2025 Silver Jubilee
Celebrating 25 years of STIAS
For 25 years, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) has cultivated a unique environment where unexpected connections lead to groundbreaking insights.
Established as an autonomous institute to promote advanced research, STIAS has brought together scholars from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to engage in rigorous inquiry, the exchange of ideas, and the creation of new knowledge. Our dedication to providing "a creative space for the mind" has nurtured a distinct ethos, emphasising quality, innovation, multidisciplinary collaboration, and engaged scholarship.
STIAS has fostered a vibrant scholarly community, nurturing connections and conversations that transcend traditional academic and geographic boundaries. Through our fellowship program, initiatives like the prestigious Nobel in Africa symposia, and the intellectual space of the Wallenberg Research Centre, we have witnessed the inception of transformative ideas sparked by the interplay of diverse perspectives, guided by a southern hemisphere imagination.
This Silver Jubilee is not merely a marker of time, but a celebration of the people who have contributed their ideas and insights to the collective knowledge project that has emerged here and will continue to generate insights for local and global contexts. We invite you to join us in this celebration as we look towards a future of continued intellectual engagement, driven by the collaborative spirit that defines STIAS.
