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Latest news
Lord Rees awarded honorary doctorate at the School’s 2011 graduation ceremony
The Rt Hon Professor Martin Rees, Lord Rees of Ludlow, OM FRS was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature honoris causa at the School’s graduation ceremony on Friday 9 December 2011. The honour recognises a lifetime of academic achievement by Lord Rees...read more
Professor John North appointed Acting Director of the Institute of Classical Studies
Distinguished classical scholar Professor John North has been appointed as the Acting Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, one of the 10 prestigious research institutes that make up the School. Professor North, who is Emeritus...read more
Interactive maps reveal London’s history in unprecedented detail
Researchers have unveiled a new interactive map that reveals London’s social history in unprecedented detail, enabling users to explore everything from the impact of the ‘Great Plague’ of 1665 to eighteenth-century riots. Locating London’s Past is a new website...read more
Madeleine Albright speaks about the role of women in the advancement of democracy
The Institute for the Study of the Americas co-sponsored public lecture by Madeleine Albright, US United Nations ambassador in Bill Clinton’s first administration (1993-1997) and Secretary of State in Clinton’s second administration (1997-2001), on women advancing...read more
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Event highlights
Coffin Memorial Lecture: Neuroscience and the Mind
12 January 2012, 18:00 - 20:00
Colin Blakemore (Oxford University)...read more
Open University Book History and Bibliography Seminar: Landmarks in Book History
11 January 2012, 17:30 - 19:00
Dr Karin Littau teaches in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. Her research interests include book and film history, adaptation, reception and translation studies. She is the author of Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies and Bibliomania (2006) and The Routledge Concise History of Literature and Film (forthcoming)...read more
Black Britain seminar series: Race, power and the media: An examination of the projected image of black history and culture and the devices that people have employed to revise the popular narrative
16 January 2012, 18:00 - 19:30
Pam Fraser Solomon has a long track record and has won awards working in theatre, radio and television including producing East Enders, Holby City and the BBC2 documentary ‘Moira Stuart In Search Of Wilberforce’. She also works in education and is currently developing interactive educational products...read more
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Digital resources
History in Education: dispersed data delivery in action
The data collection of the History in Education project, recently concluded at the Institute of Historical Research, is now available in SAS-Space as well as from the project’s dedicated website. It is another successful example of a research project within the School using...read more
Report on how to run an independent Open Access journal available
The report on the Open Journals launch workshop, held in October, is now available in SAS-Space. The report, which includes a summary of the small group discussions concerning the various issues that face editors of independent Open Access journals, is available along with...read more
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Fellowships news
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellows announced for 2012
Two appointments for early to mid-career scholars have been made to visiting fellowships in the School, with generous support from the Leverhulme Trust. The two successful appointees are: Dr Sabrina Rahman, currently a research assistant in the Vienna... read more
School Visiting Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Call for applications to the School Visiting Fellowship. Deadline: 31 January 2012...read more
Fellowships in the School
New publications
Now available as e-books:
 Caamaño in London: the Exile of a Latin American Revolutionary edited by Fred Halliday
Evo Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: The First Term in Context, 2006-2010 edited by Adrian J. Pearce
Fractured Politics: Peruvian Democracy Past and Present edited by John Crabtree
All three are available for the Kindle from the Amazon store, or from SAS Publications (sas.publications@sas.ac.uk)
Other recent titles:
Word on the Street edited by Elisha Foust and Sophie Fuggle
Throwing petrol on a fire: the human and environmental cost of tar sands production by Jennifer Huseman and Damien Short
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Research training and graduate study
School’s research training programme 2012/13
The School’s research training programme began in October and includes discipline-specific research training and generic research and transferable skills. Most of the training is available to postgraduate students across the UK, much of it free of charge...read more
School of Advanced Study and AHRC Block Grant Partnerships Consortia
The School of Advanced Study, University of London is part of a consortium bidding to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under its Block Grant Partnerships 2 (BGP2) competition. BGP2 awards will be given to research organisations or consortia...read more
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