The Institute for Advanced Study at CEU cordially invites you to

 Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) Group - A project  presentation

Language-based Assessments (LanBAs)

DATE: Wednesday, 29 November, 12:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Budapest, Nádor u. 15, Room 103

Zoom: https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/91802517745?pwd=aVZZMjF6QXFaKzNVbVJyam5FaW15Zz09; Meeting ID: 918 0251 7745; Passcode: 585943

Linguistic behavior serves as a reliable, inexpensive, and increasingly automated resource to assess different aspects of individuals and societies. Speech helps detect incipient health issues; newspaper corpora are used to identify stereotypes and societal biases; and wordlists are the basis to determine verbal development. However, these and other relevant developments (which we label language-based assessments or LanBAs) have been concocted, tested, and deployed primarily on a handful of large and commercially central languages, with English dominating the scene. Since the 6,500 extant languages can and do vary substantially, transferring LanBAs from English to them is fraught with technical and linguistic challenges. The consequences of this bias, which we are only starting to understand, is that users of minority languages have at their disposal more expensive, less efficient, and potentially biased LanBAs. A novel source of worldwide inequity looms large across multiple social arenas. We propose to address this issue by gathering a diverse set of experts with three main tracks of activity: (1) critically synthesizing the scientific evidence revealing the Anglophone bias in LanBAs, (2) engaging policy-makers, experts on language technologies, and other non-academic agents, and (3) transferring knowledge to the general audience through diverse media strategies.

Speakers:

Damian Blasi – team leader/Harvard University, USA – Max Plank Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany – Higher School of Economics, Russia

Joseph P. Dexter  - Data Science Initiative and Department of Human Evolutionary Biology,  Harvard University

Adolfo Martín García  - Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andres, Argentina

Camila Scaff – Postdoctoral Researcher - Human Ecology group, Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM), University of Zurich,

Amber Gayle Thalmayer - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Zürich

Please see the project description here.  The presentation is a part of the short visit planned and scheduled within the Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) programme an initiative of NetIAS and coordinated by the IAS CEU.

RSVP Agnes Bendik at bendikag@ceu.edu

The European Institutes for Advanced Study met in Konstanz for their annual meeting to foster cooperation. The participants discussed new and ongoing Netias projects ranging from the programme CAT (Constructive Advanced Thinking) to the network’s debate series (Netias Debates) or different working groups on themes of common interest.

Thursday, 22 June 11:00 – 13:00
Budapest, Nador 15 Room 101 (Quantum room)

Societies in European cities are faced with environmental problems related to air and water quality, biodiversity loss, and advancing climate change. At the same time cities need to tackle socio-economic issues such as social cohesion and justice or the transition to sustainable mobility systems. All these challenges place complex demands on the design, use and functionality of urban space and infrastructures. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are expected to play a major role in solving these issues through a redefinition and amplification of their multi-functionality in urban areas. i.e. the potential of vegetation to cool urban areas. Our Constructive Advanced Thinking network “reshape cities” combines knowledge from civil engineering, geography, architecture, landscape architecture and social sciences that needs to be combined for such complex challenges. Based on case studies, we will cross current knowledge frontiers regarding key issues of upscaling and mainstreaming of NbS and develop innovative ideas for improved multi-functionality, integral cost-benefit sharing and diverse stakeholder engagement. Our individual research’s foci are applied in an integrated manner to different case study cities at different spatial scales. By connecting our different schools of thought, we develop diverse kinds of knowledge required for socio-ecological transformations: technical knowledge (evidence base for NbS functionality / efficiency); policy knowledge (governance tools and strategies for upscaling green infrastructure); and transformative knowledge (leverage points, transformative actions and methods). The integration of these knowledge dimensions across case studies (e.g. with different climatological, political, social contexts) and spatial scales (building - neighborhood - city-wide-level) will be conceptually addressed and result in policy recommendations regarding the upscaling and mainstreaming of NbS in European cities.

Speakers:

Principal Investigator Prof. Maria Manso, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal

Prof. Rieke Hansen, Geisenheim University, Germany

Andrea Nóblega Carriquiry, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Manuel Beißler, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Further informationn on the project

Further information on the CAT programme

Zoom link
Passcode: 161833

Im/mobilities, Citizenship and Necropolitics at Europe’s Borderlands

April 27th, 2023; 8:00 am – 10:00 am UTC

Catherine Benoit, Irina Nicorici and María Hernández-Carretero will discuss ways in which (im)mobilities, citizenship and necropolitics are articulated in different locations of Europe’s borderlands.

Within recent discussions of sovereignty, the multiplication of borders and borderlands has become a major research topic in anthropology. Europe is one of the main targets of this scholarly investigation but all anthropological literature on European borders reinforcement has been dedicated to continental Europe and the rim of the Mediterranean Sea. In this presentation Catherine Benoit will argue that the borderlands of “Fortress Europe” are instead located far from the shores of the Mediterranean, the Channel or the land border with Turkey, and are made of the French overseas departments of the Caribbean and the Indian ocean. They are the invisible buffer zones of France and the European Union on the edge of the former French colonial empire, not only in a geographical sense but also in a historical one.

Irina Nicorici’s contribution will focus on the history of human movements on the easternmost periphery of Europe, along its borders with the erstwhile USSR. For this event, we will set aside the conventional assumption that these borders were impenetrable during the Cold War and will instead examine how some migrants crossed them. Drawing on new archival evidence, this presentation advances the following argument: Migration towards the Soviet Union heavily depended on interpersonal connections rather than formal state authority. Public officials elevated intimate, informally driven sponsorship relations above all other factors as critical for residency and citizenship status acquisition, thus radically reshaping mobility and the welfare state. 

On the basis of an ethnographic, longitudinal study with Senegalese migrants (mainly men) in Catalonia, Spain, María Hernández-Carretero will discuss bordering experiences of migrants in situations of chronic and cyclical administrative irregularity. She examines how borderscapes – spaces of hierarchization, exclusion, racism, and persecution – are built and maintained well beyond Europe’s actual borders, and how migrants manage and resist the chronification (in the sense of becoming entrenched) and societal normalisation of irregularity. Hernández-Carretero analyses these intranational dynamics applying Mbembe’s concept of ‘necropolitics’ – the politics that dictate who may live and die (and how) –, a concept that has typically been used to examine dynamics of migrant exclusion at nation states’ physical territorial borders.

• María Hernández Carretero, MIAS fellow, Madrid
  Anthropologist and migration researcher, with a background in sociology and international development and peace studies
• Irina Nicorici, New Europe College fellow, Bucharest
  Sociologist working on Migrations between Romania and the Soviet Union, 1960-1990
• Catherine Benoit, IMéRA fellow, Marseille
  Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Anthropology, Connecticut College

ONLINE LINK (Zoom)

ID: 831 6384 8483
Access code: 386174

 

 

It is with deep sadness that we have received the news that Professor Søren Rud Keiding, President of NetIAS 2021-2022 and AIAS Director, passed away on Saturday, 4 March. Søren embodied the Netias community spirit to the fullest. He was warm-hearted, open-minded, and keen to listen to the diversity of ideas emanating from all across Europe. His contributions to Netias and beyond have been multifaceted and significant in so many ways. We will do our best to continue building our network in the constructive and creative spirit he envisaged.

Please view the announcement here.

In honour of his memory,

Christina Garsten, President of NetIAS

The 2022 Constructive Advanced Thinking Programme Selection took place on January 18, 2023. The 4 following groups were selected:

• Rossella Alba Group on "Controversial tools: researching modelling practices in water governance"
  Hosting IAS: Mak’it, SCAS , Paris, NIAS
   
• Allassonnière-Tang Group on "Unraveling the interactions between culture and language: Does grammatical gender foster gender inequality and vice versa? "
  Hosting IAS:  Paris, IIAS, MIAS, HIAS, Zukunftskolleg, NIAS
   
• Lemoine-Schonne Group on " Metamorphoses of Law(s)?  A critical exploration of planetary boundaries and their meaning for the law relating to the environment "
  Hosting IAS: Paris, IIAS, Mak’it, TURIN , NIAS, CEU
   
• Kathryn Roberts Group on "A Transformation Framework for Artist Residencies, based on Internal Critiques, Alternative Histories, and Emerging Practices "
  Hosting IAS: MIAS (Twice) , Mak’it, HIAS

For more information on the programme, please check the dedicated page.

The right to freely express oneself through humor and satire is vital for democratic life; this can also include material that might ‘offend, shock or disturb’ part of the audience (as famously stated by the European Court of Human Rights in Handyside v. United Kingdom, 1976). On the other hand, humor can sometimes be used to disguise or normalize unlawful forms of speech – such as incitement to violence, hatred or discrimination, for example. Defining the boundaries of free speech is particularly difficult in the case of humor, as the same given joke (or cartoon, meme, etc.) can often lend itself to different interpretations by different audiences. How do courts of law deal with the interpretive challenges posed by humor, especially in cases concerning free speech and its limits? And how can humor research help judges develop a more consistent approach to these challenges? During the seminar, the members of the Constructive Advanced Thinking project ‘Cartoons in Court’ will tackle these questions in light of their ongoing research, including the findings presented in the special issue ‘Humor and the Law: The Difficulty of Judging Jests’ (HUMOR: Journal of Interdisciplinary Humor Research, 35, 3, 2022; ed. by B. Adriaensen, A. Bricker, A. Godioli and T. Laros).

Please see the full program here. 

​RSVP Agnes Bendik at bendikag@ceu.edu

The Netias is happy to announce the entry of the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study in the Consortium!

 

HIAS was founded in 2019 and is an organization that currently unites nine local universities and research institutions. HIAS’ mission is to attract highly qualified researchers and artists from all over the world, to stimulate the creation of fresh knowledge and unexpected results, and to build sustainable networks between the HIAS fellows and the scientific and artistic landscape in Hamburg. The institute is open to scientists, scholars, artists and cultural professionals of all disciplines and career levels from the postdoc phase onwards. Fellows are appointed for research stays of three to ten months. HIAS puts deliberately no special focus on specific disciplines or themes to keep the research process as open and free as possible.

 

The strong anchoring in the local context is one of HIAS’ special features. Thanks to the wide range of its member institutions – the seven major Hamburg universities and two extra-university research institutions form part of it – HIAS provides ample opportunities for cross-discipline and intersectional collaborations. This polycentric structure is combined with the idea of pairing researchers with one another: Each HIAS fellow is matched with a counterpart (“tandem partner”) from one of the Hamburg member institutions, in order to facilitate a close collaboration during their stay in Hamburg and to render the resulting co-operations as sustainable as possible.

 

HIAS lays big emphasis on public engagement, by showcasing the fellows and their contributions to relevant social discourses and other pressing topics. This is achieved by various event formats, in cooperation with outstanding research groups of the member institutions or with Hamburg foundations.

 

HIAS offers to its fellows conditions that provide an optimal setting to pursue their research projects. Every fellow has a private office space at HIAS at their disposition and can make use of a library service that is maintained by HIAS student assistants. HIAS enters with each fellow into an individual agreement that takes into account each researcher’s unique situation, following the idea that a fellow’s stay at HIAS should not lead to any financial loss nor gain. The fellows are housed in Universität Hamburg’s guesthouse. The institute emphatically welcomes accompanying life partners and children of fellows and offers an individualized service for them. 

 

HIAS offers various weekly social and scholarly networking events: on Tuesdays, there is a homecooked fellow lunch, and on Thursdays, there is the weekly colloquium where the fellows present their research projects to their peers; this presentation and discussion is followed by a joint dinner. The institute seeks to create an atmosphere of conviviality so that an open, trustful culture of discourse can deploy, and intense interdisciplinary exchange can arise.

 

Academic or artistic excellence is at the center of the HIAS selection process which is conducted according to transparent criteria by an international and interdisciplinary selection committee. Every application is peer reviewed by two persons. The institute seeks to compose a group of fellows that, in respect to its members’ academic or artistic disciplines, gender, countries of origin and career stages, is as diverse and stimulating as possible.

HIAS is located in downtown Hamburg, in the middle of the university quarter. With its mansions dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries, the area is one of the most beautiful and historic in Hamburg. Universität Hamburg’s guesthouse, the state library, numerous facilities of Universität Hamburg and the Aussenalster lake are within a short walking distance. 

It is our great pleasure to announce that the European NetIAS Lecture Series resume on Thursday, October 28, 5pm CET, with one session per month.

This fall the Season 3 of the Netias Lecture Series is coordinated by the New Europe College Bucharest. The Season’s theme is Knowledge in the Digital Age.

Jeudi 28 octobre 2021
Cruising through Europe’s South-Eastern Periphery in the Nineteenth Century: Steamships, the Transportation-Communication Revolution and ‘Social Media’
Par Constantin Ardeleanu, Professor of Modern History, The Lower Danube University of Galați (Romania), Long-term Fellow, New Europe College, Bucharest (Romania)

Jeudi 25 novembre 2021
Machine Learning Approaches for Debugging a Quantum Computer
Par Violeta Ivanova-Rohling, Postdoctoral Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz (Germany).

Jeudi 16 décembre 2021
Knowing the Earth in the Digital Era
Par Lino Camprubi, Ramón y Cajal Researcher, University of Sevilla (Spain), Resident, Institut d’Etudes Avancées d’Aix-Marseille Université (France)

Jeudi 27 janvier 2022
Evolution of the Radiology Profession due to Artificial Intelligence
Par Ruben Pauwels, Biomedical Scientist, Associate Professor, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (Denmark)

Jeudi 31 mars 2022
Addressing the Challenge of Human-Technology Partnership in the Digital Era: A Human-Centered Information Space Approach
Par James Hollan, University of California, San Diego, Paris Institute for Advanced Study

Jeudi 28 avril 2022
Filter Clashes and Democracy: The Dissemination of Information via Social Media and its Impact on Freedom
Par Nadine Sutmoller, Bielefeld University - Center for Interdisciplinary Research

Jeudi 26 mai 2022
Including or Excluding Context – from the Information Crisis to Natural Language Processing
Par Roar Hostaker, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Nantes Institute for Advanced Study

Jeudi 30 juin 2022
Decolonizing Knowledge Production through Linked Open Data
Par Jennifer Guiliano, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

All the lectures are open access online:

Zoom link

Meeting ID: 828 2096 7469

Passcode: 815904

For more information, please contact Valentina Sandu-Dediu, at NEC: dediusandu@gmail.com

It is our great pleasure to announce that the European NetIAS Lecture Series resumes this Thursday, October 8, at 5 pm. This fall the Season 2 of the Lecture Series with the topic ‘Borders’ is a joint effort of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna and IAS CEU. All the lectures will be held online (on ZOOM), are open-access and will be recorded and uploaded on Bologna IAS and IAS CEU web-pages.

 

 

The Netias Directors assembled at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh, on November 11-12 to reflect on the Network’s future orientations and activities and to celebrate IASH’s 50th anniversary.

CAT is an open international call designed to foster interdisciplinary research teams of young promising individuals wishing to address emergent societal issues with fresh ideas. 

Each spring, the EURIAS Alumni Community gathers at one of the participating IAS. This year, the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Study will be our host and kindly invites all the EURIAS Fellows and IAS Directors and representatives to join for these three-day promising conference and informal gathering.

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities was founded in 1969 at the University of Edinburgh by Professor John MacQueen and Professor Conrad Hal Waddington. In 1970, IASH began to host visitors, and more than 1,200 researchers and creative practitioners from around the world have since undertaken IASH Fellowships. To explore an interactive digital timeline of a half-century of IASH’s history, please visit https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/timeline/

The Netias is happy to announce a new member, elected unanimously on April 30, 2020: the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (PIASt), raising the number of member IAS to 25 and the number of countries represented in the consortium to 18.

For more information on the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies, click here.

 

 

Dear colleagues,
 
I am pleased to inform you that my paper about The Global Diversity of Institutes for Advanced Study was published  :
 

The Global Diversity of Institutes for Advanced Study   by Britta Padberg, Zentrum für Interdisciplinäre Forschung, Bielefeld, Germany

 

The conference of Andreas Teske is organized in cooperation with NetIAS, Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study and is part of the European NetIAS Lecture Series.

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Speaker:
Alberto Godioli (University of Groningen, PI); Vicky Breemen (Utrecht University); Andrew Bricker (Ghent University); Ana Pedrazzini (ECyC IPEHCS CONICET – Comahue National University); Tjeerd Royaards (Cartoon Movement)

 

Freedom of humor and satire is an essential component of democratic life; but at the same time, some forms of humor can be a vehicle for hateful or anti-democratic messages. How can we draw a line between free speech and hate speech, when it comes to humor? Answering these questions is particularly difficult in the case of highly condensed (and often ambiguous) forms of visual humor, such as cartoons or memes.

 

On 21 September, the members of the Constructive Advanced Thinking team ‘Cartoons in Court’ , will present the project which they will be working on during the next three years in four European Institutes for Advanced Study. The project focuses on visual humor controversies from an interdisciplinary perspective, with special but not exclusive regard to cartoons. The event will start with a presentation by the team members, followed by an open Q&A.

 

More information here.

A multidisciplinary in-house publication based on the symposium held at Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies on 16/6/2020.

 

This pamphlet gathers together short essays by Helsinki Collegium fellows, who draw on their research expertise to analyze different aspects of the COVID-19 crisis. It sheds a light on the power of conjoining multidisciplinary perspectives: history, literature, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, poetry, filmmaking, mathematics and more, disciplines which sit side by side at the Collegium.

 

PDF : Multidisciplinary Perspectives on COVID-19

Institutes for Advanced Study and the current pandemic. Potentials and capacities for the European Research Area

 

One of the areas most tangibly affected by the current Covid pandemic is international mobility and the circulation of academics and researchers. With national borders temporarily closed, travel warnings changing frequently, international flights severely reduced, and consular/visa services taking longer than normal, European and international fellowship programmes were and are subject to hitherto unknown levels of pressure and restriction. This is highly problematic since international mobility and scientific exchange define a central part of today’s research and scholarship, locally and globally.

 

Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS) in Europe invite every year cohorts of outstanding

international scholars for scientific residence and have been affected by recent developments, in some ways different to other academic institutions. Notwithstanding the fact that some IAS had to reduce fellowship programmes or in exceptional cases even temporarily close their doors, almost all institutes have continued to provide space, time and collegiality that is crucial for scholarship at all stages of academic careers. In short, IAS provide a sustainable mode of international research mobility that is viable even during a pandemic. As the typical IAS fellowships last several months or even years, the possible periods of self-isolation after the researchers’ relocation do not create an unreasonable obstacle for mobility, in comparison to short term international research visits that have become impossible for the time being. 

 

Three powerful lessons can be learned from recent IAS experience.

 

First, IAS have registered very few cancellations for the current academic year, and have received a significant increase in the number of applications for the forthcoming academic year. The pandemic crisis has once more highlighted the internationally recognised roles of IAS as a model for scholarly safe havens and for stimulating scientific exchange, adopting workable alternatives for in-person meetings in variant formats. Institutes for Advanced Study offer today the ever more needed conditions to concentrate fully on scientific work, to engage in discussions formally and informally with peers from various disciplines and intellectual tradition. The impact that IAS fellowships have on scientific advance and output is likely to increase in these difficult times.

 

Second,IAS have proved themselves to be resilient, thanks to new ways of fostering scientific dialogue in times of pandemic. They innovate with hybrid forms of meetings, mixing deftly online seminars with in-presence discussions. They have invented new schemes offering opportunities to involve former fellows and external associates and thus create a more integrative audience and achieve a greater outreach. Fellows have been keen to benefit from such an environment in this time of crisis.

 

Third, IAS have a long-standing in providing a strong academic infrastructure beyond national borders. This role of the institutes in contributing to internationalization has long been recognized.

In times as these, IAS play an ever more significant role in promoting an international academic community, integrity and freedom across national borders and cultural boundaries. All indicated factors forcefully demonstrate the important scientific role of the Institutes for Advanced Study.

 

Their significance for scientific exchange and development remains unabated in times of pandemic and is more important than ever. Therefore, the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study, which gathers 25 institutes in 17 European countries, strongly encourages local and national governments, as well as international donors, to help the institutes pursue their scientific tasks. Now more than ever, they are committed to providing much needed opportunities for innovative research and for intra- and interdisciplinary scientific exchange.

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Netias member IAS are very happy to welcome Søren Rud Keiding, Director of the Aarhus Institute for Advanced Study, as their new President, as of September 1st, 2021.

The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) celebrated its 20th Anniversary at the University of Helsinki on June 15 2022. As part of the celebration, Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics (University of Chicago) and HCAS Honorary Fellow, gave a keynote address "Music and the Costs of War: Britten’s WAR REQUIEM, Bodies, and Reconciliation".

Find the video of the celebration here

During the October 2022 Directors meeting in Bucharest, the Netias member IAS unanimously elected Christina Garsten (Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, SCAS) as their new President. 

Christina Garsten is Principal and Permanent Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS) in Uppsala, Professor of Social Anthropology at the Uppsala University and at the Stockholm University.

The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, in close cooperation with partner institutes from Ukraine, Europe, and the United States, has launched an initiative to support Ukrainian scholars in their effort to found a Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (UIAS) in Kyiv. Full-scale institutional activities in Ukraine will only be possible once the war is over, but a preliminary virtual institution, VUIAS, will begin operations in September 2023. The project will be supported by the Volkswagen Foundation with funding of around 960,000 euros for the first three years. The goals of the newly founded institution are manifold: VUIAS will mobilize support for scholarships under conditions of war and contribute to rebuilding Ukrainian academia once the war is over. By connecting Ukrainian scholars in and outside Ukraine, VUIAS will more strongly integrate Ukrainian scholars into the international academic landscape and broaden and deepen knowledge on Ukraine within global academia. It will also help combat the brain drain caused by war and displacement. The founding phase of the institute will be overseen by offices in Kyiv and Berlin. As long as the Russian attack on Ukraine continues, academic events are to take place in virtual and hybrid form. The official start is planned for September 2023. For the academic year 2023/2024, fourteen fellowships will be awarded to Ukrainian scholars from various disciplines. VUIAS will provide two kinds of fellowships to scholars from all disciplines: VUIAS Fellowships in Ukraine, which are funded and hosted by eight of the world’s leading Institutes for Advanced Study in Europe and the United States, and VUIAS Fellowships abroad, which are granted by the Wissenschaftskolleg to scholars who work at universities and research institutions in Ukraine. The partner institutions in Ukraine, Europe, and the United States will each delegate a representative to an advisory board. These include four of the most prominent academic institutions in Ukraine: the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, the National University of Kyiv–Mohyla Academy, the Center for Urban History, Lviv, and the Kyiv Centre for Advanced Studies. Further partners in Europe and the United States are the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam, New Europe College, Bucharest, the Center for Advanced Study Sofia, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Institute for Advanced Study. The Ukrainian social scientist Viktoriya Sereda will lead and coordinate the project’s academic activities. The ultimate goal is to establish a real Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study in Kyiv as soon as Russia’s war of aggression comes to an end. More information can be found at www.vuias.org.

Collaboration across continents and disciplines to diversify knowledge about contemporary artist residencies

  The CAT group opened a blog on the TransArtists page. To follow the work of the group over the three  residencies at the Institutes for Advanced Study of Madrid, Hamburg and Montpellier, check the Group’s page here!

The Residencies Research Group seeks ways to open up this emerging research field to internal critiques, alternative histories, and non-European perspectives by bridging theory and practice, academic disciplines and artists’ experiences. The research focuses on three themes: Contemporary challenges/Internal critiques, (Counter)histories and New trajectories, and this collaboration is made possible by the Constructive Advance Thinking (CAT) Program.