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
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The Book of Anger
Guadalupe Nettel
SNF Rendez-Vous
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
1991 Project presents: Ukrainian Resonance: “Siimurg,”
Flute and Visual Art Performance
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Architecture and Abstraction
Discussion between Pier Vittorio Aureli and Jana Ndiaye Berankova
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Scents of Expression
Exploring Personal Identity and Artistic Vision Through Fragrance
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Les Encres de l’Atlantique: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Discussion
MARCH 4, 2025
WONDERCHAOS
Book Launch with Kate Daudy and Kostya Novoselov
MARCH 6, 2025
Building the Independence
Jana Ndiaye Berankova
SNF Rendez-Vous
MARCH 13, 2025
Anxiety Culture
A Book Talk on Migration, Language, and Culture
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
MARCH 31, 2025
L’Éclat de l’absolu
Book launch with Alain Badiou, Jana Ndiaye Berankova, and Nick Nesbitt
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
MAY 24, 2025
Nuit de l’Imagination: Neighbors
MAY 27, 2025
Minefield, Temple
Zohar Elmakias
SNF Rendez-Vous

NEWS

NEWS
Technical Illiteracy
Jay Bernard
A Guide to Siargao
Hannah Reyes Morales
Writing an Epic
Tash Aw
Best Choral Performance | Grammys 2025
George Lewis
The New Washington Consensus
Katharina Pistor
Home Holds Still
Hannah Reyes Morales

CAHIERS

CAHIERS
A Story for Our Elders
Library Chat: Will Harris and Paris "AJ" Adkins-Jackson
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Honey Prism
Library Chat: Kate Daudy and Megan Hawley Ruppel
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Telling the Bees
Atelier Episode with Kate Daudy
JANUARY 23, 2025
Music Education Under Siege
A 1991 Project Initiative
JANUARY 10, 2025
When Scholars and Artists Collaborate for a Year
Atelier Episode with Mark Mazower and Marie d'Origny
JANUARY 9, 2025
The Sixties Explosion
Library Chat: Edgar Broughton and Mark Mazower + Concert
DECEMBER 19, 2024
Past and Present Visions of Notre Dame
Atelier Episode with Tomas van Houtryve
NOVEMBER 28, 2024
Tropical Narratives
Library Chat: Debashree Mukherjee and Keithley Woolward
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
On the Power of Cultural Exchanges
Jennifer Kessler
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Play, Protest, and Politics in American Stadiums
Atelier Episode with Frank Guridy
NOVEMBER 13, 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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