TheInstitute for Advanced Study of European Culture,an academic institute affiliated toShanghai Jiao Tong University, supported by the administration ofSchool of Humanities, aims for an integratedstudy on European culture in the domaine of human and social sciences. It will invite and organize famous scholars from home and abroad, focusing on in-depth study of ideological foundation and spiritual core of European culture by examining basic theories and experience of social practice of the European philosophy, history, literature, theology, poetry, anthropology, linguistics, politics, sociology and other humanities and social sciences.