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. The IAS also houses the activities of the Center for Medieval Studies and the Center for Jewish Studies.
Call for Proposals for the University Symposium on Body & Knowing:
- Awards for Research and Creative projects
The IAS has announced the Residential Fellows, the Research and Creative Collaboratives and the first three Quadrant Fellows for 2008-09.
Institute for Advanced Study major initiatives:
University Symposium. For 2006-2008, the topic of the University Symposium is Time. Events will highlight interdisciplinary understandings of and approaches to time, providing the opportunity for sustained exploration and conversation about this intriguing topic.
Thursdays at Four. Each Thursday afternoon the Institute sponsors an event—a lecture, a discussion, a concert, accompanied by light refreshments.
The Institute sponsors Research and Creative Collaboratives in which scholars and artists come together in the Nolte Center to work on collaborative projects.
In 2007-08, twenty scholars from the University of Minnesota are in residence in Nolte Hall as Residential Fellows. They have been released from all teaching obligations so that they may devote their full energies to creative work, research, and writing.
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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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