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
The IAS is pleased to announce 2012-13 Residential Faculty Fellows.
Application instructions for Research and Creative Collaboratives 2012-13 are now available. Applications are due on February 10.
The University Symposium topic for 2012-14 will be Site and Incitement.
Videos from Spring presentations are now posted, including presentations by Sam White on historical perspectives on climate change, and Matthew Gold and Douglas Armato on the digital humanities.
About the IAS
In 2011-12, the IAS brings together scholars from diverse disciplines—including architecture, sociology, political science, studio art, anthropology, American Indian studies, global studies, curriculum and instruction, literature, history, art history, writing studies, biomedical engineering, theater, and gender, women and sexuality studies—to work on a wide variety of collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. Research and creative collaboratives are developing new lines of inquiry in areas including Black environmentalism, failure, and higher education, and engaging in path-breaking cross-disciplinary work in dance and biology, digital humanities, and art and engineering. Faculty and graduate fellows bring interdisciplinary exchange to a wide variety of work ranging from women's rights in Eastern Europe to identity and tribal citizenship, and from Julia Child to the theatre of mourning in early modern France. Quadrant links interdisciplinary work in four emerging areas of excellence at the U with the University of Minnesota Press. The University Symposium on Abundance and Scarcity responds to the economic crisis of 2008 and also asks questions about the human reaction to global problems in the supply of food, water, and energy by asking what sustainability means. 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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