this webinar to expose Columbia students and affiliates to possible careers on the continent through direct interaction with Columbia alumni who are working in those careers.
Gasparov, professor emeritus of Slavic Studies, came to the Santiago Center to research Romanticism at the turn of the 19th century.
Dr. Andrea Achi is Assistant Curator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She specializes in the art and archaeology of Late Antiquity and has a particular interest in manuscripts and archaeological objects from Christian Egypt. Trained as a Byzantinist, Dr. Achi’s scholarship focuses on late antique and Byzantine art of North and Northeast Africa, and she has brought this expertise to bear on several exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Valentine's Day Special | Columbia and Reid Hall alumni Maria Giménez Cavallo and Jackson Giuricich tell us about their transatlantic journey, their relationship, and their thoughts on the City of Love.
The tenth Lecture of the "Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics" course was an examination of the search for CNVs in the exomes of Tunisian patients and their role in breast cancer.
Member of our Faculty Advisory Board and Director of the Columbia Institute of African Studies, Pr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, joins Insaniyyat as a Member of its Scientific Committee.
In January 2022, the TC-Tunisia Foreign Language Teacher Education Transnational Project, or TC-Tunisia Project kicked off its second year, welcoming a new cohort of participants. This cohort will follow the same syllabus as the 2021 cohort: engaging in four learning modules and a culminating capstone project. The 2022 cohort will also be invited to various community-building events throughout the year, with the ultimate goal of collaboratively building capacity for English language educators in Tunisia.
Learn more about the project by checking the first issue of the TC-Tunisia 2022 newsletter.
Emeritus professor Deniz Kandiyoti has been researching and teaching gender and development studies for over 50 years, as well as working with the UN system. In advance of her Kapuscinski Development Lecture on “How did gender move to the center of democratic struggles?”, she spoke on the intersections of gender and politics and the changes she’s seen.