UBIAS Network

The UBIAS network was initiated in 2010, when representatives from 34 research institutes worldwide met at the conference entitled “University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study in a Global Perspective: Promises, Challenges, New Frontiers”, hosted by the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany. The founding of the first UBIAS dates back 40 years. However, the last 10 years have seen an upsurge in the establishment of such institutes across the globe – and this trend continues. The network was established to enable structured forms of exchange in this growing segment, including bi-annual conferences and joint programmes between partner institutes.

Steering Commitee

The UBIAS Steering Committee consists of nine elected members. At the last  Directors’ conference in São Paulo in March 2018, the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo in Brazil (IEA-USP) was elected coordinating institute of the UBIAS network for the period of 2018-2020. As chair IEA-USP form together with IAS Perth and IMéRA / Aix-Marseille the so-called  'Triumvirate', the main coordinators of the UBIAS network. The Steering Committee encompasses the 'Triumvirate' and six other members:

• Professor Guilherme Ary Plonski, (Chairman) Coordinator of UBIAS, Deputy Director at IEA-USP, São Paulo, Brazil

• Professor Clarissa Ball, Deputy Coordinator of UBIAS, Director at IAS Perth, Australia
• Professor Raouf Boucekkine, Deputy Coordinator of UBIAS, Director at IMéRA, Aix-Marseille University, France

• Professor Yoshiyuki Suto, Deputy Director at Nagoya IAR (Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University), Japan

• Professor Michal Linial, Director at IIAS, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• Professor Bernd Kortmann, Director at FRIAS, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany

• Professor Morten Kyndrup, Director at AIAS, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark

• Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Director at Trinity Long Room Hub, Ireland
• Professor Véronique Zanetti, Director at ZiF, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Germany
• Professor Olivier Bouin, Director at RFIEA, French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study
  
  

The Steering Committee is responsible for identifying overarching themes and objectives for the biennial conferences and approach the Institute that will host the UBIAS conference. Also, they process membership requests and applications.

Network Participants

Africa:

Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)
South Africa

Americas:

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University
United States

Centro de Estudos Avançados (CEAv)
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Brazil

John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Duke University
United States

Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEA)
Universidade de São Paolo
Brazil

Stanford Humanities Center
Stanford University
United States

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
University of British Columbia
Canada

Asia:

Institute for Advanced Research (IAR)
Nagoya University
Japan

Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (IAS)
Nanjing University
China

Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (JNIAS)
Jawaharlal Nehru University
India

Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) New Delhi
India

Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
Korea, Republic of

Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies
Peking University
China

Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences
Fudan University
China

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHS)
National Taiwan University
Taiwan, Province of China

Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS)
Waseda University
Japan

Australia:

Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
The University of Western Australia
Australia

Middle East:

The Institute for Advanced Studies of Jerusalem (IAS)
Israel

Europe:

Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)
Universität Bielefeld
Germany

Istituto di Studi Avanzati (IAS)
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Italy

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

Trinity Long Room Hub
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland

Institute of Advanced Study
Durham University
United Kingdom

Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Germany

Lichtenberg-Kolleg
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Germany

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
University of Helsinki
Finland

School of Advanced Study
University of London
United Kingdom

Réseau Français des Instituts d’Études Avancées (RFIEA)
Collegium de Lyon, Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées (IMÉRA) de Marseille, Institut d'Études Avancées (IEA) de Nantes, Institut d'Études Avancées (IEA) Paris
France

Center for Advanced Studies (CAS)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Germany

TUM Institute for Advanced Study
Technische Universität München
Germany

Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme - Alsace (MISHA)
Université de Strasbourg
France

Collegium Helveticum
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)/Universität Zürich
Switzerland

Institute for Advanced Study Budapest
Central European University Budapest
Hungary

The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
University of Birmingham
United Kingdom