About the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences

The purpose of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences is to advance the study of human affairs in all their variety, i.e. the study of human societies and cultures as they existed in the past and as they exist today.

The Institute's approach can be referred to as Humanistics.

The central empirical focus of the Institute's activities is Modern Culture and Nationalism.

The specific venues through which this broad subject is explored are the Seminar on Modernity, the Comparative Civilizations Project (Hellenism), the Boston School of Nationalism Studies, the Imagination Project and the Neuroscience Project.