On April 20, 2011, in Low Library, the INTERACT Conference brought together faculty and students across Columbia University to ask questions and consider not whether, but how Columbia will “go global.”
The Global Past in the Future of American Academia
Kenneth Prewitt, Vice President for Global Centers and Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University
Moderator: Jonathan Cole, John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University, Provost Emeritus of the University, and Dean Emeritus of Faculties, Columbia University
Panelists: Mark Wigley, Dean, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, Rosalind Morris, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
A New Way to Study Abroad
Remarks by: Victoria De Grazia, Interim Director, Columbia Global Centers | Europe, Professor of History, and the James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University
The Global Mission of the University
Moderator: Kenneth Prewitt, Vice President for Global Centers and Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Columbia University
Panelists: Debora Spar, President, Barnard College, Peter Awn, Dean, School of General Studies, Columbia University, Michele Moody-Adams, Dean, Columbia College, Columbia University
Columbia’s Liberal Arts Education, the Humanities, and What’s to Come
Moderator: Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
Panelists: Erica Kassman (Comparative Literature, 2011) Aaron Liskov (History, 2011) Kate Schultz (MESAAS and East Asian Studies, 2011) Mark Stothers (Engineering and East Asian Studies, 2012) Stephanie Wilhelm (Economics and Statistics, 2011)
Co-sponsored by the Committee on Global Thought, the Harriman Institute, the Office of Global Centers, and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
More: At panel, Bollinger, Spar, deans take on ‘going global’ (Columbia Spectator article 4/21/2011), INTERACT Forum, Video of faculty and students interviewed on “Columbia Goes Global”
