Wall Summer Institute for Research

The Wall Summer Institute for Research is intended as an intense five day workshop of 10 to 15 outstanding interdisciplinary scholars in residence who were invited from around the world to debate, discuss, and push forward thinking on a cutting-edge research question with select scholars from the University of British Columbia.

This is followed several months later by a weekend retreat in another part of the world for participants of the summer workshop and invitees who were unable to attend the first event.

Part of any Institute will be open to the public, allowing for wide dissemination of the ideas and arguments of the primary participants, but much of it will be open only to the invited speakers and local participants, allowing for intense and focused intellectual work on the problem.

These events are at the initiative of the Institute Director and are lead by a Faculty Associate of the Institute.

This is a pilot program to emerge from the former Visiting Junior Scholars program.

2008 Summer Institute

The End of the Peasant? Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society
June 23 - 28, 2008
Convened by Dianne Newell, Director, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Co-directed by Arif Dirlik, 2005 Peter Wall Institute Distinguished Visiting Professor, and Alex Woodside, Professor Emeritus, History, University of British Columbia. Coordinated by Abidin Kusno, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, and Alex Day, History, Wayne State University.

2007 Summer Institute

Civil Society Organizations and Global Health Governance
June 25 - 28, 2007
Convened by Dianne Newell, Professor and Director, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, and co-directed by Janice Stein, FRSC, OC, Director, Munk Centre for International Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto, and Mark W. Zacher, FRSC, 2006 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of British Columbia.

2005 Summer Institute

Synchrony in Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
August 8 - 12, 2005
Co-convened with Dianne Newell, Director, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, and directed by Lawrence Ward, Psychology, and 2005 Distinguished Scholar in Residence

Affiliated Institutes

The Advanced Institute for Sustainable Development, The School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
Remin University of China

Centre for Global Change and Health
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto