Early career academics from the University are invited to apply for scholarships to attended courses taking places at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
The Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) are unique academic gatherings hosted annually by the Office of International Affairs at Brown University and funded by Santander Universities.
The objective of the initiative is to provide a platform for outstanding young faculty to engage in a high level and sustained intellectual and policy dialogue with leading scholars in their fields.
Participants will have the opportunity to share their research, grow their professional networks and develop their scholarship agendas.
Each BIARI Institute is organized by a team of distinguished Brown faculty as a mix of lectures, round table discussions, group work, field trips, cultural events and social interactions.
Instructors and keynote speakers involved in the Institutes will be a mix of Brown faculty members, and leading scholars from institutions around the world, who will participate in the Institute’s formal and informal activities.
BIARI will convene four interdisciplinary Institutes:
Development and Inequality in the Global South, June 6 – June 19
This Institute will promote knowledge about cutting-edge research and methodologies for studying inequality in developing countries. Particular emphasis will be placed on exploring the specific dimensions and impacts of inequality on development across regions of the global south and developing a comparative understanding of these dynamics.
Towards a Critical Global Humanities, June 6 – June 19
This Institute will focus broadly on rethinking conceptual foundations in the humanities and critically interrogating received philosophical traditions, as well as investigating specific subject areas. Themes to be covered include: Thinking about the political; creative entanglements between the humanities and the sciences; the global crisis and the discipline of economics; religion and alternative modernities; performance as knowledge; and rethinking theory towards a ‘critical global humanities’.
Climate Change and Its Impacts: Resilience and Adaptation to Changes in Precipitation, June 13 – June 26
This Institute will focus on changes in the amount and variability of precipitation that will occur globally in coming decades. Major themes will include regional variations in changes to the hydrologic cycle; resilience of existing ecological, agricultural, economic and social systems to likely changes; the potential of CDM and REDD to increase the resilience of these systems; and what can be learned from one region to inform effective design of adaptation policies in other regions.
Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management, June 13 – June 26
This Institute will focus on the scholarly field of entrepreneurship and its potential application to business and academic contexts in the developing world, focusing on technology entrepreneurship and its intersection with both technology innovation and development economics.
The application deadline is April 1, 2010
These scholarships cover tuition fees as well as board and keep. However the scholarships do not cover travel costs.
Santander Universities has requested that applications for a scholarship be made direct to BIARI at Brown University. However Santander staff have also requested that applicants from UK Universities advise their own Santander Programme Co-ordinators that they have applied for a scholarship. Any applicants from the University of Bath are requested to advise Ron Reynolds, Senior Development Manager in the Development and Alumni Relations Department by email at r.reynolds@bath.ac.uk that they have submitted an application.