ANNUAL REPORT 2017–18

COLUMBIA GLOBAL

CENTERS |

PARIS HALL REID

REID HALLPARIS

CENTERS | CENTERS

GLOBAL COLUMBIA

Y COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Advisory Board and Faculty Steering Committee 7

President Lee C. Bollinger and Safwan M. Masri 8

Introduction, Paul LeClerc, Director 9

Renovation Acknowledgements 13

Cat's-eye view 15

Institute for Ideas and Imagination: The Year of Magical Thinking 18

Columbia University Undergraduate

Programs in Paris 23

Program Enrollments 27

Directed Research Projects

2017-2018 27

Masters Program in History and HALL REID REID Literatureing 30 HALL MA Thesis Topics 32

Lectures Organized with Columbia Global Centers | Paris 32

The Alliance Program 33

Enhancing the Research Component of the History Major 34

Columbia Global Centers Programming 35

CGC Programming, Fall 2017- Spring 2018 38

Columbia Sounds Series 41

Columbia University Alumni Club of France 42

Finance and administration 44

Paris Staff Members by Program 48

ANNUAL REPORT 2017–18

Y B X 1 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Seminar Room, Institute

Kitchen and Lounge, Institute

Salle de Conférence, Reid Hall

Y 2 X 3 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Facing page: Chevreuse building and courtyard

Right: Institute Lounge

Below, left: Institute Construction

Below, right: Institute Staircase, before and after

Bottom: Classroom 3, Reid Hall

Y 4 X 5 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Kitchen and Lounge, ADVISORY BOARD AND Institute FACULTY STEERING COMMITTEE Renovated Reid Hall roofs on Chevreuse building — seen from hotel across ADVISORY BOARD FACULTY STEERING COMMITTEE the street 2017 – 2018 2017 – 2018

Daniel Cohen, CEO of Daniel John Allegrante, Adjunct Sharon Marcus, Dean for Cohen and Company Professor, Department of Humanities; Orlando Harriman Sociomedical Sciences, Brian D. Fix, ‘65CC, ‘68LLB, Professor of English, Faculty of Teachers College Senior Counsel to the Dentons Arts & Sciences Paris office Brunhilde Biebuyck, Safwan Masri, Executive Vice Administrative Director, President for Global Centers Thomas Gaehtgens, Director of Columbia Global Centers | Paris and Global Development the Getty Research Institute Akeel Bilgrami, Director, Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Thomas Glocer, ’81CC, Founder South Asia institute; Sidney Professor of History, Faculty of and Managing Partner of Angelic Morgenbesser Professor of Arts & Sciences Ventures, a private investment Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & firm and former CEO of Thomson Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sciences Reuters Sovern Professor of Law, School Susan Boynton, Chair, Depart- of Law; Walter E. Meyer Research Ron Halpern, ’90CC, ’96BUS, ment of Music; Professor of Professor of Law and Social Executive Vice President of Music, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Problems International Production and Acquisitions for StudioCanal, Giorgio DiMauro, Dean, Emmanuelle Saada, Director, a French production and International and Global Strategy, Center for French and distribution company and Provost Office, Barnard College Francophone Studies; Associate subsidiary of the Canal+ Group Pierre Force, Professor of French Professor of French and Romance Philology, Faculty Alan Kanzer, ’65CC, Senior and Romance Philology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Counsel of Alston & Bird LLP in of Arts & Sciences New York Carol Gluck, Chair, Columbia Gayatri Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Scott Malkin, Chairman and CEO Global Centers | Paris Faculty Faculty of Arts & Sciences of London-based Value Retail Steering Committee; George Sansom Professor of History Alan Timberlake, Director, Yves Mény, Professor at the and Professor of East Asian Institute of East Central Europe; Institut d’Études Politiques in Languages and Cultures, Professor of Slavic Languages, Paris and former President of the Department of History and Faculty of Arts & Sciences European University Institute in Department of East Asian Michael Tuts, Chair, Department Florence Languages and Cultures of Physics; Professor of Physics, Azmi Mikati, ’94SEAS, CEO of Bernard Harcourt, Isidor and Faculty of Arts & Sciences the M1 Group, a holding company Seville Sulzbacher Professor based in Beirut with interests of Law, School of Law including telecommunications, real estate, energy, financial Lisa Hollibaugh, Dean of assets, and fashion Academic Planning and Administration, Columbia College Bruno Racine, President, Holger Klein, Professor of Art Bibliothèque nationale de France History and Archeology, Faculty Jean-Pierre Reichenbach, of Arts & Sciences ’70BUS, President, Columbia Paul LeClerc, Director, Columbia Alumni Association, France Global Centers | Paris Sue Ann G. Weinberg, ’52GSAS, Gregory Mann, Professor of ’97TC, New York philanthropist History, Department of History, and Trustee of Columbia’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences Teachers College

Y 6 X 7 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT “THE NETWORK OF COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS THAT NOW SPAN THE WORLD IS PROMOTING TEACHING, RESEARCH, PUBLIC OUTREACH, AND LOCAL AND REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN JORDAN, TURKEY, TUNISIA, KENYA, BRAZIL, CHILE, CHINA, INDIA, AND FRANCE. THROUGH THEIR EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR UNIVERSITY INTRODUCTION PAUL LECLERC | DIRECTOR, COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS | PARIS COMMUNITY, THE CENTERS ARE FULFILLING THEIR PROMISE, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, AND MAKING COLUMBIA A GLOBAL UNIVERSITY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.”

LEE C. BOLLINGER | PRESIDENT, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY THE TRADITIONAL GAZE OF JANUS, THE ROMAN DEITY, IS HOW I ENVISION REID HALL’S HISTORY AND FUTURE.

To the ancient Romans, their deity Janus four storey building in the southwest corner was the god of a number of interrelated of our property and its repurposing as the and important functions: time, doorways, home of Columbia’s Institute for Ideas and beginnings and endings, transitions and duality. Imagination. The Institute is a new initiative Their artists always showed him as a figure in by Columbia’s President, Lee C. Bollinger, “ THE MOST PRESSING ISSUES WE ARE GRAPPLING WITH dual profile, as one whose gaze toward the past and will, each year, host fourteen to fifteen TODAY—INCREASING POLITICAL POLARIZATION, ACCELER- is just a large and just as consequential as the Fellows representing both scholarship and one he casts towards the future. the creative arts. Half of the Fellows will be ATING CLIMATE CHANGE, DEEPENING INEQUALITY—ARE from the University, including Barnard College; INHERENTLY GLOBAL IN NATURE. UNDERSTANDING THEIR In 2017 – 2018 at Reid Hall an equal attention the other half will come from the rest of the to both what came before and what lies ahead world, reflecting the global nature of both IMPACT, AND FORMULATING INTELLIGENT RESPONSES, IS guided my colleagues and me as we move knowledge and artistic production today. See IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT SUSTAINED ENGAGEMENT IN AND through the most significant period of renewal pages 18–21 for a full report on the Institute. WITH THE WORLD. in Reid Hall’s long and important history as part of Columbia. Another significant aspect of change at Reid Hall has been the increase in scale and defini- THIS IS PRECISELY WHY THE COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS Our collective intent, in managing this tion of the exceptional programs on offer, transition, has been to deliberately validate virtually continuously, to the public and always WERE CREATED TEN YEARS AGO—TO BE DEEPLY RESPONSIVE and secure the brilliance of our longstanding free of charge. Pages 38–39 contain a truly TO AND INTEGRATED WITH ISSUES OF LOCAL, REGIONAL, undergraduate and graduate programs. Pages impressive tally of the lectures, roundtables, AND GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE. BY ALLOWING US TO LEARN 23–37 describe these academic programs and concerts, and films that were presented in the accomplishments of their students in the 2017 – 2018. FROM AND WITH THE WORLD, THE CENTERS ADVANCE past academic year. KNOWLEDGE AND ITS EXCHANGE, HELPING US TO STUDY A final noteworthy accomplishment in the SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS AND ADDRESS THE MOST URGENT At the same time, we worked with Columbia’s transitional work underway at Reid Hall last faculty and administration in planning and year is the extent to which we upgraded GLOBAL CHALLENGES.” implementing imaginative and impactful its buildings and spaces to the level that new initiatives. students and faculty are accustomed on the Morningside Heights campus. These SAFWAN M. MASRI | EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FOR GLOBAL CENTERS AND Reid Hall’s transition accelerated in improvements include state-of-the art GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2017 – 2018 with the renovation of the classrooms, new roofs on the historic rue de

Y 8 X 9 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Chevreuse building (which dates to the early Below: Reid Hall's courtyard We gratefully acknowledge the exceptional generosity of those whose gifts supported eighteenth century), and new facades on Columbia programs at Reid Hall in 2107 – 2018 the entirety of that building. In addition, we Facing page, left: Grande Salle in the 1950s finalized designs for creating beautiful new Facing page, right: Grande Salle today gardens at Reid Hall and made preliminary Daniel Cohen Areté Foundation plans for a sensitive restoration of the Grande Salle Building. The latter project will not be Brian Fix The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation phased in for another two years. Mary Ann Fribourg EHA Foundation

In all of these efforts, we have been blessed Judith Ginsberg and Paul LeClerc La Vallée Village – Value Retail by the support of Columbia’s President, Tom and Maarit Glocer Stravos Nicarchos Foundation Lee C. Bollinger, and central administration, its EVP for Global Centers, Safwan Masri, Ron Halpern and of our Advisory Board and other private Alan Kanzer sector donors. The exceptional generosity of the latter has made it possible to significantly Laura and Scott Malkin invest in the quality of our environment and Azmi Mikati of our public programs, and it gives me the Mel and Lois Tukman greatest pleasure to thank them here (see page 11). Olga and George Votis Sue Ann Weinberg I am equally happy to acknowledge two other groups of people who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of Reid Hall and the Columbia Global Center in 2017-18. The first is the University’s exceptional faculty, including both the members of our Faculty Steering Committee and those who taught at Reid Hall last year. The second is the combined staff of Reid Hall and of the Columbia programs housed there. One couldn’t wish for a finer group of colleagues with whom to work. Each of them embraced Janus’ dual gaze. They have thus used Reid Hall’s past to move this remarkable part of Columbia proudly into the future.

PAUL LECLERC DIRECTOR

Y 10 X 11 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT “MY EXPERIENCE AT REID HALL WAS LIFE- RENOVATION

CHANGING. THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR

LEARNING AND PERSONAL GROWTH WERE

ROBUST, TO SAY THE LEAST, AND WERE GIVEN THAT “TRAVAUX” have been the over- MATCHED IN EVERY WAY BY THE SUPPORT OF arching theme at Reid Hall for the past two “THE TRUE BIRTHPLACE IS THE ONE WHEREIN FOR THE FIRST years, and given that reporting on such activities TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND STAFF. risks being thoroughly colorless, I thought it TIME ONE LOOKS INTELLIGENTLY UPON ONESELF. FOR ME, might be interesting to present an “insider’s I WOULD NOT TRADE THE YEAR I SPENT THERE “THE PROGRAMMING FEELS SO view” in a lighthearted tone, deliberately different from the typical reporting style. THAT WOULD BE 4, RUE DE CHEVREUSE.” • CAITLIN HAWKE, FOR ANYTHING AND AM EAGER TO WATCH THE NEW, SO EXPANSIVE, SO DIVERSE, But before turning this narrative over to a REID HALL ALUMNA long-term resident of our Center, I would like PROGRAM GROW FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.” THAT IT IS DEFINITELY REALIZING to thank all those who contributed to the renovation of our facility, from our ground JUSTIN BOOZ, GS’19 THE PROMISE OF CREATING, IN crew to our architects and engineers, from our receptionists to our security guards, from our THE HEART OF PARIS, A TRULY finance team to our administrative staff. Special thanks go to Xin Peng, Executive Director, CFO, GLOBAL CENTER.” • ANNE and JoAnn Garcia, Finance and Administration Manager, in the New York office of the Columbia BOYMAN, SENIOR LECTURER Global Centers: without their assistance and experience we would never have received the funds to ensure Reid Hall’s “state of good AND CO-CHAIR OF THE

DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH AT

BARNARD COLLEGE

Y 12 X 13 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Left: Salle de Conférence

Below: Reid Hall's courtyard façades

Facing page: Youki the black cat in the HR & Finance office

repair.” In addition, particular thanks are due to the Paris Center’s advisory board on whose funds allowed us to upgrade our classrooms with modern technologoy and furnishings. We also benefited from the steadfast support of Guillaume Rousson, at University Facilities, whose informed counsel and scrupulous budgeting kept us on the right from my favorite hangouts, and my creature track. Mihaela Bacou, Operations Manager, CAT’S-EYE VIEW FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, the French epigram, comforts were irrevocably thwarted. To begin was indispensable in every organizational “The more things change, the more they remain with, I had to contend with an invasion of mice detail, always thinking inside and outside of the same,” definitely does not hold true when rushing away from the works in progress. So the box to mastermind the logistics of several applied to the construction work at Reid Hall. many were scurrying about that I couldn’t even worksites piloted by two architectural firms sink my teeth into one of them! My places of and a multitude of contractors. Jérôme Quite the contrary. refuge were transformed and inaccessible. Combes, IT manager, went out of his way to To make matters worse, clouds of dust settled follow through on the most complex techno- I am Reid Hall’s pampered black cat - its mascot, in the courtyard, hoses swooshed water every- logical issues, many of which were well within so to speak. My name is Youki, which means where, pickaxes beat dissonant rhythms, his area of expertise but lay completely outside snow in Japanese, yet does not correspond to machinery forged, dredged, and sawed. The his job description. my overall appearance one bit. After years of place was topsy-turvy. lolling around the gardens, enjoying my royaume enchanté, chasing mice in the back garden, Every day, I moped about like a lost soul, my comfortably curling up in different armchairs meows transformed into calls for help. Every hither and yon, my life was suddenly turned day, my water was covered with a thin layer upside down by construction work throughout of dust. Every day, I would be shooed from one the property, and it has seemed never-ending. place of repose to another; I had hardly settled on a couch when a vacuum cleaner would sweep We had only just completed the whirlwind by and scare me off to another office. And, of of the first set of renovations in the historic course, the human beings who usually took rue de Chevreuse building, when the work care of me were too busy handling all of the resumed even more intensely at the beginning flurry on site, too busy shifting furniture around, of September 2017. This entire year was one of answering thousands of requests…forgetting my repeated “daymares.” I was constantly blocked daily ration of evaporated milk!

Y 14 X 15 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT What exactly was going on? and hammering. Luckily, French construction First to be installed were the seventy-two new “dos d’âne,” “chiens assis” (sitting dogs – what workers end at 4 p.m. and usually don’t crop up casement windows with double glazed panes a name for dormer windows – may they stay To begin with, the entire building in the back on weekends. A well-deserved respite for aching in the Chevreuse building; these were then where they are!). Who knew that construction garden was being renovated in preparation for ears, teary eyes, and weary limbs. I tried to sleep covered with sheets of hard plastic so there could be so poetic in all its rubble? housing the Institute for Ideas and Imagination by day and I roamed by night. would be no breakage during façade work. No on its upper three floors. The work was to last window could be opened and the heat in every Second, and most importantly, the buildings are one full year, September 2017 – August 2018. So, summer 2018 began with men grumbling room was unbearable; the fans circulated stale stunning in their new robes. Access was forbidden even to a cat. The garden and scrambling about, making loud clanging air. On the upside, the outdoor hubbub was area facing it and a large section of the rue de la noises as they prepared the work site. Pretty somewhat muffled indoors and the new, wooden All that remains to be transformed are the Grande Chaumière were cordoned off to serve soon, the entire place was filled with metal windows beautifully matched their traditional gardens and the Grande Salle. Reid Hall’s largest as storage spaces for the construction materials. scaffolding. Even the Institute building was predecessors. I buried myself in the shade of the conference room desperately needs a facelift, The back entrance to Reid Hall was wide open covered. Shiny aluminum work sheds were roses, or hid in various office corners. but I’ll regale you with that saga on another and curious pedestrians slipped through the erected to house tools, tables, and other occasion. barriers, often wandering in to contemplate amenities for the builders. Bags of debris, In tandem with the windows, they began work the activities on site. There were daily security stones, and all sorts of instruments began on the facades and the roof, laying bare the A golden age is indeed dawning at Reid Hall – rounds to make sure we stayed safe. lining the inner courtyard. Sometimes I would bones of the Chevreuse building. Grey dust and should the French still think that change wander into the weekly site meetings where lay everywhere – my fur turning the color doesn’t breed change, I should note that despite They began gutting the interiors, demolishing people squabbled over procedures and vied for of my name. The half-timbered framework the successful completion of these myriad walls, and redirecting water conduits, drainage solutions to intricate issues. It was here that underneath had suffered from years and years projects, I still can’t return to my old haunts pipes, and electrical wires. Next, they extended they referred to difficulties as comparable to of water seepage, and its traditionally large in the back garden. For the first time in my the building’s footprint by tearing down parts “herding cats.” I so wished I could have told them structural beams had dwindled to mere sticks peaceful existence, two comfort dogs have of a load-bearing wall and reconstructing them that “we cats are never herded!” Besides, to barely upholding their loads. The roof work also invaded my premises – and that is definitely a at the property line. My neighboring feline paraphrase Carl Van Vechten, “…our intelligence revealed much damage to the rafters, ridges, game changer. playmates complained bitterly of the noise keeps us from doing many of the fool things that eaves, soffits, drip edges, and cornices. Resin and began shunning my company. Finally, the complicate life.” was injected to consolidate the wood, the process of rebuilding began: an elevator, a new masonry was repaired, shingles were replaced, staircase, air conditioning units, new offices, a All in all, things progressed as planned. obsolete chimneys were destroyed. Slowly, a YOUKI lounge, a kitchen, a seminar room, state-of-the- new plaster coat was applied to the walls and THE BLACK CAT art technology, and new coats of paint inside parallel layers of terracotta tiles were arranged and out. I wish I could have pinched my nose on the roof. BRUNHILDE BIEBUYCK like humans do – too many odors! ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR I used to love falling asleep in the classrooms Once I resigned myself to the idea that I couldn’t as professors droned on to rows and rows of go to my back garden anymore, I settled into passive pupils reverentially noting each word. a lap-to-lap routine in the Chevreuse building, Those days are gone: Dynamic is the new mot and life was fine until summer 2018, the hottest d’ordre. Interaction, mobility, and technology are ever in France. You can imagine Paris with 90° the key concepts in contemporary teaching, and weather and no air conditioning! I lost weight all of the classrooms were refurbished in that and my overheated body shed little balls of fur spirit: walls repainted; old whiteboards replaced; that fused with the dust. Over the summer, the suspended ceilings installed and outfitted with powers that be oversaw multiple upgrades to spotlights and ventilation systems. A wireless Reid Hall’s most ancient structure: removal of all audiovisual network was put in place with shutters, replacement of seventy-two windows, recessed electric screens, LCD projectors, and complete overhaul of eight classrooms, phase everything one needs in a tech-savvy twenty- II of roof restoration, and demolishing then first-century classroom, including ultra-modern rebuilding the four enormous facades flanking mobile furniture. the Chevreuse courtyard and street. To top it off, all of this took place while Reid Hall operations As I look back on the past months, I realize were in full swing: conference goers, students, that the results far outweigh the many professors, and administrators all worked within inconveniences we had experienced. First, the cacophonous atmosphere of drilling, sawing, my vocabulary in both French and English expanded significantly thanks to a whirlwind of new specialized phrases: “laced valley,” “shingle Double-glazed windows waiting to flashing,” “ghosting,” “noues entrelacées,” be installed “jouées,” “parois chaudes,” “dents de dragon,”

Y 16 X 17 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Top: Institute logo on staircase wall The first Fellows of the brand-new Institute for Chauvet from Explorations Architecture, the Bottom: Donor Wall, Institute Ideas and Imagination were to arrive at noon contractor from L’Atelier des Compagnons, the that day, and we had nowhere to sit. A lucky heads of trades, the owner’s representative Facing page: Consolidating the star seemed to have kept watch during these Francis Petit from OP Partners, and the client. “old bones” of Reid Hall months of setting up the Institute, and on that This crowd also represented a rich selection very morning, it delivered again – this time in of temperaments, and I learned quite a bit the form of armchairs, a sofa, tables, and office about architecture, construction sites, crisis and dining chairs. While the furniture was a management, ways of coping with bad news, couple of weeks late, the end of the renovation and creative means of charging ahead while had been down to the wire. As the summer the work had stalled. The contractor would inched along in heat and dust and noise, and balk at any request or adjustment by thrusting well-guarded fans purred away in my airless his arms in the air and declaring this project office at Reid Hall (my window had been sealed was a usine à gaz (a gas factory, but perhaps by a sheet of solid plastic due to the repointing more accurately a labyrinthine operation). The of the Chevreuse building), the probability of owner’s rep, who would regularly fly for four the Institute opening in September became days at a time on other missions to China or magical thinking. Meanwhile, the Fellows had Mexico to oversee the construction of, say, been selected, they were obtaining their visas, seven factories in a month, would strongly had found housing, and their presence in Paris suggest that the contractor change his tune. was going to be very real. The dusty garden The architect would repeatedly demand a seemed like a possible annex if all else failed, coherent schedule that was delivered every but what if it rained? Wednesday (if at all) in different forms, colors, and with variable logic. It’s the closest I’ll ever For almost a year, every Wednesday morning come to a prizefight and I would always leave at 8:30 a.m., Brunhilde Biebuyck, Mihaela the room confused and exhausted, concluding Bacou, and I attended the réunions de chantier, that yes, we would have to set up the Institute a weekly briefing about the renovation of the in the garden after all. But the owner’s rep, building that included the architect Camille confident and unflappable, would then rise from his chair with a smile and tap me on the shoulder on his way out: “Allez, on va y arriver!” INSTITUTE FOR IDEAS AND IMAGINATION: THE YEAR OF Since there was nothing I could do on the actual site, I would then return to my little corner of MAGICAL THINKING Reid Hall and tend to setting up the Institute. My to-do list, a testament to my steep learning curve, became a one-man band’s orchestral score: aside from the expected administrative VERY EARLY ON THE MORNING of September tasks (none of which I would be able to perform 3, 2018 the phone rang. “The furniture has successfully without the stalwart support of arrived. Where does it go?” It was Mihaela my colleagues at Reid Hall), the list included Bacou, Reid Hall’s Operations Manager, the assignments such as: furnishing the Institute; first administrator on site each day. I hung setting up the fellowship competition; finding a up and rushed from home to be the second. web designer for our website, and then figuring The furniture was already two weeks late out what we wanted and needed to post on and nothing short of a miracle would make it our website; hiring staff for the Institute; materialize on the day the Institute opened its overseeing the design of our logo, donor wall, doors. And yet, there it was. and signage with an extraordinary team of graphic designers from New York, Yve Ludwig It had been an eventful year, a suspenseful and Rion Byrd (“What signs?” “Where?” “What summer, and a nail-biting final couple of weeks. support?” “What color?” “What size?” “In

Y 18 X 19 developed relationships with: the Cité internationale des arts, which made available housing to some of our Fellows; the Institut d’études avancées, whose Fellows are encouraged to meet ours and foster collaborations; Columbia’s Alliance program, which has been a constant and enthusiastic supporter of the Institute and has opened doors to Sciences Po and Paris I; the Musée d’Orsay on the occasion of an exhibition whose chief curator will be our first visiting scholar in the spring of 2019; and of course Columbia Global Centers | Paris, with whom we work closely on our public programs. We hope to establish long-lasting cultural exchanges with these and other institutions as the Institute grows and finds its place in the Parisian landscape. Laurence Engel, President BnF and John Coatsworth, Columbia Provost, signing partnership agreement between BnF and Spring arrived and I was no longer alone: in May, Columbia University Eve Grinstead joined the Institute’s team as our Operations Coordinator, then in August, Grant Rosenberg joined us as Research and Programs construction chaos of the past year: during Institute Building Officer. As we neared the finish line, we were the weekend, the building had been swept and not wanting for team-building activities. We set polished and varnished and cleaned. It shone English or in French?” “Only in French?” “Are applications for sixteen fellowships. up shop in Reid Hall’s library (with our well- brightly and in silence when the starry-eyed you sure?” “What about accents?”); and making Mark Mazower, the Director of the Institute, guarded fans) and in our improvised open space Fellows walked in. irreversible decisions such as moving a wall to formed a selection committee made of we geared up for the day we would be allowed make a library; picking an elegant yet affordable Columbia faculty members whose interests to enter our building. Running this type of place In a matter of hours, the Fellows’ enthusiasm faucet; figuring out the perfect height of the and areas of expertise cast a very wide net. is, in many ways, also like running a house, morphed into ideas, imagination, and exciting perfect desk; signing off on the design of the Half of the Fellows selected would be from and as Eve and Grant’s personal touches came collaborations that they were already Institute’s kitchen; and choosing the ideal hues Columbia University, and the other half would to shape the Institute’s routine, the project dreaming up amongst themselves. Several from our color consultant’s subtle selection be artists, composers, scholars, and writers suddenly came alive under the plastic sheets weeks later, few things are more rewarding (most notably our Columbia Blue wall in the from all over the world. The quality and variety and the lingering scaffolding. Susan Boynton, than observing their great pride in being main staircase). of the applications exceeded our expectations Chair of the Columbia Music Department, our Fellows of our new Institute. and set the bar high for the years to come. The Resident Faculty Director and the founder of In record time BMM Art and Computer in committee met in New York in late February, the Columbia Sounds series at Reid Hall, arrived New York designed a state-of-the-art online and by early March we had a class: sixteen days before the opening and quickly began MARIE D’ORIGNY, ADMINISTRATIVE application system. We were able to launch Fellows would arrive in September in Paris, engaging with the Fellows, as well as with the DIRECTOR our fellowship competition for our first cohort from Nigeria, Syria, China, India, Canada, Institute team. of Fellows in November 2017. Through word Malaysia, London, South Africa, and New York. of mouth, we pieced together an outreach list The Institute opened on a Monday. The previous of about 300 people, each of whom spread While the jackhammers knocked down load- Thursday, the three of us stormed into our the word about the Institute. The online bearing walls and pushed back the limits of our building to the contractor’s protesting tune: system allowed for the live monitoring of new building to make room for sunlight, “Mais, on a pas fini!” We began setting up the the candidates’ submissions. Many had been bathrooms, copy rooms, and seating areas, kitchen anyway. If the Fellows wouldn’t have curious about the Institute and had started an the Institute needed to make friends in Paris. chairs or an office, at least we would make them application, but as the deadline approached, Paul LeClerc had already established a tea and coffee and serve food on real plates. On very few had submitted their files. Two days partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de Friday evening, I left a dusty and messy building. before the deadline, I thought we would be France, through which our Fellows are given As I rushed to greet the furniture on Monday lucky if fifty people applied. We received 200 privileged access to its collections. We then morning, I was amazed to find no trace of the

Y 20 X 21 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT ACADEMIC PROGRAMS: “TO TEACH THIS CLASS TO THIS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN PARIS EXCEPTIONAL GROUP IN PARIS ALLOWED “COMING TO PARIS TO JOIN THE COLUMBIA MA HISTORY & ME TO GAIN NEW INSIGHTS INTO MY LITERATURE PROGRAM WAS ONE OF THE BEST ACADEMIC AREA OF SPECIALIZATION AND TO “THE NYP PROGRAM IS IN 2017 – 2018, THE PROGRAM was students have described the incredible impact DECISIONS I EVER MADE. NOT ONLY DID I GET TO SPEND A YEAR pleased to welcome 122 students from all their semesters at the Paris Center have had MAKE NEW INTERDISCIPLINARY AND UNIQUE AND BREAKS four undergraduate schools of Columbia on their lives. Whether it be intellectually, or LIVING IN PARIS (NEVER A BAD IDEA) BUT I ALSO GOT TO SPEND University (Columbia College, Barnard, SEAS, in terms of personal growth, the Columbia INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS WITH THE MOLD COMPARED and the School of General Studies). Of those, University Undergraduate Programs in Paris A YEAR EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A CULTURE IN A twenty-eight enrolled in one of the Art or have the privilege of accompanying students at COLLEAGUES IN PARIS.” • DOROTHEA TO ANY OTHER Music Humanities courses offered during the a crucial moment in their lives when they are SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD AND THE ART THAT CULTURE PRODUCED. academic year by Professors Julia Doe (Music making both academic and individual choices VON MÜCKE, GEBHARD PROFESSOR OF INSTITUTION I EVER Humanities, Fall semester) and Barry Bergdoll that will influence their future: applying for I GREW DRAMATICALLY AS A WRITER AND RESEARCHER DURING (Art Humanities, Spring semester); and thirty- prestigious graduate fellowships, considering an GERMAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, two were selected to participate in the highly international career, or just learning to embrace WORKED. RATHER intensive joint Art and Music Humanities new cultures, a new language, and being open MY TIME WITH HILI AND THOSE SKILLS WILL CARRY ME FORWARD program taught over the summer. to the world. The curricular offerings of our DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES. THAN RUNNING THE program, with its diverse semester and summer IN MY CAREER AND LIFE LONG AFTER MY TIME IN PARIS HAS “Life-changing,” “extraordinary,” “the highlight programming, with courses taught both in SAME PROGRAM of my college career.” Such are the ways French and in English, allow students to embark ENDED.” • VALORIE CLARK on a global experience at almost any stage of YEAR AFTER YEAR their Columbia trajectory.

DIRECTOR O’CONNOR HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SEMESTER PROGRAMS (FALL AND SPRING) CONSISTENTLY As in years past, the program benefitted from the wonderful presence of Art and Music EVALUATES AND Humanities being taught at Reid Hall in the Fall and Spring.

CHANGES THE During the Fall semester, when Music Humanities was taught, Professor Julia Doe PROGRAM KEEPING IT not only took her students to attend classical concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris, the CURRENT AND EVER Opéra Bastille and Garnier, but she also initiated students to contemporary music EVOLVING.” / CLAUDE through the Columbia Sounds series created at the Paris Center. This series features BOUCHARD compositions and performances by faculty, Art and Music Humanities students, and alumni of the Department of students, Summer 2018 Music, with an emphasis on new and recent American works. To hear such radical and innovative compositions first-hand has been an eye-opening experience for the students, and post-concert discussions have always been fruitful for the development of their musical ear.

Y 22 X 23 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Right: Richard Pena (Film) and For Professor Barry Bergdoll, who returned are embedded in the course syllabi, making the team of French language to teach at Reid Hall after many years, them directly relatable to the students’ instructors (Aline Rogg, Karen teaching the Core in Paris was one of the most academic coursework. Two great conferences Santos Da Silva, Hadley Sutter, gratifying experiences to date. The possibility that took place last year were the screening Vincent S. Aurora, Adam Cutchin) of confronting students directly with some and discussion of the award-winning film of the greatest art collections in the world, Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (Quinzaine Background: Art and Humanities whether at the Musée du Louvre, Versailles, des réalisateurs, Cannes Film Festival 2015) Students in front of the Centre or the Musée d’Orsay, gives them a signif- with director, Arnaud Desplechin, and film Pompidou, Summer 2018 icantly different perspective, one that is professor, Marc Cerisuelo. seeded in the senses, the appreciation of the materiality of the artwork in its cultural and Later in the year, on the 100th anniversary aesthetic context. Students enrolled in Art of the entry of the United States into World Humanities in Paris leave the program with War I, students attended a conference a sharpened eye not only for the works they on the role of American women during the have studied, but also for all things around war with historians Catherine Healy and them: Paris, its architecture, its history, its Julien Blanc. These events, open to the vision of order and beauty. public, were well attended by students and

This was an ideal environment for the philosophy of the Core in the course had the unique experience of Not surprisingly, given the rigor and intensity to flourish, one in which ideas, discussion, and argument fuel walking down the iconic red carpet of the expected of studying both courses jointly, Cannes Film Festival to meet film professionals students enrolled in the program in Paris continuous intellectual debate. and artists. Needless to say, they were are particularly bright and motivated. In euphoric at the prospect of watching films addition to course work and class time, they surrounded by members of the jury, including are expected to be active participants on all In addition to these courses and the two members of the Columbia community last year’s president, Cate Blanchett. course excursions and programmed activities. global core classes offered each semester in Paris. The extraordinary co-curricular design of the (“Black Paris” taught by Stéphanie Bérard and These four new features centered on innova- program, with its seemingly limitless access “Sex Economy” taught by Christelle Taraud), The third feature worthy of note was the tion, faculty research, contact with local to museums and concerts to study art and four new features enhanced the curriculum introduction of a bi-annual symposium experts, and focused curricular outings, were music in situ, is an essential component of this year. allowing students in all courses at Reid Hall to greatly stimulating for both the students and the students’ academic experience. Over this focus on a given theme across disciplines. In the faculty. past summer alone, a total of twenty-seven The first was the creation of a new course last spring’s symposium, students reflected museum outings and concerts were organized on contemporary art from 1950 to today. on the importance and relevance of May ART AND MUSIC HUMANITIES for the students, including a weekend-long This course allows students to extend their 1968 today, from historical, political, cultural, As the record number of applicants this past trip to Amsterdam where students visited the knowledge of the history of art into the and gendered perspectives. This gave rise summer demonstrated (with 113 applications Van Gogh museum, Rembrandt’s house, the present. Far from presenting Paris as a to a splendid presentation at the end of the for thirty-two spots), the attraction of studying Stedelijk Museum, as well as the Rijksmuseum. museum city, it illustrates the vigor of the semester, where each class presented its work. both masterpieces of Western Art and Music This dynamic, daily interaction of Art and Music French art scene from the second half of the On a minor scale, this gave students a taste in Paris remains undisputed. The distinctive Humanities in class and beyond galvanized the twentieth century. Amongst others, students of the skills required to organize an academic feature of the program and its success program. This was an ideal environment for visited the Centre Georges Pompidou, the conference with different panels, speakers, continue to lie in the pedagogical integration the philosophy of the Core to flourish, one in Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, the and moderators. As with the directed research of Art and Music Humanities: the two which ideas, discussion, and argument fueled Palais de Tokyo, and the Fondation Cartier projects, this initiative encouraged students to instructors teaching Art Humanities attend all continuous intellectual debate. for Contemporary Art. gain ownership over their academic careers by the Music Humanities classes, and the Music inspiring them to work as scholars. Humanities instructors attend their colleagues’ The intensity of the courses and the amount The second new feature consisted of a faculty Art Humanities classes. This daily contact of thought and preparation put into every speaker series designed to highlight the local The fourth and most glamorous new feature enabled instructors to work closely together single aspect of the program demonstrate faculty’s research and to bring students in was the addition of an excursion to the film in devising assignments and coordinating field the faculty’s extraordinary commitment to contact with scholars and artists. All lectures seminar, “Paris on Screen.” Students enrolled trips, both within and across disciplines. teaching. For that, the program wishes to

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FALL: 19 Art & Music Humanities: 32 SPRING: 31 Summer French Studies: 31 MENA: 9 The workshop at the Paris Center is the heart of this ACADEMIC YEAR TOTAL: 50 SUMMER TOTAL: 72 program – the moment when students come to grasp the real challenges of historical research and to think of themselves as fellow scholars. DIRECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS 2017-2018

Hampton Adams, “Traduction et étude Bella Carriker, “Sustainable Architecture Tangente de Nina Chataignier,” under the in Paris,” under the direction of Barry Direction of Catherine Marcangeli (Maître Bergdoll (Meyer Schapiro Professor of de Conférences, Paris VII Denis-Diderot) Art History and Archaeology and Director Student Workshop of Undergraduate Studies Columbia Solomon Azrieli, “Causalité et dualism,” University) thank all the faculty members who dedicated Santos da Silva, Hadley Suter, and Aline Rogg under the direction of Florent Jakob their time and energy this summer into taught Intermediate and Advanced French (Lecturer, University Paris II Panthéon- Christine Desbois, “Bienvenue au Repas: making the program so successful: Magdalena classes. Four new courses were offered in Assas) une ethnographie du fait d’être accueilli Baczewska (Music), Robert Harrist (Art the program: “Exploring French Cinema,” à table,” under the direction of Cécile History), Anne Higonnet (Art History), and taught by Richard Peña, “Blackness in France: Cherline Bazile, “Autofiction : In Search Balavoine (Author) Peter Susser (Music). They were assisted in from Harlem to Paris and Beyond,” taught of Fullness,” under the direction of their teaching and preparation of excursions by Kaiama L. Glover, “Experiencing Life Stéphanie Bérard (Associated Research Allegra Herman, “Traduction : Musée by two wonderful and talented teaching and Legend in the City of Lights,” taught by Scholar, SeFeA - Scènes Francophones et haut, musée bas,” under the direction assistants: Audrey Amsellem, a doctoral Adam Cutchin, and “Colonization and Post- Écritures de l’Altérité -de l’IRET - Institut of Catherine Marcangeli (Maître de candidate in Ethnomusicology, and Barthélémy colonial Immigration in the French Context: de Recherche en Etudes Théâtrales - Conférences, Paris VII Denis-Diderot) Glama, a doctoral candidate in Art History. History, Legacy, and Contemporary Debates,” Université Paris III, Sorbonne-Nouvelle) taught by Laure Blévis, Assistant Professor in Ingrid Lee, “Purifications de protéines,” The Columbia University Undergraduate Sociology at the Université Paris X, Nanterre. Ellen Birch, “Historiographie du under the direction of Deshmukh Gopaul Programs in Paris are proud and fortunate to In order to broaden their knowledge of modernisme francophone et anglophone,” (Pasteur Institute, Head Design for Biology have been able to offer these two Core courses France, students participated in two extensive under the direction of Cécile Bargues Center Education Department/CiTech) consistently over the past four years. This program excursions: the first to visit the Reims (Lecturer, Sciences Po) has illuminated and enriched the teaching of cathedral; the second to tour Normandy over Jacob Matthews, “La gourmandise the Core on both sides of the Atlantic when the course of a weekend. Within two days, Justin Booz, “Ruins as a metaphor,” bourgeoise et la conception faculty return to campus. In addition, Core students visited Monet’s home in Giverny, the under the direction of Barry Bergdoll psychanalytique de la faim,” under the classes taught abroad facilitate undergraduate picturesque port-town of Honfleur, the Bayeux (Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art direction of Florent Jakob (Lecturer, mobility and increase student engagement on tapestry, and the D-Day landing beaches. History and Archaeology and Director University Paris II, Panthéon-Assas) the global scene while they study in a culturally of Undergraduate Studies Columbia relevant setting. ARABIC LANGUAGE PROGRAM University) Anta Touray, “Montesquieu et le code We had the great pleasure of welcoming noir,” under the direction of Christelle FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE STUDIES back the MENA program (Middle Eastern and Claire Burghard, “Biochimie des macro- Taraud (Researcher, Centre d’Histoire In the summer French and Francophone North African Studies), led by Taoufik Ben molecules,” under the direction of du XIXème siècle, University Panthéon- Studies program, we were delighted to Amor. As in years past, the curriculum was Deshmukh Gopaul (Pasteur Institute, Sorbonne, Paris I) welcome eight Barnard and Columbia divided between modern standard Arabic Head Design for Biology Center Education faculty members. Vincent Aurora taught the language courses and training in local dialects Department/CiTech) Accelerated Intermediate track, while Karen of both the Mashrek and the Maghreb (all

Y 26 X 27 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT courses were taught by Youssef Nouhi and new ways of engaging its undergraduate “THE PARIS SEMESTER TAUGHT ME HOW Taoufik Ben Amor). In addition to the language students with well-established and emerging curriculum, students’ understanding of Arabic scholars and artists from all around the world, TO TURN THEORETICAL VISIONS INTO was complemented by a historical and cultural thus integrating a truly global perspective into seminar taught by Madeleine Dobie (French its curriculum. REAL ARCHITECTURE, ALLOWING US THE and Comparative Literature). In 2018, the seminar focused on migration, displacement, OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD A PAVILION AT and diaspora in the North African context, SÉVERINE C. MARTIN “REID HALL HELPED CENTER MY PARIS and featured lectures by prominent specialists DIRECTOR FULL SCALE. THE NY/PARIS PROGRAM from Columbia University and partner institutions in the Middle East. One of the EXPERIENCE. THOUGH MY DIRECTED RESEARCH many appeals of the program is its location WAS INTENSE AND DEMANDING, BUT at two different Global Centers: Amman TOOK ME FROM BELLEVILLE TO THE MARAIS, and Paris. The two sites allowed students to REWARDING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY engage in a critical reflection on the study of FROM THE BNF TO THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE SAINT- Arabic from multiple regional perspectives: in “AFTER THIS YEAR I KNOW PROVE TO BE INVALUABLE TO MY the Middle East and Europe. GENEVIÈVE, I COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON REID MORE ABOUT MYSELF, MY UNDERSTANDING OF ARCHITECTURE.” PERSPECTIVES FOR 2018 – 2019 HALL AS A BASE OF OPERATIONS WHERE I With the opening of the Institute for Ideas and CAPABILITIES AND WHAT I MICHELLE KLEINMAN Imagination in September 2018, the Columbia Paris noir class in front of the Sorbonne, COULD MEET FRIENDS, STUDY, AND GET MY Undergraduate Programs is excited to explore Fall 2017 WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THE BEARINGS.” / MAX BINDER, CC’18 FUTURE, AND MY TIME IN PARIS

WAS A INTEGRAL PART OF THE

OVERALL EXPERIENCE. I HIGHLY

SUGGEST THE PROGRAM, AND

STRONGLY ENCOURAGE ALL

FUTURE STUDENTS TO TAKE

PART IN THE PARIS SEMESTER.”

—JUSTIN FITZ

X Y 28 29 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT MASTERS PROGRAM IN program taught primarily by Columbia faculty: become fully acquainted with Paris and In 2017 – 2018, students had the opportunity its surroundings, the fall workshop, led by HISTORY AND LITERATURE of studying with visiting professors Jenny professor of architectural history, Linea Tilly, Davidson (English and Comparative Literature) focused on different neighborhoods in the and Joseph Howley (Classics). The Columbia Ile-de-France. Workshops provided an on-site professor who was supposed to come in the Fall critical perspective on the intellectual and had to stay in the US and was replaced by two aesthetic history of Paris, and trained students COLUMBIA’S MASTERS PROGRAM in History in 2017 – 2018, extending from an analysis of Paris-based colleagues: Loren Wolfe (Harvard in the art of questioning the context in which and Literature (HILI) was founded in 2011 by the covers of The Great Gatsby’s publication Ph.D. working with the Paris Center and former they found themselves. The program also professors Pierre Force and Emmanuel Saada, in the United Kingdom, the study of Scotland’s teacher in the Harvard History and Literature offered several students the opportunity of and is jointly sponsored by the Departments of first free, public lending library during the program) and Jean-Philippe Dedieu (a specialist student teaching, via a paid internship with the History and of French and Romance Philology. eighteenth century, to the comparison of in the African diaspora). École Internationale Bilingue, and the possibility Joanna Stalnaker, professor of eighteenth- the NGO’s responsibility in the assistance of of working at the ENS on cultural transfers. century French literature and philosophy, was unaccompanied minors in the United States and The 2017 – 2018 core curriculum, taught at immediately appointed academic director and in the United Kingdom. Reid Hall, included methodological courses The program culminated with “work-in- served until June 2016 when Gregory Mann, (“Introduction to History and Literature;” progress” presentations to an assembly of professor of African History, took over the reins. It was wonderful to see how the students grew “Research Seminar”) as well as theme-based program professors and alumni, MA-essay intellectually from their discussions with their courses (“Minorities in France,” “Epic Histories,” advisors, academic guests, peers, and the The 2017 – 2018 cohort of HILI students was M.A. essay advisors. These carefully selected and “Global History of the Book”). To round Faculty Director of the program, Gregory Mann. creative, diverse, highly motivated, and cheerful. advisors, with whom students work closely out their academic schedule, students chose The lively debates during these defenses and We selected our six students based on their throughout the year, are scholars from leading from an array of courses offered at France’s the quality of intellectual exchanges were key to desire to explore the interconnections and French graduate schools, and specialists in their top-tier graduate schools in the Humanities and the completion of their essays. I must add that intersections between history and literature, respective fields. It was also gratifying to hear Social Sciences: the École normale supérieure an increasing number of previous MA students, and to address new methodological horizons them enthusiastically talk about discoveries (ENS), the École des hautes études en sciences now enrolled in doctoral programs, and who that combine close reading of texts and made in the Parisian libraries and archives sociales (EHESS), and the Sorbonne. Students have returned to Paris to conduct research analyses of visual and experiential material during their research field trips (subsidized by were automatically registered as visiting during summer, serve as mentors for the with expansive attention to historical context. the program). Their research took them to the students, a status that included access to the current students in the process of writing their Bibliothèque nationale de France, the British ENS library, the only open-stack research library MA thesis. The HILI program is tailored to students’ Library, as well as a small and remote Scottish in France. They also participated in cultural and interests and needs and this year the city, and to Chatto & Windus publishing house’s academic life with their French peers at the ENS Perhaps nothing testifies more to the strength continental European component of the archives. The group took full advantage of their and at the EHESS. This unique involvement of the program than the fact that people stay program was challenged. In contrast to the stay in Western Europe. with the French academic system explains why connected after it ends. It is clear that the HILI other years, the students’ main interests many HILI students stay in Paris for another program fosters a strong sense of solidarity revolved mainly around British topics. This is The great flexibility of our program is matched year to complete a Masters in the French both on academic and personal levels. It is apparent in the range of MA thesis subjects by its academic rigor. The program is a Columbia university system. this tight-knit and supportive community that propels our students into successful and varied I am so grateful to all of our faculty members post-graduate careers. for their exceptional commitment to the HILI students, and for the time they spent with them both inside and outside the classroom. CHRISTINE VALERO, I am especially grateful to Professor Joseph ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF STUDIES Howley, who was eager to help me organize and suggest on-site visits relevant to the topics of HILI students visiting his course (“Global History of the Book”). We the famous book- went to the Musée de l’Imprimerie in Lyon, to binder Houdart, as the département des manuscrits of the BNF to part of their course see the Dungham scrolls and a few rare Chinese on the History of the printed books, and to the famous Parisian Book, prof. Joseph bookbinder Houdart – visits that students will Howley never forget.

The coursework was complemented by one workshop each semester. To help students

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Tyler Allen, All the Children Come Without Their Fall 2017 OVER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS, founder and director of the Institute of Fathers and Mothers: a Case Study Comparison Lectures related to the course “Minorities in collaboration between the Columbia Global Sustainable Development and International of Website of NGOs, Kids in Need of Defense France” taught by Jean-Philippe Dedieu: Center in Paris and the Alliance Program Relations, launched their seminal book Earth at (US) and Safe Passage (UK), 2014-2016, under continued to thrive, with a number of events Risk. In front of a diverse audience of students, the direction of Nancy Green (École des hautes November 6 jointly organized or hosted at Reid Hall. professors, and policy makers, they discussed études en sciences sociales) “Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe: some of the key issues raised in their book, A Shared Story?” On March 13th and March 20th, Elizabeth including mapping out the necessary transition Anjum Bari, The Making of a Classic: a Publish- Povinelli, Frank Boas Professor of Anthropology to sustainability, detailing the innovation in With Jean-Philippe Dedieu, the editors of ing History of The Great Gatsby in the United and Gender Studies at Columbia University, gave science, technology, law, and institutional design the book, James Renton, Reader in History, Kingdom, 1926-1977, under the direction of two provocative lectures. On March 13th, she that can be put to use to avert environmental Edge Hill University, and Benjamin Gidley, Claire Parfait (Université Paris XIII, Nanterre) discussed “The Collapse of Political Concepts,” catastrophe. senior lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London. asking how the straining of quasi-spaces and Terri-Lee Bixby, A Library at the Frontier: of the efforts of embankment of existence In June 2018, the seventh Alliance Graduate Innerpeffray in the Scottish Context, 1680- November 13 demands an accounting from western political Summer School on research methods in 1800, under the direction of Silvia Sebastiani “Photography in the Age of Global concepts. On March 20th, Professor Povinelli sustainable development brought together (École des hautes études en sciences sociales) Surveillance and Perpetual Wars.” discussed “The Rise of Extimate Aesthetics” graduate students and leading scholars in the and reexamined the concept of the cultic in fields of economics, environmental science, and With Jean Philippe Dedieu, Lewis Bush, Susan Chavez, Shadowshaping Bone Street: aesthetic theory and the function of art in public policy. Together, they explored methods in photographer, writer and lecturer in Authorial Identification in the Race War, under Western philosophies of truth. remote sensing, network analysis, and machine documentary photography at the London the direction Claire Joubert (Université Paris learning with applications to urban planning and College of Communication and Debi Cornwall, VIII, Vincennes-Saint Denis) On May 31st, Claude Henry, Professor of environmental policy. conceptual documentary artist. Sustainable Development at Sciences Po and

Erin Mayo, The Narratology of Class- Columbia University, and Laurence Tubiana, EMMANUEL KATTAN, DIRECTOR Reconciliation in Gaskell’s Condition-of- England Novels, under the direction of Benjamine Toussaint (Université Paris I, Sorbonne-Université)

Briana Vessells, From Vassals to Men: African American leaders, Black Nationalism, and Emigration to Liberia and Haiti, 1840- 1863, under the direction of Adrien Delmas (Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud)

Left page: HILI students visit Gallo- Roman ruins in Lyon

Left: Alliance Graduate Summer School

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IN JULY 2018, nine undergraduate Columbia dilemmas. What do you do if you can’t read OMENS ATTEND UPON BEGINNINGS. and Barnard history majors, two History your subject’s handwriting? What if the relevant ANXIOUS, YOUR EARS ARE ALERT AT THE faculty members (Susan Pedersen and Charly archival collections are scattered across several FIRST WORD, Coleman), and one graduate program assist- countries and institutions? What if the archivist ant (Roslyn Dubler) convened at the Global won’t let you take photographs? Students and faculty in the History Workshop, AND THE AUGUR INTERPRETS THE FIRST Center in Paris. The undergraduates were all Summer 2018. BIRD THAT HE SEES. On Wednesday, we spent the morning and planning to write senior theses in the next WHEN THE TEMPLES AND EARS OF THE early afternoon on the four remaining student History Department, this program has provided year. Their subjects ranged far and wide: from GODS ARE OPEN, Russian émigré associations in the wake of presentations and individual meetings. We then thirty-eight undergraduate fellowships over the Civil War to women’s medical education held a final session in which students wrote the past five years. Those students have worked THE TONGUE SPEAKS NO IDLE PRAYER, in Britain. All, however, had been awarded a up their revised research topics in light of our in archives in Britain, France, the Netherlands, WORDS HAVE WEIGHT. summer fellowship for thesis research. Several discussions over the previous two days. Before Ireland, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Serbia, arrived in Paris fresh from their first encounter adjourning, we answered any lingering concerns and Poland. They have used private papers, Ovid, Fasti 1.63-294 and solicited advice on how to run the program with archives. national and colonial archives, and company (translated by, and adapted notes from, more effectively. and institutional records. Their projects have A. S. Kline) The workshop opened on Monday, July 9, ranged in time from the medieval period to We were deeply gratified by how productive beginning with a session devoted to general (almost) the present, and in space from India, the workshop proved to be for all participants. SO RESPONDS THE GOD JANUS to Ovid’s advice on the mechanics of historical research, to the Caribbean, to Africa and Europe. Over The students engaged with intense serious- question of why good wishes are given and discussing various practical problems the half of the theses have received departmental ness – writing thoughtful reports, commenting received at the beginning of a new year. students had encountered, answering specific honors or prizes. questions, and so forth. We then had a second incisively on one another’s work, and respond- session to discuss successful theses from ing in a mature way to criticism. The students The workshop at the Paris Center is the heart This year, my third as Senior Program Manager previous years. The exercise proved incredibly themselves were effusive in their praise of of this program – the moment when students for the Paris Center, augured many changes useful. Perhaps above all, the models conveyed how useful the sessions were. They have also come to grasp the real challenges of historical at Reid Hall, in terms both of architecture the indispensability of formulating a clear and clearly formed an intellectual bond, one that research and to think of themselves as fellow and of activity. Structurally, even amidst the precise question, one focused enough to be we expect will deepen over the course of the scholars. The unwavering support and warm scaffolding and construction, we welcomed researched in the time available. The students academic year. welcome we receive each year from Paul 5300 guests from all walks of life to participate also came away with a keen appreciation of LeClerc, Brunhilde Biebuyck, and Krista Faurie in over fifty events in our Grande Salle. Its Now in its sixth year, this program – “Enhancing the difference that clear structure and good make our time in Paris as delightful as it is the Research Component of the History warm, wood-paneled walls delineate this “third writing make. We then took the students to formative. We look forward to returning in Major” – offers intellectual and financial space” we have staked out, generating the dinner at a local restaurant, where we discussed Summer 2019 with a new group of students support to students undertaking senior thesis kind of interdisciplinary inquiry, intercultural their projects, previous coursework, and more undertaking another set of exciting projects. projects that, at their best, yield original exploration, and uncensored exchange that general intellectual interests. contributions to historical knowledge. Faculty moves us toward a future formed and informed, Tuesday morning and much of the afternoon and graduate students advise undergraduates SUSAN PEDERSEN however subtly, by our conversations. Words were spent discussing five projects and their in formulating feasible research topics and MORRIS PROFESSOR OF BRITISH HISTORY do have weight, and we lift ours with progress to date. Students were responsible questions. Columbia’s dedicated research determination and care. not only for presenting their own work, but also librarians guide their search for sources. Those CHARLY COLEMAN for commenting on two other proposals. This awarded fellowships then spend four to six ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY The fixity of Janus’s forward and backward gaze approach made for a genuinely participatory weeks in European archives. In the fall, they belies, in fact, his force. He is also the god of discussion. Taking each project in turn, we enter the senior seminar in which they will write transitions and of process. The events we create offered specific advice on confronting the their thesis. are beautiful precisely because they unfold fundamental challenge that all historians unrepeatably in time, in the space between past Initially funded by the President’s Global face: how to put the right questions to and future. While I won’t have the space here to Innovation Fund, and now supported by the the appropriate sources in order to make Dean of Columbia College, the Barnard Provost, go into detail about the multitude of happenings compelling revelations about the past. We and the Board of Visitors of the Columbia also strategized solutions to unanticipated

Y 34 X 35 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Right: Audience members discuss the book, and bienveillance cast a critical gaze on cultural workshop she had organized with our Center’s Democracy and the Welfare State: The Two differences, while highlighting fundamental help the previous year. Wests in the Age of Austerity, edited by Alice similarities of black experience across the Kessler-Harris and Maurizio Vaudagna Atlantic. Both Williams and N’Diaye rallied Finally, in July 2018, we had the honor of around the sentiment people of color feel in hosting the first iteration of the “Youth Climate Right, below: Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly by America and in France of “being out of place.” Leaders” orientation. These impressive, wildly Safwan Masri, Executive Vice President, Our Center’s programming, with its hybridity energetic, and optimistic young people, directed Columbia Global Centers, here in conversation and inclusiveness, puts in place tools – of by SIPA graduate Cassia Moraes, engaged with with Andrew Hussey open dialogue, of critical inquiry – to begin senior thought leaders from the academy, the stamping out these territorial distinctions. private, and the public sectors to begin building Going further, in the spirit of testing barriers, a worldwide network committed to changing poking at limits, and crossing thresholds, the the way humans live in and interact with the we have witnessed over the year, I would like theme of “Borderline” will shape our Fall 2018 environment. to highlight a few. perceptions into our programming. and others’ view, and “Care of the vast world is in my hands alone / Firstly, our Columbia Sounds concert series, the radical doubt to To prolong the impact and to secure the And mine the governance of the turning pole.” curated by Susan Boynton, is now in its realize how little we longevity of the Columbia Global Center’s Janus’s tasks are mighty, indeed. We, at the third year, with its celebration of Columbia initially know of the programming in Paris, we are developing longer- Paris Center, hope to be doing our small part composers and performers, its privileging of patient’s situation.” term seminars and workshops that ensure a to usher in a better, brighter world with our unconventional and unchartered notes and more sustained influence. concerts, conferences, colloquia, seminars and rhythms, has carved out its niche in the Paris Our programming workshops. Our gate, edifices, and gardens are scene of new music. During the concerts, loath challenges dualistic We benefitted from Columbia Physics Professor open to all. They are even more welcoming now to anticipate the unpredictable beats and tones, thinking, pulling Yasutomo Uemura’s semester-long exchange that we have dusted off the dirt and draped our ears – and our thoughts with them – have questions and with Polytechnique to host a seminar entitled them in more luxurious garb. As Janus exclaims: no choice but to surrender and follow. issues back to their “Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics.” This Similarly, the two-day conference, Médicine et originary chaos. weekly gathering convened scientists from WE TOO DELIGHT IN GOLDEN TEMPLES, Récit, organized in partnership with the medical Just as past and future lose their grip once all over the world to discuss the cutting-edge HOWEVER MUCH school and hospital Paris Est-Créteil to spotlight the present is inserted, third terms upset technologies of super conductors, electron narrative medicine and to honor Rita Charon, WE APPROVE THE ANTIQUE: SUCH other binaries. Our conference “Europe Facing systems, and other instances where the solidity its founder and the freshly appointed director SPLENDOUR SUITS A GOD. Populism” broke down the “us vs. them” logic by of matter comes into question. of the Columbia Medical School’s department WE PRAISE THE PAST, BUT EXPERIENCE humanizing the singular other and by bringing of Medical Humanities and Ethics, attested to OUR OWN TIMES: to the fore the fact that defining categories Daniele Lorenzini, a fellow with the Columbia how new ways of listening inevitably lead to such as “race,” “religion,” and “class” only hold Center of Critical Theory, led two reading new ways of knowing. Doctor Charon’s work, YET BOTH ARE WAYS WORTHY OF BEING sway when brandished from above. Man has yet groups. “Uprising” cemented the Paris Center’s with its emphasis on attending to the patients’ CULTIVATED. to grow wings; feet move humans. And, with a involvement in the 13/13 series spearheaded by words, promotes the practice of presence in the little imagination, the distance required to jump Bernard Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Ovid, Fasti 1.63-294 face of the evidence-based, positivist approach into another’s shoes or onto another’s path is Professor of Law and Professor of Political (translated by, and adapted notes from, so many clinicians espouse. In contrast to actually quite short. Making such leaps reduces Science. The second, “Ethical Resistance, A. S. Kline) the assumed position of the “doctor who the traction these floating yet sticky divisions Political Resistance,” organized in partnership knows,” the practice of presence renders the hold. with the prestigious Collège international de listener vulnerable and open. To return to Ovid, philosophie, brought together eminent scholars LOREN WOLFE, SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER Janus reminds him of his own chaotic origin, Along the same lines, racial constructions forge and the wider public to discuss disobedience, explaining that his dual face is “a small sign of false wedges with disastrous results, all the civic responsibility, and resistance vs. refusal, [his] once confused state.” Confusion need not more so when they are cloaked in claims of among other topics. be cause for alarm; it is rather the condition universality. In their discussion of La condition of indeterminacy that allows for becoming. As noire, Patricia Williams, the James L. Dohr Laurie Postlewate, Barnard senior lecturer in Dr. Charon eloquently stated in her keynote Professor of Law at Columbia, Pap N’Diaye, French and assistant director of the Barnard address, An Originary Chaos: The Narrative Professor of History at Sciences-Po, and Balla Center for Translation Studies, succeeded in Sublimation of Medicine: “In order to really see Fofana, journalist at Libération, with humor developing a credit-bearing summer course in our patients, we need the creativity to bring our translation and theater that grew out of a small

Y 36 X 37 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT CGC|P PROGRAMMING • FALL 2017-SPRING 2018 • Faculty Focus: Patricia Williams in conversa- • Columbia Sounds: Grail Theatres and Music tion with Pap Ndiaye, La condition noire: (Susan Boynton, Department of Music) Conversation française, conversation • Conference: Democracy and the Welfare américaine (le Musée du Quai Branly; La State: The Two Wests in the Age of Austerity Maison Rouge) (Columbia University Press; Centre d’histoire, • Conference: Black Dolls (le Musée du Quai Sciences-Po) Branly; la Maison Rouge) • Book Presentation: Earth at Risk - Natural • Seminar: Frontiers of Condensed Matter November 2017 Capital and the Search for Sustainability, Physics (Yasutoma Uemura, • Columbia Sounds: Discovering Prokofiev March 2018 Claude Henry and Laurence Tubiana (Columbia Department of Physics) (Susan Boynton, Department of Music) • Book presentation: Alfred de Montesquiou University Press; Alliance) (04JRN): La Route de la Soie (Columbia • Seminar: Résistance éthique, résistance • Roundtable: Antisemitism and Islamaphobia politique (Collège international de in Europe (Columbia Masters of History and University Club of France) June 2018 philosophie) Literature) • Roundtable: Lessons from the Arab Spring: the • Lecture: La bibliothèque de Jean Baudrillard : Case of Tunisia, conversation between Safwan Comprendre la généalogie de la pensée de l’un • Seminar: Uprising 13/13 (Bernard Harcourt, • Roundtable: Photography in the Age of Global CCCCT) Surveillance and Perpetual Wars (Columbia Masri and Jean-Pierre Filiu (SIPA; Sciences-Po) des plus grands philosophes de la fin du XXème siècle (Marine Baudrillard) Masters of History and Literature) • Faculty Focus: Elizabeth Povinelli, Elizabeth • Seminar: Généalogies du mondial (Université A. Povinelli, Between Gaia and Ground in • Lecture: French Cinema Now (Richard Peña, Paris VIII) • Cultural Festival: Un weekend à l’Est: Kiev (Ambassade d’Ukraine) Geontopower, Politics and Aesthetics after School of the Arts) the Toxic Earth. (Université Paris I; Alliance) • Roundtable: Will We Ever Understand Each September 2017 • Lecture: Carte blanche à Richard Peña • Conference: East Africa Shared Gas Initiative (Université Paris I; Alliance) • Roundtable: Libération de la parole des Other? Area Studies and Western Policy (SIPA, Center on Global Energy Policy) femmes de #metoo à #balancetonporc (Sweet toward Russia (Harriman Institute) • Lecture: Nancy Huston (Textes & Voix) Briar College-Junior Year in France) • Columbia Sounds: Impressionisms and • Faculty Focus: Gary Miller, Beyond the Expressionism (Susan Boynton, Department December 2017 • Faculty Focus: Elizabeth Povinelli - The Rise Genome: Understanding How the Environment of Music) • Conference: Le Patrimoine Religieux dans of Extimate Aesthetics - Anthropology and Impacts Health (Mailman School of Public Gender (Université Paris I; Alliance) Health) • Lecture: La question Némirovsky: Vie, mort et les Afriques: Mobilisations patrimoniales et héritage d’une écrivaine juive dans la France religieuses en miroir (EHESS) • Conference: La Catastrophe Devant Soi, • Conference: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak dans du XXe siècle (Susan Suleiman, Prof Emeritus, Enjeux éthiques, questions politiques (École le siècle (Université Paris III) January 2018 normale supérieure; University College Dublin) Harvard University) • Lecture: Life of a Gothic Cathedral: Notre- • Columbia Sounds: Tribute to Jean-Baptiste • Conference: La Méditerranée (Éditions • Columbia Sounds: Works for Cello and Piano by Dame of Amiens (Stephen Murray, Department Barrière (Susan Boynton, Department of Geuthner) Hovhaness, Barber, and Part (Susan Boynton, of Art History and Archaeology) Music) Department of Music) • Art Exhibit: Vincent Koch (Tschann Libraire) • Lecture: Jewelry and the Body Kim Benzel • Conference: Disobedience (Uprising 13/13) • Workshop: ThinkNation NYC (on-campus (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (Bernard Harcourt, CCCCT) October 2017 event, SEAS) • Conference: L’Énigme Nietzsche (Collège • Film and Discussion: Chez Nous, Lucas Belvaux • Roundtable: De l’inégalité des vies (Éditions international de philosophie) du Seuil) April 2018 • Conference: Europe face au populisme • Conference: Challenges for Climate Change (Columbia Global Reports) • Faculty Focus: My Quest to Understand July 2018 in the post-Trump, post-Paris Era (Alliance; Novel Superconductors (Yasutoma Uemura, • Film and Discussion: La douleur, discussion • Roundtable: Chicago School Sociology: Department of Physics) Columbia; IDDRI) with director Emmanuel Finkiel and producer 1892 – 1961 (Columbia University Press) • Lecture: Camille Laurens: Résistance éthique Yaël Fogiel (Richard Peña, School of the Arts) • Conference: Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly, May 2018 et écriture de soi (Collège international de • Film and Discussion: Silvered Water: A Syrian Safwan Masri (Columbia University Press) • Faculty Focus: Connecting Theory and philosophie) Practice in Teacher Ed (Susan Furhman and Self-Portrait, discussion with co-director • Roundtable: Race, Gender, and Cinema Doug Ready, Teacher’s College) Ossama Mohammed and Madeleine Dobie, (Madeleine Dobie, Department of French February 2018 Department of Romance Languages and • Art Exhibit: Max Richer (Columbia Club and Romance Philologie) • Brazil today (Columbia Global Centers | Rio) Philology (Richard Peña, School of the Arts) of France) • Conference: Médicine et récit: La maladie • Columbia Sounds: New American Music for • International Conference: Youth Climate • Roundtable: Arts for Transformation: The comme expérience (Université Paris-Est, Cello (Susan Boynton, Department of Music) Leaders (SIPA) Créteil) Role of Living Arts in Post-Conflict Contexts • Vernissage: Back to the Drawing Board: Alice (La Maison Française; Cambodian Living Arts) Gauthier and Rob Miles (Tschann Libraire)

Y 38 X 39 / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT “THROUGH THE APPLICATION ESSAYS “DIRECTOR O’CONNOR HAS THE UNIQUE AND INTERVIEW PROCESS WE WERE ABILITY TO HIRE AND PUT TOGETHER A INTRODUCED TO AN AMBITIOUS, CREATIVE, DIVERSE, DYNAMIC TEAM OF FACULTY AND ARTICULATE GROUP OF STUDENTS. IN AND STAFF THAT MANAGES TO WORK THEIR WRITTEN WORK AND CLASSROOM COHESIVELY AND SEAMLESSLY, PARTICIPATION, THEY ALL ROSE TO THE CREATING AN ENJOYABLE WORKPLACE COLUMBIA SOUNDS CHALLENGES OF THIS REMARKABLE SERIES MARGUERITE YOURCENAR WROTE: ENVIRONMENT.” • MARCOS GARCIA ROJO PROGRAM.” • PETER SUSSER, LECTURER “THE TRUE BIRTHPLACE IS THE ONE WHEREIN FOR THE FIRST TIME ONE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AND DIRECTOR OF LOOKS INTELLIGENTLY UPON ONSELF.» FOR ME, THAT WOULD BE 4, THE COLUMBIA SOUNDS CONCERT SERIES, and Barnard alumna, Jenny Olivia Johnson, initiated in 2016, continues to offer a rich with Treize Couleurs du soleil couchant of UNDERGRADUATE MUSICIANSHIP variety of music from the twentieth and Tristan Murail (Emeritus Professor of Music, RUE DE CHEVREUSE.” • CAITLIN HAWKE twenty-first centuries, with an emphasis on Columbia) and the visionary Quatuor pour la composers and performers associated with fin du temps by Olivier Messaien. In November, Columbia University. In Summer 2017, the Columbia Sounds presented a tribute to the series complemented the Art and Music Serge Prokofiev Archive, the largest collection Humanities Core Curriculum program at outside of Moscow, with materials related to Reid Hall with a recital of Bach, Debussy, and the composer’s career currently on deposit Chopin by Columbia faculty member Magdalena at Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscript Baczewska and a program of recent piano Library. “Discovering Prokofiev: Music and the music by Columbia-affiliated composers played Archive” combined electrifying performances of by contemporary music specialist Julia Den Prokofiev’s piano sonatas by Cynthia Liu (CC ‘18) Boer. These well-attended performances were with Natalia Ermolaev’s (GSAS ‘10) tracing the the basis for Music Humanities assignments. In complex trajectory of Prokofiev’s life through addition, violinist Michelle Ross (CC ‘10) gave a letters and other documents in the archive. memorable concert of unaccompanied Bach, The composer’s Parisian descendants were in complemented by her own improvisations. attendance and appreciated this memorable performance. In the opening concert of the 2017 – 2018 season, “Impressionisms and Expressionisms,” The series also hosted a festive performance the Paris-based contemporary music collective in honor of the composer and sound artist Infuse (co-directed by composer Nissim Jean-Baptiste Barrière (a visiting professor at Schaul, CC ‘00) presented a rich array of Columbia who maintains strong connections compositions exploring the coloristic aspects to the Department of Music). The visual of instrumental sound. The program brought concert in January included spoken word, out transatlantic connections between New projections, and electronics in combination York and Paris, framing two recent works by with live performances by major specialists Columbia GSAS alumnus, Anthony Cheung, of contemporary music. The winter saw two cello recitals in contrasting styles. In February, Above: Cindy Liu virtuosa cellist Mariel Roberts performed

Y 40 X 41 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS / PARIS / 2017 – 18 ANNUAL REPORT Professor Curtis Young mostly unaccompanied recent works by American music in the beautiful and acoustically at the Conference: Columbia University faculty member George superior Grande Salle, that bear the mark of “When the Blues People Lewis and graduate alumni Alex Mincek and Columbia University’s distinguished musical Sang America to France,” Eric Wubbels. In March, cellist Eric Edberg and traditions. As curator of the series, I work May 2018 pianist John Kamfonas (CC ‘09) combined closely with the artists and composers on these rarely-heard works by Hovhannes, Barber, and programs. Pärt with the lyrical improvisations that are a feature of all their concerts. SUSAN BOYNTON, PROFESSOR OF MUSIC, The concluding concert of the season, HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY “Grail Theatres and Musics,” featured the contemporary music/theatre company La Chambre aux Échos exploring the theatricality of the concerto form through Kaija Saariaho’s violin concerto Graal Théâtre (1995) in juxtaposition with works by Debussy and Wagner, performed by the adventurous Parisian We plan to increase the frequency of our model presentation of the Amiens Cathedral Secession Orchestra directed by Clément Columbia networking events. These are always developed by Professor Stephen Murray. Mao-Takacs. a major success with usually one hundred or more participants. They are great opportunities In 2018 – 2019, we will continue to develop Columbia Sounds offers the Parisian and Reid for Alumni of all schools and years to get exclusive Columbia University Alumni Hall/Global Center audience the opportunity together and exchange in the friendly and networking events and family events. We to hear outstanding performances of new relaxed Columbia atmosphere of Reid Hall. Our enthusiastically support the Columbia Sounds traditional Thanksgiving dinner takes place in series, organize/co-organize conferences on the more intimate setting of a small Montmartre diverse cultural and societal topics. We are also restaurant privatized for the occasion. organizing, with the Columbia Global Centers | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CLUB OF FRANCE Paris, our first art exhibit with works by the We organized again in 2017 the Halloween for Chinese painter Yang Daixi, in the presence of COLUMBIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | FRANCE Families event providing an opportunity for the artist. Alumni and Reid Hall staff with young families to take part in a joyful Columbia event with the Our Board is excited to be part of the Reid Hall THE COLUMBIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | We aim to provide social, cultural, and business participation of Reid Hall students. team and the newly created Institute for Ideas FRANCE is proud to be a part of Reid Hall opportunities to our members. In the year and Imagination, which is bound to add a new and contribute to the vibrant community of 2017 - 2018, we organized or co-organized Musical events are very popular and fill to dimension to the cultural presence of Columbia the Columbia Global Centers | Paris. twenty-eight events: capacity Reid Hall’s Grande Salle, whose in France. • Four networking events reserved to Columbia acoustics are excellent. These programs include Our mission is to develop relations between Alumni (La Rentrée, Thanksgiving Dinner, La contemporary music composed and/or played Columbia Alumni of all schools and genera- Galette, and Paris Summer Drinks) by Columbia composers and artists, as well as JEAN-PIERRE REICHENBACH, PRESIDENT tions, students and faculty of the Columbia Classical and Romantic pieces. Just to name • Six Columbia Sounds concerts co- Undergraduate Programs in Paris (CUP), one particularly moving concert: Prokofiev’s organized with the Department of Music, the newly created Institute for Ideas and music played in the presence of descendants of the Global Center | Paris, and the Columbia Imagination, and more generally to add to the composer by Cynthia Liu (CC ‘18), piano. Undergraduate Programs in Paris the cultural footprint of Columbia University in France. • Two concerts with independent young The conferences we sponsored were on musicians many subjects: events related to little known The Association now counts over 1800 • Nine conferences on various historical, aspects of WWI (Femmes de Plume, Femmes members from fifteen Schools (BUS, GSAS, societal, and cultural topics d’action and When Blues People Sang America LAW, SEAS, and SIPA making 80% of the total). to France); societal issues (Le Nouveau Mal • Participation in seven Ivy+ and other US Français); geopolitical subjects (La Route Universities social mixers de la Soie, Brazil Today), and a stunning 3-D

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WE ARE THE FACILITATORS processed. When they can get on with their FAST ALONE, FURTHER TOGETHER centralizing each element, in order to constitute a Far from the limelight, those of us in research, teaching, and programming with a An old African proverb says: “If you want to go coherent and effective set of administrative and administrative positions serve as the essential minimum of administrative distractions, we fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” financial services. underpinnings to the operations, making the enjoy the satisfaction of a job well done. This inspires us in our mission at the finance and Paris Center and Reid Hall shine, both daily and administration office, one we see as being at the Like a spider spinning its web, our team links exceptionally. It isn’t that Center activities heart of the Center. together colleagues, program organizers, and would be impossible without the multi-layered SUSANNAH MOWRIS, HUMAN RESOURCES visitors alike. It is this interconnectivity that support that our administration provides, but AND FINANCE MANAGER The Paris Center at Reid Hall is a special place broadens and solidifies the large web that with our support the professors, scholars, that welcomes students, professors, scholars, represents Columbia and its Global Centers and artists who come through our Center can artists, fellows, and event-goers. It is a melting- at large. concentrate on their programs and not the pot of brilliant minds from every part of the globe. myriad details that go into making them hap- By facilitating the sharing of knowledge and pen, details that can be infuriatingly dissimilar scholarship, the Center offers opportunities to a EBRU SAKAL, HUMAN RESOURCES AND from those encountered in the United States. spectrum of generations and so contributes to its FINANCE COORDINATOR members and to the University at large. To those unfamiliar with the workings of the University, we serve multiple roles: procure- At the core, we service the Columbia Undergrad- ment, accounts payable, treasury, human uate Programs in Paris, the Masters in History resources, safety and security, and then some. and Literature, the Architecture Program, the At first blush nothing too glorious, but consider Center’s public programming, and, now, the the advantages to programs taking place here: Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Our goal is to we can interface with local providers and ensure the meticulous technical work of financial administrators, many of whom do not speak affairs that is essential for the smooth functioning English. We can make payments on a professor’s of these programs. This process requires behalf, eliminating the need to transfer funds organizing, combining, and harmoniously into foreign currencies, thus circumventing cumbersome vendor approvals for foreign businesses. We advise on what is – and what isn’t – possible in terms of local hires, and we have enough experience thinking outside of the box that we can generally find a solution to seemingly intractable problems. Our staff is uniformly animated by a can-do ethic and a spirit of cooperation that is apparent to those who come and participate in the life of Reid Hall and the Paris Center.

It is not unusual for Columbia faculty to comment on how simple things are for them here. It’s no wonder: we are small enough that each initiative is familiar to us, and faculty are essential actors at our Center, not anonymous paperwork waiting to be approved and Left: The HR & Finance team at Petra, during the Finance and Administration meeting at the Columbia Global Centers l Amman

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TO BECOME MORE INDEPENDENT, PERSONALLY “ THE NYP PROGRAM IS UNIQUE AND AS WELL AS ACADEMICALLY. BESIDES MEETING BREAKS THE MOLD COMPARED TO ANY THE OUTSET GOALS OF IMPROVING MY FRENCH OTHER INSTITUTION I EVER WORKED. AND EARNING A MASTER’S DEGREE, I’VE MADE RATHER THAN RUNNING THE SAME HARD-WORKING, INTELLIGENT FRIENDS, BEEN PROGRAM YEAR AFTER YEAR DIRECTOR PRIVILEGED TO STUDY UNDER DEMANDING, O’CONNOR CONSISTENTLY EVALUATES “ I would recommend this program to those MIND-BROADENING PROFESSORS, AND COME AND CHANGES THE PROGRAM KEEPING seeking to pursue a degree in these fields. The AWAY FROM THIS EXPERIENCE WITH HIGHER other contractors who clamored regularly for IT CURRENT AND EVER EVOLVING.” TWO ILLUSTRATIONS OF OUR WORK organization and level of personal attention ESTIMATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS OF MYSELF.” payment. “Sorry sir, we can’t pay the invoices “SOGR I is completed! Yay! On to SOGR II!” unless the AV equipment is functioning / CLAUDE BOUCHARD exclaimed a member of our team. “What’s that?” were superb, the exposure to the French >> FIONA MUSTARD properly!” Our faithful Franco-Chilean asked a new employee not familiar with the contractors would come knocking at our finance acronym. “It sounds like a second-generation door weekly. “El pago de la factura, señora?” schools very rewarding, and the collaboration robot or spacecraft.” “Si, señor, the payment will go out mañana.” And to complicate matters, the renovation of with the directeur de mémoire meaningful.” • SOGR stands for “State of Good Repair,” and the Institute Building was in full swing in all its as Reid Hall’s oldest building was about to bureaucratic layers. We had to ensure payments Jackson Giuricich turn 271 years old, it was time for a much- for the insurers, the local technical controller, needed facelift financed by SOGR funds. We the worksite health and security coordinator, first needed to submit a capital improvement the color specialist, the graphic designer, the plan to the University, and a budget for the signage specialist, and, of course, the lawyers, to upgrades and structural renovations that we name a few. All the forms, reports, and requests believed were essential. Our biggest challenge were processed though our office. was a ninety-year-old roof. Replacing it meant interfacing with the project manager in the And now as SOGR II comes to an end and New York Facilities Department, the Paris renovations are almost finished, we can only ask Urban Commissioner, the architect, the insurer, ourselves, “SOGR III, anyone? Anyone?” the structural engineer, the geometrician, the technical controller, the on-site safety and protection consultants, the roof renovators, ADRIANA SAMANIEGO, HUMAN RESOURCES the unexpected cornice specialists, and so AND FINANCE OFFICER forth. The magnitude of the project was so considerable that it had to be divided into two phases, thus SOGR II was born.

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PARIS STAFF MEMBERS BY PROGRAM SUCCESS. REID HALL, WHERE SO MANY COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS | PARIS COLUMBIA UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS AMERICAN STUDENTS Paul LeClerc, Director Séverine C. Martin-Hartenstein, Director Brunhilde Biebuyck, Administrative Director Enyi Koene, Academic Coordinator FIND HOSPITALITY, IS Mihaela Bacou, Operations Manager Cathy Collins, Academic Advisor Elisabeth Mills Reid by John Singer Sargent BUT ONE MONUMENT Krista Faurie, Administrative Coordinator Christine Babef, Student Affairs Coordinator Susannah Mowris, Financial Manager Lucille Lancry, Administrative Assistant OF HER UNSELFISH Adriana Samaniego, Financial Officer COLUMBIA MA IN HISTORY AND DEVOTION TO AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF Ebru Sakal, Financial Assistant LITERATURE Loren Wolfe, Program Manager Gregory Mann, Director PRACTICAL FRANCO-AMERICAN COOPERATION Joelle Theubet, Communications Coordinator Christine Valero, Associate Director .” Jérôme Combes, IT Manager of Studies AND FRIENDSHIP Cyril Kaminski, IT Coordinator COLUMBIA ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM

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