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IAS 5th Anniversary Conference

Conference
Thursday, October 27, 2016, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Space and Place – New Perspectives for 21st Century Advanced Research

Thursday, October 27, Auditorium A

17:00

Registration

17:30

Welcome and opening

 

Liviu Matei

Provost and Pro-Rector, CEU

 

Nadia Al-Bagdadi

Director, IAS CEU

 

Keynote lectureBuilding Institutions with Ideas. On Institutes for Advanced Study - Scholarship and Politics

 

Prof. Dr. Dr. hc. Wolf Lepenies

 

Professor Emeritus, Freie Universität, Berlin; Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin

19:00

Reception

Friday, October 28, Auditorium B

09:00

Registration and coffee

09:30 Film “5 years IAS CEU”Panel I. Splendid isolation or space for new dynamics – being a fellow at IAS

Moderator:

 

Susan Gal

Chair, Academic Advisory Board; Mae and Sidney G. Metzl Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago

 

Participants:

 

 

Erica Benner

Senior Fellow in Political Philosophy, Yale University; Fellow 2016/17

 

Corina L. Petrescu

Associate Professor of German, The University of Mississippi; currently Humboldt Fellow at the University of Potsdam; Fellow 2015/16

 

William O’Reilly

University Senior Lecturer in History, University of Cambridge; Fellow 2015/16; Long-term Fellow as of 2016

 

Curie Virág

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto; Fellow 2013-14;

 

Gábor Zólyomi

Associate Professor, Department of Assyriology and Hebrew Studies, Institute of Ancient Studies, Eötvös Loránd University; Fellow 2012/13

10:45

Coffee break

11:15 Panel II. New perspectives for 21st century advanced research – views from the foundations

Moderator:

 

Zsuzsanna Gábor

Director, Academic Cooperation and Research Office, CEU

 

Participants:

 

 

Marian Barsoum

Coordinator, Economics, Sociology, Ethnology, Interdisciplinary field “International relations”, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Germany

 

Siegfried Beer

Director, Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies (BIAAS), USA

 

Göran Blomqvist

Chief Executive, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden

 

Olivier Bouin

Director, Network of French Institutes for Advanced Study, France

12:15

Lunch

13:30 reflections

Alex Soros

Honorary Fellow, IAS CEU; Member of Board of Trustees, CEU

13:40 Panel III. New perspectives and new challenges for regional IAS 

Moderator:

 

Nadia Al-Bagdadi

Director, IAS CEU, Budapest

 

Participants:

 

 

Diana Mishkova

Director and Academic Associate, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia

 

Shalini Randeria

Rector and Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

 

Valentina Sandu-Dediu

Rector, New Europe College, Bucharest

14:45

Closing remarks