Atelier

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 reflects on the ethical and emotional dimensions of caring for children with heart failure and guiding families through transplant. Drawing inspiration from Maylis de Kerangal’s novel Réparer les vivants, she explores what it means to honor donor families, to sit at the threshold between life and death, and to “repair the living” in more ways than one.

A pediatric cardiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Dr. Lee also discusses how her research on the genetic causes of cardiomyopathy is shaped directly by the patients she serves. From evolving her own emotional boundaries to finding rare moments of silence and reflection during her time as a Faculty Visitor at Reid Hall in Paris, she offers a meditation on medicine not only as science, but as a practice of care.

Further reading:
https://healthmatters.nyp.org/amazing-things-jenna-skeete/
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/nyregion/nyc-nurses-strike-patients-children.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/well/90-minutes-to-give-baby-luna-a-new-heart.html

Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris
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Host: Marie Doezema
Production: Marie Doezema, James Allen, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette
Editing: Theo Albaric
Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He
With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The 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.
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As climate change accelerates the unravelling of ecological and social systems, questions of knowledge, care, and responsibility become ever more urgent. In this episode, cultural and environmental anthropologist Paige West reflects on several decades of collaborative research in Papua New Guinea. Through long-term partnerships with local communities—most notably with fisheries expert and Indigenous leader John Aini—she examines how Indigenous ecological knowledge challenges dominant conservation models.

Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris
Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters
Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis
YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis

Host: Marie Doezema
Production: Marie Doezema, James Allen, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette
Editing: Theo Albaric
Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He
With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The 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.

As Venezuela grapples with profound political and economic upheaval, photographer and journalist Fabiola Ferrero turns her lens toward the nation's most enduring symbols: oil and beauty queens. In this episode, she reflects on her long-term research exploring how Venezuela's rapid modernization in the second half of the 20th century—fueled by petroleum wealth—shaped a national identity built on fantasy and aspiration. Through her projects "I Can’t Hear the Birds" and "Reinas", Ferrero examines the complicated legacy of the country's "golden years", tracing connections between extractive industries and beauty pageant culture as parallel pillars of collective memory.

Fabiola Ferrero was a 2023 – 2024 Fellow of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris
Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters
Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis
YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis

Host: Marie Doezema
Production: Marie Doezema, James Allen, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette
Editing: Theo Albaric
Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He
With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The 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.

During the Bengal famine of 1943, three million people perished but left behind few tangible records. In this episode, multidisciplinary artist Sujatro Ghosh discusses bridging the gap between contemporary art and historical archives by engaging with survivors’ memories of food preservation. Ghosh frames his practice not as a search for nostalgia, but as "contemporary archive making," using the medium of performance and visual arts to preserve the lived experiences of migration and overlooked trauma.

Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris
Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters
Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis
YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis

Host: Marie Doezema
Production: Marie Doezema, James Allen, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette
Editing: Theo Albaric
Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He
With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The 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.

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 the Middle East desk at Reporters Without Borders (RSF), discusses the unprecedented challenges facing press freedom across the region. Drawing on his transition from a Lebanese journalist to a global advocate, Dagher details RSF’s tireless efforts to protect reporters in Gaza and Syria through legal action at the International Criminal Court and direct on-the-ground support.

Website - globalcenters.columbia.edu/paris
Newsletter - globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/paris-newsletters
Instagram - instagram.com/cgcparis
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/company/cgcparis
YouTube - youtube.com/@CGCParis

Host: Marie Doezema
Production: Marie Doezema, James Allen, Charlotte Force, and Anthony Valette
Editing: Theo Albaric
Music: Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne performed by Magdalena Baczewska and Sasha He
With thanks to the Nadia and Lili Boulanger International Centre in Paris

The 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.