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IAS News

Joan Scott Delivers Keynote Address at Conference on Academic Freedom

June 21, 2017
The Central European University's day-long conference seeks to clarify our understanding of what academic freedom is, why it is under attack, from without and from within, and what needs to be done to reform and revive an ideal which is central to democratic freedom itself. The conference, including Scott's keynote address, is being livestreamed from Budapest.

IAS News

IAS Statement on Revised Executive Order

March 07, 2017
As an institution, we oppose the revised travel ban on the principles of justice and non-discrimination and stand in unison for the advancement of knowledge without borders and prejudice.

In the Media

From Wartime Devastation To Academic Discrimination, Cécile DeWitt-Morette Overcame All

June 20, 2017
Starting with the bombing of her family’s house in World War II that resulted in the tragic deaths of her mother, sister, and grandmother, life was never easy for her. Nor were her choices ever simple. 

Ideas

Joan W. Scott’s Critical History of Inequality

By Clyde Plumauzille

Now that “gender theory” has fallen under attack in France, denounced by its critics as an ideology that destroys the natural order and upsets the political and social balance, it seems fitting, if not crucial, that we take a look back on the ever-changing thoughts of a historian who has contributed greatly to the introduction of the concept of gender within the field of historiography. 

Ideas

Of Historical Note: Richard Feynman

By Freeman J. Dyson

In the next letter a great woman appears, whose name was then Cécile Morette and is now Cécile DeWitt. . . . She was the first of the younger generation to grasp the full scope and power of the Feynman path integral approach to physics. 

Faculty and Members

Why does the equation that describes the average motion of water molecules also govern the ripples of spacetime?

Shiraz Minwalla in From Fluid Dynamics to Gravity and Back

An academic Eden where you could do mathematics, uninterrupted by worries about money or sour cream. Was that even real?

Olga Holtz in My Random Walks with Pólya and Szegő

What is a state? We propose our own response as sociologists and anthropologists. But the specificity of our approach resides in its method: ethnography.

Didier Fassin in What Is a State?

Why did polymath Joris Hoefnagel, in the midst of the Dutch Revolt, produce an illustrated volume of hundreds of insects? 

Marisa Anne Bass in Insect Artifice: Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands