IEA: A Space for Reflection and a metalinguistic Platform
In summary, with the creation of the IEA, the president’s office of the University of São Paulo seeks to fulfill a long-standing aspiration of our faculty and provide another instrument for the university to redeem its own history, stimulating an endogenous, yet internationalist process of critical reflection. It should be stressed, however, that the chosen model – which will certainly be improved with suggestions from our academic body – radically excludes the danger of transforming the IEA into a university within the university.
The goal is not to deprive our schools and departments of their substance; quite the opposite. Unlike the Colégio de México, the Collège de France or the École Pratique des Hautes Études, for instance, which exist outside the university, the model chosen by the University of São Paulo for its Institute of Advanced Studies distinguishes itself for being a space for reflection, a space to nurture advanced studies carried out within the institution by acknowledged masters of national and international repute.
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