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Atelier

A Columbia Global Paris Center production


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  • 5. Returning to Vietnam with Tony Bui

    28:50||Season 3, Ep. 5
    When Tony Bui first returned to his native Vietnam as a teenager, he had a “miserable time.” The humidity, the lack of amenities, and the foreign language were too much for the self-described “spoiled kid,” so he left early. But the moment the plane took off, he wanted to go back.That desire eventually led Bui to write and direct his first feature, Three Seasons (1999). It was the first American film shot in post-war Vietnam, and won all three major prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. Last month, Reid Hall hosted a screening of the film with Bui, a former artist in residence at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, now an adjunct professor at Columbia’s School of the Arts graduate film program.In this episode, Bui talks about his unexpected reaction to seeing Three Seasons for the first time in decades. He also tells about the real people who inspired its characters, filming in the middle of monsoon season, and why he was unable to direct another film for many years afterward.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe 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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  • 3. The White-Line Woodcut: Past, Present and Future

    30:25||Season 3.5, Ep. 3
    This special series of Atelier follows a group of American women who studied and practiced art in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, then reunited in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as artists in one of the era’s most important printmaking collectives. The series features conversations with participants from the October 2026 symposium, Drawn Together: Trailblazing American Women Artists in Belle Époque Paris.For our third episode, we speak with two practitioners of the white-line printing technique pioneered by the Provincetown Printers: Fred Dylla, a physicist, artist and founder of the White Line Woodcut Guild, and Bill Evaul, an artist, writer, educator and founder of Evaul Studios in Provincetown. They tell us how this technique reunited them, what makes it so special, and how they honor the legacy of the Provincetown Printers in their own work while pushing the craft into new territory.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe 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.
  • 2. Blanche Lazzell: The Cubist Printmaker

    27:09||Season 3.5, Ep. 2
    This special series of Atelier follows a group of American women who studied and practiced art in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, then reunited in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as artists in one of the era’s most important printmaking collectives. The series features conversations with participants from the October 2026 symposium, Drawn Together: Trailblazing American Women Artists in Belle Époque Paris.In this second episode, Bernie Schultz, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Art History at the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University, and Cookie Schultz, retired faculty member and administrator for the Honors College at West Virginia University, discuss the life and work of Blanche Lazzell. They follow her path from Morgantown to Paris, where she discovered the Cubist aesthetic that would greatly influence her printmaking, and the fellow women artists with whom she would reunite in Provincetown. The Schultzes also share how they discovered Lazzell’s art and how they are working to bring it the recognition it deserves.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe 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.
  • 1. Before Provincetown, There Was Paris

    31:15||Season 3.5, Ep. 1
    This special series of Atelier follows a group of American women who studied and practiced art in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, then reunited in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as artists in one of the era’s most important printmaking collectives. The series features conversations with participants from the October 2026 symposium, Drawn Together: Trailblazing American Women Artists in Belle Époque Paris.In this first episode, Brunhilde Biebuyck, director of Reid Hall and the Columbia Global Paris Center, and Tara Keny-Boccacci, art historian and curator, discuss how Reid Hall history brought them together and how it led to this symposium. They talk specifically about Maud Hunt Squire and Ethel Mars, key figures of the Provincetown Printers, who frequented the American Girls’ Art Club (now Reid Hall), and the impact Paris had on their lives and careers.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Milan SohierMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe 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.
  • [Arabic] Stitching Memory and Reclaiming Identity with Maha Al-Daya

    37:38||Season 3
    Now available in Arabic. Listen to the English version of the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xJRXq4eCRRqXjk1go0FLY?si=D33b2ASpREC-IEq0y2F1PgIn April 2024, after enduring six months of war, Palestinian artist Maha Al-Daya was forced to flee her home in Gaza with her family. Throughout her exodus, Al-Daya continued to make art using whatever surrounded her: charcoal from burnt wood, canvas from her tent, flyers dropped by the Israeli planes. It was the only way she knew how to process her loss and maintain her identity.Al-Daya is now an artist-in-residence at Reid Hall, jointly hosted by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and Sciences Po as part of the PAUSE program. In this episode, she tells her story and discusses her latest works, created entirely through embroidery—a medium she calls “the language of Palestinian women.” She also shares the challenges of building a new life in France while feeling the constant pull of the home she left behind, her approach to different artistic mediums and techniques, and her ambition to create art that focuses less on war, and more on hope.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe 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.
  • 3. Blood Will Flow: The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas with Phil Chetwynd and Alex Perry

    49:53||Season 3, Ep. 3
    This episode was recorded live at Reid Hall as part of the Voices in Journalism series.Award-winning journalist and author Alex Perry speaks with Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director at Agence France-Presse (AFP), on Blood Will Flow: The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas, a gripping investigation into the human, political, and economic forces driving one of the world's most powerful industries.Beginning with the devastating 2021 ISIS attack on Palma, Mozambique—a town transformed by one of the largest natural gas projects in Africa—Perry reconstructs the events that left hundreds dead and exposed profound failures by governments, corporations, and private security actors. From this harrowing story, he broadens the lens to examine the opaque networks of influence, wealth, and violence that underpin the global oil and gas economy.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe 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.
  • 2. Stitching Memory and Reclaiming Identity with Maha Al-Daya

    34:39||Season 3, Ep. 2
    In April 2024, after enduring six months of war, Palestinian artist Maha Al-Daya was forced to flee her home in Gaza with her family. Throughout her exodus, Al-Daya continued to make art using whatever surrounded her: charcoal from burnt wood, canvas from her tent, flyers dropped by the Israeli planes. It was the only way she knew how to process her loss and maintain her identity. Al-Daya is now an artist-in-residence at Reid Hall, jointly hosted by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and Sciences Po as part of the PAUSE program. In this episode, she tells her story and discusses her latest works, created entirely through embroidery—a medium she calls "the language of Palestinian women." She also shares the challenges of building a new life in France while feeling the constant pull of the home she left behind, her approach to different artistic mediums and techniques, and her ambition to create art that focuses less on war, and more on hope.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteTranslation and Interpretation: Yasmine HajEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe 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.