IAS Programming Manager Carolina Maranon-Cobos reflects on the 2025-26 (In)Justice Series on Data and Power: how the events weren't just a series of conversations about technology or systems, but made space for contradiction, complexity, and joy. 

Meet Arianna Genis, the University of Minnesota’s second Visionary Community Fellow supported by the Institute for Advanced Study and Liberal Arts Engagement Hub. Genis is challenging one-dimensional narratives of Latino identity and building something far more powerful: a research-backed, community-rooted movement that connects culture, storytelling, and political action across the Midwest.

The Institute for Advanced Study is delighted to announce four new Research and Creative Collaboratives advancing interdisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative practice. Their projects explore topics such as the relationship between labor and scholarship; ethical avenues for collaborative knowledge production with incarcerated students and alumni; data-driven approaches to public accountability and civic trust; and community-based agricultural practices that support environmental stewardship and culturally grounded food systems.