Press Releases

Tuesday 24 April 2012

• 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

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

Friday 23 March 2012

• The Refugee Law Initiative’s ‘New Challenges in Refugee Integration’ series concludes with open debate between MPs, Lords and refugee experts at Portcullis House

  

  The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, concluded its collaborative seminar series ‘New Challenges in Refugee Integration’ with a well-attended open debate at Portcullis House on 15 March 2012. The seminar series, which was held in... read more

Wednesday 22 February 2012

• Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) to be launched at The Warburg Institute

  

  The Warburg Institute will launch its new Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) on 16 March 2012. The Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe (CHASE) is dedicated to the study of the reception and understanding of Arabic and Islamic culture, science and religion in... read more

Tuesday 21 February 2012

• Refugee Law Initiative holds workshop on refugee law and policy for high-level officials of Commonwealth governments

  

  The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, has just held the first-ever inter-governmental workshop on refugee law and policy aimed specifically at Commonwealth governments. The workshop was held at the RLI on 14-16 February 2012 and was attended by... read more

Thursday 16 February 2012

• Forthcoming conference on ‘Learning from Latin America: Debt crises, debt rescues and when and why they work’, 20 February 2012

  

  The Institute for the Study of the Americas (School of Advanced Study, University of London), with generous support from the Latin American Development Bank/CAF, is holding a conference on ‘Learning from Latin America’, which will examine the topical subjects of national debt and... read more

Wednesday 07 December 2011

• 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 University of London’s School of Advanced Study. Professor North, who is Emeritus Professor of... read more

Wednesday 26 October 2011

• Marine protection expert Jonathan Gardner arrives in London as the NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor for 2011/12

  

  There is widespread recognition that the world’s oceans are under increasing threat from human activities including overfishing, pollution and coastal development. One important form of marine biodiversity protection is the establishment of marine protected areas. New Zealand is generally... read more

Monday 17 October 2011

• Richard Bourne’s latest publication ‘Catastrophe: What went wrong in Zimbabwe?’ investigates the causes of Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis

  

  In this book, Richard Bourne reveals how Zimbabwe, a country that had every prospect of success when it achieved independence in 1980 from British colonial rule, had within thirty years become a brutal police state suffering from hyperinflation, collapsing life expectancy, and abandonment by a... read more