ArtApéro | Diane Bodart at the Beaux-Arts de Paris
In-Person Event | March 14, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. (Paris)
This event will be held in English.
Columbia Professor of art history Diane Bodart presents Gribouillage / Scaraboccio, an exhibition open through April 30, which she co-curated at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. An informal discussion over drinks will follow Professor Bodart’s presentation of this exhibition, which examines hundreds of years of scribbles and sketches by notable artists.
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Variety: Screening and discussion with Bette Gordon
In-Person Event | March 20, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. (Paris)
The film will be shown in the original English with French subtitles.
The discussion will be held in English.
A pioneer in American Independent Cinema, Bette Gordon is known for her bold explorations of themes related to sexuality, desire, and power. Her acclaimed classic indie film VARIETY (1983) is a bold story about a woman who sells tickets at a pornographic movie theatre, set in the neon-lit squalor of Times Square in the mid 1980’s.
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Franz Schubert's Winterreise
In-Person Event | March 21, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. (Paris)
This evening will feature Franz Schubert's Winterreise with pianist Giulio Biddau and baritone André Morsch. Biddau is a recipient of the Casagrande Competition in Terni, “Les Nuits Pianistiques – Lauréats SPEDIDAM” in Aix-en-Provence, “José Iturbi” in Valencia, and the Tbilisi International Piano Competition. Morsch is a recipient of the Hermann-Reutter-Prize at the prestigious 'Internationaler Wettbewerb für Liedkunst' in Stuttgart and the Prix Bernac from the Académie Ravel in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
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Cities and Climate Solutions: Water
Webinar | March 22, 2023 | 6:00 p.m. (Paris)
This event will be held in English.
This webinar will bring together representatives of three cities, each facing unique water challenges: Los Angeles, Paris, and Amman. They will discuss how are these cities are dealing with (or preparing to deal with) increasingly severe water crises such as drought, floods, and water pollution. The first in a series of three entitled Cities and Climate Solutions, Water will be followed by Food, and Energy.
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"Transes": The Resonance of Nass el Ghiwane
In-Person Event | March 9, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. (Paris)
This event will be held in English.
Ahmed El Maanouni will present and discuss excerpts from his documentary film Transes, in conversation with Alessandra Ciucci, Columbia University Associate Professor of Music in Ethnomusicology. This documentary film, blending interviews with concert and archival footage, captures the excitement and socio-political relevance of music by the legendary Moroccan group Nass el Ghiwane.
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Le populisme en débat
Sciences Po Campus In-Person
March 14, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. (Paris)
Sciences Po Campus Saint Thomas
1 place St Thomas d'Aquin - 75007 Paris
This event will be held in English and French.
Why has populism implanted itself in the international political landscape? How have many forms of populism recently evolved around the world? Is populism still on the rise? The first of in a series of three round tables.
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Shocking But Not Surprising: Origins of Anti-Asian Violence in the U.S.
Sciences Po Saint-Père In-Person
March 15, 2023 | 10:00 a.m. (Paris)
Sciences Po Salle G009 (r.d.c.)
28 rue des Saints-Pères - 75007 Paris
This event will be held in English.
Mae Ngai, Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, in collective discussion with Ya-Han Chuang, Françoise Mengin and Daniel Sabbagh (CERI -Sciences Po).
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The Infinity of War
L'Arlequin In-Person | March 15, 2023 | 6:00 p.m. (Paris)
L'Arlequin
76 rue de Rennes - 75006 Paris
This event will be held in English.
Harriman Resident and Ukrainian filmmaker Zoya Laktionova and security and peacebuilding advisor Olga Kotiuk will share their work and discuss the infinity of wars: how they start and how they end; their impact on civilian populations; how we might possibly escape or avoid the influence of war. The discussion will be preceded by a screening of Laktionoya’s short film, Territory of Empty Windows, followed by This Rain Will Never Stop, a feature-length film by Alina Gorlova.
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Vulgar Experiments
In-Person Event | March 16, 2023 | 7:00 p.m. (Paris)
This event will be held in English.
Linguistic and literary historian John D. Phan, Assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, will discuss a series of what he calls "vulgar experiments," in which 18th century Vietnamese writers took original Classical Chinese literature and redesigned it into vernacular Vietnamese – transforming the language and its literary scope in the process.
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Avec Paul de Nadine Eghels
In-Person Event | March 22, 2023 | 8:00 p.m. (Paris)
Cet événement aura lieu en français.
L'association Textes & Voix vous invite à une lecture par Mireille Perrier du livre de Nadine Eghels, Avec Paul, publié par Les éditions Arléa.
La lecture sera suivie d'une discussion entre Eghels et Albert Dichy, président de T&V et directeur littéraire de l'Imec.
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Faculty Visitor
Alfredo Spagna
March 9 - 17
Alfredo Spagna is a lecturer in the discipline of Psychology and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience & Behavior at Columbia University. His recent research focuses on the psychological and neural mechanisms of attention on cognition and consciousness, with a particular interest in crossmodal / supramodal (auditory and visual) interactions.
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After completing his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology and Psychophysiology at the Department of Cognitive Psychology, Sapienza, University of Rome, he became increasingly interested in the neural basis of attention and cognitive control. He is currently devoted to conducting neuroimaging studies to investigate the anatomy, circuitry, and pathology of attentional networks. He previously developed the Auditory Attentional Network Task, allowing for the investigation of the efficiency and interactions of the three attentional networks – alerting, orienting, and executive control.
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Recap
A Poet at War: The Experience of Ihor Mitrov
On March 3, Reid Hall welcomed poet and Ukrainian soldier Ihor Mitrov, who screened a short film of footage taken at the front lines of the ongoing war between the Ukraine and Russia, and read a selection of his poems. Harriman Resident Nikita Grigorov helped to translate the poems as well as the film. The event was co-sponsored by the Institute for Ideas and Imagination and the Ukrainian Institute.
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Recap
Launch of La fureur de vivre, the French translation of Lauren Hough's memoir
For the second installment of our Women's Month series, Lauren Hough presented the French translation of her memoir, La fureur de vivre, published by Les Éditions du Portrait. An interview by editor Rachèle Bevilacqua followed readings of excerpts in both English and French. Translators Marie Chuvin and Laure Jouanneau-Lopez assisted with both the interview and the subsequent Q&A. The evening concluded with a signing, books provided by Librairie Maruani.
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Faculty Visitorship at Reid Hall
Columbia University faculty and researchers are encouraged to apply to the Faculty Visitorship Program at Reid Hall, jointly supported by Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.
Selected visitors will be invited to stay for one to three weeks, and will be asked to contribute to our podcast/video series, or take part in a public lecture or panel discussion.
Application deadline: April 30, 2023 for visits during the 2023 – 2024 academic year.
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