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
Research and Creative Collaboratives for 2012-13 have been selected.
A preliminary Fall 2012 schedule of Thursdays at Four presentations is now available.
Faculty Fellows for 2012-13 have been selected.
Videos from virtually all of our Spring 2012 presentations are now posted, including presentations by Michelle Dammon Loyalka on the urban migration in China, and a discussion between Provost Karen Hanson and Naomi Scheman on what a twenty-first-century University might be.
A Minnesota Original Production, A Duet for Wreck, is a selection from the Black Label Movement’s evening length work, Wreck, choreographed by frequent IAS collaborator Carl Flink with music by Mary Ellen Childs.
About the IAS
In 2011-12, the IAS brings together scholars from diverse disciplines—including architecture, sociology, political science, studio art, anthropology, American Indian studies, global studies, curriculum and instruction, literature, history, art history, writing studies, biomedical engineering, theater, and gender, women and sexuality 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 Black environmentalism, failure, and higher education, and engaging in path-breaking cross-disciplinary work in dance and biology, digital humanities, and art and engineering. Faculty and graduate fellows bring interdisciplinary exchange to a wide variety of work ranging from women's rights in Eastern Europe to identity and tribal citizenship, and from Julia Child to the theatre of mourning in early modern France. Quadrant links interdisciplinary work in four emerging areas of excellence at the U with the University of Minnesota Press. The University Symposium on Abundance and Scarcity responds to the economic crisis of 2008 and also asks questions about the human reaction to global problems in the supply of food, water, and energy by asking what sustainability means. And a lively program of public events presents research and creative work to the University community and beyond.
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Faculty, staff, and students from University of Minnesota coordinate campuses can have their mileage reimbursed for travel to the Twin Cities campus for IAS events. For more information, contact us.
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