News Archive

Friday 04 May 2012

• Rededication of the Victoria County History presented to HM The Queen

  

  To mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee a celebratory event was held at Salisbury Cathedral Close on Tuesday 1 May at which Professor Miles Taylor, Director of the Institute of Historical Research and Dr Virginia Bainbridge, County Editor VCH Wiltshire, presented Her Majesty with a rededicated... read more

Tuesday 01 May 2012

• Professor Steven Shapin’s programme of public lectures as the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow 2011-12 announced

  

  Professor Steven Shapin, Franklin L Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will hold the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study for 2011-12. Professor Shapin, who has published widely in the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, will... read more

Thursday 26 April 2012

• School e-newsletter April-May 2012 now available

  

  The April-May 2012 e-newsletter of the School is now available. The latest issue includes news and updates on events, digital resources, fellowships, publications, research training and graduate study opportunities in the School. View e-newsletter April-May 2012 read more

Wednesday 25 April 2012

• Registrations now open for the 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians on Ancients and Moderns

  

  5-6 July Senate House Registrations are now open for the 2012 Anglo-American Conference of Historians, the flagship event of the Institute of Historical Research. This year the conference will be held on the theme of Ancients and Moderns. With the Olympics upon us in the UK it seems an... read more

• Professor Ronald Schuchard elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  

  Professor Ronald Schuchard, Director of the T. S. Eliot International School and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The announcement was made by Emory University, where Professor Schuchard is Goodrich C... read more

Tuesday 24 April 2012

• SAS-Space Collection of the Month for May: Research papers from Visiting Fellows to the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies

  

  The SAS-Space Collection of the Month for May is a collection of paper from Visiting Fellows to the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS). The collection is an eclectic mix, with topics as diverse as student protest in Italy, Muslim identity in contemporary German fiction, and 'The... read more

• University of London reaches 100,000 podcast views and downloads on iTunes U

  

  The University of London platform on iTunes U, managed by the School of Advanced Study, today reached a milestone 100,000 podcast views and downloads. The University of London on iTunes U, which will celebrate its one-year anniversary on 7 June, enables researchers, students, and the public to... read more

Monday 16 April 2012

• Harvard’s Professor Steven Shapin to join London’s School of Advanced Study as ST Lee Visiting Fellow, May-June 2012

  

  Professor Steven Shapin, Franklin L Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University, will hold the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellowship at the School of Advanced Study for 2011-12. Professor Shapin, who has published widely in the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, will... read more

Monday 02 April 2012

• Professor Linda Newson to be appointed as Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas

  

  The School of Advanced Study, University of London, is pleased to announce that the post of Director of the Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) has been offered to Professor Linda Newson FBA, who has accepted the position subject to contract. Linda Newson is a Professor of King’s... read more

Friday 30 March 2012

• Networker and literary critic Beat Mazenauer will lead first Ingeborg Bachmann Centre workshop on communicating literature in the digital age

  

  The Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS), one of the 10 prestigious Institutes that make up the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, will hold its first workshop on the digital promotion of reading skills and... read more