This Institute promoted knowledge about innovative research and methodologies for studying inequality in developing countries. Particular emphasis was placed on exploring the specific dimensions and impacts of inequality on development across regions of the global south, and developing a comparative understanding of these dynamics.
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This Institute focused broadly on rethinking conceptual foundations in the humanities, and critically interrogating received philosophical traditions, as well as investigating specific subject areas. Themes covered include: Thinking about the political; creative entanglements between the humanities and the sciences; the global crisis and the discipline of economics; religion and alternative modernities; performance as knowledge; and rethinking theory towards a “critical global humanities.”
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This Institute focused on changes in the amount and variability of precipitation that will occur globally in coming decades. Major themes included regional variations in changes to the hydrologic cycle; resilience of existing social, economic, ecological, and agricultural systems to likely changes; the potential of CDM and REDD to increase the resilience of these systems; and what can be learned from one region to inform effective design of adaptation policies in other regions.
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This Institute focused on the scholarly field of entrepreneurship and its potential application to business and academic contexts in the developing world, focusing on technology entrepreneurship and its intersection with both technology innovation and development economics.
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