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Workshop organised by IAS Global Research Fellow Paul Chleboun.

The aim of this three day workshop is to bring together mathematicians and physicists who are working on stochastic dynamics, to share new ideas and methods for studying glassy systems, with a view to establishing new research directions and collaborations.

Workshop organised by IAS Early Career Fellow Lauren Bellaera, Psychology Department. 

The aim of the workshop is to explore how different academic disciplines approach the topic of Public Health and will touch upon issues such as doctor's bedside manner, fatigue in the workplace and health interventions. This will be an interdisciplinary workshop bringing together academics from Psychology, Philosophy, English Literature and the Medical Sciences. 

A public lecture by Dr Jeremy Prestholdt of the University of California - San Diego

On behalf of the Global History and Culture Centre, we wish to invite you to a public lecture by Dr Jeremy Prestholdt of the University of California - San Diego. The lecture, ‘Locating the Indian Ocean’, will be held in room MS.05 in the Maths & Statistics building at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV on 11th June at 5pm. The lecture will be followed by a reception.

Dr Prestholdt is visiting ÌÇÐÄTV as part of the Institute of Advanced Study’s visiting fellowship scheme. He is being hosted by the Global History and Culture Centre. He specializes in African, Indian Ocean, and global history with emphases on consumer culture and politics. His first book, Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (2008), addressed East African demands for imported goods and how these shaped global exchanges in the second half of the nineteenth century. His current research moves in two directions. One project addresses political culture, violence, and claims of autochthony—or 'original' habitation—at Kenya's coast. A second project combines his interests in consumer culture and politics by exploring popular attraction to four of the world’s most ubiquitous icons: Che Guevara, Bob Marley, Tupac Shakur, and Osama bin Laden. Through the medium of popular heroes, the project traces the development of shared global imagery, highlights the mutability of common references, and charts the commodification of political sentiment since the 1960s.

Daniel Branch & Giorgio Riello

Co-directors, Global History & Culture Centre