International initiatives
GLOBAL MEETINGS OF INSTITUTES FOR ADVANCED STUDY (2010, 2011 and 2012)
IEA attended the conference of
university-based institutes for advanced study organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies
at the University of Freiburg, Germany, in October 2010. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the expectations, challenges and new
frontiers of this type of institution, and to outline the creation of an international network of kindred organizations. As a result of the conference the University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study Network (Ubias) was created, and IEA was elected one of the eleven members of the network's Steering Committee. IEA was also present at the second international meeting of Ubias, held in the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (JNIAS) of the
Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India,
in March 2012. Another IEA activity with other Ubias members was the conference "Social Sciences and Humanities Meet the Changing World:
Challenges, Opportunities and New Frontiers", organized by the Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan
University, in Shanghai, China, in 2011.
WATERLAT RESEARCH NETWORK (2010)
A network devoted to governance and citizenship in water management and
environmental health, with a focus on Latin America. Among its members there are representatives from the Environmental
Sciences Research Group.
SAINT-HILAIRE PROGRAM (2010)
An initiative of the French Embassy to expand studies on contemporary Brazil, and
research and training in Social Sciences. IEA-USP participated in drafting the project and hosted the first annual meeting
of the program.
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN PSYCHOLOGY IN LATIN AMERICA (2011)
Coordinated by Agnaldo Garcia, from Federal
University of Espírito Santo, the project will analyze the scientific cooperation in psychology among Latin Americans
scholars.
SÃO PAULO-MEXICO CITY (2011)
IEA and Colegio de México jointly began comparative urban studies of the two
Latin American metropolises. The work will be coordinated by Martha Schteingart, from Colegio de México, and Camila
D'Ottaviano, from the School of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU), USP.
FOREIGN LECTURERS (2008-2011)
- CANADA — Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University).
- CUBA — Luís Bartolomé Lecha Estela (Central University "Marta Abreu" de las Villas).
- FRANCE — Bernard Lahire (University of Lyon), Gérard Israël (writer) Jean-François Tourrand (Center for International
Cooperation in Agronomic Research for Development), Jean-Pierre Goubert (School of Higher Studies in Social
Sciences), Laurent Vidal (University of La Rochelle), Ludivine Eloy (National Center of Scientific Research), Patrice Duran (Institute
of Advanced Studies of Paris), Stéphanie Nasuti (University of Paris 3), Stanislas Dehaene (College of France), Vicent Fourcassié (Paul Sabatier University) and Zaki Laïdi
(Center for European Studies of the Paris Institute of Political Sciences).
- INDIA — Vinod Vyasulu (Institute for Social and Economic Change).
- ITALy — Marina Calloni (University of Milan-Bicocca).
- JAPAN — Kiyoto Tanno (Tokyo University).
- MEXICO — Martha Schteingart (Mexico College) and Rosío Vargas Suárez (Autonomous University of Mexico)
- NETHERLANDS — Andrei Cechin (University of Wageningen)
- PORTUGAL — Antonio Nóvoa (Lisbon University)
- SWEDEN — Thomas B. Johansson (Lund University)
- UNITED KINGDOM — George Rousseau (University of Oxford), Sandrine Lage (Cranfield University), Stephen Dow
(Dundee University) and Peter burke (University of Cambridge)
- UNITED STATES — Carlos A. Bertulani (Texas A&M University-Commerce), Hugh Lacey (Swarthmore College),
Kuruvill Joseph Abraham (Case Western Reserve University), John W. Wenzel (University of Ohio), Roberto Abadie (New York
University), Robert Trivers (Rutgers University), Stuart ShIeber (Harvard University), Susan Kaufman Purcell (University
of Miami) and Nayan Chanda (Yale University)
FOREIGN PARTNERS (2008-2011)
- Konrad Adenauer Foundation (Germany)
- National Center for Scientific Research (France)
- Russian Academy of
Sciences
- World Wild Foundation
- French Embassy in Brazil
- Consulate of India in São Paulo
- Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars (USA)
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard (USA)
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