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The Columbia Global Centers promote and facilitate the collaborative and impactful engagement of the University’s faculty, students, and alumni with the world, to enhance understanding, address global challenges, and advance knowledge and its exchange. The Global Centers, as envisioned by President Lee C. Bollinger, were founded with the objective of connecting the local with the global, to create opportunities for shared learning and to deepen the nature of global dialogue. Learn more about our history.
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Why Is “Primitivism” So Hard to Shake?
Reid Hall Faculty Visitor Zoë Strother spent several weeks in Paris studying the French edition of Leni Riefenstahl’s controversial photobook of the Nuba peoples and researching the restitution of African objects at the Musée du Quai Branly.
Voices, Memory and Cross-Border Networks: Dialogues Between Kurdish Women and Plurinational Feminisms in Latin America
Columbia Global Emerging Scholar Dilan Bozgan presented her anthropological research on the cross-border circulations, representations and women’s networks in the Global South.
This Giving Day, Help Columbia Global Bring New Ideas to Shared Challenges, From Local to Global
Today, Oct. 28, give to Columbia Global and power the students, scholars, faculty, and partners turning ideas into action.
Columbia University Scholarship for Displaced Students
This Scholarship supports displaced students from anywhere in the world who are unable to complete their higher education. These students will receive up to full tuition, housing, and living assistance while pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees across all 18 Columbia schools and affiliates, reflecting Columbia’s full institutional commitment to addressing this global crisis. As the first-ever Columbia-wide scholarship, and the world's first scholarship of its kind, this program will commit up to $6 million annually in support, per cohort, for up to 30 students each year, every year.