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Ideas A Digital Underclass? Marion Fourcade on Social Stratification in the Age of Covid “It’s very simple. Democracy is something that we practice collectively, in groups,” Marion Fourcade, Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science, told IAS's Journalism Fellow Joanne Lipman in an interview. “The purpose of data collection is to group you with people who are similar on some relevant dimension, and to create some sort of hierarchy within that group.” IAS News Update on Covid-19 Updated July 10, 2020 Playground Opening The playground in Member housing is open. To comply with CDC protocols, please keep 6 feet distance between you and other families. Face coverings are strongly recommended. The playground is open to Institute families only; please have your ID handy if needed. The Institute’s Plans for Reopening The Institute is temporarily closed. The State of New Jersey announced a three-staged approach to reopening businesses and offices. The opening of IAS falls under Stage 3; the date for beginning Stage 3 has not yet been defined. Masks On April 8, Governor Murphy announced that stores must require shoppers to wear masks or face coverings. IAS requires face coverings in indoor areas on campus, including the activities center and laundry facility. Travel As of June 2, the United States is at Warning Level 3, which recommends avoiding nonessential travel, both domestically and internationally. Please see our process regarding travel and your return to campus. Read more . In the Media The Rebel Physicist Trying to Fix Quantum Mechanics June 26, 2020 New York Times Magazine quotes Professor Emeritus Stephen Adler in a feature on one of his frequent collaborators, Italian physicist Angelo Bassi. IAS News A Message of Solidarity from the Director Against Anti-Black Violence and Racial Injustice June 03, 2020 Dear members of the IAS community, Even as we all have been deeply affected by shutdowns due to the Covid-19 outbreak this spring, we also have been witnessing and experiencing profoundly disturbing incidents highlighting an interrelated and equally alarming crisis: ongoing, systematized, and institutionalized racism toward African Americans. As brothers, sisters, parents, and children, many of us cannot imagine the horror of losing an innocent loved one at the hands of those meant to protect our communities. With deep sympathy, our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of George Floyd, the most recent victim of such racial violence, who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Other recent, devastating incidents in which Black people have been stereotyped, targeted, and killed have included Ahmaud Arbery, simply jogging, and Breonna Taylor, asleep in her bed at home. We know this is but a small recitation of the ways in which racism affects people of color, and Black people in particular, every day. It is critical that the scholarship at IAS focused on racial violence, including that of law enforcement, continues. In the words of John Lewis, the congressman from Georgia who put his life on the line time and time again for civil rights: “This is a special moment in our history. Just as people of all faiths and no faiths, and all backgrounds, creeds, and colors banded together decades ago to fight for equality and justice … we must do so again.” We all must stand together against racism—in the United States and in all parts of the world—and, in our work, strive to be leaders in understanding and dismantling the ways that discrimination and injustice are perpetuated. Robbert Dijkgraaf Director and Leon Levy Professor Ideas IAS’s Founding Ethos in Our Precarious Present By History Working Group The Institute came into being at the most inauspicious of times. Founded in the early years of the Great Depression, it took shape during the buildup to the Second World War and under the growing shadow of authoritarian regimes. Ideas Pandemics, Inequality, #CoronavirusSyllabus Alondra Nelson , Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, is an expert on the intersection of race, inequality, science, and technology. During the pandemic, she created the #CoronavirusSyllabus , a crowdsourced list of resources on the coronavirus’s impact on society. Faculty and Members Does Hilbert’s hotel (a hotel with infinitely many rooms) ever fail to accommodate new guests? Is there an infinity that is too large for Hilbert’s hotel? Ana Rita Pires in Hospitality at the Hilbert Hotel Syriac sources help shed a more complex light on the history of the Middle East from late antiquity to the Middle Ages. They reveal a non-imperial epoch and its rich contributions to the cultural and religious history of the region. Muriel Debié in A Different History The people’s version of the 1937 Haitian Massacre brings us crucial lessons about the power of a history from below. Amín Pérez in The Solidarity They Couldn't Kill The idea is that by thinking about black holes we will understand how quantum spacetime works. Juan Maldacena in The Cool Alter-Ego of a Black Hole Privacy Policy Careers Press Center Videos Libraries & Archives Contact 1 Einstein Drive Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA Phone (609) 734-8000 Email contactus@ias.edu Support Help our scientists and scholars continue their field-shaping work. Give Now Connect eNews Signup Twitter Facebook YouTube Instagram Copyright © 2020...