by linda.crowe | Jan 30, 2023 | IAS News, Transformations (Issue 8)
Read the first 2023 edition of the IAS Newsletter, Transformations, now. Issue 8 features updates from recent IAS Fellows, forthcoming projects and research developments and events. Keep up to update each term, and subscribe now. by linda.crowe | Jan 26, 2023 | Postgraduate, Transformations (Issue 8)
Autonomous and decolonial pedagogies, social movements and education in Brazil and the UK This event brought together researchers from Brazil and the UK to explore the intersections between colonial/decolonial pasts and presents and the contemporary politics of... 
by linda.crowe | Jan 23, 2023 | IAS News, Transformations (Issue 8)
Centre for Memory Studies in IIT Madras In November 2022, an IAS led Initiative is leading to the signing of an MOU with the Centre for Memory Studies in IIT Madras. In October 2022 Co-Director Nayanika Mookherjee visited IIT Madras for discussions on the MOU and gave... 
by linda.crowe | Jan 23, 2023 | Postgraduate, Transformations (Issue 8)
Introducing interdisciplinary research On 21 November 2022, the IAS ran a workshop ‘Introducing interdisciplinary research’ in the Discovery Museum in Newcastle for 80 students funded by the NINE and Northern Bridge Doctoral training partnerships. As the title... 
by linda.crowe | Jan 23, 2023 | Projects, Transformations (Issue 8)
Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture The distinctiveness of human cognition, behaviour and culture has been debated at least since Darwin. Darwin’s view was that the difference between humans and non-human species was one of “degree, not of... 
by linda.crowe | Jan 23, 2023 | Projects, Transformations (Issue 8)
Absence/presence of Durham’s black history: Exploration of institutions, archives, students and pedagogies Peter Blackman – ‘out of ordinary words you make beauty’ Sol Gamsu and Liam Liburd remember the life and work of activist, writer and thinker Peter Blackman who... 
by linda.crowe | Jan 23, 2023 | Justice and AI, Projects, Transformations (Issue 8)
Justice and Artificial Intelligence Hardly a day passes in which we do not hear about the alleged benefits that increased reliance upon technology will bring: self-driving cars and self-monitoring prescription drugs will free us from some of life’s daily burdens,... 
by linda.crowe | Jan 23, 2023 | Fellows, Transformations (Issue 8), Where are they now?
Deepening Abolitionist Praxis Abolitionist praxis is complicated, layered across multiple scales, geographies, systems, communities, perspectives, and forms of engagement. Over the past five years, I have been growing my understanding of the fullness of abolitionist... by linda.crowe | Jan 23, 2023 | Fellows, Transformations (Issue 8), Where are they now?
Vorfeude My first in-person encounter at the IAS took place months before my fellowship started. In late July 2022, as I made my way to Dumfries for fieldwork, I spent a day in Durham to meet with Phil Steinberg (who kindly agreed to be my academic host throughout my... 
by linda.crowe | Jan 23, 2023 | Fellows, Transformations (Issue 8), Where are they now?
RuiNation and Bordering Practices In October 2022, I joined the IAS Politics of Credibility Project as an International Fellow to explore the theoretical and methodological regimes of legitimacy and evidence that underpin asylum determination regimes in the UK and...