The 2026 Annual Meeting of the European Network of Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS) brought together representatives of Institutes for Advanced Study from across Europe in Marseille earlier this week. Hosted by Iméra, the meeting provided an opportunity to discuss current developments across the network and to reflect on the role of IASs in a changing academic and international landscape.
A new podcast episode in the SCAS Talks Spotlight series is now available for download. This episode explores the first workshop of the research initiative “Human Futures - AI Transitions in a Global Context”, held at SCAS in May 2026.
Was Linnaeus a racist? Should his monuments be razed? The public image of Carl Linnaeus as national, scientific icon has been challenged in recent years. In their new study, current SCAS Sabbatical Fellow Petter Hellström and his colleagues examine how Swedish upper secondary school pupils "make sense of [ ... ] Linnaeus’s classification of humans and his alleged role in the history of scientific racism".
Gerald Bareebe
Rick De Villiers
