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
MAY 20, 2025
The Afrodiaspora in Paris
Sounds, Images, Histories: a panel discussion and concert organized by Robert O'Meally and George Lewis
MAY 22, 2025
Telling the Bees
Kate Daudy
SNF Rendez-Vous
MAY 22, 2025
Gendered Identities, Racialized Spaces
BLACK | FRANCE | NOIRE Symposium, Day 1
MAY 24, 2025
Nuit de l’Imagination: Neighbors
MAY 24, 2025
Atelier 11 Open Studio
Maha Al Daya and Kiều-Anh Nguyễn
MAY 27, 2025
Minefield, Temple
Zohar Elmakias
SNF Rendez-Vous

NEWS

NEWS
Delightful and Disturbing
Guadalupe Nettel
The War War, Jaw Jaw, Bunny Play
Deborah Levy
Vietnam on the Move
Hannah Reyes Morales
Before and After the Thaw
Maria Stepanova
The Gatherers
Karimah Ashadu
Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2025
George Lewis

CAHIERS

CAHIERS
President Macron Meets Maha Al-Daya
Palestinian Artist-in-Residence at Reid Hall
MAY 6, 2025
Living Archives, Memory, and Ghosts
Atelier Episode with Kamal Aljafari and Gil Hochberg
APRIL 22, 2025
Swimming Through Life
Library Chat: Kate Daudy and Colombe Schneck
MARCH 24, 2025
Greek Folk Poetry and Queer History
Atelier Episode with Nikolas Kakkoufa
MARCH 6, 2025
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

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

Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
George Lewis
Narrating the Asian American Experience
Narrating the Asian American Experience
Curtis Chin and Mae Ngai
Nuit de l’Imagination
Nuit de l’Imagination
Neighbors
Announcing Our 2025-26 Fellows
Announcing Our 2025-26 Fellows
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