[health-vn] Announcement - Brown International Advance Research Institutes - Accepting Applications

Tue Mar 31 09:18:08 EST 2009

Subject: 	FW: Announcement - Brown International Advance Research
Institutes - Accepting Applications
Date: 	Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:49:25 -0400
From: 	Van Tran <tran at ssrc.org>

Please find below an announcement about Brown University’s new faculty
development initiative for young faculty from the Global South and
emerging economies.

  Van

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Ms. Van Bich Thi Tran
Associate Director, Vietnam Program
Social Science Research Council
One Pierrepont Plaza 15th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA
Tel: (718) 517-3683
Fax: (212) 377-2727
E-mail: tran at ssrc.org
Web: _www.ssrc.org_ <outbind://8/www.ssrc.org>

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*From:* Brown International Advanced Research Institutes
[mailto:BIARI at brown.edu]
*Sent:* Monday, March 30, 2009 12:58 PM
*To:* Sara Acosta
*Subject:* Announcement - Brown International Advance Research
Institutes - Accepting Applications

Friends and Colleagues of the Social Science Research Council,

International Affairs at Brown University is proud to announce the
launch of an exciting new faculty development initiative, the *Brown
International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI)*.  The objective of
the program is to provide a platform for promising young faculty from
the Global South and emerging economies to engage in a high level and
sustained intellectual and policy dialogue with leading scholars in
their fields, and to foster scholarly networks among young faculty,
while providing them with an opportunity to develop their scholarship
agendas.

This ambitious new program is designed to provide needed professional
development opportunities for young scholars embarking on lives in
research and teaching.  The Brown International Advanced Research
Institutes, under the guidance of International Affairs aims to make a
significant contribution to global research through transnational
academic collaboration, promoting Brown University's vision of the
global university.

We are seeking your assistance in identifying promising young scholars
who you believe would most benefit from this innovative new program.
  While there are no specific qualifications required, BIARI will give
particular consideration to the applicant's track record in terms of
scholarship and teaching.  The application process for participation in
the June 2009 BIARIs is now open through the BIARI website,
www.Brown.edu/BIARI <http://www.Brown.edu/BIARI>

In June 2009 BIARI will convene the following four Institutes:

*1.      **/Towards a Global Humanities: Critical Traditions from the
Global South/* This Institute will focus on critical intellectual
traditions from the Global South. Discussion and debate will be
configured around four main thematic clusters:
/Theories from the Global South: sub-altern, post-colonial and black
radical thought.
Theorizing Violence
Opening Up Epistemes
Trauma, History, Memory, and Democracy/

*2.      **/ Law, Social Thought and Global Governance/*
This institute will examine specific areas of law (international
economic law; labor; property and land reform; human rights; etc.) from
a critical perspective, as well as exploring new approaches to
institutional and regulatory structures at the global level.

*3.      **/Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management /*
This Institute will focus on the scholarly field of entrepreneurship and
its potential application to business and academic context in the
developing world, focusing on technology entrepreneurship and its
intersection with both technology innovation and development economics.

*4.      **/Development and Inequality in the Global South/*
This Institute will focus on cutting-edge research and innovative
methodologies used to explore, quantify and account for inequality, and
promote new thinking about development.

The Institutes will be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode
Island.  Each Institute is designed as a residential, intensive two-week
long workshop, organized as mix of lectures, round tables, group work,
field trips and social interactions.  Each will be led by a team of
recognized scholars in the field, who have invited world renowned
lecturers and speakers to join and participate in the Institute's formal
and informal activities.  During the Institute participants will be
given the opportunity to share and present their work and will have
access to Brown University's world class research facilities.  (Details
of the faculty leaders and the specific program for each Institute are
available on the BIARI website at www.Brown.edu/BIARI
<http://www.Brown.edu/BIARI>.)

*For successful applicants from the Global South, BIARI is committed to
keeping the program as nearly cost-free as possible*.  The Brown
International Advanced Research Institutes program has been generously
funded by Brown University and Santander Universities.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning on March
15th, 2009.    Given the objective of the program, we are particularly
interested in your help in identifying promising scholars from the
Global South and emerging economies who are in the early stages of their
academic careers.  In special cases we may also consider mid-career
academics whose work is poised to make a significant contribution to the
field.

Please feel free to distribute this e-mail and the attached brochure to
others who you think may be able to assist us in identifying the very
best applicants.

We thank you in advance for your help in making this program a great
success.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Ileana Porras

Ileana Porras
Director Brown International Advanced
Research Institutes (BIARI)
Visiting Professor
Watson Institute for International Studies
111 Thayer Street, Box 1919
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
T: + 1 401 863 6757
F: + 1 401 863 6725
ileana_porras at brown.edu <mailto:ileana_porras at brown.edu>

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