ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellowship
Funded by a generous endowment by Dr ST Lee, of Singapore, this Fellowship is open to applicants of professorial (or equivalent) status, for the purpose of supporting research in London in any field relevant to the work of one or more of the School's ten research institutes and the Human Rights Consortium.
The ST Lee Professorial Fellowship is by invitation only.
ST Lee Professorial Fellowship 2011-12:
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 be based at the School for six weeks in May and June 2012. He will give a series of public lectures during his time in the UK - at the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh and London – covering a range of topics including the tastes of wine, the sciences of subjectivity, and the history of dietetics.
Professor Shapin’s current research interests include historical and contemporary studies of dietetics, the changing languages and practices of taste, the nature of entrepreneurial science, and modern relations between academia and industry. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and has written for The New Yorker. He was a joint winner (with Simon Schaffer) of the Erasmus Prize in 2005.
Professor Shapin will give the annual ST Lee Visiting Professorial Lecture, Changing Tastes: How Foods Tasted in the Early Modern Period and How They Taste Now, Lecture poster [PDF] on 22 May 2012.
ST Lee Visiting Professorial Fellowship programme of public lectures May-June 2012 flyer [PDF]
