Bold ideas, creative minds, and global curiosity in one of the world’s most iconic cities.
Housed in the heart of Montparnasse in a historic and vibrant complex that includes a recording studio, cafe, and gardens, Columbia Global Center Paris is a hub of learning, research, and cultural exchange. The Center hosts Columbia students and faculty from various disciplines year-round, as well as provides a home for scholars and artists from around the world to hold lively discussions and thrilling performances.
The Center brings Columbia’s academic excellence into conversation with the world through free public events, socially engaged art, podcasts, and civic initiatives across borders and across fields — from journalism and social justice to the arts, culture, health, and science.
The Center works alongside several of Columbia’s other Paris-based programs at Reid Hall, including the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Columbia Undergraduate Programs, the M.A. in History and Literature, and the GSAPP New York/Paris Architecture Program.
Brunhilde Biebuyck has worked at Reid Hall since 1984. Before becoming the director of Columbia Global Center Paris, she headed the Columbia-Penn undergraduate program in Paris and Columbia’s MA Program in French Cultural Studies. She has lived in the Republic of Congo, various parts of the USA, and France. After earning a PhD from the Folklore Institute at Indiana University (1981), she worked as a research associate with a team of linguists at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). She has collaborated on numerous publications and translations and serves on the editorial boards of the Classiques africains, a prestigious collection of works on African poetry and prose, as well as the Cahiers de Littérature Orale, the only academic journal in France devoted to oral literature. Her research concentrates on oral traditional narrative, and she is currently working on the French and English translations of an epic collected by her father, Daniel P. Biebuyck, among the Balega (DRC) in 1951.
