On Wednesday 20 May, the Academic Senate of SCAS will gather at the Collegium for a full day meeting. The Academic Senate, whose members represent various disciplines and institutions around the world, ensures scholarly excellence and a global outlook across all of the Collegium’s programmes, and provides advice on institutional matters. It serves to guarantee the highest scholarly standards and a sustained global commitment in all SCAS activities.

For one of its sessions, the Senate will be joined by the Non-resident Long-term Fellows of SCAS. They will also enjoy the opportunity to meet with the current Fellows-in-residence during a dinner event in the evening.

This meeting is the first to be held since Professor Ash Amin took office as Chair in January 2026 and also the first gathering for the five new members appointed during the past months, namely Professors Behera, Lalu, Lamont, Rowe and Sörlin.

The members of the Senate are:

Ash Amin (Chair)
Emeritus 1931 Professor of Geography and Fellow of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge

Navnita Chadha Behera
Professor of International Relations, University of Delhi

Lorraine Daston
Director Emerita, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin. Visiting Professor, the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago. Permanent Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Premesh Lalu
NRF/British Academy SA-UK Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture and Technics, Research Professor of History and Founding Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape

Michèle Lamont
Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies & Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University

Helga Nowotny
Professor Emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH, Zurich. Founding Member and Former President, European Research Council

Locke Rowe (Adjunct Member)
Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto

Sverker Sörlin
Professor of Environmental History, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm