Institute for Advanced Studies – Paris (IAS-Paris)
(Institut d’études avancées, IEA-Paris)
IAS-Paris positions itself as an institution and as an approach that is both an intellectual and a scientific project. Like the other Institutes for Advanced Study, IAS-Paris acts as a host institution for excellent senior and junior researchers, and therefore seeks to bring in outstanding researchers to work with the social science networks of the Paris region and the rest of France.
Invitation policy
The IAS-Paris general programme offers residential research fellowships of five or nine months to established senior researchers (Professors, Associate Professors...) in the humanities and social sciences. Longer stays (i.e. nine months) are given priority. Promising scholars at an early stage of their career are also eligible. However, at the time of the application, they must hold a position in a university or research centre (having held a doctorate for at least three years, plus a minimum three years of full-time research experience).
Researchers from all countries are eligible. However, they cannot apply for the Paris Institute if they reside in metropolitan France, were they French or from other countries.
The programme is open to all disciplines in the fields of the humanities and social sciences.
IAS-Paris welcomed its first fellows in March 2008. From 2008 until 2010, fifty-two researchers from all corners of the globe were invited. Twenty-one new fellows have already received invitations to IAS-Paris for the academic year 2011-2012, and twenty-five fellows for 2012-2013.
Organisation
Founded in 2007 by the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH) in collaboration with the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), IAS-Paris has since expanded by partnering with several universities and institutes in the Paris region.
Since January 2011, the Institute, restructurated and located at 190 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris, includes thirteen partners.
IAS-Paris is an association governed by the French Law of 1901. Its Chairman is Michel Wieviorka, Administrator at Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme; its Treasurer is Jean-Yves Mérindol, Director of ENS-Cachan; its Secretary is Bernadette Madeuf, President of University of Paris West-Nanterre La Défense.
Patrice Duran (Professor at ENS-Cachan) and Alain Schnapp (professor at University of Paris 1) are Directors of IAS-Paris.
The members of the Academic Advisory Board are internationally recognised researchers familiar with the work of the other Institutes for Advanced Study in the world. The Academic Advisory Board assesses applications and gives an opinion on the programmes and general orientation of IAS-Paris. It is chaired by Wolf Lepenies, from Berlin’s Wissenschaftskolleg.
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