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PIIRS Exploratory and Advanced Seminars, 2009–10 |
PIIRS Research Clusters | Project on Democracy and Development | The Global Network on Inequality
PIIRS Exploratory and Advanced Seminars, 2009-10
This on-going initiative offers support for faculty in the humanities, social sciences, engineering, and architecture and promotes innovation in research through Exploratory Seminars, short-term grants for brainstorming meetings with colleagues from around the world, and Advanced Seminars, slightly longer-term grants for gatherings to bring to fruition those collaborative projects.
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For synopses of recent and upcoming seminars, or to access seminar reports, click here.
Application Deadlines, 2009–10:
Exploratory Seminars (click for online Application)— September 28, November 2, February 8, and April 5
Advanced Seminars (click for online Application)— November 2 and April 5
In 2009 research clusters became part of PIIRS’s ongoing initiatives to support faculty in their research. They provide funding for three-year explorations and compliment PIIRS’s already established exploratory seminars (short-term grants for brainstorming meetings with colleagues from around the world) and advanced seminars (slightly longer-term grants for gatherings to bring to fruition those collaborative projects). The research cluster initiative represents an important way in which PIIRS contributes to academic experimentation by incubating new ideas in emerging fields and encouraging novel combinations of existing disciplines and embraces the university’s internationalization efforts.
Current Research Clusters
Democracy and Development
Directors: Atul Kohli, David K. E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, and Deborah Yashar, professor of politics and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School.
With the decline of the “Washington consensus” on development, the issue of the appropriate alternatives for the developing world is again at the forefront. Furthermore, the current advances and setbacks of democracy raise academic and policy concerns about political institutions, representation, and the rule of law in the developing world. The Project on Democracy and Development, under the direction of Professors Atul Kohli and Deborah Yashar, takes a multipronged approach to promote research and teaching on development issues at Princeton. The initiative devoted its first three years to the following three themes: democracy and inequality in the developing world, globalization and development, and civil wars and failed states. The 2009–10 theme is democracy, diversity, and development. Each year’s theme is explored through a speaker series, a conference, and with the research and teaching assistance of visiting fellows. Cosponsored by the University Center for Human Values, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Woodrow Wilson School.
The Global Network on Inequality (GNI) is a joint venture of PIIRS and Katherine Newman, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs. Launched in 2005, the network consists of 22 research institutes and university departments across Western Europe and Japan, where faculty and graduate students alike can pursue research on various aspects of inequality. Network members include the London School of Economics, the University College of Dublin, the University of Maastricht, the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques/Sciences Po, Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Bremen University, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, European University Institute, Aarhus Universitet, Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science, FIEF-Trade Union Institute for Economic Research, and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung.
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