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The Joint Workshop on Infrastructure and Energy Sustainability in a Changing Climate, held on June 24–25, 2025, marked a further milestone in the collaboration between Columbia University’s School of Engineering, the Columbia Global Center in Athens, and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). This two-day event, hosted at NTUA's Main Campus, brought together leading faculty from both institutions, including several NTUA students and alumni, to engage in high-level discourse on critical global challenges related to sustainability, climate adaptation, energy systems, and infrastructure…
On July 1, 2025, the Columbia Global Center in Athens, in collaboration with the Columbia Alumni of Greece, organized a send-off reception to welcome the newest students from Greece joining Columbia University this fall. Held at the Tsakos Energy Navigation headquarters in southern Athens, the event brought together incoming students, alumni, and friends of the University, celebrating the start of their Columbia journey.
During June, Columbia students enrolled in the Greek Epigraphy course participated in a unique academic experience through the Epigraphy Seminar Study Trip in Athens, led by Paraskevi Martzavou, Professor in the Department of Classics. Organized in collaboration with the Columbia Global Center in Athens and supported by the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Foundation, the program offered hands-on engagement with ancient inscriptions in their original archaeological settings. Over a week, students explored the city’s rich epigraphic landscape, studying inscriptions in their original archaeological…
Next year’s residency includes a journalist-in-residence, Hanna Liubakova, an exiled journalist and political analyst from Belarus. The 2024 residency period has been extended to accommodate two Palestinian artists, Maha Al-Daya and Doha Kahlout.
The 2025 – 2026 Faculty Visitors at Reid Hall will conduct research at Parisian institutions and contribute to podcasts, videos, and programs at the Columbia Global Paris Center and Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
We're proud to announce the launch of "Avato," a new exhibition by Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative (SNFPHI) awardee Latent Community (Sotiris Tsiganos and Ionian Bisai), with the support of the Columbia Global Center in Athens.
The agreement will support Petit's research on the digital divide in the elderly.
This Fall, Paris Global Center launches a research grant dedicated to the key ideas of the contemporary world, in collaboration with the Institut mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC).
On June 12, 2025, we hosted a conversation between Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri and the Columbia Global Center Athens Director Stefanos Gandolfo. Drawing on her well-known books—Interpreter of Maladies, In Other Words, and Translating Myself and Others—Lahiri shared personal insights about how language shapes identity, and how writing can be a powerful way to explore and redefine who we are.
The milestone corresponds to the first stage of the project in Chile.
Kenya was a place unlike any other, with people who view their African culture as a strong and independent force.
As a student of African Studies and Kiswahili, being in Nairobi stirred something far deeper than I imagined.
The 2025 Fellowship For Change cohort leads the way in social innovation.
The second webinar in the Columbia HICCC Cancer Series, “Head and Neck Cancer: From Diagnosis to Therapy” brought together leading oncologists from India and the U.S. to explore comprehensive care strategies across every stage of the cancer journey. The series aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and promote research collaborations on different types of cancer between the two countries.
As part of the Columbia Global Internship Program, Wenrui (PH'26) shares her growth and aspirations in global health.