Nuit de l’Imagination: Neighbors
Registration will open on March 1, 2025.
This event will be held in English
Co-sponsored by the Columbia Global Paris Center and Institute for Ideas and Imagination
The theme of this year’s Nuit de l’Imagination at Reid Hall, Neighbors, invites us to imagine what it means to be neighbors in today’s world by exploring the ties that connect us—both locally and globally, from relationships in our Montparnasse community to reflections on forms of welcoming others in the context of migration and displacement.
Throughout the afternoon, immerse yourself in activities designed for children and families, including concerts, theater workshops, and an art exhibition presenting creations from local schools. Engage in interactive sessions of partner yoga and community games, and take part in presentations and events that explore themes of migration and solidarity.
The night will conclude with a collective musical performance and a convivial reception.
Stay tuned for the full program.
Nuit de l’Imagination
An annual event that opens the doors to Reid Hall for the third year in 2025, organized by the Columbia Global Paris Center and Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Nuit de l’Imagination highlights our work and collaborations around timely and relevant topics (the first year’s theme was Climate, the second year was Boredom). It serves as an opportunity to engage both our internal and external communities in a celebratory atmosphere. The event schedule includes daytime activities such as academic conferences, professional workshops, and children’s programs, culminating in a headline evening event—a public performance, concert, or lecture—related to the theme of the year.
Organizers
The Columbia Global Paris Center, established at Reid Hall in 2010, is one of Columbia University’s eleven global centers. It aims to promote research, teaching, and transnational collaboration. Through its scholarly and cultural programming, its Atelier podcast, and its civic engagement initiatives, the Paris Global Center strengthens Columbia University’s connections in France and internationally while providing a platform for intellectual exploration of social and environmental issues in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Each year the Institute for Ideas and Imagination brings together a cohort of 14-15 Fellows, half of them Columbia faculty and post-docs, the other half artists and writers from around the world, to spend a year together in work and conversation. The Institute fosters intellectual and creative diversity unconstrained by medium and discipline through the interaction of the arts and academia.
Columbia Global brings together major global initiatives from across the university including the Columbia Global Centers, Columbia World Projects, the Committee on Global Thought, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, and Undergraduate Global Engagement.
