Across Durham’s Research Institutes
The IAS is one of eight world-leading research institutes at Durham, which work together to develop shared programmes of research and activities. The IAS Fellowship scheme brings researchers of international standing to Durham, who can then operate within the other institutes as well.
Much of the IAS’s work during the Futures year looked at how new technologies might offer the means and methods by which people can develop a more sustainable and fairer future. However, such technologies can only be applied once societies accept an underlying need for change and progress. Historical visions of apocalypse and of the ways in which the future was envisaged in the past provide motivation and direction towards more sustainable models of global development and multicultural interaction.
Through the Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (IMRS), Durham is a key centre for study of the early-modern, medieval and Renaissance periods. The IAS worked alongside the IMRS in presenting a seminar series entitled Figuring Futures: Through a Glass Darkly, which explored how the visions of the future conveyed by material artefacts and literature can tell us much about the way the medieval and Renaissance worlds thought about themselves.
This seminar series helped to develop research themes that will consolidate Durham’s position at the centre of this field, and it also allowed the IMRS to make full use of a number of the IAS Fellows whose links with external universities and libraries will be invaluable. For example, the IAS Fellow Mary Carruthers has now joined the advisory board of the IMRS, and will participate in Durham’s Ordered Universe project.
The IMRS project on The Ordered Universe was enhanced through the activities and Fellowships of the IAS Futures year:
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