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
Collaborative conveners and former fellows J.B. Shank and Michael Gaudio will appear on Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning show on Friday, July 3 at 10:00 a.m. They will be in conversation with Kerri Miller about Leonardo da Vinci.
Graduate fellows for 2009-10 have been announced!
The Program in Asian American Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota are pleased to announce the selection of the University of Minnesota’s first Hmong Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Graduate Fellow for 2009-2010.
Recent talks now available online include Kim Fortun, speaking on toxins in daily life, Andrew Light on new approaches to environmentalism, and Eric Avila on gendered constructions of urban space.
About the IAS
In 2008-09, the IAS brings together scholars from diverse disciplines—including psychology, medicine, art, sociology, geography, urban planning, literature, history, education, law, music, dance, gender studies, political science, film, global studies, architecture, design, theater, anthropology, and American 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 urban transformation, the function of cultural identity in film and in treatment of trauma, and the role of transitional justice in addressing human rights violations. Faculty and graduate fellows bring interdisciplinary exchange to a wide variety of work ranging from population policy to religion, from rural medicine to metaphor. 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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