IAS Programmes

The IAS aims to support both focused and wide-ranging research initiatives across the breadth of the University.

Themes

For 2020-21, we are pleased to be hosting both an annual programme of events through our Time Theme, and a new initiative, the IAS Festival of Ideas, focused on Transitions. 

Current Themes 2020/21

Time

The critical importance of time for all practical activities naturally puts it in the centre of any worldview, and its effects on the individual make it a very personal experience. The Time Theme will address two broad issues: concepts and misconceptions and pragmatics and uses of time.
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Festival of Ideas: Transitions

Transition will move away from traditional models of invited lectures and deliver a more innovative compendium of activities as the Festival of Ideas: Transitions. Activism for change is at the core of this and through these events we seek to effect transitions to socially just, sustainable futures.
Past themes

Spotlight Series

The IAS Spotlight Series brings together leading researchers for focused events on key issues facing the world today.

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Arctic Geopolitics

This Spotlight will use the Arctic as a case study to encourage the development of new concepts and approaches that will improve understanding of the how the Anthropocene may interact with inter-state rivalry.

Residential Fellows

IAS Residential Fellowships enable outstanding international academics and research-focused artists, writers, public intellectuals and policy makers, to pursue a month-long residency within the scholarly community of Loughborough University and its Institute of Advanced Studies.

 

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IAS Residential Fellows 2020/2021