E. Tendayi Achiume, Ashvin B. Chhabra and Daniela Bonafede-Chhabra Member in the School of Social Science (2024–25), describes how cross-disciplinary exchanges at the Institute for Advanced Study, including a flute performance by Shabaka Hutchings, inspired new perspectives on her research.
Priyamvada Gopal, George F. Kennan Member in the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Historical Studies (2023–24), explores how a talk on Austrian composer Franz Schubert’s relationship to translation and writing inspired her to think about similar themes related to her own research on decolonization.
Derek Bermel, composer, clarinetist, and IAS Artist-in-Residence (2009–13), chronicles how his conversations with Institute for Advanced Study Faculty member Helmut Hofer, Hermann Weyl Professor in the School of Mathematics, inspired him to write a symphony about symplectic geometry.
Clara Latham, Martin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member and Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies in the School of Historical Studies, describes the contradictions that inspire her work, which surround the perceptions of musical labor with particular reference to music technology.
On April 25, 2019, architect Frank Gehry and conductor Gustavo
Dudamel met at the Institute for Advanced Study to have a public
conversation on "the intersection of music, architecture, and
design."
My work in the history of science probes the porous boundaries
between science and culture over the past two centuries. Much of it
gestures toward the role of history in public policy. I am
interested in having the historian at the table while a...
In this public lecture, Artist-in-Residence David Lang gives an
overview of the concerts he has curated for the 2017–18 Edward T.
Cone Concert Series season. Lang continues the programming concept
introduced last season, which emphasizes the use of...
In this video, David Lang, Institute
for Advanced Study's Artist-in-Residence,
speaks about musical structure, conventions, and those who push the
boundaries of what music can accomplish during a Friends Talk held
on February 3, 2017.
On the second Sunday after Trinity in 1724, the congregation at
the Thomaskirche in Leipzig heard Johann Sebastian Bach’s new
cantata that began with the words Ach Gott. Bach set the
word Gott to the most dissonant triad known at the time: the...
