IAS Fellows' seminar
IAS Fellows’ Seminar – Scientific Racism and the quest for Greek Racial Origins in the early 20th Century, by Professor Denise McCoskey (Miami University)
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green Durham Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham, United KingdomImage courtesy of Engin Akyurt (Unsplash) IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Denise McCoskey (Miami University) Abstract As scientific approaches were increasingly applied to the study of human variation throughout the […]
IAS Fellows’ Seminar – Fascist Encounters with the USSR and Stalinism, 1928-1936, by Dr Jorge Dagnino (University of San Sebastian, Chile)
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green Durham Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham, United KingdomIAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Jorge Dagnino (University of San Sebastian, Chile) Abstract Few scholars have ventured into the realm of the reception and representations of the USSR among Italian […]
IAS Fellows’ Seminar – The Secret History of Dido: unravelling an ancient literary snare to reveal a feminist role-model and a new foundation myth, by Magdalena Zira (Fantastico Theatro)
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green Durham Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham, United KingdomImage courtesy of CJ Romas (iStock) IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Magdalena Zira (Fantastico Theatro) Abstract A new play about Carthaginian Queen Dido, the result of an academic-creative collaboration between Professor […]
IAS Fellows’ Seminar – “Do not offend any of the persons at home”: Forms of Domestic Violence in Greco-Roman Egypt, by Dr Youssri Abdelwahed (Minia University)
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green Durham Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham, United KingdomImage courtesy of K et Laurianne Langlais (Unsplash) IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Youssri Abdelwahed (Minia University) Abstract This paper aims to explore the various forms of domestic violence that […]
IAS Fellows’ Seminar – Kongish: translanguaging and the commodification of an urban dialect, by Professor Tong King Lee University of Hong Kong
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green Durham Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham, United KingdomIAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong) Abstract This talk introduces Kongish as a translingual and multimodal urban dialect emerging in Hong Kong in recent years […]
IAS Fellows’ Seminar – Safety and Security – From Wording to Worlding by Dr Diana Johns
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green Durham Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham, United KingdomIAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Diana Johns University of Melbourne Abstract TBC Places are limited and so any academic colleagues or students interested in attending in person should register HERE.
IAS Fellows’ Seminar – Human Evolutionary Narratives and Hypotheses: broadening consideration of “unique” human evolutionary developments for testing theoretical predictions in a comparative context, by Dr Adam Gordon (University of Albany)
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green Durham Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham, United KingdomImage courtesy of niphon (iStock) IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Adam Gordon (University of Albany) Abstract The human and chimpanzee lineages diverged from each other in Africa between nine and five million […]
IAS Fellows’ Seminar – Global Literary Scandals: conceptual considerations using the example of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther by Dr Urs Büttner (Miami University)
Cosin's Hall, Palace Green Durham Cosin's Hall, Palace Green, Durham, United KingdomIAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Urs Büttner (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Abstract Literary scandals form a thriving field of research, and their prerequisites and dramaturgy have been well explored by […]