Call 2019 Joint Projects
Engineering Pediatric Cardiac Valves that Grow
Description
The proposed research is a collaboration between the groups of Professor David Kalfa at Columbia University and Professor Abdul Barakat at Ecole Polytechnique. The two groups have highly complementary expertise. Professor Kalfa’s group will be responsible for the proposed tissue engineering experiments as well as the animal studies. Professor Barakat’s group will be in charge of the computational modeling (both macroscopic and microscopic) as well as the mechanical characterization of the engineered hybrid prostheses.
Demography, Technological Change, Inequality and the Internal Structure of Cities
Description
This project develops a conference to discuss fundamental determinants of location of individuals, jobs, and firms across and within cities, and to understand how these patterns respond to major demographic and technological shocks. The projects build on the new availability of highly detailed geo-located data extending over long periods of time. The applications are developed using French data concerning patterns in French cities. It is expected that the conference will strengthen the crosspatterns of collaboration among individuals participating in the various projects.
Climate Change Risks: Innovative Legal Tools and Policies
Description
Climate change is a multidimensional global pollution problem arising from the world’s social, economic and legal systems. The risks it presents threaten most if not all aspects of society, including physical infrastructure, natural systems, food security, human health, and financial stability. This project enhances the ongoing collaborations between Columbia and Sorbonne Law Schools to advance the analysis of innovative legal and policy tools that are mobilized in the field of climate change. The project will focus on the legal and policy tools related to the regulation, assessment and judicial evaluation of climate risks, including tools available for and through climate change litigation, climate risk assessment and corporate disclosure. A series of joint seminars and workshops will be organized both in New York and Paris: LL.M and PhD students from both Law Schools will take a lead role in the discussion and exchange around these emerging issues, with a particular focus on France, European-Union and US approaches.
Beyond National History. State Formation in Transnational Perspective: Institutions, Political Practices, Society, Migration
Description
This project represents the fourth edition of a joint Latin American history workshop organized between Paris I and Columbia, with the first three having taken place between 2012 and 2014. The encounter has as its principal objective to bring together professors and advanced doctoral students from the two centers to promote intellectual exchange and discussion of research in progress. In addition to a closed session at which the participants will workshop their research projects, the professors will offer lectures open to the general public. At the same time, the workshop and lectures will serve as a point of departure for future collaboration on collective projects and publications, as well as a basis for new and strengthened relationships among students and professors across the two universities. Looking to the long term, these collaborations may permit the development of a more formal program of exchange and mobility between these two leading centers for the study of Latin American history
The Implications of Time: Time and Temporalities in Medieval Artistic and Musical Culture
Description
The Implications of Time. Time and Temporalities in Medieval Artistic and Musical Culture will be an international workshop for graduate and doctoral students (in November 2020). Its transversal theme is the question of time and how this dimension is expressed in the various plastic, musical and theatrical productions of the Middle Ages. It is also the result of an expanded collaboration with Princeton, consolidating the existing one between Paris 1 and Columbia. The workshop will be held in Princeton and New York, and will last three days.
Blame and Regulation: Psychological and Social Transformation
Description
This workshop will investigate, through a combination of theoretical and empirical approaches, whether the phenomenon of blame as it surfaces at these different levels can be theoretically integrated, and if so, what consequences follow for conceiving of the related concepts of responsibility and agency of individuals, institutions, and the tendencies of the more abstract systemic formations. The outcome of this investigation will be important for our understanding of the role of blame and the concomitant role of value-directed agency in regulating and transforming these distinct subjects in the light of norms: how individuals correct themselves; how institutions reform, how capital might be constrained or redirected (say, by the kind of social democratic constraints proposed by Keynes). And this understanding, in turn, will depend on how we understand the relations between these larger social and political problems and the psychological emotional and attitudinal phenomena that are associated with interpersonal blame, phenomena like anger, resentment, disappointment, and shame.
Punjab at the Limits of History
Description
This project will bring together scholars from across regional and disciplinary boundaries under the auspices of a two-day workshop entitled: “Punjab at the Limits of History.” It will involve scholars and graduate students from Columbia University and Sciences Po, as well as scholars from other institutions in India, Pakistan, the United States, and France, with two goals: i) to develop a transatlantic network of scholars and graduate students working on Punjab; ii) to workshop projects on Punjab that both provide opportunities for transatlantic collaboration and allow for experimental and critical rethinking of theoretical methodologies and conventions