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.
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).
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.
Dr. Rachel Hardeman, former IAS Residential Faculty Fellow and founding director of the Center for Antiracism for Health Equity, has been named to the 2024 TIME100.
April 15, 2024
Treasure Tinsley is a graduate student in History in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. She is an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study for 2023–2024 and is developing her dissertation project, “Problem Property: Reproductive and Carceral Logics of Urban Renewal in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood, 1950–1990.”
IAS Communications and Program Assistant Lucy Bichakhchyan spoke with Tinsley about her work.
Former IAS Residential Fellow (Spring 2009) and University of Minnesota Morris Professor of English Michael Lackey is one of five scholars from across the United States to be invited to lecture and work at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as part of the Obama Fellowship program.
September 25, 2023
The Mellon-funded Humanities Without Walls network has created stronger, lasting institutional connections.
In the beginning, Humanities Without Walls was an untested idea. An experiment. Building HWW’s infrastructure was an evolutionary process, with several of the consortial partners finding ways to map or adapt HWW ideologies onto pre-existing institutional landscapes, while other members of the consortium forged ahead into more uncharted territory.