Catalyze new ideas that help define our direction for research and engagement.
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Dear Friend,

You’re invited to join us for Northwestern Buffett’s inaugural Idea Incubation Workshop. This spring, you participated in an initial dialogue on Censorship, Propaganda, and Persecution of Journalists that generated tremendous excitement and interest among an interdisciplinary group of Northwestern colleagues. We are grateful for your participation.  
 
We’d like to build on the energy of that meeting — and other similar ones — to catalyze new ideas that will help define the Northwestern Buffett’s direction for research and international engagement. 
 
As a follow-up, we are hosting an Idea Incubation Workshop in November to bring together scholars from across Northwestern, international partners, practitioners, and subject matter experts from a range of disciplines to deeply engage with this critical topic. 

With colleagues at the Workshop, you will have the opportunity to take part in intensive working sessions focused on the development of new ideas, impactful questions for research, and next steps for collaborative action. Creative plenary sessions, fieldwork, and hosted meals for networking will round out the weekend activities. 

Please RSVP to join us. For more details on the Idea Incubation Workshop, see below.

Warmly,
Annelise Riles

Idea Incubation Workshop

November 15–17, 2019

Evanston, Illinois

Hosted by the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
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The Idea Incubation Journey

For the Idea Incubation Workshop, Northwestern faculty leaders and invited guests will form thematic groups, or Idea Streams, for the purpose of collectively identifying emerging challenges that can be addressed through research, dialogue, strategic output, and action. 

Before the Workshop:
In pre-workshop online communications (late summer/early fall), Idea Stream groups will:
  • Share their bios and introduce their interest in the theme to the group
  • Begin to prioritize challenges in the sector and consider critical questions
  • Receive guidance on the Idea Stream process, from identifying a key challenge to the pitch session at the end of the workshop
  • Identify thought leaders and practitioners who could be invited to the workshop and included in the project going forward
During the Workshop:
Over the course of the three-day Workshop in November, Idea Stream groups will:
  • Come to a consensus on a specific critical global challenge that can be addressed effectively through research and social impact within a two-year time frame
  • Develop a concrete plan for collaborative research, innovation, creative work or action to address the challenge, including identifying points of view or forms of expertise to include in the project going forward
  • Participate in plenary sessions and a fieldwork exercise to explore how emerging challenges could be addressed
  • Determine what success in an ideal future would look like, define barriers to that success, and imagine options for reducing or eliminating barriers
  • Explore investigative opportunities and target audience for research outputs
  • Define post-research action steps necessary to ensure that the results achieve social impact
  • Pitch ideas to an audience of faculty peers and global experts
After the Workshop:
Groups with the strongest ideas and associated research and action plans will be invited to continue their collaborative work for two years with Northwestern Buffett administrative and funding support. 

If you have questions, please contact:
Emory Erker-Lynch, Associate Director, Global Collaboration at Northwestern Buffett
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