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Atelier
Atelier highlights some of the unique discussions that take place at Reid Hall, a third space at the threshold of academia and beyond. With Atelier, we open our doors to listeners anywhere. Engaging across borders and disciplines, these conversations feature some of the people who inspire us most and explore a vast range of topics, from art and science to social justice and climate.
Atelier is produced by the Columbia Global Paris Center, a Columbia University initiative housed at Reid Hall…
Episodes
Atelier[Arabic] Stitching Memory and Reclaiming Identity with Maha Al-Daya
Now available in Arabic. Listen to the English version of the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xJRXq4eCRRqXjk1go0FLY?si=D33b2ASpREC-IEq0y2F1Pg…
AtelierBlood Will Flow: The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas with Phil Chetwynd and Alex Perry
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…
AtelierStitching Memory and Reclaiming Identity with Maha Al-Daya
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…
AtelierCan Experiences Be Inherited? with Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin
How can a young girl’s experience of starvation lead to metabolic issues in her grandchildren? The answer is transgenerational epigenetic inheritance – how…
AtelierReturning to Reid Hall with Robert O’Meally and Brune Biebuyck
An institution founded to welcome American women artists once turned Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller away at the door. Decades later, bringing a symposium on Fuller…
AtelierThe Wife, the Mother, the Grandmother with David Fuller
Though archival work can piece together Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s work, exhibitions, and influence across generations, some things can only be known through…
AtelierA Lineage of Black Women Artists with Kelly-Christina Grant
Artistic influence rarely travels in straight lines. It moves through chance encounters, shared geography, oral advice passed between generations, and letters…
AtelierThe Making of a Catalogue Raisonné with Erika Schneider
A catalogue raisonné could be considered as an act of recovery, built from scattered archives, family memory, and chance encounters. Tracking an artist's full…
AtelierTeaching the Overlooked with Catherine Hahn
Art history has long organized itself around movements and groupings that determine whose work gets taught, preserved, and remembered. When the gaps in that…
AtelierAt the Dawn of the Harlem Renaissance with Denise Murrell
More than a cultural flourishing, the Harlem Renaissance was a deliberate act of remaking the image of Black America at a moment when it was suppressed and…
AtelierRecovering a Life's Work with Jessica Roscio & Rachel Passannante
Museums rarely build a permanent space around a single artist's life, but doing so can transform how an institution understands its own collection. The…
AtelierArchiving a Legacy with Tammi Lawson & Crystal Moten
Founded on what its creator called "vindicated evidence," the Schomburg holds one of the most comprehensive collections of Black art in any public institution…
AtelierWho Enters the Canon? with Kellie Jones & Heather Nickels
In this episode, Kellie Jones, Hans Hoffman Professor of Modern Art at Columbia University and MacArthur Fellow, and Heather Nickels, independent curator and…
AtelierThe Making of a Sculptor with Renée Ater
At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris drew young American artists with the promise of training unavailable at home. For African American artists, it also…
AtelierBacktalker, by Kimberlé Crenshaw: Live from Reid Hall
When the frameworks built to translate lived injustice into legal and political power come under direct assault, the question of how — and whether — to speak…
AtelierNuit 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…
AtelierThe 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…
AtelierAcross 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…
AtelierTransnational 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…
AtelierThe 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…
AtelierOnline Influencers, Politics, and Free Speech: Live from Reid Hall
Description: Recorded live at Reid Hall in Paris as part of the annual Saving Journalism Conference, this episode brings together journalists, researchers…
AtelierComposing Place and Memory Creatively with Finola Merivale
Irish composer Finola Merivale’s creative practice sits at the intersection of collaboration and solitude, structure and improvisation. In this episode, she…
AtelierRepairing the Living, Honoring the Empty Spaces with Teresa Lee
In the high-stakes world of pediatric heart transplantation, every saved life is inseparable from another family’s loss. In this episode, Dr. Teresa Lee…
AtelierCollaboration, Indigenous Ecologies, and Vala with Paige West
As climate change accelerates the unravelling of ecological and social systems, questions of knowledge, care, and responsibility become ever more urgent. In…
AtelierOil, Pageants, and Venezuelan Identity with Fabiola Ferrero
As Venezuela grapples with profound political and economic upheaval, photographer and journalist Fabiola Ferrero turns her lens toward the nation's most…
AtelierMemory, Hunger, and Political Resistance with Sujatro Ghosh
During the Bengal famine of 1943, three million people perished but left behind few tangible records. In this episode, multidisciplinary artist Sujatro Ghosh…
AtelierProtecting Press Freedom in the Middle East with Jonathan Dagher
The right to information is a pillar of democracy, yet in the face of widespread impunity, maintaining hope is vital. In this episode, Jonathan Dagher, head of…
AtelierRewriting the History of Jewish Dispossession with Sarah Gensburger
Newly discovered archives tell the forgotten story of systematic housing dispossession that fundamentally reshaped post-war Paris. In this episode, Sarah…
AtelierThe Story Behind Inside Gaza with Hélène Lam Trong
In this episode, French filmmaker and journalist Hélène Lam Trong discusses Inside Gaza, her most recent documentary offering an unprecedented look into the…
AtelierFrom Page to Stage with Florence Martin-Kessler
In this episode, former journalist, and documentary filmmaker Florence Martin-Kessler takes us behind the curtain of Live Magazine, the groundbreaking…
AtelierThe Cost of Reporting the Truth with Hanna Liubakova
In this episode, Belarusian journalist and political analyst Hanna Liubakova reflects on what it means to live and work in exile. She recalls the closing of…
AtelierFrom Research to Real-World Impact with Alexis Abramson
Columbia University’s first new school in 25 years, the Climate School aims to redefine how higher education responds to global challenges. In this episode…
AtelierRethinking Energy Access with Vijay Modi
As the world grapples with energy access and climate responsibility, questions of equity and development take center stage. In this episode, Vijay Modi…
AtelierCall-In to Reid Hall: Season 2 Launch
Atelier returns for its second season with a twist: an episode in the style of an old-fashioned call-in radio show. Faculty and fellows, artists and activists…
AtelierBetween Care and Writing with Will Harris
What began as a flight from writing led to a deeper understanding of care—not as moral virtue, but as undervalued, essential labor. In this episode, poet and…
AtelierSound Painting and Other Ways of Hearing with Peter Susser
Columbia University’s evolving musicianship curriculum prioritizes musical experience over traditional literacy, using inclusive techniques inspired by blind…
AtelierWriting and Archiving Lesbian History with Tamara Chaplin
Lesbian history in France is often framed around the interwar “Paris Lesbos” era and the resurgence of lesbian activism in the 1970s. In this episode…
AtelierAn Open Arena for the Arts with Margery Arent Safir
A founding principle of the Arts Arena is to make encounters with the arts available to the broadest possible audience. In this episode, founder and artistic…
AtelierThe Academic Front in Ukrainian Resistance with Tetiana Kostiuchenko
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, life and work have changed drastically for Ukrainian academics. A new book edited by…
AtelierListening to Trees with Marguerite Holloway
Journalist Marguerite Holloway arrived at the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern about their…
AtelierThe Reid Hall History Project: Special Series Finale
Reid Hall has often been the site of serendipitous encounters, perhaps none more so than those leading to the discovery of its fascinating story. In the final…
AtelierReporting on Violence, Conflict, and Tragedy with Bruce Shapiro
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, based at the Columbia Journalism School, was founded to support ethical, informed reporting on violence, conflict…
AtelierFrom Birmingham to Paris and Beyond: Lucille Sinclair Douglass (1878–1935)
Alabama-born Lucille Sinclair Douglass was a globe-trotting artist, etcher, writer, and lecturer whose adventurous spirit defined her career. After exhibiting…
AtelierPrivate Gardens of the Transatlantic Elite: Janet Scudder (1869 – 1940)
Janet Scudder rose from modest beginnings in Indiana to become a celebrated sculptor, suffragist, and wartime contributor. Splitting her time between New York…
AtelierThreats to Free Speech with Lee C. Bollinger
American universities are in the midst of a crisis, as federal government interference in academic inquiry continues to grow. In this episode, Lee C…
AtelierSculpting Across Borders: Angela Gregory (1903 – 1990)
Angela Gregory, the "doyenne of Louisiana sculpture," broke barriers from New Orleans to Paris. After ditching a scholarship program she found lacking, she…
AtelierA Lifelong Sculptor and Suffragette: Alice Morgan Wright (1881 – 1975)
New York-born Alice Morgan Wright was a sculptor, writer, suffragist, and early adopter of Cubism and Futurism. Living at the Girls’ Art Club in Paris, she not…
AtelierLiving Archives, Memory, and Ghosts with Kamal Aljafari and Gil Hochberg
Filmmaker Kamal Aljafari and writer Gil Hochberg explore the intersections of their work in this special conversation at Reid Hall. Aljafari discusses The…
AtelierVast Horizons and Radiant Colors of Brittany: Florence Esté (1859 – 1926)
Cincinnati-born Florence Esté found her artistic voice in France, where she became a celebrated painter and watercolorist. A fixture in the Paris art scene…
AtelierThe Pioneer of Rolfing and Bodywork: Ida Rolf (1896 – 1979)
A trailblazing biochemist turned bodywork pioneer, Ida Rolf developed “Rolfing,” a method of structural integration that challenged conventional medicine and…
AtelierStudying History and Literature Together with Keithley Woolward
Columbia University’s M.A. in History and Literature is an innovative program that explores the interconnections and intersections between history and…
AtelierModernist Art and the Gertrude Stein Salon: Anne Wilson Goldthwaite (1869 – 1944)
A Southern-born trailblazer, Anne Wilson Goldthwaite made her mark in the art world as a painter, printmaker, and fierce advocate for women’s rights. From…
AtelierThe First Woman Architect of the École des Beaux-Arts: Julia Morgan (1872 – 1957)
The first woman to graduate in architecture from the École des Beaux-Arts and California’s first licensed female architect, Julia Morgan designed over 700…
AtelierGreek Folk Poetry and Queer History with Nikolas Kakkoufa
During a recent visit to the Institut de France, Reid Hall Faculty Visitor Nikolas Kakkoufa explored the archives of Claude Fauriel, who collected Greek folk…
AtelierA Shared Life of Poetry, Mythology, and Translation: Jane Harrison (1850 – 1928) and Hope Mirrlees (1887 – 1978)
Jane Harrison, a trailblazing classical scholar, and Hope Mirrlees, a modernist writer, shared a deep intellectual and personal bond. Harrison, a Cambridge…
AtelierWomen in Climate Action with Mélody Braun
Democracies are eroding, and climate skepticism is on the rise worldwide—in some countries more than others. In this episode, we speak with climate adaptation…
AtelierPioneering Medical Devices for Wounded Soldiers : Grace Gassette (1871 – 1955)
Grace Gassette was an American portraitist, nurse, and inventor whose impact spanned both the art world and wartime medicine. Born in Illinois, she moved to…
AtelierAmerican Society Editor to Paris War Correspondent: Leonora Raines (1866 – 1952)
Leonora Raines was a self-styled American journalist, war correspondent, and patron of the arts. For over thirty years, she immersed herself in the…
AtelierWomen, Trauma, and Survival: Violette Perrotte on Leading La Maison des Femmes
The Maison des femmes, located at Saint-Denis Delafontaine Hospital, offers medical, psychological, legal, and social support to women facing violence and…
AtelierParis Studios to Harlem Renaissance Icon: Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877 – 1968)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller overcame racism and sexism, from subtle slights to overt segregation, to become a celebrated sculptor and a key figure of the Harlem…