SCAS News - 24 September, 2015

19 Scholars from Africa, the Middle East and Latin America in the First Cycle of the Summer
Program in Social Science

In December 2014, the first call for the Summer Program in Social Science, organized by the School of
Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in collaboration with the École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, was initiated. Recently
the first two-week round of this international, interdisciplinary three year programme was held at IAS
Princeton (30 August – 11 September 2015).

The programme, which is designed specifically for junior scholars from Africa, the Middle East, and Latin
America, is aiming to constitute a genuinely international and interdisciplinary network of social scientists
from regions of the world traditionally not well-represented in the three institutions involved in the initiative.
Its overall ambition is 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 between the global South
and global North. 

The programme is open to all disciplines in the social sciences, as well as neighboring disciplines, and runs
in a three-year cycle. The 19 scholars – eight women and eleven men - selected for the first round of the
programme come from 18 universities in 14 countries in the three targeted regions. The scholars represent
universities in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, South Africa; Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Qatar; Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. The subjects represented are Anthropology, Economics, Geography,
History, International Affairs, Law, Literature, Political Science and Sociology. The participants each have
their own research project, which they will pursue during the period of the programme. Following the two
weeks taking place this first year in Princeton, a one week meeting will be held in Paris in 2016 and one in
Uppsala in 2017. The theme of the 2015-2017 cycle is "Inequalities and Differences.

Please visit the website of the Summer Program in Social Science for further information.