AIAS Long Table Discussions invite researchers from across Aarhus University and external partners to participate in a focused, free-flowing exchange with an incoming researcher, whose work transcends disciplinary boundaries.

It’s a simple format: a room, a long table, coffee, tea, water, and about a dozen researchers and other interested parties, who often don’t know each other in advance. 

The incoming researcher briefly opens, and then the discussion moves  - gently curated -  in the directions that the participants come to take it.

The purpose of Long Table Discussions is to:

• introduce an excellent researcher, whose work touches on different research areas, to interested researchers at Aarhus University
• enable researchers from different areas of research to meet each other across their fields
• explore the crucial and rare academic discipline it is to collectively think together on an important topic, without knowing where the discussion will go beforehand.