7th UBIAS Conference in Nagoya (Japan), fall 2023

The 7th UBIAS Director's meeting/Conference took place at the Institute for Advanced Research of the Nagoya University (Japan) from October 30th to November 1st 2023.

The meeting was the first in-presence meeting of the worldwide UBIAS network since 2018 as the Covid-19 pandemic forced two previous meetings to be held online.

45 participants representing 30 Institutes for Advanced Studies from four continents (Africa, Americas, Asia, and Europe) attended the Conference and demonstrated the unique global reach of the UBIAS network.

The program of the Conference allowed for lively and interesting discussion on a wide set of issues such as promoting interdisciplinary scholarship, fostering global diversity in scientific exchanges, and supporting younger scholars.

More thematic sessions were organized on Sensing Invisibles and Society Change, Digital Humanities/Open Science, Energy/environmental Transitions, Artificial Intelligence.

A great keynote speech was delivered by Prof. Kohei Ogawa of Nagoya University on “Can an Android robot be a social existence for us?”.

Two new IAS were co-opted as UBIAS members: the Leuven Institute for Advanced Study (Belgium) and the University of Luxembourg Institute for Advanced Studies (Luxembourg). Congratulations and welcome tpo the UBIAS community!