We’re pleased to share the following news from the IAS alumni community. Professor Lia Bryant (2019/20 Fellow)Awarded Australian Research Council Grant as lead CI (Bryant, L and Wark, S (2021-2023) ‘Care in the Country: Post Parental Care for people with...
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr Ronan O’Donnell to the IAS team as our new administrator. Ronan writes: “My academic background is in archaeology and history, which I studied first at Durham (BSc. Archaeology), then Leicester (MA English Local History)...
Written by Nicholas Saul Professor N. Katherine Hayles, many will recall, was a member of the Fellows cohort 2014-2015. That cohort pursued the theme of Emergence, connoting the complex phenomenon of emergent causality. Fellows and visitors to the IAS in that...
Once upon a time the University of Durham, like many universities based outside large cities, constituted only three Faculties: Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences & Health, and Science. But as the University has grown and changed in the last years, so too the...
Written by Veronica Strang How can we facilitate creative interdisciplinary conversations, and what happens when we do? It was this question that sparked an IAS experiment in 2014-15, when our annual research theme was Light. I proposed an informal event on the topic...
Written by Veronica Strang I would like to begin with a very warm welcome to Transformations, the Institute of Advanced Study’s brand new newsletter. Its name reflects the IAS’s primary goal of ‘Transforming the Way We Think’ through creative interdisciplinary...
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