Entre Nous: Three Archives in Conversation

TheColumbia Global Paris Centeraddresses pressing global issues that are at the forefront of international education and research: agency and gender; climate and the environment; critical dialogues for just societies; encounters in the arts; and health and medical science.Nestled in the Montparnasse district,Reid Hallhosts several Columbia University initiatives:Columbia Global Centers | Paris, theInstitute for Ideas and Imagination,Columbia Undergraduate Programs,M.A. in History and Literature, and theGSAPP Shape of Two Cities Program. This unique combination of resources is enhanced by our global network whose mission is to expand the University's engagement the world over through educational programs, research initiatives, regional partnerships, and public events.The Paris Center is part of Columbia Global, which brings together major global initiatives from across the university to advance knowledge and foster global engagement. Its mission is to address complex global challenges through groundbreaking scholarly pursuits, leadership development, cutting-edge research, and projects that aim for social impact. Its long-term goal is to reimagine the university’s role in society as not only a nexus for learning and intellectual exploration but also as a catalyst for creativity and impact locally, regionally, and globally. Columbia Global includes eleven Global Centers, as well as the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Committee on Global Thought, and Columbia World Projects.

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Lynnette Widder, João Pina, and Mila Turajlić will talk about their experiences with archives as a catalyst for their work

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Archives are imagined to be well-ordered places of safe-keeping; but most discoveries are made in unsuspected and unordered repositories of the past. <a href="https://sps.columbia.edu/faculty/lynnette-widder" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lynnette Widder</a>, <a href="https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/fellows/profile/jo%C3%A3o-pina" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">João Pina</a>, and <a href="http://www.dissimila.rs/bio.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Mila Turajlić</a> will talk about their experiences with archives as a catalyst for their work – archives neglected by history, maintained by families, sequestered in institutions, left behind in unculled bequests.The conversation is in celebration of Widder’s architecture book <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Y/bo185906313.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Year Zero to Economic Miracle: Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf in Postwar West German Building Culture</a> and Turajlić’s documentary film <a href="https://www.tiff.net/events/cine-guerrillas-scenes-from-the-labudovic-reels" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ciné-guerrillas: The Scenes From the Labudović Reels</a>, and in anticipation of Pina’s forthcoming book on the discovery of family photographs of the Tarrafal concentration camp in Cape Verde.The <a href="https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/entre-nous-conversation-series" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Entre Nous</a> series is co-organized by <a href="https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Columbia Global Centers | Paris</a>, the <a href="https://ideasimagination.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institute for Ideas and Imagination</a>, and <a href="https://americanlibraryinparis.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The American Library in Paris</a>.

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