Image 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 nineteenth-century, they would come to have an enormous impact on the study of history as well.  This seminar examines the specific ways contemporary ideas about […]

IAS 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 Fascists during the years 1928–36; that is, between Stalin's consolidation of power and the Spanish Civil War. This seminar contends that far from being absolute […]

Image 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 Edith Hall and Dr Magdalena Zira, first performed in Cyprus in Modern Greek, is being re-worked here in Durham in English. Based on virtually unknown […]

Image 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 were prevalent in Greco-Roman Egypt, based on the Greek papyrological evidence from the fourth century BC to the fourth century AD. The main question addressed […]

IAS 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 and still in the making. Through the lens of translanguaging and linguistic commodification, and using the popular Facebook page Kongish Daily as a case in […]

IAS 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.

Image 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 years ago.  Reconstructions of past environments indicate that the human lineage emerged at a time of increasing aridity in parts of Africa, with associated expansion […]

IAS 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 now. However, cross-border and cross-language literary scandals have been scarcely investigated so far. One reason for this is their infrequency, and over time, they have […]