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IAS Celebrates Founders Day 2023

On May 19, 2023, the IAS community came together to celebrate Founders Day, an annual event that honors sibling philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld, whose gift secured the foundation and endowment of IAS.

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Steering AI for the Public Good: A Dialogue for the Future

June 06, 2023 | 5:30pm

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to drastically transform our world. But robust, collaborative strategies are needed to mitigate risk and ensure that this technology will benefit all of humanity. How might this be achieved? Join our expert panel at this free, public event for a discussion of this critical issue.

The Institute Letter, Spring 2023

Uncover how climate change and climate migration were exploited for profit at the Qatar World Cup. Explore how the combination of ancient DNA analysis with archaeological and historical approaches is revolutionizing knowledge of prehistoric population change. Fall into Alice’s rabbit hole and explore how individuals, as avatars, form communities in 3D virtual worlds. Follow a Baroque bust as it journeys from Rome to IAS and back again.

Read the digital edition or download the PDF.

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In the Mediterranean, the Banality of Shipwrecks

By Lorenzo Alunni and Didier Fassin

After the death of several dozens of refugees, most of them fleeing Afghanistan, in a shipwreck off the coasts of Calabria, in the South of Italy, on the 26th of February 2023, Lorenzo Alunni, current Member in the School of Social Science, and Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, wrote a column for Le Monde, analyzing how Europe had shifted from a politics of rescue to a criminalization of humanitarianism.