The IAS announces its incoming 2023/24 Fellows and Projects

Visiting Fellows will join us in Michaelmas 2023, Epiphany 2024 and Easter 2024 terms.  All our Fellows are working either across projects, departments, centres and institutes with Durham colleagues. 

In addition to our ongoing support of early nascent research ideas, the IAS continues to support  several major research projects each year.  Details of our 2023/24 projects are noted below, including which Fellows are collaborating on specific IAS funded projects, and those who are collaborating on other research with other Durham colleagues across campus. 

Michaelmas 2023  

Abusing Antiquity - investigates the colonisation of the classical past by a spectrum of political forces, with a focus on neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups in the UK and Europe.
Durham lead Investigators: Dr Helen Roche (History); Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Anthropology)
Fellows

• Professor Denise McCoskey, Classics, Miami University
• Dr Jorge Dagnino, History, University of San Sebastian, Chile 

In Absence of Others - considers managers’ experiences when working alone, and the daily consequences of hybrid working solitude and loneliness on their daily leader identity, wellbeing, and subsequent behaviours. 
Durham lead Investigators: Dr Karolina Nieberle (Psychology); Dr Xiaotong (Janey) Zheng (Management and Marketing)  

IAS Fellows working with colleagues across the university

• Dr Tong King Lee, Translation Studies, University of Hong Kong (collaborator: Professor Binghan Zheng, Modern Languages and Cultures)
• Dr Urs Büttner, German and Comparative Literature, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (collaborator: Professor Claudia Nitschke, Modern Languages and Cultures); and Understanding Offence)
• Dr Magdalena Zira, Classical reception scholar, and playwright,  Fantastico Theatro (collaborator: Professor Edith Hall, Classics and Ancient History; and Abusing Antiquity)
• Dr Adam Gordon, Anthropology, University of Albany (collaborator: Professor Sarah Elton, Anthropology)
• Dr Diana Johns, Criminology, University of Melbourne (collaborator: Professor Tammi Walker, Psychology)
• Dr Youssri Abdelwahed,  Classical Egyptian Culture and Archaeology, Minia University (collaborator: Dr Edmund Thomas, Classics and Ancient History) 

Epiphany 2024 

Understanding Offence: delimiting the (un)sayable - explores ‘Offence’ as a phenomenon, and the challenges for society in attempting to regulate offensive speech and behaviours.
Durham lead Investigators: Professor Helen Fenwick (Law); Professor Patrick Zuk (Modern Languages and Cultures)
Fellows

• Professor Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Musicology, National University of Music Bucharest
• Professor Kevin Bartig, Musicology, Michigan State University
• Professor Ian O'Flynn, Political Science, Newcastle University 
• Dr Peter Coe, Law, University of Birmingham 

Justice and Artificial Intelligence - examines the legal and ethical issues of injustice within surveillance-cum-recognition and automated decision-making technologies.
Durham lead Investigators: Dr Noura Al Moubayed (Computer Science); Professor William Lucy (Law)
Fellows

• Professor Mireille Hildebrandt, Law/Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• Professor Joe Tomlinson, Law, University of York 

IAS Fellows working with colleagues across the university

• Dr Mara Leichtman, Anthropology, Michigan State University (collaborator: Dr Christopher Bahl, History)
• Dr Avishek Parui, English Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (collaborator: Professor Alex Easton, Psychology) 

Easter 2024

IAS Fellows working with colleagues across the university

• Professor Mirza Taslima Sultana, Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh (collaborator: Professor Nayanika Mookherjee, Anthropology; and Understanding Offence)

You can read further details about all IAS projects next year, as well as past and present here.