Institute for Ideas and Imagination

A residential fellowship for creative artists and scholars

Bringing together faculty from across Columbia University with thinkers, poets, artists, and composers from around the world in Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination welcomes fifteen Fellows each year to work on their own projects and engage in a year-long dialogue with each other.

The SNF Rendez-Vous de l'Institut series presents the Fellows work to the public at Reid Hall, home of the Institute in the heart of Montparnasse.

ABOUT

FELLOWS

FELLOWS
Kamal Aljafari
Germany/Palestine
2024/2025
Jana Ndiaye Berankova
Czech Republic/France
2024/2025
Hiba Bou Akar
Lebanon
2024/2025
Kate Daudy
United Kingdom
2024/2025
Zohar Elmakias
Israel
2024/2025
João Gonzalez
Portugal
2024/2025
Will Harris
United Kingdom
2024/2025
Daniel Levin Becker
United States
2024/2025
George Lewis
United States
2024/2025
Guadalupe Nettel
Mexico
2024/2025
Mae Ngai
United States
2024/2025
Lauren Robertson
United States
2024/2025
Tomas van Houtryve
Belgium
2024/2025
Lynn Xu
Shanghai
2024/2025

EVENTS

EVENTS
DECEMBER 5, 2024
Reclaiming Rome
Lauren Robertson
SNF Rendez-Vous
DECEMBER 12, 2024
NÓRUA
João Gonzalez
SNF Rendez-Vous
JANUARY 11, 2025
At Home with Mr. Themis
SNFPHI, online event
JANUARY 16, 2025
Time of the Book
Lynn Xu
SNF Rendez-Vous
JANUARY 23, 2025
The Kidnapped Child
SNFPHI, hybrid event, online and in person in New York City
JANUARY 30, 2025
The Museum of Days
Kamal Aljafari
SNF Rendez-Vous
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The Book of Anger
Guadalupe Nettel
SNF Rendez-Vous
MARCH 6, 2025
Building the Independence
Jana Ndiaye Berankova
SNF Rendez-Vous
MARCH 20, 2025
The Reincarnation of Blind Tom
George Lewis
SNF Rendez-Vous
MARCH 27, 2025
Volcanic Identities
SNFPHI, hybrid event, online and in person in New York City
APRIL 1, 2025
Floodmarks
SNFPHI, Event in Volos, Greece
APRIL 3, 2025
Mother of Exiles
Mae Ngai
SNF Rendez-Vous
APRIL 10, 2025
Family Scenario
Will Harris
SNF Rendez-Vous
MAY 1, 2025
Entering Avato
SNFPHI, Event in Kavala
MAY 22, 2025
Telling the Bees
Kate Daudy
SNF Rendez-Vous

NEWS

NEWS
Toi, Moi, Tituba
Elsa Dorlin
Decolonizing Contemporary Music
George Lewis
Forest of Noise
Yasmine Seale
Democracy’s Death Spiral
Katharina Pistor
Re-bonjour Notre-Dame
Tomas van Houtryve
Trump and the Future of Europe
Mark Mazower

CAHIERS

CAHIERS
Tropical Narratives
Library Chat: Debashree Mukherjee and Keithley Woolward
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
On the Power of Cultural Exchanges
Jennifer Kessler
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Sustainable Deconstruction
Modeling Sustainable Deconstructions with the Raw Earth Sgraffito Pavilion
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Trees, Branches, Patterns: Arboreal Physics, Material Poetics
Library Chat: Patricia Dailey and Vincent Fleury
AUGUST 23, 2024
Reproductive Rights: A New Era?
Vis a Vis podcast featuring Olatunde Johnson and Eleonora Bottini
AUGUST 2, 2024
The Length and Breadth of Sustainability: Buildings, History, Culture, and Education
Library Chat: Radhika Iyengar and Mohamed Elshahed
JULY 29, 2024
Delphine Taylor and Nellie Hermann: Narrative Medicine
Atelier
JULY 25, 2024
Pre-Modernists Reading Proust
Library Chat: Hannah Weaver and Emma Claussen
JULY 14, 2024
Material Curiosity
Library Chat: Ana María Gómez López and Dorothea von Mücke
JUNE 28, 2024
Stanley Greene: From Punk to War
Library Chat: Nina Alvarez and Fabiola Ferrero
JUNE 20, 2024

PUBLIC HUMANITIES

The Institute supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for the Greek public through the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative —SNFPHI.

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HIGHLIGHTS

Sedimentary Urbanization
Sedimentary Urbanization
Hiba Bou Akar
Plongée dans Les villes indivisibles de l’Oulipo
Plongée dans Les villes indivisibles de l’Oulipo
Lecture-rencontre
BREAK THE DARK
BREAK THE DARK
Edgar Broughton in Concert
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