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Announcing the 2024–2025 IAS Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows!

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We are delighted to announce the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows joining the Institute for Advanced Study for 2024–2025: Tyler Akeem Anderson (American Studies) and Richard Lim (American Studies).

Categories: Residential Fellows

Announcing the 2024–2025 IAS Residential Faculty Fellows!

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The Institute for Advanced Study is delighted to announce our Residential Faculty Fellows for 2024–2025. Together with our Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellows and other scholars in residence, they constitute a supportive interdisciplinary intellectual community in which they work intensively on their own research and creative projects and gather regularly to collaborate, discuss their work, and exchange ideas.

Categories: Residential Fellows

Announcing the Spring 2024 (In)Justice Series and Spotlight Series

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The (In)Justice Series from the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study brings together scholars, artists, activists, and community leaders to discuss different visions for what justice might look like. In Spring 2024, our events investigate and celebrate how different communities use joy as resistance.

Categories: Public Events

JOB OPENING: Graduate Fellowship, Sawyer Seminar on Just Policing

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on “Just Policing: Transnational Perspectives on the Definition and Possibility of Justice in Law Enforcement,” housed at the IAS invites applications for two graduate fellows during the 2024-25 Academic Year.

Categories: Jobs

Call for Proposals: Rights, Conflict, and Water

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Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community is currently inviting proposals for our 2025 issue on Rights, Conflict, and Water. We invite proposals from scholars, activists, artists, professionals, policymakers, community members, scientists, and practitioners (including faculty, staff, and students) who offer insight on rights, conflicts, and water broadly conceived. 

Categories: Open Rivers

Consortial Partners Reflect on Humanities Without Walls’s Evolution

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The Mellon-funded Humanities Without Walls network has created stronger, lasting institutional connections at the University of Minnesota and beyond. Here, several consortial partners, including the IAS, discuss the footprint of the project on their campuses.

Fall 2023 Welcome Letter from Bianet Castellanos, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study

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Bianet Castellanos, director of the Institute for Advanced Study, shares updates on IAS programmatic activities, including continued investments in community engagement and advocating for racial and social justice.

Categories: Director Letters

Announcing (In)Justice: A Two-Year Public Event Series from the IAS

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The Institute for Advanced Study is thrilled to announce the return of IAS Thursdays! For the next two years, the series will explore the theme (In)Justice: featured guests will offer different lenses to approach today’s problems, explore their own visions for what justice might look like, and together we will gain a deeper understanding of how to build a better future and a more just world.

Categories: Public Events

JOB OPENING: Graduate Assistant, Communications & Programs

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The Institute for Advanced Study seeks a Graduate Assistant to help champion and expand key interdisciplinary programs by supporting communications as well as establishing and maintaining meaningful connections between system campuses, community groups, and programming at the IAS. Review of applications will begin on Monday, August 21.

Categories: Jobs

Just Announced: Join for the return of two series exploring racial and social justice and celebrating community

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The Institute for Advanced Study, Northrop, and partners are thrilled to announce two related series that together explore themes of racial and social justice and celebrate community through conversation, music, and the arts.

Categories: Public Events