The 2014-15 IAS Fellowship scheme is now open to recruitment. Closing date 09 June 2013. See additional details here.
Welcome
The Institute of Advanced Study was established in October 2006 to mark the 175th anniversary of Durham University. It is a prestigious, ideas-based Institute which brings together some of the world’s finest researchers from every discipline to examine themes of major intellectual, scientific, political and practical significance. At least twenty fellows per annum are based in Cosin's Hall (a beautiful 18th Century, Grade 1 listed mansion house, situated on Palace Green - a designated World Heritage site) for up to three months, working with Durham scholars to spark these investigations, set tomorrow's agenda and participate in a varied programme of activities. The Institute also serves as a top-level forum, enabling key-decision makers and experts to discuss pressing policy problems in an intellectually stimulating and unrestricted manner.
There are many ways to participate in the life and work of the institute: through the fellowship scheme, by developing new themes, activities and events, by devising follow-on research activities, by supporting our work financially, or simply by enjoying and engaging with the many and varied outputs of the Institute. The IAS is an invitation to help build capacity, realise potential, and meet the challenge of a changing world. We warmly welcome your involvement.
News
Launch of the IAS 2014-15 Fellowship
The 2014-15 IAS Fellowship Scheme is now open to recruitment. The deadline for applications is 09 June 2013.
The theme for 2014-15, for which applications will be invited, is ‘Emergence’, interpreted in its broadest sense to be of potential interest to those working in a wide range of disciplines.
IAS Fellowships are available for a 3-month period between October 2014 and March 2015. Applications are considered from mid-late career scholars and non-academics who have an established international reputation, have shaped their field, and can provide evidence of research leadership and/or public impact. They are expected to have played a significant role in shaping their field through their outputs, achievements and markers of esteem. Applications are also considered from early-mid career individuals who have an emerging international reputation and are beginning to shape the agenda in their field. However, please note that these Fellowships are not available to undergraduate or postgraduate students. The fellowships will be offered to those whose research complements the 2014-15 annual theme.
The IAS seeks to develop a truly global perspective by ensuring that its fellows are recruited from all over the world. Up to 20 IAS Fellowships are available in 2014-15 and Durham academics are welcome to apply.
For further details of the Emergence theme, please visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/themes/emergence/
For further details about the 2014-15 IAS Fellowships, please visit: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ias/fellows/furtherparticulars/
(16 Apr 2013)
3rd Annual Joint event between the Institute of Advanced Study, the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing and the Durham Forum for Health
The IAS is delighted to confirm its third annual collaboration with the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing and the Durham Forum for Health.
A joint public lecture will take place on Tuesday 11th June 2013 (18:00) at the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing at Queen's Campus, Stockton.
The event builds upon earlier collorative events, A Fairer Society for a Heathier Future (2011) and My Genespace: Personalised Genetics: are you ready to know your future? (2012).
This third event Hidden Influences on Health & Wellbeing through Life Course brings together Caroline Relton, Professor of Genetics and Epigenetic Epidemiolgy from Newcastle University; Douglas Davies, Professor of Theology and Religion and Joe (Julian) Elliott, Professor of Education from Durham Univeristy.
Additonal information and registration can be located here.
(24 Apr 2013)
Interdisciplinary Workshop Publication
'Navigating Interdisciplinarity' is an IAS workshop designed to facilitate research collaboration across disciplines. To assist others embarking upon interdisciplinary research we are making this publication freely available. We ask only that you cite the IAS/Durham as the source, and we welcome feedback. To request a copy, contact our Institute Secretary, Audrey (a.e.bowron@durham.ac.uk).
(23 Apr 2013)
Recent Publications from IAS Fellows
Keep up-to-date with recent publications related to current and former themes and IAS Fellows.
Former Fellow Professor Gail Hornstein (Futures II) publishes her latest essay in 'Feminism and Psycholgy' (Sage) and Fellow Professor Barry Dainton (Futures) publishes a chapter 'Time and Temporal Experience' In: Bardon, A (ed) ed(s). The Future of the Philosophy of Time (New York, Routledge)
The most recent publications are available here.
(12 Mar 2013)
The IAS welcomes the publication of the fifth edition of its postgraduate journal, Kaleidoscope
The fifth edition of Kaleidoscope, the interdisciplinary postgraduate journal of the Institute of Advanced Study, has been published. Volume 5, Issue 1 is a special edition of proceedings from two conferences for postgraduates and early career researchers.
(21 Feb 2013) » More about The IAS welcomes the publication of the fifth edition of its postgraduate journal, Kaleidoscope
Durham Bluff - February 2013
Find out who Won Durham Bluff - February 2013 - www.dur.ac.uk/ias/events/other/blufffeb13/
(17 Mar 2013)
New 'Insights' Papers Published
(29 Nov 2012) » More about Volume 5 of 'Insights', the Institute of Advanced Study's E-journal is now available.
Subscribe to this news2012-13: Time
We live in an age acutely conscious of time: its passing and acceleration, its measurement and regulation, its evolutionary dynamic, its future promise, its own timing. Through this consciousness seems to run a thread of compulsion - a compulsion to master the clockwork of time, understand its rhythms, put it to most efficient use, direct its flow, grasp its provenance. Time has taken on the property of a thing or process that can be grasped and made to work in certain ways. But what exactly is time, and does it have the properties we think it has? What meanings of time have come to prevail in our age, and how do they shape human endeavour, being and aspiration? How does the arrow of time fly, and how has its flight been tracked in the past? Is it possible to imagine a future organised without clock-time as anything other than as a train that is either on track or derailed?
‘Time’ is the Institute’s theme for 2012-13, interpreted in its broadest sense – scientifically, symbolically, philosophically, literarily, politically and sociologically. This is a theme for scientists and social scientists, scholars in the arts and humanities, historians, theorists and practitioners, artists, and policymakers, and opinion formers. The body of work associated with the theme will address issues of major contemporary and intellectual interest and we encourage colleagues, collaborators and those interested in connecting with the Institute to contact us for further information or our visting Fellows, or specific colleagues involved in the Time sub-themes. For more about our subtheme and activities….
Time a conversation with Prof Douglas Davies
As part of the its 'Time' theme year the Institute of Advanced Study publishes a series of 'conversations' with academics across the faculties and visiting Fellows.
Watch more.
EVENTS
Monday 13 May 2013
- About Time Lecture Series: 'Time and Nationhood: beyond the invention of tradition and imagined communities 6:15pm to 7:15pm , Holgate Room, Grey College, Durham University , Professor Chris Gosden (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 15 May 2013
- Calenders and Festivals: Identity, Culture, and Experience Public Lecture 6:15pm to 7:15pm , ER 201, Elvet Riverside Building , Professor Madawi al-Rasheed (King’s College, London)
Tuesday 21 May 2013
- Lindisfarne Gospels Seminar Series - The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Performative of Manuscript Decoration 5:30pm to 6:30pm , TBC , Dr Carol Farr (Independent Scholar, London)
Annual IAS London Event 2013 - 'Timed Out: evolving to extinction' - 26 June 2013, London
The Institute of Advanced Study brings together a panel of leading thinkers to discuss the intellectual, practical and ethical issues raised by humankind’s effects on evolutionary time. For more information please click here.
Watch or Listen to previous Events
Unable to attend recent IAS events? A number of lectures have been recorded here.
STOP PRESS
Calendars and Festivals Public Lecture
Please note event date change for the Calendars and Festivals Public Lecture on 20 February 2013 to a rescheduled date of 15 May 2013. Further details available here
RESEARCH NEWS
Interdisciplinary Workshop Publication
'Navigating Interdisciplinarity' is an IAS workshop designed to facilitate research collaboration across disciplines. To assist others embarking upon interdisciplinary research we are making this publication freely available. We ask only that you cite the IAS/Durham as the source, and we welcome feedback. To request a copy, contact our Institute Secretary, Audrey (a.e.bowron@durham.ac.uk).
(23 Apr 2013)
I admire the design and scale of the IAS program and the enormous work that has been done for interdisciplinary research at Durham.
Professor Mikhail Epstein, Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature, Emory University and Former IAS Fellow, 2010-11
The IAS stands for new thinking about big ideas through inter-disciplinary dialogue across all disciplines
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2012-13 Annual Programme - Time
'About Time' Public Lecture Series - Commences 03 December
Recent Publications
