BIARI 2010 General Announcement
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please help us identify outstanding young scholars and faculty colleagues who might be interested in participating in Brown University's unique professional development initiative.
The Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) initiative was launched in 2009 by the Office of International Affairs at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The objective of the program is to provide a platform for outstanding young faculty from the global south and emerging economies to engage in a high level and sustained intellectual and policy dialogue with leading scholars in their fields. BIARI gives junior faculty members from institutions around the world, opportunities to share their research, grow their professional networks and develop their scholarship agendas.
To learn more about the program visit our website, http://Brown.edu/BIARI<http://brown.edu/Administration/International_Affairs/initiative/index.html>.
BIARI 2010 will comprise the following four Institutes:
1. Development and Inequality in the Global South (June 6 - June 19)
This Institute will promote knowledge about cutting-edge research and methodologies for studying inequality in developing countries. Particular emphasis will be placed on exploring the specific dimensions and impacts of inequality on development across regions of the global south and developing a comparative understanding of these dynamics.
2. Towards a Critical Global Humanities (June 6 - June 19)
This Institute will focus broadly on rethinking conceptual foundations in the humanities and critically interrogating received philosophical traditions, as well as investigating specific subject areas. Themes to be covered include: Thinking about the political; creative entanglements between the humanities and the sciences; the global crisis and the discipline of economics; religion and alternative modernities; performance as knowledge; and rethinking theory towards a "critical global humanities."
3. Climate Change and Its Impacts: Resilience and Adaptation to Changes in Precipitation (June 13 - June 26)
This Institute will focus on changes in the amount and variability of precipitation that will occur globally in coming decades. Major themes will include regional variations in changes to the hydrologic cycle; resilience of existing ecological, agricultural, economic and social systems to likely changes; the potential of CDM and REDD to increase the resilience of these systems; and what can be learned from one region to inform effective design of adaptation policies in other regions.
4. Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management (June 13 - June 26)
This Institute will focus on the scholarly field of entrepreneurship and its potential application to business and academic contexts in the developing world, focusing on technology entrepreneurship and its intersection with both technology innovation and development economics.
Each Institute will be organized as a mix of lectures, round table discussions, group work, field trips, cultural events and social interactions. Each will be led by a team of distinguished Brown faculty, who have invited world-renowned lecturers and speakers to join and participate in the Institute's formal and informal activities. Institutes are residential, with accommodations and meals provided.
The Institutes are interdisciplinary, academically rigorous and admission is highly competitive. For successful applicants from the global south, BIARI with the support of Santander Universities is committed to keeping the program as nearly cost-free as possible.
The online application process is now open through the BIARI website.<http://brown.edu/Administration/International_Affairs/initiative/apply.html>
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning February 15th, 2010. Given the objective of the program, we are particularly interested in identifying promising scholars from the global south and emerging economies who are in the early stages of their academic careers. In special cases we may also consider mid-career academics whose work is poised to make a significant contribution to the field.
Please feel free to distribute this e-mail and the attached brochure to others who you think may be able to assist us in identifying the very best applicants.
We thank you in advance for your help in once again making this program a great success. Please let me know if you have any questions by writing to biari@brown.edu<mailto:biari@brown.edu>.
Best Regards,
Ileana Porras
Ileana Porras
Director Brown International Advanced
Research Institutes (BIARI)
Visiting Professor
Watson Institute for International Studies