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Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
" I see the Institute of Advanced Studies as providing a space for critical thinking and engaged enquiry within and across conventional disciplinary and departmental boundaries. The IAS aims to create an open and accessible research-based community, bridging traditional ‘artistic’ and ‘scientific’ practices and modes of thought, bringing UK and international scholars into conversation with one another, and identifying the urgent political, ethical and intellectual issues that face us in the world today. Professor Tamar Garb, IAS Director
News
Permeable Bodies in medieval and early modern cultures - Call for Papers
The IAS is pleased to share details of this call for papers for a 2-day conference organised by Laura Scalabrella Spada and Lauren Rozenberg and supported by the Octagon Small Grants fund.
Dealing with Difficult Research - Call for Papers
We are pleased to share this call for papers for a one-day interdisciplinary workshop organised by Dr Stefanie Rauch ( Research Associate, Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, IAS) on conducting research on sensitive, controversial, challenging and emotionally difficult topics. This conference will take place at University of Warwick on Friday 13 July 2018. Deadline is Wednesday 20 June.
IAS-German Historical Institute London Joint Junior Research Fellowship 2018-19
The Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, and the German Historical Institute London intend to appoint a joint Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow, tenable for a period of six months from 1 October 2018. The purpose of the Junior Research Fellowship is to offer an outstanding early career scholar from a German university the opportunity to pursue independent research in the stimulating intellectual environment of the two host institutions.
Call for Event Proposals - Autumn 2018
The IAS welcomes proposals for idea/research-driven public events, panels or conferences to be hosted ideally in the Common Ground in South Wing. The event must be led by a UCL academic but may include partners from other institutions, and should aim to attract people from a range of departments and disciplines.
PKU-UCL IAS Visiting Research Fellows Scheme Open
The Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at Peking University is delighted to announce that applications are now open for the inaugural year of its Visiting Research Fellowship scheme organised with the Institute of Advanced Studies for UCL academics to visit Beijing during the year 2018-19.
IAS Junior Research Fellowships 2018-19
The Institute of Advanced Studies is seeking to appoint four Junior Research Fellows (JRFs) on appointments of 24 months each. Candidates should have recently completed (within five years) a PhD in one of the subject areas of either the Faculty of Arts & Humanities or the Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences, and should be able to contribute to one of the following research themes: Laughter or Turbulence. More information about the themes can be found here and further information, a job description and the opportunity to apply can be found here. The deadline for applications is 8 April 2018.
IAS JRF Shortlisted for Prestigious Prize
We are delighted to announce that IAS Junior Research Fellow Dr Peter Leary's book, Unapproved Routes: Histories of the Irish Border, 1922-1972, has been shortlisted for the 25th Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize, the objectives of which are to promote and encourage peace and reconciliation in Ireland, a greater understanding between the peoples of Britain and Ireland, or closer co-operation between the partners of the European Community. The winner of the prize will be announced on 11 April 2018. Read The Irish Times' review of the book here.
Events
Histories of Education and Learning: Contributions to theory and practice in the humanities and social sciences
The IAS is delighted to host this free two-day conference run by the International Centre for Historical Research in Education (ICHRE). History of education has long drawn upon different disciplinary backgrounds, particularly from the humanities and social sciences. Within universities, it is commonly located in both history and education departments while many social scientists pursue historical work on education and learning.
Starts: Jun 27, 2018 9:00:00 AM
Archiving the Italian Academies: Critical methodologies and digital tools
The IAS is pleased to share details of this Centre for Critical Heritage Studies and Centre for Early Modern Exchanges Symposium. This event aims to interrogate the forms, state and meanings of academy archives from multi-disciplinary perspectives, in relation to broader issues of cultural heritage relating to early modern Italy and the creation of sustainable digital resources.
Starts: Jun 28, 2018 9:00:00 AM
Choreographing Capital by Isaac Julien
The IAS is pleased to share details of the 12th Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture delivered by Isaac Julien.
Starts: Jun 28, 2018 6:00:00 PM
Manuscript Pamphleteering in Early Stuart England
Before the outbreak of Civil War in 1642, England developed a large, influential and often radical pamphlet literature. Speeches, learned briefs, and scaffold apologies joined character assassinations, secret histories and conspiracy theories in a jumbled literary underground. This two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the scope and significance of this literature, considering both the scale and significance of scribal production in a period of political, religious and social turmoil. It will also introduce a forthcoming database of over 400 such texts that will enable scholars to understand better the production and circulation of pre-Civil War political writing.
Starts: Jun 29, 2018 9:30:00 AM
Octagon Friday Forum: Noise
In Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe (2012), Tina M. Campt analyses family archives through the conceptual frameworks of sound and music. In a critique of the notion of ‘transparency’, Campt argues that photographs should be ‘listened to’, instead of simply being looked at, in order to understand their broader cultural meanings, translations and articulations. Incorporating sound and music within her visual analysis, Campt not only succeeds in shortcutting the ‘self-evident’ dimension of photography, but also highlights continuity and breaks within lens-based practices, as well as within a broader socio-historical ‘harmony’.
Starts: Jun 29, 2018 12:00:00 PM
Bareback Museum: Life Drawing Performance Workshop on Intimacy and Sexual Health
UCL Urban Laboratory and the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies invite you to join us for a performative life drawing workshop to think collectively (and in new ways) about institutions, bodies and unprotected sex.
Starts: Jul 5, 2018 5:30:00 PM
IAS Lies Public Lecture Series: Myths around the public sector and whose interests are served by the underlying lies
The IAS is delighted to welcome Professor Mariana Mazzucato for this talk. What conditions breed innovation and entrepreneurship? Most people seem to agree that the state playing a large role in the economy is not one of them. Indeed, burdensome government bureaucracy is typically juxtaposed in opposition to the ambitious, risk-taking entrepreneurs who have driven the technological revolution of the past few decades, and now operate the world’s largest and most dynamic corporations.
Starts: Jul 17, 2018 6:00:00 PM
The IAS in the media
IAS Junior Research Fellow, Dr Peter Leary, writes in The Guardian on 1 March 2018 on the question of how Brexit might affect the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Read his comment piece, 'There are three ways out of the Irish border impasse. All are closed to Theresa May' here.
Peter's book, Unapproved Routes: Histories of the Irish Border, 1922-1972, has also been shortlisted for the 25th Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize, the objectives of which are to promote and encourage peace and reconciliation in Ireland, a greater understanding between the peoples of Britain and Ireland, or closer co-operation between the partners of the European Community. Read The Irish Times' review of the book here.
