Before Provincetown, There Was Paris

When Tony Bui first returned to his native Vietnam as a teenager, he had a “miserable time.” The humidity, the lack of amenities, and the foreign language were too much for the self-described “spoiled kid,” so he left early. But the moment the plane took off, he wanted to go back.That desire eventually led Bui to write and direct his first feature, Three Seasons (1999). It was the first American film shot in post-war Vietnam, and won all three major prizes at the Sundance Film Festival. Last month, Reid Hall hosted a screening of the film with Bui, a former artist in residence at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, now an adjunct professor at Columbia’s School of the Arts graduate film program.In this episode, Bui talks about his unexpected reaction to seeing Three Seasons for the first time in decades. He also tells about the real people who inspired its characters, filming in the middle of monsoon season, and why he was unable to direct another film for many years afterward.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This special series of Atelier follows a group of American women who studied and practiced art in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, then reunited in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as artists in one of the era’s most important printmaking collectives. The series features conversations with participants from the October 2026 symposium, Drawn Together: Trailblazing American Women Artists in Belle Époque Paris.For our third episode, we speak with two practitioners of the white-line printing technique pioneered by the Provincetown Printers: Fred Dylla, a physicist, artist and founder of the White Line Woodcut Guild, and Bill Evaul, an artist, writer, educator and founder of Evaul Studios in Provincetown. They tell us how this technique reunited them, what makes it so special, and how they honor the legacy of the Provincetown Printers in their own work while pushing the craft into new territory.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This special series of Atelier follows a group of American women who studied and practiced art in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, then reunited in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as artists in one of the era’s most important printmaking collectives. The series features conversations with participants from the October 2026 symposium, Drawn Together: Trailblazing American Women Artists in Belle Époque Paris.In this second episode, Bernie Schultz, Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Art History at the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University, and Cookie Schultz, retired faculty member and administrator for the Honors College at West Virginia University, discuss the life and work of Blanche Lazzell. They follow her path from Morgantown to Paris, where she discovered the Cubist aesthetic that would greatly influence her printmaking, and the fellow women artists with whom she would reunite in Provincetown. The Schultzes also share how they discovered Lazzell’s art and how they are working to bring it the recognition it deserves.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This special series of Atelier follows a group of American women who studied and practiced art in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, then reunited in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as artists in one of the era’s most important printmaking collectives. The series features conversations with participants from the October 2026 symposium, Drawn Together: Trailblazing American Women Artists in Belle Époque Paris.In this first episode, Brunhilde Biebuyck, director of Reid Hall and the Columbia Global Paris Center, and Tara Keny-Boccacci, art historian and curator, discuss how Reid Hall history brought them together and how it led to this symposium. They talk specifically about Maud Hunt Squire and Ethel Mars, key figures of the Provincetown Printers, who frequented the American Girls’ Art Club (now Reid Hall), and the impact Paris had on their lives and careers.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Milan SohierMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Now available in Arabic. Listen to the English version of the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xJRXq4eCRRqXjk1go0FLY?si=D33b2ASpREC-IEq0y2F1PgIn 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, Al-Daya continued to make art using whatever surrounded her: charcoal from burnt wood, canvas from her tent, flyers dropped by the Israeli planes. It was the only way she knew how to process her loss and maintain her identity.Al-Daya is now an artist-in-residence at Reid Hall, jointly hosted by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and Sciences Po as part of the PAUSE program. In this episode, she tells her story and discusses her latest works, created entirely through embroidery—a medium she calls “the language of Palestinian women.” She also shares the challenges of building a new life in France while feeling the constant pull of the home she left behind, her approach to different artistic mediums and techniques, and her ambition to create art that focuses less on war, and more on hope.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Chetwynd, Global News Director at Agence France-Presse (AFP), on Blood Will Flow: The Murderous Business of Oil and Gas, a gripping investigation into the human, political, and economic forces driving one of the world's most powerful industries.Beginning with the devastating 2021 ISIS attack on Palma, Mozambique—a town transformed by one of the largest natural gas projects in Africa—Perry reconstructs the events that left hundreds dead and exposed profound failures by governments, corporations, and private security actors. From this harrowing story, he broadens the lens to examine the opaque networks of influence, wealth, and violence that underpin the global oil and gas economy.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, Al-Daya continued to make art using whatever surrounded her: charcoal from burnt wood, canvas from her tent, flyers dropped by the Israeli planes. It was the only way she knew how to process her loss and maintain her identity. Al-Daya is now an artist-in-residence at Reid Hall, jointly hosted by the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Columbia Global Paris Center, and Sciences Po as part of the PAUSE program. In this episode, she tells her story and discusses her latest works, created entirely through embroidery—a medium she calls "the language of Palestinian women." She also shares the challenges of building a new life in France while feeling the constant pull of the home she left behind, her approach to different artistic mediums and techniques, and her ambition to create art that focuses less on war, and more on hope.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteTranslation and Interpretation: Yasmine HajEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can a young girl’s experience of starvation lead to metabolic issues in her grandchildren? The answer is transgenerational epigenetic inheritance – how biological responses to physical, emotional, or environmental stress can be passed down through generations. In this episode, Dr. Bianca Jones Marlin, the Herbert and Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Cell Research at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University in New York City, explains the mechanics behind transgenerational epigenetic inheritance and provides a glimpse into her latest project, TRANSMIND, which investigates whether memories alone can be inherited in some form. She also shares how growing up with foster siblings fed her interest in parental-offspring relationships, explores whether scientists can be activists, and challenges the assumed objectivity of science.Bianca Jones Marlin was a 2025 – 2026 Reid Hall Faculty Visitor, an initiative jointly supported by the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha HeWith thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in ParisThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 to that same place, Reid Hall, was a deliberate act of reckoning. In this episode, Robert O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and Brune Biebuyck, director of Reid Hall and the Columbia Global Paris Center, reflect on what the symposium uncovered—and where it might lead next. O’Meally considers Fuller alongside figures including Bessie Smith, Frederick Douglass, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, tracing a shared impulse toward self-determination and artistic freedom. Biebuyck reflects on the symposium as an act of reparation and looks ahead to what could follow: annual gatherings, future residencies, and perhaps even a sculpture inspired by Fuller’s work at Reid Hall.This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment.The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-BaczewskaThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Though archival work can piece together Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller’s work, exhibitions, and influence across generations, some things can only be known through the people who knew her: the everyday details, memories, and stories that bring an artist’s life into focus.In this episode, David Fuller, grandson of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, shares personal memories of the woman he knew as a gentle, tireless presence in the family home at 31 Warren Road in Framingham. He describes her quiet dedication to her work and to the women in her neighborhood whom she helped through poetry, conversation, and long walks in the garden; the story of the studio she built from her own inheritance, without telling her husband until the walls were up; the man sent by neighbors to ask the Fullers to move, and how a china tea service and a list of her sculptures changed his mind. He also reflects on what the Paris symposium revealed to him about her life before the family home — the Paris years, the fire, the decades of work he was too young to fully understand — and on what he hopes to carry back to his siblings, his children, and his grandchildren.This special series of Atelier was produced in conjunction with a three-day symposium dedicated to celebrating the work and life of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Across these conversations, we bring together scholars, curators, and other special guests to revisit her legacy and situate it within its historical moment.The symposium and podcast series were made possible with support from the Columbia Global Paris Center and the Terra Foundation for American Art, and with the participation of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University.Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/parisNewsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newslettersInstagram - instagram.com/cgcparisLinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparisYouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParisHost: Marie DoezemaProduction: Marie Doezema, Tessa Overvoorde, and Anthony ValetteEditing: Theo AlbaricMusic: Robert Schumann’s Rêverie performed by Magdalena Stern-BaczewskaThe Columbia Global Paris Center is part of a network of 11 global centers of Columbia University in the City of New York, one of the world's leading academic institutions. The centers serve as knowledge hubs that aim to educate and inspire through research, dialogue, and action. They advance understanding, facilitate partnerships, and build the bridges necessary to tackle our changing world.Columbia Global brings together the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.