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Summer Institutes
Begun in 1977 and funded by generous grants from the Mellon Foundation,
the summer institutes are intensive 5- or 6-week seminars on compelling
interdisciplinary topics. Organized and directed by two leading senior
scholars from different disciplines, the summer institutes have two
aims. Reflecting our general commitment to innovative interdisciplinary
work, we encourage the exploration of cutting-edge topics at the
intersection of at least two major fields of study. But there is a
second, equally important, goal—giving a career boost to promising,
but underplaced, young scholars. To achieve this goal, preference in
the selection of institute participants is given to traditionally
underrepresented groups of scholars (e.g., minorities, faculty from
non-mainstream institutions). We hope that participation in a summer
institute will significantly advance the work of these scholars while
integrating them into professional networks.
Upcoming Summer Institutes at CASBS
There is no summer institute at CASBS at Stanford University this summer (2008), as the second half of the 2007 Summer Institute will be held in Budapest this summer, and will only be attended by the scholars who participated in the first half.
A summer program for 2009 has not yet been determined. We will provide more information here on our website as it becomes available.
2007-2008 SIAS Summer Institute
The 2007-2008 SIAS Summer Institute—a pair of workshops, one in the
U.S. and the other in Europe—is made possible by grants from The Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. SIAS
Summer Institutes are designed to support the development of scholarly
networks and collaborative projects among young scholars from the
United States and Europe.
The Vision Thing: Studying Divine Intervention
June 25 - July 6, 2007
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Stanford, CA
June 30 - July 11, 2008
Collegium Budapest, Hungary
This two-summer seminar will examine visionaries and visions, broadly defined,
that have received social recognition and have had social consequences.
It will study "effective" visions, whether contemporary or in the past.
While the conveners' research has dealt with visions related to
European Christianity from late antiquity to the present, this inquiry
will consider visions from a variety of religious and nonreligious
contexts and historical periods and will employ a wide range of
disciplinary approaches.
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