Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study seeks to ignite creative, innovative, and profound research and discovery in the sciences, humanities, and the arts. The Institute for Advanced Study is a site, concept, and a community dedicated to public and intellectual exchanges across the fields of human endeavor.
News
Proposals for Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminars for the University Symposium on Abundance & Scarcity for 2010-2012 are now being accepted. Applications are due by 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 2, 2009.
Applications for 2010-2011 Quadrant Fellows are now being accepted. Submissions should be postmarked by November 20, 2009.
Recent IAS presentations that can be viewed on our media page include Evan Thompson on neuroscience, the Mila Ensemble's performance of Eastern European folk songs, and Matt Huber on the links between fossil fuels and capitalism
About the IAS
In 2009-10, the IAS brings together scholars from diverse disciplines—including architecture, sociology, political science, art, anthropology, American Indian studies, African-American studies, theater, literature, art history, American studies, educational linguistics, and psychology—to work on a wide variety of collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. Research and creative collaboratives are developing new lines of inquiry in areas including history, social networks, rhetoric, body-mind centering, and heritage studies, and engaging in path-breaking cross-disciplinary work in dance and biology, social justice and dance, and theater and ancient studies. Faculty and graduate fellows bring interdisciplinary exchange to a wide variety of work ranging from global media to animation, and from Native American sovereignty to avian influenza policies. Quadrant links interdisciplinary work in four emerging areas of excellence at the U with the University of Minnesota Press. The University Symposium on Body & Knowing explores what we know about the body and how we know it from diverse perspectives including dance, medicine, anthropology, and sexuality studies. And a lively program of public events presents research and creative work to the University community and beyond.
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Faculty, staff, and students from University of Minnesota coordinate campuses can have their mileage reimbursed for travel to the Twin Cities campus for IAS events. For more information, contact us.
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