CII&I Annual Report 2019-2020

INSTITUTE FOR IDEAS & IMAGINATION ANNUAL REPORT 2019-20

COLUMBIA INSTITUTE FOR IDEAS & IMAGINATION ANNUAL REPORT 2019—20

& Institute for Ideas & Imagination

ANNUAL REPORT 2019—20

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William C. Sharpe, Sky and Chimneys Above Rue de la Grande Chaumière, seen from Institute

dining room window, 2019. Watercolor on Sennelier paper, 10 x 14”. Gift to the Institute.

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Paris deserted during the March 2020 lockdown.

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—Mark Mazower

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: Visit to the BnF. : Alberto Martins, Mateus Braga and Custodio de Sousa in the garden of Reid Hall. : During lockdown the Institute donated its weekly fruit basket to hospitals.

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: Paris, France. Courtyard of American

Red Cross Hospital #3, Rue Chevreuse, Paris.

REID HALL: GRACE UNDER PRESSURE

be seen enjoying the fresh air, October 1918.

Glass negative, 5 x 7”. This image features Reid Hall’s third garden during World War I. : Reid Hall’s third garden lying in wait, 2020.

—Brunhilde Biebuyck, Administrative Director —Krista Faurie, Operations and Projects Manager

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KATHERINE EWING

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RALPH GHOCHE

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ARCHITECTURAL PEREGRINATIONS AT THE INSTITUTE

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energy and agricultural infrastructures along the Dniepr River in the Ukraine, 1932. : Casier 119

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JAMES GRAHAM

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Roni Henig and Édouard Louis; Bill Sharpe and a student; Marie d’Origny, Séverine Martin, and Christine Valero during the Fellows and Columbia undergraduates’ mixer; Tash Aw moderates a Kembara event with YZ Chin, Amanda Lee Koe, Preeta Samarasan and Sharlene Teo; Debashree Mukherjee and Kathy Ewing listen to a fellow Fellow’s lecture; Brune Bieybuck in conversation with Judith Ginsberg, Paul LeClerc and Mark Mazower.

: President Bollinger chatting with Fellows. : Fiona Sze-Lorrain in front of a model of the Paris Opera at the musée d’Orsay. : Pauchi Sasaki poses with her husband and baby for a family photo, helped by Eve Grinstead.

Abécédaire contribution.

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EDUARDO HALFON

RONI HENIG

Literature

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NUCLEAR TESTING RESEARCH IN AN OASIS OF CALM

The “Baker” Explosion, part of Operation Crossroads, a US Army nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, on July 25, 1946.

Recolored black and white photograph.

—Emlyn Hughes

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Bouchra Khalili, The Tempest Society, 2017 (still). Video installation with Greek, Syrian Arabic, French, and English subtitles, sound, color; 60 min. Commissioned for documenta 14.

Emlyn Hughes interviewing Sarah Cole, Columbia University Dean of Humanities, about her book on H. G. Wells..

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: Dina Nayeri and James Graham at the Maison de verre; Coral reef photographed by Emlyn Hughes in French Polynesia; Eduardo Halfon giving his

Rendez-vous presentation. Édouard Louis and Emmanuelle Béart during a reading of Anne Carson’s Antigonik.

Former Fellow Hiie Saumaa and Ralphe Goche at the Maison de verre. : A slide showing the cover of Debashree de Conférence during her Rendez-vous presentation.

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Conversations among Fellows, before and during the pandemic.

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DINA NAYERI

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2018-19 For her lecture, FELLOWS Nora Philippe used multiple cameras and used screens

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THE SOUND OF METAL

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Pauchi Sasaki performing Gama VII: Vientos | Paracas in the Paracas Desert, Perú, 2015.

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PAUCHI SASAKI OTANI

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Best Foot Forward: Boulevard du Montparnasse, November 4, 2019.

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FIONA SZE-LORRAIN ABIGAIL R. COHEN FELLOW FRANCE

Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Arabasque No. 9, 2020. Sumi ink on washi, 31.5 x 24.5 cm.

— Fiona Sze-Lorrain

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THE SNF PUBLIC HUMANITIES INITIATIVE: THE FIRST YEAR

SNFPHI project awardee Ioannis Koliopoulos (Hypercomf) records Father Nikolas performing a local folk song on the island of Tinos.

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—Dimitris Antoniou

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Mark Mazower greets Fellows and guests at the Maison de Verre.

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PROGRAMMING

Concerts, Conferences, and More September 2019

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Les Rendez-vous de l’Institut: The Fellows’ Series January 2020

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