IAS Annual Review 2022-23

The Institute brought 60 international scholars to Loughborough’s campuses as IAS Visiting and Residential Fellows during academic year 2022-23, through our programmes:

• 13 Fellows through the 10th IAS Annual Theme: Breathe
• 50 Fellows through the IAS Open Programme
• 6 Fellows through the IAS Residential Fellowship Programme
• 1 Fulbright Scholar

IAS Visiting Fellows hailed from two dozen countries:

• Europe: France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey
• The Americas: Canada, USA, Brazil
• Africa, Asia, Middle East: South Africa, Australia, India, Japan, China, Thailand, Saudi Arabia

The IAS convened 33 Research Programmes and Events during 2022-23, including:

• 25 Research Seminars presented byIAS Visiting and Residential Fellows;
• 3  IAS Annual Theme weeks – with a range of keynotes, provocations, project launches and creative interdisciplinary workshops and activities with Fruit Routes on the theme of Breathe;
• 3 Joint Seminars supporting the LU-Ukraine partnerships with the Universities of Odessa and Beketov;
• 3 Symposia and Workshops with IAS Visiting Fellows linked to externally-funded projects: PANCOPOP: Pandemic Communication in Times of Populism (convened by Sabina Mihelj), Collection and Exhibition Strategies in the Gulf Region (convened by Kathryn Brown), Editing Aphra Behn’s Fiction (convened by Elaine Hobby);
• 1 Spotlight Series Colloquium – Pacifism and Nonviolence (convened by Alex Christoyannopoulos);
• 1 Global Roundtable – Planetary Feminisms: Decoloniality, Ecological Thinking, Creative Praxis (convened by Marsha Meskimmon).

In January 2023, the Institute launched its Video Library, a channel available from the IAS website with recordings of IAS research seminars and presentations, reaching back to 2018.

In addition, the IAS hosted four Theme Sandpit and Community Engagement events, workshops for Doctoral Prize Fellows, and, at the start of 2023, returned to open house Friends and Fellows Coffee Mornings to enable international Fellows to enjoy informal and collegial conversations with colleagues from across the University.

Marsha Meskimmon, August 2023