Summer Program in Social Science 2024 - 2025
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An International and Interdisciplinary Initiative for
Early-Career Scholars from the Global South
The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, is organizing the 2024-2025 Summer Program in Social Science. It is conducted in collaboration with the Escuela de Estudios de Género (EEG) and Centro de Estudios (CES) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in Bogotá. This innovative program takes place over a two-year cycle, beginning with a two-week session in Princeton (October 8-17, 2024), followed by one week mid-2025 in Colombia, with continuous communication facilitated among the scholars throughout the period. The program will be led by Didier Fassin, Professor in the Institute’s School of Social Science and at the Collège de France, in collaboration with Mara Viveros-Vigoya, Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. It is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Designed to draw together twenty early-career scholars from countries in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, the program aims to enrich and expand the realm of the social sciences through the confrontation of different intellectual traditions and perspectives; to facilitate and enhance the dialogue between various scientific disciplines and communities; and to strengthen international networks across continents. The program is open to scholars from all social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, history, psychology, economics, law, and political science, as well as neighboring disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, and literary studies.
Fellows pursue and present their own research projects during the program. This research is expected to be at an advanced stage of development so as to render discussions of its object, method and conclusions richer and intellectual interactions among the fellows more fruitful. Special attention will be paid to local contexts of production and global modalities of circulation of knowledge and the participants will be invited to exchange their research experiences. The purpose is to constitute a genuinely international and interdisciplinary network of social scientists from the global South.
The Scientific Committee of the program is composed of Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study and Collège de France), Stefania Gallini(Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Jonathan Morduch (New York University), Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study), Tania Pérez-Bustos (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Mara Viveros Vigoya (Universidad Nacional de Colombia).
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