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Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill inaugurates Refugee Law Initiative’s 2nd ‘International Refugee Law’ seminar series
On 11 October 2011, Professor Guy S Goodwin-Gill of All Souls College, University of Oxford, inaugurated the Refugee Law Initiative’s (RLI) 2nd ‘International Refugee Law’ seminar series. Professor Goodwin-Gill’s paper explored... read more
 50,000 podcasts viewed on University of London on iTunes U
More than 50,000 podcasts have been viewed on demand or downloaded from the University of London on iTunes U platform since it was launched on 7 June 2011. The platform, a project initiated and led by the School, has received 29,682 visits...read more
Professor Sir Roy Goode appointed Distinguished Senior Fellow
The School is pleased to announce that Professor Sir Roy Goode CBE QC FBA, Emeritus Professor of Law at Oxford, has accepted the invitation to become a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the School...read more
 School welcomes 800 visitors during the Bloomsbury Festival
Over the weekend of 21-23 October 2011, over 800 visitors attended School events, which ranged from exhibitions to poetry, music, local history talks and guided walks, and a philosophically-inspired wine tasting...read more
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Event highlights
Novel approaches: from academic history to historical fiction - a virtual conference, 21-25 November 2011
On 17-18 November the Institute of Historical Research hosted a conference that examined the relationship between academic history and historical fiction, with speakers including Hilary Mantel, Alison Weir, Ian Mortimer and Stella Tillyard. From 21-25 November, podcasts from the event, as well as a range of articles, reviews and thinkpieces, will be published as part of an experimental 'virtual' conference...read more
 Short course: International Protection of Refugees and Displaced Persons, February-March 2012
This new eight-week course run by the Refugee Law Initiative is aimed at lawyers, policy-makers, NGO workers, international agency staff, post-graduate students, and others working with refugees or interested in refugee issues...read more
First Person Writing, Four-Way Reading, 1-3 December 2011
Scholars from four academic fields – literature, history, medical humanities and ethnography – and from 23 countries - will discuss a common object of research: first-person writing...read more
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Digital resources
 Two major new resources for parliamentary history
On Friday 4 November, as part of the wider annual Parliament Week, the new History of Parliament Online was launched. The project, a collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the History of Parliament, makes available three and a half centuries of Parliamentary history...read more
SAS Open Journals launched
SAS Open Journals is the new Open Access journal publishing service from the School, which was launched in October. The first journal to be made freely available online was Amicus Curiae of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. It contains issues 46 to 85 (2003-2011)... read more...read more
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Fellowships news
School Visiting Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Call for applications to the School Visiting Fellowship. Deadline: 31 January 2012...read more
Marine protection expert Jonathan Gardner arrives in London as the NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor for 2011/12
Professor Gardner from the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington will be based at the School between September and December 2011...read more
ST Lee Fellowship awarded to Professor Steven Shapin
Professor Steven Shapin, Franklin L Ford Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, has accepted the School’s invitation to become the ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellow for 2011-12...read more
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New publications
School publications now available as e-books
The first School publications to be produced as e-books are now available to buy, with further titles on their way.
•  Grants for History 2012: a guide to funding, which came out in hard copy at the end of October, is now available for the Kindle from the Amazon store (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0063ITFNQ), or as an epub from SAS Publications (sas.publications@sas.ac.uk).
• Quebec and the Heritage of Franco-America (edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies) is now available as an e-book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00630XU1W), while Evo Morales and the Movimiento Socialismo in Bolivia, and Fractured Politics: Peruvian Democracy Past and Present will be available in e-book format soon.
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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
New MSc in Environment and Development in Latin American and the Caribbean
The Institute for the Study of the Americas launched its new degree in 2011/12. The degree focuses on the interconnected environmental and social issues provoked by economic development and globalisation...read more
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