Global Programs

The World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellows Return to Columbia University for Intensive Workshops in the Arts, Environmental Sciences, and Public Health
  • WEF Fellows

NEW YORK, July 9, 2012 — From July 15-20, The School of the Arts, the School of Continuing Education, The Earth Institute, and Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University welcome the Global Leadership Fellows from the World Economic Forum.

Dean Carol Becker at Davos

Columbia University School of the Arts Dean Carol Becker speaks with Edie Lush at Hub Davos about what happens when artists get priced out of neighborhoods, and how business leaders can learn from artists.

Writing Program Launches Literary Exchange Program, Word For Word
Word for Word: Columbia University School of the Arts Writers Collaborate with German Writers in a Pilot Exchange Program in Literary Translation
Paris Then and Now: Circles of Influence
  • Students at Reid Hall, Paris

APPLY NOW
CREA S4300
Paris Then and Now: Circles of Influence
July 3-30, 2011
Instructors: Stacy D’Erasmo and Amy Benson

Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in Everything. 
-- James Thurber (1918)
 

Opening Ceremony of the Columbia University Middle East Research Center (Amman, Jordan)
  • King Hussein mosque, Amman

To mark the opening of the Columbia University Mideast Research Center in Amman, Jordan, the School of the Arts commissioned several pieces from the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies for the global center. 

A Decade of American Printmaking, 1999-2009 (Beijing)
  • Lei Lei Ming discussing Professor Tomas Vu-Daniel's prints

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute in Beijing, School of the Arts Global Programs and Visual Arts Program created a retrospective exhibition of printmaking for premiere at the Visual Art Center of the Academy of Arts and Design at Tsinghua Uniersity in Beijing, and later presented at Beijing’s Today Art Museum.

Taking the Stage: World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellows in Residence (New York)

 

World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellows

 

 

 

 

 

A Critical Mirror: America Looks at the Iraq War (Amman, Jordan)
  • Amman Film Festival Poster

Columbia University School of the Arts kicked off its collaboration with the Columbia University Middle East Research Center in Amman, Jordan in June 2010, with a series of screenings of American films about the Iraq War curated by School of the Arts Professor and Director of Lincoln Center Film Society Richard Peña. The five-night film series was free and open to the public, and featured panel discussions with local and regional filmmakers and scholars.

Maisha Film Lab Screenwriting Mentorship Program (New York and Kampala, Uganda)
  • Mira Nair speaks to participants.

The School of the Arts Global Programs and Film Program launched an exciting new collaboration with Maisha Film Lab in Uganda, a nonprofit training initiative for emerging East African filmmakers founded by acclaimed director Mira Nair ("Monsoon Wedding," "The Namesake," "Salaam Bombay"). Maisha is headquartered in Kampala and operates several intensive filmmaking labs per year, ranging from one to four weeks and providing hands-on intensive mentoring in screenwriting, directing, producing, cinematography, editing, sound recording and acting.

Contemporary French Theatre and Performance in Paris (Paris, France)
  • Group of students in Paris

This intensive three-week course created and taught by Theatre Assistant Professor Gideon Lester; and editor of Theater magazine and Yale University Associate Professor of Dramaturgy Tom Sellar; introduced students to contemporary theatre and performance in Paris, one of Europe's most innovative and cosmopolitan arts capitals.

Syndicate content
© 2013 Columbia University School of the Arts | 305 Dodge Hall, Mail Code 1808 | 2960 Broadway | New York, NY 10027 | (212) 854-2875 | EMAIL
Columbia University School of the Arts offers MFA degrees in Film, Theatre Arts, Visual Arts, and Writing, an MA degree in Film Studies, a joint JD/MFA degree in Theatre Management & Producing, and a PhD degree in Theatre History, Literature, and Theory.