ANNUAL REPORT 2017–18 REPORT ANNUAL 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