Summer Program in Social Science 2024 - 2025

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.