Reid Hall Columbia Global Centers | Paris

Reid Hall Reid Academic Year 2016 – 2017 Columbia Global Centers | Paris Annual Report “ The best semester of my life.” DIEGO RODRIGUEZ, ARCHITECTURE PROGRAM Contents “During my time at Reid Hall, I not only benefited from exceptional professors from Columbia’s campus and at Paris IV, but also had my perspective of the world drastically expanded. Advisory Board & Faculty Steering Committee 2 Between living with host families and interacting Letter from President Lee C. Bollinger 4 with other students—both those in my program Letter from EVP Safwan M. Masri 5 and those at French universities—I gained the Introduction, Paul LeClerc, Director 6 ability to analyze and critique the American and Reid Hall, Une réhabilitation, the French ways of life. I became so enamored Brunhilde Biebuyck, Administrative Director 10 by the latter that, while initially only intending to The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination 13 Fall, Spring, & Summer Academic Programs 16 spend one semester MA in History and Literature 16 Whether or not a The Shape of Two Cities: Paris Spring Term 20 abroad, I have Columbia Undergraduate Programs in Paris, Fall & Spring Terms 22 chosen to stay in student intends Columbia Undergraduate Programs in Paris, France to continue Summer Term 25 to do the same, Other Summer Academic Programs 27 my studies. Alliance Graduate Summer School 27 I recommend a Senior Thesis Research in Europe 30 Public Programs 31 study abroad at Paris Center Programming 31 Columbia Sounds at Reid Hall 33 Reid Hall without Columbia University Alumni Club of France 34 Programs Organized by CGC l Paris 36 ” hesitation. Danielle Haase-Dubosc 38 Paris Staff Members by Program 40 CONOR BECKERMAN, CC ’16 B COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS | PARIS 1 2016 – 17 ANNUAL REPORT Faculty Steering Committee Advisory Board and ADVISORY BOARD FACULTY STEERING COMMITTEE 2016 – 2017 2016 – 2017 Daniel Cohen, CEO and John Allegrante, Adjunct Professor, Department of Chief Investment Officer of Sociomedical Sciences, Teachers College Institutional Financial Markets Brunhilde Biebuyck, Administrative Director, Columbia Brian D. Fix, ‘65CC, ‘68LLB, Global Centers | Paris Senior Counsel to the Dentons Akeel Bilgrami, Director, South Asia institute; Sidney Paris office Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Thomas Gaehtgens, Director of Arts & Sciences the Getty Research Institute Susan Boynton, Chair, Department of Music; Professor Thomas Glocer, ’81CC, of Music, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Founder and Managing Partner Giorgio DiMauro, Dean, International and Global Strategy, of Angelic Ventures, a private Provost Office, Barnard College investment firm and former CEO of Thomson Reuters Pierre Force, Professor of French and Romance Philology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Ron Halpern, ’90CC, ’96BUS, Executive Vice President of Carol Gluck, Chair, Columbia Global Centers | Paris Faculty International Production and Steering Committee; George Sansom Professor of History Acquisitions for StudioCanal, and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Depart- a French production and ment of History and Department of East Asian Languages distribution company and and Cultures subsidiary of the Canal+ Group Bernard Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, School of Law Alan Kanzer, ’65CC, Senior Counsel of Alston & Bird LLP Lisa Hollibaugh, Dean of Academic Planning and in New York Administration, Columbia College Scott Malkin, Chairman Holger Klein, Professor of Art History and Archeology, and CEO of London-based Faculty of Arts & Sciences Value Retail Paul LeClerc, Director, Columbia Global Centers | Paris Yves Mény, Professor at the Gregory Mann, Professor of History, Department of History, Institut d’Études Politiques Faculty of Arts & Sciences in Paris and former President of the European University Sharon Marcus, Dean for Humanities; Orlando Harriman Institute in Florence Professor of English, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Azmi Mikati, ’94SEAS, CEO Safwan Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers of the M1 Group, a holding and Global Development company based in Beirut Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order with interests including Studies, Faculty of Arts & Sciences telecommunications, real Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, estate, energy, financial School of Law; Walter E. Meyer Research Professor of assets, and fashion Law and Social Problems Bruno Racine, President, Emmanuelle Saada, Director, Center for French and Bibliothèque nationale Francophone Studies; Associate Professor of French de France and Romance Philology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Jean-Pierre Reichenbach, Gayatri Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, ‘70BUS, President, Columbia Faculty of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association, France Alan Timberlake, Director, Institute of East Central Europe; Sue Ann G. Weinberg, Professor of Slavic Languages, Faculty of Arts & Sciences ’52GSAS, ’97TC, New York philanthropist and Trustee of Michael Tuts, Chair, Department of Physics; Professor of Columbia’s Teachers College Physics, Faculty of Arts & Sciences 2 COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS | PARIS 3 2016 – 17 ANNUAL REPORT Letter from President Lee C. Bollinger Letter from President Lee C. Lee C. Bollinger Letter from EVP Safwan M. Masri Safwan M. Masri President Executive Vice President Columbia University for Global Centers and Global Development Columbia University Why does art provoke state censorship? How can This past academic year was a time of great global pluralism be harnessed for positive political change? changes and challenges. The world experienced political What role does religion play in protecting women upheavals, refugee crises, and contentious elections, from gender-based violence? the impacts of which were deeply felt by our Global Centers and our local, regional, and global partners. Columbia’s Global Centers are home to ongoing discussions of these and many other questions drawn from fields ranging from healthcare and sustainability, to social justice and armed conflict. These lectures and workshops, led by The acute and widespread effects of these events, however, reinforced that our network of Centers is uniquely positioned to take on the most pressing global distinguished scholars from Columbia and other universities, are just one dimen- issues of our time. By responding to and engaging with our individual local sion of the rich intellectual life of the Global Centers. Our students are becoming contexts, the Columbia Global Centers have helped us better understand each proficient in foreign languages, and studying architecture and political science; other, and brought firsthand perspectives back to our campus in New York City. researchers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds are collaborating to advance their scholarship. Our network also experienced many important new developments during the year. We welcomed a new Director to our Nairobi Center and laid the foundation for a As the world continues to change in ways that make us all feel more closely new Global Center in Tunis. Additionally, the Paris Center achieved new heights of interconnected, and global society attains new levels of economic and tech- distinction in its offerings across the board, and advanced a multi-year program nological integration, Columbia is evolving so that our scholarship and teaching of physical renewal and beautification. Across our network, we deepened our reflect this reality. No enterprise at the University more fully embraces this connections with local audiences through education programs, research projects, future than our network of Columbia Global Centers. They are essential to and public engagement. Collectively, our network held over 350 events worldwide. expanding our understanding of the world and to preparing new generations to confront urgent problems that refuse to be cabined by national boundaries. On campus, and under the visionary leadership of President Lee C. Bollinger, The new perspectives that our faculty and students acquire in Columbia Global we beheld the awesome development of an entirely new 17-acre campus in Centers stretching from Santiago to Beijing enrich the intellectual dialogue Manhattanville, which will soon add the new University Forum building – a occurring on our New York campuses and bring all of us in closer contact with space where scholars and thought leaders from various fields can come together the rest of the world. to share ideas. Columbia’s priorities were also given a new voice through two groundbreaking global initiatives: Columbia World Projects, which will connect This is what we hoped for when we set forth to build Columbia Global Centers. our research capacities with organizations beyond the academy to transform With each passing year, we see a growing volume of innovative scholarship—in our work into concrete consequences benefitting humanity; and the Columbia many instances, the product of collaborative programming involving multiple Commitment, a five-year capital campaign organized around university-wide Centers. For this, we are indebted to you, our supporters, and to all of the initiatives known as Commitments, which will support the work of faculty and remarkable faculty members and energetic students who are responsible, each students across schools as they collaborate for transformative impact on major issues of our time. in their own way, for creating this essential part of Columbia’s future. Our network of Global Centers has emerged over this past year stronger and more

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