Category: The Columbia Global Book Series

October 12, 2020

Webinar: Lionel Barber in Conversation with Gilles Kepel

 “Gilles Kepel has long been France’s most sophisticated scholar of radical Islam, and Away from Chaos is his personal and political summa—a remarkable synthesis of decades of passionate engagement with the Middle East.” ~Robert F. Worth, The New York Times Magazine...

August 6, 2020

Author Event! Join Steve Coll in Conversation with Mary Kaldor and Saskia Sassen

Chaired by Safwan M. Masri

Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders Tuesday, August 1112:00 – 1:00 PM EDT5:00 – 6:00 PM GMT +17:00 – 8:00 PM GMT +3 Register Warfare in the twenty-first century goes...

July 27, 2020

Webinar! SupChina’s Kaiser Kuo in Conversation with Brian Dott

 Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without...

July 13, 2020

Author Event! Join SupChina’s Kaiser Kuo in Conversation with Brian Dott

https://cupblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/In-Conversation-With-Globe-Book.mp4 Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders Friday, July 1712:00 – 1:00 PM EDT5:00 – 6:00 PM GMT +17:00 – 8:00 PM GMT +3 Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems...

June 30, 2020

Author Event! Join Lionel Barber in Conversation with Gilles Kepel

https://cupblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/In-Conversation-With-Globe-Book.mp4 Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders The Middle East is one of the world’s most volatile regions. In recent years, it has presented key international security challenges, from the...

June 10, 2020

Book Launch! David Lawler and Jeffrey D. Sachs on Globalization, Pandemics, Mass Protests, and Environmental Crisis

 Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet wide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In The Ages of Globalization:...

June 1, 2020

Author Event! Join Jeffrey D. Sachs in Conversation with David Lawler

https://cupblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/In-Conversation-With-Globe-Book.mp4 Provocative discussions on the global issues of our time with world-class scholars, authors, and thought leaders Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planet wide action if we are to secure a long-term...