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TABLE Of Contents
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INTRODUCTION
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Letter from the President
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Letter from the Chair
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About the CGT
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Committee Members
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SIGNATURE RESEARCH PROJECTS
12 Arts, Culture, and Quality of Life in Global Cities 14 Global Money 16 Global Science 18 Politics of Memory in Global Context 20 Urbanizing Technology: The Mobility Complex PROPOSED RESEARCH PROJECTS 23 After Urbanization
24 Migrancy and Unsettlement 25 The University and Public Views of Science ACADEMICS 28 Master of Arts in Global Thought 32 Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought EVENTS 36 Global Think-ins 38 Global Thought Lecture 40 CGT Lunchtime Seminars 42 CGT Book Talks 44 1754 Society 46 CGT Presidential Reception EXTENDING THE RANGE OF GLOBAL THOUGHT 50 Advisory Council
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Letter from the President It has been a decade since the Committee on Global thought moved from being a promising idea to a working intellectual entity. If the project of reexamining and reimagining the place of higher education in a global society was an urgent one in 2006, it is much, much more pressing today and of still greater significance. The many faculty members, students, administrators, and staff who have contributed to the Committee on Global Thought these past ten years should rightly take pride in helping to lead a conversation central to confronting existential challenges that have emerged during a time of wrenching upheaval around the globe. I want to thank Joseph Stiglitz, Saskia Sassen, and Carol Gluck for lending to this project their time and their powerful insights about the world and our institution. To have faculty members of this extraordinary caliber serve as the Committee’s co-chairs says all that needs to be said about the elevated place of the Committee on Global Thought in our University community. I am grateful to each of them and to the many other professors who have been willing to look beyond traditional academic boundaries in service of developing new thinking suited to the world in which we live. And I want to acknowledge, as well, the students from each of the University’s four undergraduate schools who serve on the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought and share their views about interdisciplinary learning. The Committee on Global Thought is now a relatively mature organization yet also one that must continually reinvent itself if it is to fulfill its mission of academic innovation and new thinking. At our last Commencement, we celebrated a milestone for the Committee and the University: the graduation of the first Columbia students to receive the degree of Master of Arts in Global Thought. The Committee’s research projects, each of them transnational and interdisciplinary, cover subjects ranging from migrancy in the new millennium, to urbanizing technology and global money. The Committee on Global Thought also effectively hosts discussions on critical issues of the day, including the Annual Lecture on Global Thought, which this past year featured former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd. Ten years after its founding, the Committee on Global Thought has become what we hoped it would be: an indispensable venue, both intellectually and practically, for strengthening Columbia’s academic leadership in meeting the challenges of a rapidly transforming world. We are living in an era of accelerating interconnectedness that offers great promise for human advancement and also problems that will be calamitous if unsolved. Today, the Committee on Global Thought stands as a key element of Columbia University’s acknowledgment of and response to this modern reality. Sincerely, Lee C. Bollinger Left: President Lee C. Bollinger speaking with M.A. in Global Thought graduates, May 2016 Right: President Lee C. Bollinger
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Letter from the CHAIR Established by President Lee Bollinger in 2006 as part of his vision for a Global Columbia, the Committee on Global Thought (CGT) works across disciplines and schools to develop concepts and approaches suited to the world in which we live today. Over the past ten years, the membership of the CGT has grown from six to over thirty scholars from across the university, who collaborate with one another and with practitioners and leaders in the U.S. and abroad in signature research projects, curricular innovation, and public programs on campus and at Columbia’s Global Centers. In 2015-16, we launched the M.A. in Global Thought, graduating seventeen students from around the world, whose diversity of interests and backgrounds made for a dynamic inaugural class. They have since gone on to further graduate study, civil society NGOs, government service, or the private sector. Next year we will welcome twenty-four students of impressive variety and academic background into what has already become a thriving program. To date, the CGT has developed more than ten interdisciplinary courses on global topics. Our signature research projects this past year included Urbanizing Technology: The Mobility Complex (Saskia Sassen); The Politics of Memory in Global Context (Carol Gluck); Arts, Culture, and Quality of Life in Global Cities (Vishakha Desai); and two new projects, Global Science (Deborah Coen) and Global Money (Adam Tooze and Perry Mehrling). The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought (UCGT), led by students from the four undergraduate schools, became an official student organization, held workshops and participated in the World Leaders Forum and off-campus activities in Global New York, and laid expansive plans to develop undergraduate global studies in the future. Our public programs included the Annual Global Thought Lecture by the former Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, on “The Rise of China and its Impact on the Global Order”; two Global Think-ins, one on “Global Exposure: Virtual Transparency in the 21st Century,” the other on “Global Money: Past, Present, Future”; a series of ten CGT Lunchtime Seminars with Columbia faculty and visitors; a special program for the university’s 1754 Society, and events for the CGT advisory council, students, and faculty, culminating with a reception generously hosted by President Bollinger in May. We owe thanks for the successes of this eventful year to the previous chairs of the CGT, Joseph Stiglitz and Saskia Sassen; to the CGT faculty, committees, students, and staff; to the Advisory Council for their financial and personal support; to the Global Centers for their collaboration; and to the wider Columbia community for showing steadfast interest in the global challenges that we confront. More, in every sense, to come. Carol Gluck 4 │ ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
Left: President Lee C. Bollinger, Carol Gluck at the University Presidential Reception Right: CGT Chair Carol Gluck
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About the COMMITTEE
CGT members Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Rosalind C. Morris
The Committee on Global Thought was established by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger in 2006 with the mission of enhancing the university’s engagement with issues of global importance. To understand the changing conditions of our contemporary world, we require new concepts and categories that pertain to and are derived from global phenomena as they are rapidly evolving. Not only does this challenge require a transnational perspective but it also demands thinking across the established academic disciplines, since issues such as global governance, varieties of democracy, economic inequality, new communication technologies, and diversity of cultures and religions often fall between or across conventional disciplinary borders. The Committee is therefore committed to cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches in order to address the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century world.
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Professor Nara Milianich leads a UCGT World Leaders Forum workshop
The Committee on Global Thought, chaired in succession by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Saskia Sassen, and now Carol Gluck, consists of over thirty distinguished faculty members drawn from across the University: the Arts and Sciences, the Schools of Law, Business, Journalism, Architecture and Planning, the Mailman School of Public Health, the School of the Arts, and the School of International and Public Affairs. Their scholarship addresses a broad spectrum of issues, linked by the global parallels and connections that assert themselves ever more forcefully. In this respect, even seemingly disparate lines of inquiry often prove to be intertwined.
ON GLOBAL THOUGHT
CGT member Perry Mehrling (left) attends a CGT Lunchtime Seminar with other audience members
The Committee on Global Thought provides a forum in which to make such connections, to examine and understand them toward the end of making a difference in how we think and act in the world today. For these reasons the Committee pursues its mission not only within the academy but also in cooperation with policy-makers, journalists, architects and urban planners, practitioners from the international financial community, filmmakers, artists, and representatives of international, nongovernmental, and not-for-profit institutions. The Committee currently includes signature research projects; pedagogical innovation in its new M.A. in Global Thought and undergraduate initiative; Global Think-ins and other public events on campus and at Columbia Global Centers. Future plans include professional learning in hybrid online-classroom format as well as expanded undergraduate curricular opportunities.
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MA Global Thought graduate Wei Qing Tan; UCGT Co-Chair Jeffrey Niu; CGT members Wafaa El-Sadr, Adam Tooze
The Committee on Global Thought is a part of the enlarging circle of President Bollinger’s vision of Global Columbia. It not only draws on the breadth of activities related to international and global matters for which the university has long been well known, but also collaborates with more recent initiatives such as the Global Policy Initiative, Global Reports, and the Global Centers to expand connections in research, teaching, and practice.
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Committee Members Carol Gluck, Chair of the Committee on Global Thought; George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Carol Becker, Dean of The School of Arts and Professor of the Arts Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy; Director of the South Asia Institute Patrick Bolton, Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor of Business and Professor of Economics Richard W. Bulliet, Professor Emeritus of History and Special Lecturer in History Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies John Coatsworth, Provost of the University; Professor of International and Public Affairs and Professor of History Deborah Coen, Professor of History at Barnard College Ann Cooper, CBS Professor of Professional Practice in International Journalism in the Faculty of Journalism; Director of Global Journalism Vishakha N. Desai, Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President; Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor and Department Chair of French and Romance Philology Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies; Director of the Institute of African Studies Michael Doyle, University Professor; Director of the Columbia Global Policy Initiative Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor and Dr. Mathilde KrimamfAR Professor of Global Health in Epidemiology; Director of ICAP Mark Hansen, David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism and Innovation; Director of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation N. Turkuler Isiksel, James P. Shenton Assistant Professor of the Core Curriculum 8 │ ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
Brian Larkin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College Sharon Marcus, Dean of Humanities for Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Orlando Harriman Professor of English Reinhold Martin, Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Director of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies and Professor of History Perry G. Mehrling, Professor of Economics at Barnard College Amber Miller, Dean of Sciences for Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Physics Michael Morris, Chavkin-Chang Professor of Leadership in the Faculty of Business Rosalind C. Morris, Professor of Anthropology JosĂŠ Antonio Ocampo, Professor of Professional Practice in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs Benjamin Orlove, Professor of International and Public Affairs David K. Park, Dean of Strategic Initiatives for the Arts & Sciences Richard G. Parker, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of Anthropology Christina Duffy Ponsa, George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology Ursula Staudinger, Robert N. Butler Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Professor of Psychology; Director of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center Joseph E. Stiglitz, University Professor Jan Svejnar, James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History; Director of the European Institute Sudhir Venkatesh, William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology Andreas Wimmer, Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy
Carol Gluck
Carol Becker
Akeel Bilgrami
Patrick Bolton
Richard W. Bulliet
Partha Chatterjee
John Coatsworth
Deborah Coen
Ann Cooper
Vishakha N. Desai
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Mamadou Diouf
Michael Doyle
Wafaa El-Sadr
Mark Hansen
N. Turkuler Isiksel
Brian Larkin
Sharon Marcus
Reinhold Martin
Mark Mazower
Perry G. Mehrling
Amber Miller
Michael Morris
Rosalind C. Morris
JosĂŠ Antonio Ocampo
Ben Orlove
David K. Park
Richard G. Parker
Christina Duffy Ponsa
Saskia Sassen
Ursula Staudinger
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Jan Svejnar
Adam Tooze
Sudhir Venkatesh
Andreas Wimmer
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Signature Research Projects
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How can a university learn from the world and contribute to the goal of a sound and prosperous global community?
As complex global issues challenge traditional structures of power, politics and culture around the world, academic approaches to thinking about the global must evolve as well. Research conducted by the Committee’s faculty, and their colleagues and associates is designed to bridge this gap by fostering research partnerships across disciplines, investigating emergent processes and phenomena, and advancing new modes of analysis and methodologies.
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From international finance to memory politics, Signature Research Projects explore, investigate and create knowledge in an interdisciplinary framework that bears political, economic, social, or cultural relevance to acute global issues. Each is designed to engage partners from across the University, the Global Centers, and outside the community of academia. The research generates publications, books and working papers, which can be accessed in the CGT Research Archives, and is also linked to the Global Thought Lecture Series and the Global Thinkins.
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Arts, culture, and Quality of life in global cities On Oct. 12, 2015, the Committee on Global Thought and Columbia Global Centers | Turkey, Istanbul convened the fourth in a series of roundtable discussions supported by the Ford Foundation to reflect on the contribution of arts and culture to individual and community life in global cities. Led by Vishakha N. Desai, the project centers on measuring and augmenting the impact of arts, culture and quality of urban life. A growing consensus among civic leaders suggests that the presence of cultural institutions and networks is vital to the health of any global city, old or new. It is less apparent how to build and sustain robust cultural infrastructure. Istanbul offered another important vantage point, after workshops in New York, Rio, and New Delhi, to assess key issues affecting the ways in which the arts relate to the vitality of cities.
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Participants in the Istanbul meeting included leading figures active in shaping Istanbul’s cultural scene curators, scholars, and representatives of arts institutions and civil society organizations.
Vishakha N. Desai
CGT member Vishakha N. Desai at “Arts and Culture in Global Cities: Istanbul”
“Arts and Culture in Global Cities: Istanbul” participants
The discussion revealed that, despite the vibrancy and global renown of Istanbul’s art scene, significant impediments exist in its cultural environment. Although some stem from long-standing, unresolved structural issues, the most serious challenge arises from the polarized political climate in Turkey, where the appreciation of the freedom of creative expression and its value to society is being undermined. A pertinent question to consider for all global cities is how arts can flourish in increasingly restrictive political environments. Under such conditions, is there an optimal balance between private and public sector engagement in the arts, and what are the benefits and risks of different ways of positioning a cultural institution or an artist? An additional focal point in the discussion related to inclusion and the dichotomy between ‘high art and popular culture’ – a theme that resonated in all the cities involved in this series.
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This year the project will move to its second incarnation, a focus on the changing place of museums in global cities as mechanisms of promoting social equity on the local level as well as connectivity to the greater global community. This new project will be directed by Vishakha N. Desai and Sharon Marcus, Dean of the Humanities for the Faculty of Arts & Sciences.
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Global Money
Money is both one of the great intellectual puzzles and practical problems of the modern world. Taken at face value it appears to be one of the most basic and important expressions of state sovereignty--despite the ambitions of projects like the Euro. It defines the boundaries of national economies and their interrelationships. Yet currency does not enforce boundaries on markets. Markets are global; states are not. In monetary matters, states, whether at a national, continental or global level, do not determine what counts as money but only market practices. It is these practices that determine what counts as money, with states’ law subsequently confirming, enforcing, or even at most, regulating practice. Money and finance are the essential infrastructure of the modern globalized market system, not merely one sector among others. Yet this fact is not wellrepresented in economic theory. It is in the gap between current reality and inherited analytical apparatus that we locate the need for sustained attention to the problem of global money. We live, in fact, in a world of global money. 14 │ ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
Today global money is largely private credit money, the issue of a profit-seeking bank that promises ultimate payment denominated in public money issued by a state, quite possibly a different state from where the bank is chartered and does its business. To make the system work, banks everyday make settlements among themselves. When the banking system comes under stress or is at breakdown, these settlement habits surface in a network of central bank swaps, centered on the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank but functioning as a network, that today serves as global lender of last resort.
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Although global money is substantially private credit money, market preference for dollars means that these private credits are largely denominated in dollars. This is not without consequences for central banks, which deal with an implicitly understood hierarchy among currencies. For the Fed, as issuer of dollars, it has meant becoming de facto, if not de jure, the ultimate lender of last resort for global money. Fed authority must now face reconciling its national legal standing and its global responsibilities. This gulf at the Fed and at other central banks is the origin of monetary policy that seeks to stabilize an inherently unstable credit system, and also of bank regulation and supervision that address the soundness of individual institutions. The challenge of the present rests in the politics of managing the hybrid reality of the global dollar that is already with us. Walter Bagehot catalyzed bankers in the 1870s to think about their systemic powers over national currency and credit as forming the intellectual foundations of central banking. But he could not be expected to address the problem of lender of last resort for global money. As others have written, we are today living in a Bagehot moment, when central banks have been forced to embrace their joint responsibility for the global money system. We can expect this embrace to be the first step in a new journey of intellectual discovery and institutional innovation. In this spirit of pragmatic enquiry, our project takes its inspiration from Bagehot who wrote in 1873: “I believe that our system, though curious and peculiar, may be worked safely; but if we wish so to work it, we must study it.” Our study must be global in scope and involve both academics and the practitioners who are in the business of operating and innovating the global monetary system. The Global Money project, led by Perry G. Mehrling and Adam Tooze, began with a Global Think-in on April 25, 2016 which looked at “Global Money: Past, Present, Future.” It was followed by a workshop on October 14, 2016 titled “The Hierarchy of Money” to incorporate global financial law with Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University.
“Global Money: Past, Present, Future” panelists
CGT member Perry G. Mehrling
Perry G. Mehrling
Adam Tooze
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Global Science Deborah Coen
The end of the Cold War may be said to have launched a new age of scientific internationalism, in which federal budget cuts forced U.S. scientists to join forces with international research teams. There is a sense among policy-makers and in the media that a new era for global cooperation in the sciences may be dawning. Having learned from past mistakes, such as the global tragedy of AIDS and the stalled international response to climate change, it would seem that the world is now better prepared to address the global scientific challenges of the future: the consequences of a changing climate, problems of food supply safety, emerging epidemics, nuclear safety and bioterrorism, among others. This optimism rests on several implicit or explicit convictions: that scientists and politicians have learned how to communicate better with each other and with diverse publics; that more effective forums have been created for international collaborations and negotiations; that the sciences have equipped themselves to manage a global flood of data; and that the ethical codes of scientific conduct are stronger than ever. 16 │ ANNUAL REPORT 2015-2016
Led by Deborah Coen, Global Science takes a critical and analytical perspective on these claims, situating them in relation to the history of scientific internationalism that stretches back to the confident universalism of the eighteenth-century philosophes. In the years surrounding the First and Second World Wars, numerous projects were launched to foster scientific collaboration across national borders. Each had its own ethical justifications, its own visions of world order, its own conceptions of the epistemic basis of universal knowledge, and its own blind spots when it came to the practical and ideological obstacles to collaboration. Global Science asks, how is the scientific internationalism of today related to the various universalist ideologies of the past? Are we really living in a new era of global science? If so, what exactly is new? How did we get to this point and where do we go from here?
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We began by investigating the phenomenon of “science diplomacy,” a keyword under the Obama administration. The Center for Science Diplomacy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was founded in 2008 with the mission of “using science to build bridges between countries and to promote scientific cooperation as an essential element of foreign policy.” In this way, scientists are designated as supra-political actors who stand above the interests of their home nations. Yet “science diplomacy” is nothing new, as was made clear at our initial CGT workshop of Feb. 2016, “Organizing Science for Humanity, from the World Brain to the World Bank.” Organizing Science for Humanity, from the World Brain to the World Bank (Feb. 12, 2016)
Michael Barany (History, Princeton University)
Deborah Coen (History, Barnard College; Member of the Committee on Global Thought)
Andrew Gelman (Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University)
Carol Gluck (History, Columbia University; Chair of the Committee on Global Thought)
Daniel Kevles (History, Yale University)
Malgorzata Mazurek (History, Columbia University)
Stephen S. Morse (Epidemiology, Columbia University)
Elizabeth Neswald (History, Brock University, Ontario)
Ben Orlove (Anthropology, Columbia University)
Paul Richards (Seismology Geology and Tectonophysics, Columbia University)
Rachel Rothschild (History, New York University)
Geert Somsen (History, Columbia University)
CGT member Deborah Coen and “Organizing Science for Humanity” participant Paul Richards
The assumption that science is a universal, apolitical endeavor, forming a natural basis for seeding international cooperation, is an ideology that has been carefully crafted over the past four hundred years. Science is not born universal: the seemingly effortless diffusion of its theories and practices in fact reflects the complex workings of material and political infrastructures. Global Science uses the tools of historians, sociologists, philosophers, and anthropologists, in combination with the experiences and insights of working scientists, to analyze the ideas of global order implicit in the phenomenon of science diplomacy today and to assess the fit between its means and ends.
“Organizing Science for Humanity” participants Geert Somsen, Elizabeth Neswald, Andrew Gelman
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Politics of Memory
Carol Gluck
Facing History Squarely: The Politics of War Memory in East Asia and Elsewhere” panelists
The Politics of Memory in Global Context is a FrancoAmerican collaborative project that brings together scholars in the social sciences and humanities who work on collective or public memory; cognitive scientists, psychologists, and neuroscientists who work on individual memory; and curators of historical and memorial museums who present the past to the public. The main museum partners are the Mémorial de Caen, the national World War II museum in France, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New York. Led by Carol Gluck at Columbia and Denis Peschanski in Paris, the project always combines these diverse disciplinary approaches and considers all topics comparatively in global context. The goal is to discern commonalities among them, develop new analytic perspectives on the formation and operation of public memory, and suggest policies for better political management of divisive memories within and between countries.
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The project held a public Global Think-in on “Facing History Squarely: The Politics of War Memory in East Asia and Elsewhere” (see event details on page 34) and a scholarly workshop on “Nations and their Pasts” at the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing in October 2015, with participants from seven countries, including social scientists, neuroscientists, and museum curators. Similar events were held at the Columbia Global Centers in Paris, Istanbul, and Amman between January and April 2015. Biweekly workshops continued throughout the year in Paris on “Audio-Visual Media and the Relation between Individual and Collective Memory.”
in Global Context
“Nations and their Pasts” panelists
Nations and their Pasts (Oct. 16, 2015)
Jie-hyun Lim, National Histories in East Asia
Minori Iwasaki, Japan and its Non-memory of its Colonial Past
Naoyuki Umemori, Opportunities for Transitional Justice in East Asia
Valerie Rosoux, Memory in Rwanda
Hou Chunyan, Chinese History on Exhibit
Armelle Viard, Autobiographical Memory and Future Thinking
Daniel Dayan, Witnessing and its Discontents
Carol Gluck (moderator), Chair of the Committee on Global Thought; George Sansom Professor of History
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The project is supported by funds from the Committee on Global Thought, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), MATRICE, Mémorial de Caen, ANR (French National Research Agency), heSam (Le Pôle de recherche d’enseignement supérieur, Hautes études – Sorbonne – Arts et Métiers), INA (L’Institute national de l’Audiovisuel), Alliance Program (Columbia University, École Polytechnique, Sciences Po, and Panthéon-Sorbonne University) and Institut Européen Emmanuel Levinas.
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Urbanizing technology: the mobility complex Led by Saskia Sassen, this signature research project explores the challenges of urbanizing technology and the implications of technological obsolescence for ‘intelligent cities’. It envisions a trans-disciplinary urbanism that can advance the making of cities by discovering new urban capabilities, and more fully understanding the construction of presence and publicness.
Since 2009, several annual conferences held under the auspices of the project have interrogated contemporary urbanism from not just multiple, but also multidimensional perspectives. Co-organized by the Committee on Global Thought and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, these conferences and workshops have brought together sociologists, theorists, historians, urbanists, visual artists, choreographers, architects, activists, environmentalists, public health experts, journalists and others. Past events have focused on presence and absence in urban spaces, super-cities and Chinese urbanism, ecological crises, and new forms of war. In 2014 the project entered a phase focused on mobility. Mobility is not only material, it is perception: we understand movement not just when we see it, but when we anticipate it, and, emphatically, in the digital world. How can we use this type of knowledge about mobilities invisible to our eye, like the digital or potential, to expand the meaning of mobility as such?
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As the project disassembles the construct of mobility (and globality) from a restrictive psychology equating globalizing mobility to geographic mobility, it encounters an equally problematic relationship of mobility to claims of power or domination. We encounter enforced immobility in locations like camps for displaced people or prisons. Even so, new mobilities allow those who do not or cannot travel to experience themselves as part of larger geographies marked by recurrence of meanings, struggles, and imaginaries in multiple other locations. A reconceptualized mobility expands comprehensible meaning/experience generation, yielding participation in larger spaces, including global spaces. Further, it creates horizontal globalities that need not go through vertical and centralizing institutions. Connection comes about through mobility and globality even in the absence of geographic movement.
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proposed Signature Research Projects
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After Urbanization
Reinhold Martin
Mamadou Diouf
Brian Larkin
The term “urbanization” has come to describe a whole host of processes related to the growth of cities and the transformation of territory worldwide. This working group, led by Reinhold Martin, Mamadou Diouf, and Brian Larkin, aims to reconsider that term’s usefulness in underwriting a critical framework for studying those processes. Although the ultimate aim is nothing less than to sketch an alternate framework, we begin by considering some details in the urbanization literature. Broadly, we note a bifurcation into two approaches: a developmentalist one, focusing on material, technological, and politico-economic processes; and a culturalist one, focusing on symbolic processes, national-cultural imaginaries, language, and so on.
We address the former with a focus on infrastructure, or the sociotechnical systems and institutions that both connect and differentiate populations, and hence, spatiotemporally shape urban life. We address the latter with the question of representation, meaning the question of whose interests are served, both politically and symbolically, in any given city, the institutions that represent those interests, and the agency of representations in shaping the polis. The working group has formed initially as a reading group, which will begin by discussing Mamadou Diouf’s and Rosalind Fredericks, eds., “The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities” (Palgrave, 2012) on September 20, 2016.
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Migrancy and Unsettlement
Aerial View of the Za'atri Refugee Camp, Syria. July 18, 2004. Source: Sharnoff’s Global Views
Rosalind Morris
On Dec. 16, 2015, Rosalind C. Morris led a brainstorming session for a proposed CGT signature research project on a rigorous theoretical exploration of the concepts, questions, and tasks of responding to the current and short-term future of migrancy. Estimates of the numbers of people presently displaced from their homes range from several hundred million to more than a billion. These ‘unsettled’ people may be stateless or without access to the security that is tied to residency within a single political jurisdiction. Or they may be relatively autonomous actors who move temporarily but find themselves stranded from or disavowed by their home states. They may be ‘criminalized’ but exist beyond the reach of regulatory systems. They may be forcibly dislocated—due to existing or anticipated natural disasters—or they may be fleeing such efforts and other forms of coercion.
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Many of the organizing concepts and ‘institutionalities’ through which we have previously addressed questions of migrancy need to be either radically rethought or abandoned. We need, for example, to rethink the presumptive oppositions between voluntary and involuntary movement linked to the distinction between political and criminal violence, and between temporary versus permanent migration. Related conceptions of right and of political sovereignty must also be interrogated. The research project, Migrancy and Unsettlement, will convene a group of scholars in a rigorous theoretical exploration of a deep and multivalent response to the current and short-term future of migrancy. It will also engage cultural producers and artists who are addressing these issues, to open up our understanding of movement beyond mobility.
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The University and public views of science Amber Miller
On Oct. 20, 2015, Amber Miller led a discussion about the contrast between today’s public attitudes toward the activities of the research university and university-based research in the natural sciences with those of the post-World War II era. Why are research universities not understood as the vital contributors to contemporary society that they are? Where is their impact and how have communications from the sciences and/or universities helped or hindered relationships with the public? The project aims to consider how universities can re-establish repute as a primary drivers of solutions to major global challenges. Mid-20th century science flourished by being identified as a way of resisting ‘enemies’. Does special priority for science require such an idea? Current issues provide much more amorphous ‘enemies’ like climate change. Is the problem that the enemy in question is ourselves and consensus is unlikely to develop because the question of how to live is not possible to answer in only one way? Globalism adds a new factor: public demand for science to address crises like Ebola that might once have been neglected as regional. Scientific stakeholders have recognized institutional ‘globality’ in alliances of
national academies, despite different granting and funding strategies, yet science often maintains a nationalist function, if not form. Research universities also face a democratic challenge. Research design oversight has changed the conduct of research and developed administrative obligations to which scientists have had to adapt. Because universities take in taxpayer money and tend to produce knowledge passed on to private entities, they also face questions of this nature. While scientific results continue to gain public attention, historical patterns of low public interest in the creation and process of research continue. Competition for funding in capitalist systems throws doubt on the victory or enemy model. The current popularity of concepts like data-richness or datadriven decision-making suggest a scientific ethos without observing the continuing contribution to modern life. Given a political climate that has pushed intellectual work to the fringes, what can be done to make better known the contribution of university-based research?
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Academics
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How can we mobilize our collective ability to develop solutions to local and global problems?
The academic programs of the Committee on Global Thought engage the university community in conversations about the transnational movement of ideas, people, commodities, technologies and the underlying processes that shape the contemporary world.
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The Master of Arts in Global Thought is a graduate degree which provides an interdisciplinary, research-based course of study to explain and analyze contemporary global issues. The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought (UCGT) is an undergraduate student organization which provides a forum for Columbia undergraduate students to engage with faculty on the global issues they are so passionate about.
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Master of Arts in Global Thought Congratulations to our diverse inaugural class in the M.A. in Global Thought. Seventeen graduates from nine countries completed the intensive nine-month curriculum with enthusiasm and aplomb. CGT members José Antonio Ocampo, Saskia Sassen, and Akeel Bilgrami with Partha Chatterjee, taught the three required core courses in Global Political Economy, Global Governance, and Global Politics and Culture. With the assistance of Academic Director Sara Brooks, M.A. Faculty Director Sudhir Venkatesh led the year-long Master’s seminar in which the students studied methodological approaches and developed, researched, and wrote their M.A. essays.
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In addition to the conceptual base for global analysis provided by the core courses, the students pursue a flexible plan of study suited to their wide-ranging individual interests. This past year students enrolled in a total of fiftyseven elective courses in seven different schools, including the School of the Arts, Public Health, International and Public Affairs, Journalism, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and Teachers’ College. They were advised or taught by ten CGT members and other faculty, including Jeffrey Sachs, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Dinkins, and Anya Schiffrin. The topics of their M.A. essays ranged from origins of the concept of sovereignty, legal regimes of urban land tenure, and mechanisms of gentrification, to the legitimacy of claims about the impact of social media on popular political engagement, the effectiveness of competing models for funding small and medium enterprises in the developing world, and governance structures for tissue and bio-banking.
CGT Chair Carol Gluck, M.A. Global Thought graduates Denna Taherzadeh, Wei Qing Tan, and Gayatri Kawlra
M.A. Global Thought graduates Matthew Mautarelli and Yixi Zhao, CGT member Partha Chatterjee
A quarter of the M.A. graduates will continue their studies in doctoral and professional programs. Others are moving on to careers in political and corporate communications, education, and NGOs. Five international students have used the opportunity to continue their visas and gain work experience in global New York. Twenty-four students from twelve countries have accepted admission to the program for 2016-17 from a pool of 114. Visiting Professor Kian Tajbakhsh will teach the Global Governance core course while Saskia Sassen is on leave. Profiles of the 2016 graduates can be found at cgt.columbia.edu/academics/ma/meet-our-alumni.
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M.A. Faculty Director Sudhir Venkatesh, M.A. Global Thought graduate Rachael Ristau
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Master of Arts in Global Thought Class of 2016 Violeta Argudo Portal, “Screen-Data-Bodies: Biobanks as Global Exchange Nodes, the Governance Challenge of Scaling Up Research Infrastructures” Allegra Chen-Carrel, “Managing Difference among the Fluid: Incorporating a fluid conception of identity into models of diversity management” Kirsten Craig, “Connecting through Place-Based Education: Inspiring Students Towards Greater Consciousness” Eunseon Hur, “Governing Our Digital Future: Deconstructing the Constraints of Seoul's Pursuit for 'Open Governance' within its Smart Cities Paradigm” Gayatri Kawlra, “Between Possible and Impossible Futures: Enacting Utopia in South India”
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Christina Levin, “#Politics: New Media's Role in Expanding Political Engagement and Galvanizing Mass Protest - A Comparative, Analytical Review of Euromaidan” Christina Luchkiw, “Does Davos Live in a Global Village?: Communication, Culture, and the Impact of ICT at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting” Matthew Mautarelli, “ Sovereign Debts: Notes Towards an Historical-Materialist Typology of Political Legitimacy” Aiya Ono, “The Ethics of Global Commodified Spaces: A Global Study on Extractive Industries”
M.A. Global Thought Class of 2016 and CGT Academic Director Sara Brooks
Siyang Pan, “Reclaiming Dying Languages on Global, Regional, and Community Scales: Actors in World Language Endangerment” Natasha Quamily, “Bushwick, Brooklyn: Expanding Narratives of Gentrification in the Global City” Rachael Ristau, “A New Means for Market Optimization: Empathize with your Enterprise, Surpassing the Insufficiencies of Top-Down Management in a Global Setting through Practicing Corporate Empathy” Doron Shiffer-Sebba, “From Ideals to Numbers and Back Again: Community Land Trusts and Trade-Offs of Affordability and Permanency in the Global City”
Denna Taherzadeh, “How Have Philanthropic Frameworks Helped Information Technology Companies Maximize Their Responsibility to Global Social Impact?” Wei Qing Tan, “Re-Imagining the Global City: Discursive Strategies of Resistance by Migrants in Singapore” Qianwen Xu, “Narrowing the Financing Gap for SMEs in Developing Countries: Multilateral Development Bank Assistance and Venture Capital Investment” Yixi Zhao, “Are China's SEZs a Template for Sustainable Economic Development? An Overview on SEZ Development in China and the Implications from China's Model”
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Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought The Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought (UCGT) offers an opportunity for Columbia’s undergraduate students to meet and talk with distinguished scholars and practitioners from the Columbia community and beyond whose work places them on the forefront of global trends. This undergraduate group helps to connect global resources to the Columbia University student body to further the interdisciplinary mission of promoting and empowering the enterprise of global thought. The UCGT, now a formally recognized student organization, is open to students from Columbia’s four undergraduate schools. With faculty collaboration, the UCGT members plan the Undergraduate Committee’s public events, workshops with university faculty, and take up issues of undergraduate global education.
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2015-2016 UCGT LEADERSHIP Diana Lai, Co-chair, School of General Studies, Class of 2016 Jeffrey Niu, Co-chair, School of General Studies, Class of 2016 Faculty Advisors: Deborah Coen, Vishakha N. Desai and Carol Gluck
Professor David Albert leads a Talks with Professors event
WORLD LEADERS FORUM WORKSHOPS World Leaders Forum (WLF) Workshops allow Columbia University undergraduates to discuss global issues with the scholars and thinkers involved in the decision-making. At these workshops, undergraduates take part in conversations with Columbia University faculty members in preparation for the diverse lecture topics discussed by World Leaders Forum speakers.
“Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia - The Rise of China and its Impact on the Global Order” with Vishakha N. Desai, Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President; Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (Sep. 16, 2015)
“Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile - Challenges of Our Democracy: 25 Years After” with Nara Milanich, Associate Professor of History, Barnard College (Sep. 25, 2015)
EVENTS “It’s a Hip-Hop World,” in partnership with the Apollo Theater, brought together a panel of international performers to discuss the intersection of hip hop in different global environments (Oct. 14, 2015). Panelists were:
“Sergio Mattarella, President of the Italian Republic Leadership in the Age of Change: Managing Current Developments in the Mediterranean and Throughout Europe” with Alessandra Casella, Professor of Economics, Columbia University (Feb. 6, 2016) TALKS WITH PROFESSORS The Talks with Professors series allows students to engage in meaningful conversations with distinguished scholars in an informal setting. Faculty speakers were:
Jonzi D, Artistic Director of ‘Breakin’ Convention’
Antoinette Gomis, a solo performer from France
Niek Traa, a member of Dutch hip-hop group ‘The Ruggeds’
“The Nature of Time: Intersecting Physics and Philosophy” with David Albert, Frederick E. Woodbridge Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University (Dec. 1, 2015)
Jennifer Archibald, Founder of the ‘Arch Dance Company’
Ellie Hisama, Professor of Music, Columbia University
“Science and the World Order” with Geert Somsen, Marie Curie fellow and Adjunct Associate Research Scholar in the History of Science, Columbia University (Feb. 19, 2016)
“Russia and the West” with Kimberly Marten, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College (Apr. 1, 2016)
“The Freedom of Academic Inquiry” with Jonathan Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University, Provost Emeritus of the University and Dean Emeritus of Faculties, Columbia University (Apr. 11, 2016)
UCGT Co-Chairs Diana Lai and Jeffrey Niu attend a World Leaders Forum Workshop
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CGT member David Park delivers welcoming remarks at the Global Think-in “Global Exposure: Virtual Transparency in the 21st Century”
can we make a difference in thinking and acting in the world today?
Global Think-ins are vehicles for generating new ideas and perspectives on issues of global concern. The Think-ins are designed as forums for academics and practitioners from diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds, geographical locations, and expertise to share, critique, and develop new ideas. The Global Thought Lecture brings a leading figure to speak on the urgent issues which face the world today. Past lectures include Kevin Rudd, Pascal Lamy, and Homi K. Bhabha. The CGT Lunchtime Seminars are open forums for Columbia faculty and visiting scholars to discuss current research with the Columbia community.
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CGT Book Talks are discussions by noted authors, scholars, and journalists who have highlighted the importance of global issues around the world. Our roster of CGT Book Talk participants include Joseph E. Stiglitz, Kenneth Arrow, Marco Magnani, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, and Sasha Issenberg. The Event Video Archive is a collection of event recordings and other media to make available the research being conducted at the Committee on Global Thought (online video channels at Vimeo and YouTube; video archive at cgt.columbia.edu/events/event-videos).
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Global Think-ins Global Think-ins take the form of small brainstorming sessions paired with large public events. Think-ins relating to CGT research projects are also held at Columbia Global Centers, which add perspective and insights from different parts of the world. Two Global Think-in events were held on campus in 20152016: ‘Global Exposure: Virtual Transparency in the 21st Century,’ and ‘Global Money: Past, Present, Future.’ A third Global Think-in was held at the Columbia Global Centers | Beijing as part of the CGT Signature Research Project the ‘Politics of Memory in Global Context,’ titled ‘Facing History Squarely: The Politics of War Memory in East Asia and Elsewhere.’
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Facing History Squarely: The Politics of War Memory in East Asia and Elsewhere (Oct. 15, 2015)
Ryuichi Narita, Japan Women’s University, on Japan
Bu Ping, Chinese Academy of Social Science, on China
Li Zonguan, Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression, on China
Jie-hyun Lim, Sogang University, on Poland and Korea
Valerie Rosoux, Louvain University, on the EU
Carol Gluck (moderator), Chair of the Committee on Global Thought; George Sansom Professor of History
Global Exposure: Virtual Transparency in the 21st Century (Dec. 9, 2015)
David K. Park, Dean of Strategic Initiatives for the Arts & Sciences; Member of the Committee on Global Thought
Judith McHale (moderator), President and CEO of Cane Investments, LLC; former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; Committee on Global Thought Advisory Council Member
Bernard Harcourt, Columbia Law School Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law; Director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; author of “Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age”
Betsy Reed, Editor-in-Chief of The Intercept
Clive Thompson, writer for The New York Times Magazine; columnist for Wired
Global Money: Past, Present, Future (Apr. 25, 2016)
Vishakha N. Desai, Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President; Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Katharina Pistor (moderator), Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law; Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation, Columbia University
Perry G. Mehrling, Professor of Economics, Barnard College; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History; Director of the European Institute; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Patricia C. Mosser, Senior Research Scholar, Faculty of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Phil Prince, Managing Director and Head of Treasury, Pine River Capital Management
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Bernard Harcourt and Betsy Reed of “Global Exposure: Virtual Transparency in the 21st Century”
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Global Thought Lecture The annual Global Thought Lecture, held in the Rotunda of Low Library, attracts a broad audience from Columbia and the New York metropolitan area. In addition to the public lecture, CGT faculty members, Advisory Council members, special guests, and students hold private sessions to learn more about the speaker.
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The Honorable Kevin Rudd
UCGT Co-Chair Jeffrey Niu CGT member Vishakha N. Desai and the Honorable Kevin Rudd
2015 Global Thought Lecture with the Honorable Kevin Rudd: The Rise of China and its Impact on the Global Order (Sep. 17, 2015)
Hon. Kevin Rudd, President of the Asia Society Policy Institute; Prime Minister of Australia (2007-2010, 2013); Foreign Minister of Australia (2010-2012)
Vishakha N. Desai, Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President; Senior Research Scholar for the School of International and Public Affairs; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University
Steven Cohen, Executive Director of The Earth Institute; Professor in the Practice of Public Affairs, Columbia University On Sep. 16, 2015, one day before the Global Thought Lecture, the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought (UCGT) held a special World Leaders Forum Workshop to discuss former Primer Minister Kevin Rudd and his speech on China’s impact on the globe. This workshop allowed Columbia University undergraduates to join in on the conversation with one of Columbia University’s leading Asia scholars, Vishakha N. Desai.
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CGT Lunchtime Seminars “The Enlightenment, Enchantment, and the Mentality of Democracy” with Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (Sep. 15, 2015) “Women’s Emancipation and the Rise of Fundamentalism” with Abram de Swaan, Emeritus Distinguished Research University Professor for Social Science, University of Amsterdam (Oct. 6, 2015) “Political Transition in East-Central Europe and the End of the Cold War, 1988-1991” with Csaba Békés, Istvan Deak Visiting Professor of History, Columbia University (Oct. 13, 2015)
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“The Identity of Modern Indian Political Thought” with Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President and Chief Executive of the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi; the Ahuja Fellow at the South Asia Institute, Columbia University (Oct. 20, 2015) “The Question of Intervention” with Michael W. Doyle, University Professor; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (Oct. 27, 2015) “The Legacy of Bandung” with Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (Nov. 10, 2015) “The Wheel: Inventions and reinventions” with Richard W. Bulliet, Emeritus Professor of History; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (Jan. 26, 2016)
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CGT member Souleymane Bachir Diagne and CGT Chair Carol Gluck
“The Sufi and the State: Discussing the notion of a state being Islamic” with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Philosophy; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (Feb. 9, 2016) “Nation Building: Why some countries came together while others fell apart” with Andreas Wimmer, Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (Mar. 22, 2016) “The Construction of a Global Institution: International commercial arbitration, 1890-1960” with Jérôme Sgard, Columbia-Sciences Po Alliance Visiting Professor (Mar. 29, 2016)
CGT Lunchtime Seminar speaker Jérôme Sgard
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CGT Book Talks CGT Book Talks are a popular forum for Columbia faculty, students, and members of the public to engage in critical discussion with authors of recent books. Co-organized with Columbia Global Reports, who commission writers to do original on-site reporting around the globe, the aim is to combine the immediacy and narrative power of journalism with the intellectual ambition and acuity of scholarship. Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Sasha Issenberg, Nicholas Lemann, CGT member Michael Doyle
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Panelists and audience members at “Global Citizenship: A Discussion on ‘The Cosmopolites”
Global Citizenship: A Discussion on “The Cosmopolites’’ (Nov. 17, 2015)
Planes, Trains and Root Canals: The New World of Medical Tourism (Feb. 10, 2016)
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, author of “The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen;” opinion editor at Al Jazeera America; editor and contributor at The New Inquiry; contributing editor to Dissent magazine
Sasha Issenberg, author of “Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism”
Michael W. Doyle, University Professor; Director of Columbia Global Policy Initiative; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Nicholas Lemann, Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism; Director of Columbia Global Reports, Columbia University
Nicholas Lemann, Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism; Director of Columbia Global Reports, Columbia University
Rosalind C. Morris, Professor of Anthropology; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Joseph O’Neill, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Written Arts, Bard College; writer; journalist
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1754 Society
Left to right: CGT Chair Carol Gluck, MA Global Thought graduate Wei Qing Tan, UCGT Co-Chair Jeffrey Niu, CGT member Wafaa El-Sadr, CGT member Adam Tooze
On Nov. 12, 2015, CGT faculty members, students, and Advisory Council members participated in a discussion with members of the 1754 Society titled “From 1754 to 2054: Columbia’s Global Future from the Perspective of the Committee on Global Thought.” The participants discussed how Columbia University prepares students to live and thrive in an increasingly interdependent and interconnected world, as well as what the world might look like in 2054, the year of Columbia’s tri-centennial.
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The 1754 Society honors and acknowledges alumni and friends of Columbia who have made plans for the University through trust, estate, or other planned gifts. Named for the year in which King’s College, the future Columbia University, was established, the Society recognizes the role donors have played over the centuries in Columbia’s emergence as a preeminent educational institution and the role they play today in ensuring its continued excellence.
From 1754 to 2054: Columbia’s Global Future from the Perspective of the Committee on Global Thought (Nov. 12, 2015)
Vishakha N. Desai, Senior Advisor for Global Affairs to the President; Senior Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies; Director of the Institute for African Studies; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor; Director of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) and Global Health Initiative at Mailman School of Public Health; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Chair of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Jeffrey Niu, Columbia University Undergraduate Student; Co-Chair of the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought
Wei Qing Tan, Columbia University Master of Arts in Global Thought Student
Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History; Director of the European Institute; Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
CGT member Mamadou Diouf
CGT member Vishakha N. Desai
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CGT Presidential Reception On May 10, 2016, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger hosted a reception for the Committee on Global Thought. The event was attended by CGT faculty, Advisory Council members, students in the Master of Arts in Global Thought program and in the Undergraduate Committee on Global Thought (UCGT).
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President Lee C. Bollinger
President Lee C. Bollinger speaks with UCGT leaders
CGT Advisory Council member Ari Wallach, CGT Chair Carol Gluck, CGT member Carol Becker
President Lee C. Bollinger speaks with M.A. Global Thought graduates.
CGT Advisory Council member Richard Foster, CGT member David Park, CGT Director Daniel Rivero
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Extending the range of global thought
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CGT Advisory Council member Heejae Chae
How can we learn from the global voices outside the university?
The Committee on Global Thought has embarked upon an effort to ‘Extend the Range of Global Thought’ to globallyminded figures in the business, government, and non-profit world.
The CGT Advisory Council is a group of dynamic leaders interested in global issues, global education, and new global thinking. Members of the Advisory Council work with the faculty to plan for future directions, participate in CGT activities, provide financial support, and serve as mentors to our M.A. students. Dinners and meetings arranged especially for Council members provide opportunities for informal discussion with faculty, M.A. students, and invited speakers. CGT Advisory Council member Judith McHale
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Advisory Council David Bartsch, President of Quaternion Risk Management Inc. Heejae Chae, Executive Director and Group Chief Executive of Scapa Richard Fishman, Venture Capital and Senior CounselorAshoka Richard Foster, Managing Partner of Millbrook Management Group LLC Benjie Fraser, Managing Director of Global Pensions Executive at J.P. Morgan Judith McHale, President and CEO of Cane Investments; former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; former CEO of Discovery Communications Prakash H. Mehta, Partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
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Filippo Passerini, Operating Executive at the Carlyle Group Erin Ross, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Hitchwood Capital Management LP Romita Shetty, Managing Director of DA Capital Asia Peter Sims, Founder and CEO of Parliament, Inc. Elizabeth S. Stong, US Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of New York Bob Swarup, Principal of Camdor Global; Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs Alex Wallace, Founder and CEO of AlexInc. Ari Wallach, Founder and CEO of Synthesis Corp. Paul Woolmington, CEO of Canvas Worldwide; Advisor; Communications Entrepreneur; Co-founder of Naked Communications Americas
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David Bartsch
Heejae Chae
Richard Fishman
Richard Foster
Benjie Fraser
Judith McHale
Prakash H. Mehta
Filippo Passerini
Erin Ross
Romita Shetty
Peter Sims
Elizabeth S. Stong
Bob Swarup
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