The Institute of Advanced Studies held an online festival from 4-6th May 2021 to celebrate its fifth anniversary.
Under the umbrella of ‘Alternative Epistemologies’ there were three days of conversations and performances of every kind. The programme showcased the extensive range of work that has been done over the last five years, whilst also looking towards the research agendas of the future.

Welcome to 'Alternative Epistemologies'
Download the interactive schedule here
Exhibition space
Recordings from the Festival
Transgender Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Recorded 4 May 2021, 5pm
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The Fragility of the Archive
Recorded 4 May 2021, 5pm
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In the Air
Recorded 5 May 2021, 9.30am
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Imaginative Geographies
Recorded 5 May 2021, 9.30am
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What can a planet do? Planetary social thought and more-than-organic life
Recorded 5 May 2021, 2pm
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Writing the Camp
Recorded 6 May 2021, 9:30 am
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Sea, Song, Writing: On the Palmy Beach
Recorded 6 May 2021, 11:30 am
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Re-humouring the Golden Elixir
Recorded 6 May 2021, 11:30 am
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Floral Collectivism: Postsocialist Eco-Epistemologies
06 May 2021, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm
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The City Dionysia – Narrating Wasteland in Urban Life
6 May 2021, 12:00 pm–1:30 pm
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Knowledge Equity: A concept for the post-pandemic world
5 May 2021, 5pm-6:30pm
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The Politics of Fiction: 3 years of reading Political Fiction at UCL
4 May 2021, 1pm-2:30pm
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PPV Book Launch: Keti Chukhrov’s 'Practicing the Good'
6 May 2021, 3pm-4:30pm
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Daily-Artifacts and the Body in the Americas
4 May 2021, 3:30pm-5pm
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On Site-Writing
5 May 2021, 9:30am-11am
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Crossing the line: contested borders and bounded space in Ireland
4 May 2021, 9:30am-11am
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The Weight of Numbers on Bodies
4 May 2021, 11:30am-1:30pm
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