The Institute

A community of Columbia University faculty and writers, artists, and composers from around the world, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination welcomes fourteen Fellows to Paris each year to pursue their work and engage in a year-long dialogue with one another.

The Fellows present their work to the public in the SNF Rendez-Vous de l'Institut series and collaborate with their counterparts in Paris and beyond.

Short term Faculty Visitors from Columbia and Displaced Artists in flight from their countries join the community at Reid Hall, home of the Institute in the heart of Montparnasse.

The SNF Public Humanities Initiative expands the scope of Institute through grassroots civic engagement and cultural education in Greece.