Welcome to CGC|E’s new website. And welcome to our Spring 2012 program. We wanted to share our news with you, even as we work to make our site more flexible and writerly, in order to connect with our diverse community here at Reid Hall, around Paris, back in NYC, and to Columbia’s other Global Centers around the world.
I am especially happy to welcome our first cohort of Global Scholars to join our work here. The larger focus of this and next year’s work is on Inequality|Inequalities, and the students, all third-year undergraduates, will join our work here, focusing on the study of global middle classes, their history and crisis, and their own research projects, advised by Columbia faculty with the participation of scholars in Paris.
We also welcome to CGC|E in Spring 2012 our colleagues from Columbia and Science Po. Laurence Tubiana, Director of IDDRI, will be teaching her classes, one on the Future of Capitalism with Jeffrey Sachs, partly from Reid Hall, partly from Columbia in NYC. Political theorist Jean L. Cohen, the Alliance Professor, will be bringing her project on legal pluralism to Paris. Historian Gregory Mann, who in addition to his teaching, also with Science Po, will put aside his historian’s cap to study with students and colleagues politically contentious public space. Between France and Africa, he will also be assisting on the ground during the spring elections in Senegal and Mali.
We have many workshops and forums planned for the spring, including our Thursday Seminars in Public Health and our outreach forum The Social Crisis and New Inequalities.
Hoping that you can stop by to visit us, participate in our events, and provide us with suggestions for making our programming as engaging as possible, best wishes for the New Year.
Moore Collegiate Professor of History
Director, The European Institute www.ei.columbia.edu
Fayerweather Hall
Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, New York, 10027
Director, Columbia Global Centers| Europe
4, rue de Chevreuse
75006 Paris, France
330143203307