The Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) is an ideas-based institute launched in October 2006 as a forum for world-class multi- and interdisciplinary debate. The Institute seeks to catalyse new thinking on major annual themes through critical dialogue between gifted individuals from different professional and academic backgrounds. The theme for 2010-11 is 'Futures', interpreted in its broadest sense - scientifically, symbolically, legally, philosophically, literarily, politically, economically, and sociologically.
Applications are now invited for up to twenty funded, three-month Fellowships (October to December 2010 and January to March 2011); most, though not all of which, will be linked to the annual theme. Applicants may be scholars, writers, artists or thinkers/practitioners from any discipline and from anywhere in the world. Distinguished and Fast-track Fellowships are available: both include stipend, travel, accommodation, subsistence, and costs associated with replacement teaching or loss of salary (where appropriate).
Further particulars are available on the IAS website (http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/). Further details of the 2010-11 'Futures' theme can also be found on the website. Informal enquiries with the Directors of the Institute can be made via Catherine Paine, the IAS administrator (tel. 0191 3342589, email catherine.paine@durham.ac.uk). The closing date for applications is Sunday, 14 June 2009.