Columbia Global Centers|Europe, located at Reid Hall in Paris, belongs to the constellation of centers established by Columbia University in the City of New York in pursuit of its historical mission, which is to engage its teaching, scholarship, and knowledge to understand world-wide developments.
Each center builds on its local resources and connections. The Paris Center is especially dedicated to re-launch social inquiry on foundational issues, drawing on, but also challenging, longstanding Trans-Atlantic social-scientific and humanistic traditions in light of expanding global knowledge.
CGC|Europe does so by:
- confronting the big issues of our time, using Paris/Europe as vantage points on the world.
- mobilizing resources and people to sustain multi-perspectival research.
- connecting this research to teaching the next generation of global thinker-practitioner-citizens.
- communicating outcomes to the appropriate audiences – scholars, practitioners, policy-makers, general public – through new media and new pedagogy.
In pursuit of this mission, CGC|Europe:
- brings Columbia faculty and students to Paris to confront competing and alternate views of the world.
- promotes French and flexi-lingualism in their work with local partners.
- sponsors the Global Scholars Program and other teaching initiatives with Paris and European institutions.
- selects, hosts, and invests in core research projects over multi-year cycles.
- innovates with new media and teaching formats, and welcomes scholarly and public cultural events to Reid Hall.