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New chapter for SAS book scholar as research submissions judge

Friday 21 July 2017
Institute of English Studies
A leading book scholar at the School of Advanced Study’s Institute of English Studies ( IES ), will serve on a select panel to fund innovative research projects, programmes, and publications to advance knowledge of printmaking. Dr Elizabeth Savage  (left), lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in book history and communications with IES has been named as a juror for the Association of Print Scholars’ flagship grants programme, 2017–19.

Professor Greg Woolf elected Fellow of the British Academy

Friday 21 July 2017
Institute of Classical Studies
Professor Greg Woolf, FSA (Scot), FSA, MAE, director of the Institute of Classical Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. The honour recognises scholars who have achieved distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

Rising pitch: how sound can distort your sense of touch

Tuesday 18 July 2017
Institute of Philosophy
Hearing an ascending sound while pulling on a finger can make a person think that finger is longer than it actually is. That’s the finding of a new study led by the School of Advanced Study’s Centre for the Study of the Senses at the Institute of Philosophy ( IP ), and UCL.

Durham historian Jo Fox named new director of the Institute of Historical Research

Wednesday 12 July 2017
Institute of Historical Research
Professor Jo Fox, head of department and professor of modern British and European history in the Department of History at Durham University, has been appointed director of the Institute of Historical Research ( IHR ) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, with effect from 1 January 2018.

Professor Winters joins UNESCO’s UK Memory of the World Committee

Wednesday 5 July 2017
School of Advanced Study
Jane Winters, professor of digital humanities at the School of Advanced Study, has been appointed to the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Committee. She joins a team of expert librarians, archivists and academics who assess applications to join the UK Memory of the World Register and the International Memory of the World Register, online catalogues that highlight culturally significant archives.

Being Human 2017 expands into a global 'Lost and Found'

Monday 26 June 2017
School of Advanced Study
Free historical re-enactments and walks, workshops, tastings, performance and talks   Being Human (17–25 November), the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, has gone global. It has expanded its reach in 2017 to include new events in Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, the University of Melbourne and the University of London Institute in Paris. 

Reformation London – A European Divorce

Thursday 8 June 2017
Senate House Library
Senate House Library marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with ‘Reformation: Shattered World, New Beginnings’

New resource to chase civil war ancestors

Wednesday 17 May 2017
Institute of Historical Research
The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) at the School of Advanced Study has published a remarkable new biographical work, charting the lives of more than 4,000 officers who fought for Parliament during the first English Civil War of 1642-46. Entitled, Cromwell Association Directory of Parliamentarian Army Officers , it is a work of extensive scholarship which promises to transform historians’ understanding of those who took up arms against Charles I.

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