Brown's International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI), intensive summer workshops for junior scholars from the Global South, are still accepting applications. According to the BIARI's director, Professor Ileana Porras :
The objective of the program is to provide a platform for promising 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, and to foster scholarly networks among young faculty, while providing them with an opportunity to develop their scholarship agendas.
The institutes are organized around 4 key themes:
►Toward a Global Humanities: Critical Traditions from the Global South;
►Law, Social Thought, and Global Governance;
►Technology, Entrepreneurship, and Management (including technology and development (about which we have posted here);
►Development and Inequality in the Global South.
Applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis as of March 15, 2009. Further details are available here.
