UBIAS CONFERENCES IN 2013

In March 2012, the UBIAS Steering Committee (represented by eight out of its eleven member institutes) has met at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, for a working conference to explore further ways in which the UBIAS network might productively collaborate. At this meeting, a number of different formats for workshops, conferences and summer schools were identified. Two of these suggested formats shall be realized in 2013.

 

JERUSALEM

In March 2013 the Israel Institute for Advanced Study at Jerusalem hosted an UBIAS Directors’ Meeting, entitled “University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study, Shaping the Future: Navigating in a Changing World” (March 4-6).

This format was suggested to enable regular exchange between UBIAS institutes on a director’s level. The first conference of this kind took place at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Germany, in 2010 (as founding conference of the UBIAS network).

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VANCOUVER

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is organizing an interdisciplinary UBIAS Conference on “Scientific and Academic Knowledge” from September 17-19, 2013 at Vancouver, Canada.

>> Conference program

This format was suggested as a valuable instrument for integrating the network and engaging the institutes and their fellows in fruitful scientific dialogue.

Contact: Dr. Janis Sarra, Director PWIAS, janis.sarra@pwias.ubc.ca.

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