When Scholars and Artists Collaborate for a Year

Atelier Episode with Mark Mazower and Marie d'Origny
2024-25 Class of Fellows by Ferrante Ferranti

The Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, established in 2018, brings together scholars and artists for a year-long exploration of ideas, creativity, and collaboration. In this episode, we delve into the vibrant intersection of intellectual rigor and artistic expression at the core of the Institute, with Mark Mazower, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director, and Marie d’Origny, the Paris Director. They discuss the Institute’s dynamic scholarly initiatives, the cross-disciplinary connections it fosters, and the engaging encounters that take place at its regular public events.

Atelier is produced by the Columbia Global Paris Center, a Columbia University initiative housed at Reid Hall.

Mark Mazower
SNF Director of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Mark Mazower has written several books, including Dark Continent: Europe’s Twentieth Century (1998), Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950 (2004) and Governing the World: The History of an Idea (2012). What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home (2017), explores his father’s family and its revolutionary past. His most recent book is The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe (2021). He is an historian of modern Europe and has a particular interest in modern Greece. His reviews and commentaries on current affairs appear in the Financial Times and elsewhere.

Marie d'Origny
Paris Director of the Institute for Ideas and Imagination

Marie d’Origny was the Deputy Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library from 2009 to 2017. Previously she worked in film preservation and programming. She holds a B.F.A. in Cinema Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from New York University.

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