Spring 2024 Letter from the Director, In Solidarity
May 28, 2023
Bianet Castellanos, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, closes the Spring 2024 semester and looks ahead to the 2024-25 academic year.
May 28, 2023
Bianet Castellanos, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, closes the Spring 2024 semester and looks ahead to the 2024-25 academic year.
May 28, 2024
Save the date! Another robust season of conversations awaits in the 2024–25 (In)Justice Series presented by the Institute for Advanced Study. We are pleased to share that next year’s events will partner with the Andrew W. Mellon-funded Sawyer Seminar on “Just Policing.” In conversation with community activists and leading scholars, we will interrogate policing across the globe, its histories and futures.
We are pleased to announce that the twenty-sixth issue of Open Rivers:Rethinking Water, Place & Community is now available.
Fernando Burga, former IAS Residential Faculty Fellow, was recently a guest on the Rules of Engagement podcast produced by the Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC).
We are delighted to announce the new and renewing Research and Creative Collaboratives at the Institute for Advanced Study!
Eight graduate students from the University of Minnesota have been selected to participate in the Summer 2024 MnDRIVE Human in the Data Fellowship.
May 14, 2024
An ambitious new planning project aims to radically remake the role of predominantly white institutions in STEM graduate education by centering Tribal Colleges and Universities in tribal land- and self-determination-based science training.
May 13, 2024
For Isaac Espósto, a 2023–2024 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the borders and walls along the U.S. and Mexico represent far more than just territorial boundaries. Their research looks at how the very architecture and spatial design of the borderlands purposefully produce categories of race, gender, and citizenship status that enable violence and determine whose mobility is criminalized or allowed.
The Ukrainian Words Project features excerpts from nine new plays written by Ukrainian playwrights since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began the first ground war in Europe since WWII. The readings are followed by optional Story Circles where audience members can share their own stories with the company. The event includes Ukrainian refreshments.