Insights
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Insights captures the ideas and work-in-progress of Fellows who visited the Institute of Advanced Study during its thematic framework (from 2006 – 2017).
These short papers take the form of thought experiments, summaries of research findings, theoretical statements, original reviews, and occasionally more fully worked treatises. Insights volumes may span more than one theme and details which theme is covered in which volume can be viewed to the right hand side of this page. The current editor is Nicholas Saul, IAS Director of Arts and Humanities and Professor of German Literary and Intellectual History. Previous editors of Insights were Professor Susan Smith (2006-2009), Professor Michael O’Neill (2009-2012), and Professor Barbara Graziosi (2012-2015).
Volume 10 (2017)
Volume 9 (2016)
| Author | Title | Theme |
| George Williams | An Australian Perspective on the UK Human Rights Act Debate | Evidence |
| James E Gardner | Can We Gain Evidence About Volcanic Pyroclastic Flows from Those Who Survive Them? | Evidence |
| John Brewer | Art and the Evidence of Attribution, Giovanni Morelli, Morellians and Morellianism: Thoughts on ‘Scientific Connoisseurship’‘ | Evidence |
| Claire Langhamer | An Archive of Feeling? Mass Observation and the Mid-Century Moment | Evidence |
| Heike Egner | The IPCC’s Interdisciplinary Dilemma: What Natural and Social Sciences Could (and Should) Learn from Physics | Evidence |
| Barbara Dancygier | Reading Images, Reading Words: Visual and Textual Conceptualization of Barriers and Containers | Evidence |
| William Downes | Two Concepts of Relevance and the Emergence of Mind | Emergence |
| Martin Coward | Crossing the Threshold of Concern: How Infrastructure Emerges as an Object of Security | Emergence |
Volume 8 (2015)
| Author | Title | Theme |
| Val Jones | Mobile Health Systems and Emergence | Emergence |
| Stephanie Portet | Studying the Cytoskeleton: Case of Intermediate Filaments | Emergence |
| Peter Cane | Two Conceptions of Constitutional Rights | Emergence |
| Nathan Citino | Cultural Encounter as ‘Emergence’: Rethinking US – Arab Relations | Emergence |
| Katherine Hayles | Nonconscious Cognition and Jess Stoner’s ‘I Have Blinded Myself Writing This’ | Emergence |
| Alice Hills | Waiting for Tipping Points | Emergence |
| Margaret Morrison | Mathematical Explanation and Complex Systems | Emergence |
| Tim Thornton | Emergence, Meaning and Rationality | Emergence |
| John Heil | The Mystery of the Mystery of Consciousness | Emergence |
| David C Geary | Sex Differences in Vulnerability | Emergence |
| Richard Read | Negation, Possiblisation, Emergence and the Reversed Painting | Emergence |
Volume 7 (2014)
| Author | Title | Theme |
| Bob Fosbury | Colours From Earth | Light |
| Mary Manjikian | Thinking About Crisis, Thinking About Emergency | Time |
| Tim Edensor | The Potentialities of Light Festivals | Light |
| Angharad Closs Stephens | National and Urban Ways of Seeing | Light |
| Robert de Mello Koch | From Field Theory to Spacetime Using Permutations | Time |
| Jonathan Ben-Dov | What’s In a Year An Incomplete Study on the Notion of Completeness | Time |
| Lesley Chamberlain | Clarifying the Enlightenment | Light |
| Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis | Matters of Light. Ways of Knowing in Enlightened Optics | Light |
Volume 6 (2013)
| Author | Title | Theme |
| David Martin-Jones | The Cinematic Temporalities of Modernity: Deleuze, Quijano and ‘How Tasty was my Little Frenchman’‘ | Time |
| Robert Levine | Time Use, Happiness and Implications for Social Policy: A Report to the United Nations | Time |
| Andy Wood | Popular Senses of Time and Place in Tudor and Stuart England | Time |
| Robert Hannah | From Here to the Hereafter: Genesis and Apogenesis in Ancient Philosophy and Architecture | Time |
| Alia Al-Saji | Too Late: Racialized Time and the Closure of the Past | Time |
| Simon Prosser | Is there a ‘Specious Present’? | Time |
Volume 5 (2012)
| Author | Title | Theme |
| Elizabeth Archibald | Bathing, Beauty and Christianity in the Middle Ages | Futures II |
| Fabio Zampieri | The Holistic Approach of Evolutionary Medicine: An Epistemological Analysis | Futures II |
| Lynnette Sievert | Choosing the Gold Standard: Subjective Report vs Physiological Measure | Futures II |
| Elizabeth Edwards | Photography, Survey and the Desire for ‘History’ | Futures II |
| Ben Anderson | Emergency Futures | Futures |
| Pier Paolo Saviotti | Are There Discontinuities in Economic Development? | Futures II |
| Sander Gilman | ‘Stand up Straight’ Notes Toward a History of Posture | Futures II |
| Meredith Lloyd-Evans | Limitations and Liberations | Futures II |
Volume 4 (2011)
| Author | Title | Theme |
| Stewart Clegg | The Futures of Bureaucracy? | Futures |
| Henrietta Mondry | Genetic Wars: The Future in Eurasianist Fiction of Aleksandr Prokhanov | Futures |
| Barbara Graziosi | The Iliad: Configurations of the Future | Futures |
| Jonathon Porritt | Scarcity and Sustainability in Utopia | Futures |
| Andrew Crumey | Can Novelists Predict the Future? | Futures |
| Russell Jacoby | The Future of Utopia? | Futures |
| Fran Bartkowski | All That is Plastic…Patricia Paccinini’s Kinship Networks | Being Human |
| Mary Carruthers | The Mosque That Wasn’t: A Study in Social Memory Making | Futures |
| Andrew Pickering | Ontological Politics: Realism and Agency in Science, Technology and Art | Futures |
| Kathryn Banks | Prophecy and Literature | Futures |
| Barbara Adam | Towards a Twenty-First-Century Sociological Engagement with the Future | Futures |
| Andrew Crumey and Mikhail Epstein | A Dialogue On Creative Thinking and the Future of the Humanities | Futures |
| Mikhail Epstein | On the Future of the Humanities | Futures |
Volume 3 (2010)
Volume 2 (2009)
Volume 1 (2008)
| Author | Title | Theme |
| Boris Wiseman | Lévi-Strauss, Caduveo Body Painting and the Readymade: Thinking Borderlines | General |
| John Hedley Brooke | Can Scientific Discovery be a Religious Experience | Darwin’s Legacy |
| Bryan R. Cullen | Rapid and Ongoing Darwinian Selection of the Human Genome | Darwin’s Legacy |
| Penelope Deutscher | Women, Animality, Immunity, and the Slave of the Slave | Darwin’s Legacy |
| Martin Harwit | The Growth of Astrophysical Understanding | Modelling |
| Donald MacKenzie | Making Things the Same: Gases, Emission Rights and the Politics of Carbon Markets | Modelling |
| Lorraine Code | Thinking Ecologically About Biology | Darwin’s Legacy |
| Eric Winsberg | A Function for Fictions: Expanding the Scope of Science | Modelling |
| Willard Bohn | Visual Poetry in France after Apollinaire | Modelling |
| Robert A. Skipper Jr | R. A. Fisher and the Origins of Random Drift | Darwin’s Legacy |
| Nancy Cartwright | Models: Parables v Fables | Modelling |
| Atholl Anderson | Problems of the ‘Traditionalist’ Model of Long-Distance Polynesian Voyaging | Modelling |