Composing Place and Memory Creatively with Finola Merivale

Nuit de l’Imagination, Dreams: Live from Reid Hall

While being a universal experience, sleep remains a poorly understood biological necessity whose mechanisms, disruptions, and cultural meanings have occupied scientists, philosophers, and artists for centuries. In this episode, recorded live at Reid Hall during the Nuit de l'imagination, concert pianist and harpsichordist Magdalena Stern‑Baczewska and sleep physician Jordan Stern trace the intersection of music and medicine through their decade‑long collaboration. Stern outlines the scale of undiagnosed sleep apnea, the limits of pharmaceutical treatment for insomnia, and what neuroscience has and has not resolved about dreaming. Stern‑Baczewska, senior lecturer in music at Columbia University, director of its music performance program, and 2025 – 2026 Fellow of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, explains how she approached the interpretive challenge of creating music intended not to engage but to release, drawing from her earliest memories of hearing her mother practice during childhood naps. The conversation closes with a live lullaby concert performed at Reid Hall, recorded as part of the evening's program. Organized by the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, each year the Nuit de l’Imagination chooses a theme of global importance (Climate in 2023, Boredom in 2024, Neighbors in 2025) as a celebration of the work and collaborations that define Reid Hall. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, 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 [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris] 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 [https://global.columbia.edu/] brings together the Columbia Global Centers [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/], Columbia World Projects [https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/], the Committee on Global Thought [https://cgt.columbia.edu/], and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination [https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Hand‑Drawn Report with Aubrey Gabel

What can a drawing do that a photograph cannot? In an era of collapsing newsrooms and widespread distrust of the press, comics journalism has emerged as a form of reporting that slows the reader down, grants access to spaces traditional journalists cannot enter, and protects the anonymity of those whose stories most need telling. In this episode, Aubrey Gabel, assistant professor of French at Columbia and Fellow of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, maps the landscape of French bande dessinée as a space for serious reportage.  She traces the medium's political genealogy, examines how the illustrator's hand enriches the notion of objectivity, and asks what it means that, in France, one in four books sold is a comic. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, 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 [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris] 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 [https://global.columbia.edu/] brings together the Columbia Global Centers [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/], Columbia World Projects [https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/], the Committee on Global Thought [https://cgt.columbia.edu/], and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination [https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Across Two Models of Medicine with Mirna Giordano

What happens when a physician steps outside the system she knows and begins to observe another, not as a critic, but as a learner? In this episode, Dr. Mirna Giordano reflects on what a visit to Paris's leading children's hospitals has revealed about how pediatric care is organized, communicated, and experienced across two very different healthcare cultures. A pediatric hospitalist and faculty at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Dr. Giordano has spent over two decades co‑managing pediatric neurosurgical patients and researching opioid‑sparing treatment outcomes. She discusses the emergence of pediatric hospital medicine as a subspecialty in the United States, the structural and legal forces that shape documentation practices, the growing medical complexity of children who survive extreme prematurity and chronic disease, and the more fluid team dynamics she observed at Necker and Bicêtre hospitals in Paris. She also reflects on what it means to practice medicine as a calling, and on returning from her Reid Hall Faculty Visitorship carrying something she had not anticipated: the desire to do things a little differently. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, 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 [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris] 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 [https://global.columbia.edu/] brings together the Columbia Global Centers [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/], Columbia World Projects [https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/], the Committee on Global Thought [https://cgt.columbia.edu/], and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination [https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Transnational Collaboration and the Future of Investigative Journalism: Live from Perugia

Cross-border journalism has reshaped investigative reporting over the past two decades — but as the model matures, it faces real pressure: inequities between partners, funding strain, and the question of whether collaboration can remain both ambitious and sustainable.  Recorded live at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, this episode brings together three leading practitioners to examine what makes transnational investigations work and what must change. Marina Walker Guevara of the Pulitzer Center, Laurent Richard of Forbidden Stories, and Hoda Osman of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism draw on recent projects to discuss trust, equity, digital security, and the future of a model that, at its best, ensures no story dies with the journalist who started it. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Charlotte Force, Tessa Overvoorde, 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 [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris] 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 [https://global.columbia.edu/] brings together the Columbia Global Centers [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/], Columbia World Projects [https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/], the Committee on Global Thought [https://cgt.columbia.edu/], and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination [https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

The Museum as a Machine for Looking with Chris Dercon

Museums today must reckon with an expanding set of demands—community, spectacle, education, preservation—and their buildings must reckon with them too. In this episode, Chris Dercon, directeur général of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, reflects on the museum’s new home in the center of Paris, reshaped by Jean Nouvel. The conversation closes with the next exhibition, a project by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, staged across from the Louvre as a deliberate rethinking of what a museum can, or should, be. Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis Host: Marie Doezema Production: Marie Doezema, Charlotte Force, Tessa Overvoorde, 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 [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris] 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 [https://global.columbia.edu/] brings together the Columbia Global Centers [https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/], Columbia World Projects [https://worldprojects.columbia.edu/], the Committee on Global Thought [https://cgt.columbia.edu/], and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination [https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/]. ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.