Announcing Our 2025-26 Class of Fellows

Bringing together innovative scholars with some of the world’s most exciting young film-makers, sound artists, writers and poets, photographers, and composers, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination is proud to announce the 2025-26 Fellowship cohort which will be joining us in Paris in September 2025. Working on a range of topics from Roman slaves making books and 17th century musical improvisation to women’s struggles in revolutionary Iran, from family feuds in the Antarctic to the scattered remnants of life in Chernobyl, Institute Fellows will present their work throughout the year in the SNF Rendez-Vous lecture series. These talks are open to the public and we look forward to welcoming you in the course of what promises to be an exciting year ahead.