The Brown International Advanced Research Institutes (BIARI) are unique academic gatherings hosted annually by the Office of International Affairs at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and generously funded by Santander Universities. The objective of the BIARI initiative is to provide a platform for outstanding young faculty from the global south and emerging economies to engage in a high level and sustained intellectual and policy dialogue with leading scholars in their fields.

From June 6 - June 19th 2010, we will convene 30-40 young scholars at the Institute, Towards a Critical Global Humanities, at Brown University in the United States. This Institute will focus broadly on rethinking conceptual foundations in the humanities, and critically interrogating received philosophical traditions. The intellectual project of articulating a genuinely "global humanities" will be pursued this year through focus on six particular themes:
• Rethinking the political
• Rethinking theory
• The global crisis and the discipline of economics
• Religion and alternative modernities
• Critical entanglements: humanities and the sciences
• Performance as knowledge

Applications are due through the BIARI website by March 15th!