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A founding principle of the Arts Arena is to make encounters with the arts available to the broadest possible audience. In this episode, founder and artistic director Margery Arent Safir discusses the organization’s many performances, screenings, and conversations, which are always free of charge and open to all. A long-time member of the Reid Hall community, Safir reflects on many years of collaboration with Columbia-affiliated professors and artists.

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Host: Marie Doezema

Production: Marie Doezema and Charlotte Force

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, life and work have changed drastically for Ukrainian academics. A new book edited by Tetiana Kostiuchenko and Tamara Martsenyuk gathers personal reflections from the first three months of the war, featuring voices across disciplines—from sociology and political science to international relations and literature. In this episode, Kostiuchenko discusses the motivation and process behind co-editing this interdisciplinary and deeply personal volume, and shares her own experiences as a displaced scholar in Germany.

Russia’s War in Ukraine 2022: Personal Experiences of Ukrainian Scholars was published by ibidem Press in December 2024.

Dr Tetiana Kostiuchenko is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. After her evacuation from Kyiv to Germany, she became also affiliated with the Free University of Berlin and Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

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Host: Marie Doezema

Production: Marie Doezema and Charlotte Force

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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Journalist Marguerite Holloway arrived at the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern about their future. In this episode, she shares lessons learned from everyday tree lovers and women arborists, which would come to shape her latest book, Take to the Trees (Norton, 2025). Visiting Paris as a Reid Hall faculty visitor, she recounts how Paris's long history of integrating trees into the urban landscape is evolving to combat climate change.

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Host: Marie Doezema

Production: Marie Doezema and Charlotte Force

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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Reid Hall has often been the site of serendipitous encounters, perhaps none more so than those leading to the discovery of its fascinating story. In the final episode of this special series, Brunhilde Biebuyck and Marie Doezema reflect on their journey through the stories of two dozen women who helped shape the legacy of 4 rue de Chevreuse.

Through archives, digital tools, and historical records, the Reid Hall History Project developed a digital platform to showcase the hall’s history, ensuring it remains both accessible and expandable as new information comes to light. This project underscores the challenges of piecing together a complex past scattered across languages and formats.

The Reid Hall History Project continues to grow, enriched by the contributions of numerous collaborators: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu

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Hosts: Brunhilde Biebuyck and Marie Doezema

Production: James Allen, Brunhilde Biebuyck, Marie Doezema, Krista Faurie, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, based at the Columbia Journalism School, was founded to support ethical, informed reporting on violence, conflict, and tragedy. Executive Director Bruce Shapiro, visiting Reid Hall for a PGIF workshop on forced migration, highlighted Dart’s vital role in equipping journalists to cover trauma with skill and sensitivity.

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Host: Marie Doezema

Production: Marie Doezema and Charlotte Force

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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Alabama-born Lucille Sinclair Douglass was a globe-trotting artist, etcher, writer, and lecturer whose adventurous spirit defined her career. After exhibiting in Paris’s top Salons, she landed in Shanghai, leading a lantern-slide studio and launching a life of travel through South Asia. Her work—ranging from book illustrations to a French government commission at Angkor Wat—blended artistry with exploration. When she died in 1935, her ashes were scattered at Angkor, a poetic tribute to a life devoted to discovery.

More on Lucille Douglass: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/lucille-douglass-1878-1935

The Reid Hall History Project continues to grow, enriched by the contributions of numerous collaborators: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu

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Hosts: Brunhilde Biebuyck and Marie Doezema

Production: James Allen, Brunhilde Biebuyck, Marie Doezema, Krista Faurie, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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Janet Scudder rose from modest beginnings in Indiana to become a celebrated sculptor, suffragist, and wartime contributor. Splitting her time between New York and Paris, she created whimsical garden sculptures for America’s elite and founded the Studio for Portrait Masks to aid the WWI recovery effort. A regular at the Girls’ Art Club and AWAA exhibits, she earned acclaim at the Paris Salons from 1899 to 1914. In 1925, France awarded her the Legion of Honor—cementing her legacy as both artist and changemaker.

More on Janet Scudder: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/janet-scudder-1869-1940

The Reid Hall History Project continues to grow, enriched by the contributions of numerous collaborators: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu

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Hosts: Brunhilde Biebuyck and Marie Doezema

Production: James Allen, Brunhilde Biebuyck, Marie Doezema, Krista Faurie, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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Malvina Hoffman, a New York-born sculptor, made her mark in Paris’s art world between 1910 and 1914. A protégé and close friend of Rodin, she exhibited in major Salons and won top honors from the American Woman’s Art Association. Best known for her striking sculptures of dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, one of which became the first woman-created work shown in the Luxembourg Gardens, Hoffman’s legacy bridges art, history, and mystery—her iconic sculpture vanished during WWII and remains lost to this day.

More on Malvina Hoffman: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/malvinahoffman

The Reid Hall History Project continues to grow, enriched by the contributions of numerous collaborators: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu

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Hosts: Brunhilde Biebuyck and Marie Doezema

Production: James Allen, Brunhilde Biebuyck, Marie Doezema, Krista Faurie, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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American universities are in the midst of a crisis, as federal government interference in academic inquiry continues to grow. In this episode, Lee C. Bollinger—former president of Columbia University and this year’s Sidney N. Zubrow Memorial Lecture speaker at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination—explores the mounting threats to free speech and what they mean for the future of higher education in the United States.

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Host: Marie Doezema

Production: Marie Doezema and Charlotte Force

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Those initiatives include the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

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Angela Gregory, the "doyenne of Louisiana sculpture," broke barriers from New Orleans to Paris. After ditching a scholarship program she found lacking, she talked her way into the studio of Antoine Bourdelle—Rodin’s famed protégé—and spent two formative years under his mentorship. Living at the American University Women’s Club, she exhibited widely before returning home to shape Louisiana’s visual landscape with bold public works. She became the first woman to earn an M.A. from Tulane University's School of Architecture and later served as state supervisor for the Louisiana Art Project during the Great Depression.

More on Angela Gregory: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu/angelagregory

The Reid Hall History Project continues to grow, enriched by the contributions of numerous collaborators: reidhall.globalcenters.columbia.edu

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Hosts: Brunhilde Biebuyck and Marie Doezema

Production: James Allen, Brunhilde Biebuyck, Marie Doezema, Krista Faurie, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette

Editing: Theo Albaric

Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He

With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.

Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.