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In 2009, BIARI will host the following five Institutes:

• Law, Social Thought and Global Governance
  This institute will examine specific areas of law (international economic law; labor; property and land reform; human rights; etc.) from a critical perspective, as well as exploring new approaches to institutional and regulatory structures at the global level. For more information about this BIARI please click here.




• Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management
  This Institute will focus on the scholarly field of entrepreneurship and its potential application to business and academic context in the developing world, focusing on technology entrepreneurship and its intersection with both technology innovation and development economics. For more information about this BIARI please click here.
  


• Development and Inequality in the Global South
  This Institute will focus on cutting-edge research and innovative methodologies used to explore, quantify and account for inequality, and promote new thinking about development. For more information about this BIARI please click here.




• Towards a Global Humanities: Critical Traditions from the Global South This Institute will focus on critical intellectual traditions from the Global South. Discussion and debate will be configured around four main thematic clusters:
  
  • Theories from the Global South: sub-altern, post-colonial and black radical thought.
  • Theorizing Violence
  • Opening Up Epistemes
  • Trauma, History, Memory, and Democracy
  For more information about this BIARI please click here.

The Institutes will be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Each Institute is designed as a residential, intensive two-week long workshop, organized as a mix of lectures, round tables, group work, field trips and social interactions. Each will be led by a team of recognized scholars in the field, who have invited world-renowned lecturers and speakers to join and participate in the Institute's formal and informal activities. During the Institute participants will be given the opportunity to share and present their work, and will have access to Brown University's world class research facilities and resources.

The Brown International Advanced Research Institutes program has been generously funded by Brown University and Santander Universities.

For successful applicants from the Global South, BIARI is committed to keeping the Institutes as nearly cost-free as possible, including travel, meals and lodging.