Signature Research Projects
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 faculty, postdoctoral research scholars, and visiting scholars is designed to bridge this gap by prioritizing research partnerships across disciplines, by investigating emergent processes and phenomena, and by advancing the development of new modes of analysis and methodologies.
How can a university learn from the world and contribute to the goal of a sound and prosperous global community?
From international finance to memory politics, Signature Research Projects explore, investigate, and create theoretical 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 Columbia Global Centers, and outside the community of academia. The research generates publications, books, and working papers.
Politics of Visual Arts in a Changing World
Developed in response to the increasing political pressures placed on artists and arts institutions by activists and special interest groups, on the one hand, and politically conservative governments on the other, Politics of Visual Arts focuses on new political trends that are affecting the creation, presentation, reception, and preservation of works of art in diverse cultural contexts.
Youth in a Changing World
Launched in 2017 in collaboration with Columbia Global Centers, Youth in a Changing World is a series of global workshops, where youth discuss among themselves how their future aspirations are affecting and being affected by the rapidly changing world.
