IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Margit Fauser, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Abstract Recent relocations of the border have shifted the border toward the city. In the context of migration, a plethora of public and private and civil society actors at the urban scale now participate in the making and unmaking of the border and produce different degrees […]

IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Robert Hassan, University of Melbourne Please note the seminar date change from 27 February to 09 March 2023 Abstract The paper considers the human relationship with technology in the wake of the present domination by digital forms. It argues that too little attention has been given to the nature and […]

IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr David Kneas, University of South Carolina Abstract For nearly a century, a glassworks factory dumped excess waste into the North Sea at County Durham’s Seaham Beach. Sculpted by time and tidal action, this waste has now transformed into an object of value: sea glass. Seaham has become an iconic place […]