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Firearms illustration by Jérôme Berthier

Firearms Classes Taught Me, and America, a Very Dangerous Lesson

May 16, 2023

Harel Shapira, past Member (2021–22) in the School of Social Science, provides a first-hand account of civilian firearms training and offers insight into the psychology of gun ownership and its broader societal impact.

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IAS Celebrates Founders Day 2023

May 25, 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 visionary gift secured the foundation and endowment of the Institute for Advanced Study on May 20, 1930.

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.

Press Release

John Overdeck Elected Chair of the IAS Board of Trustees

May 08, 2023

The IAS Board of Trustees has elected John Overdeck as its next Chair. Overdeck, a philanthropist, business leader, and dedicated supporter of the Institute, will succeed software entrepreneur Charles Simonyi, who served as Chair since 2008.

Los Angeles Times

If California’s regulations are so strict, why is our air still so bad?

May 11, 2023

Christina Dunbar-Hester, current Member in the School of Social Science, argues that people’s health and mobility should take precedence over goods movement in the quest for cleaner air in California.

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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.

IAS News

Angelos Chaniotis Elected to American Philosophical Society

May 15, 2023

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), one of the oldest learned societies in the United States, composed of top scholars in a wide variety of disciplines.

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Climate Still Changes Everything

May 08, 2023

By Alyssa Battistoni, current Member in the School of Social Science:

"When the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law last August, it was celebrated as the biggest piece of federal climate legislation ever passed in the United States. This was an astonishingly low bar to clear: the IRA is also the country’s only real climate legislation."

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