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Hosted by IMéRA at Aix-Marseille University, the agenda of this year’s meeting included lectures on Rethinking Societies for the 21st Century and potential formats to Nurturing a True Dialogue Between Sciences and Humanities. During the Director’s Business the election of new Steering Committee members took place. Giovanni Galizia was nominated and elected as one of them.

The other new Steering Committee members are: Iris Avivi (Israel Institute for Advanced Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem); Clarissa Ball (Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia); Olivier Bouin (French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study); Hisham Mehanna (Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Birmingham); Guilherme Ary Plonski (Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of São Paulo); Yoshiyuki Suto (Institute for Advanced Research at Nagoya University) and Abena Oduro (Maria Sibylla Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa at University of Ghana).

The Steering Committee is responsible for identifying overarching themes and objectives for the biennial conferences, as well as to approach the Institute that will host the UBIAS conference. Further, the Committee processes membership requests and applications. The Steering Committee also selects three main coordinators of the UBIAS network, the 'Triumvirate', from amongst its members.

The Zukunftskolleg has been a member of UBIAS since 2018. UBIAS is a network of about 44 university-based Institutes for Advanced Study worldwide, initiated in 2010.