In this year's Susan Manning Memorial Lecture, Professor Yoon Sun Lee explores how Romantic authors Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth wrote about work in the age of empire. 

Race, Labor, and Gratitude: Austen, Edgeworth, and the West Indies

How is work defined in the genre of the novel, and how are different forms of labor related to each other? Can forms of racial thinking emerge as a result of the capitalist abstraction of labor?

The accelerated Israeli assault on Palestinian life and land has reached unprecedented levels of destruction, with Palestine’s health and education sectors being deliberate targets in Gaza and wider Palestine. As we witness the systematic displacement and annihilation of Palestinians fighting to exist and remain on their land, what is the responsibility of scholars and academic institutions to act under times of genocide?

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Rosa Campbell (GENDER.ED Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-24)

'From the Vantage Point of Poor Women': Women and Development at the United Nations 1975-1995

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Marika Ceschia (RACE.ED Archival Fellow, 2023-24)

Decolonizing the Grammars of Nineteenth-Century Nature Writing

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Innocent Ebere Uwah (Combe Trust Fellow, 2024)

Cinema, Ethics and Society: Poetics and Politics of Creativity on Screen Representation of Africa

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Jaspreet Kaur (Community Fellow, 2023-24).

Quiet Feminism – They Never Heard Us Coming

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered online only by Dr Opemiposi Adegbulu (RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow 2024)

Reforming the nebulous: decolonising the notion of the public interest

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Sruthi Herbert (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-24)

Digitization for Social Welfare: Examining the Building and Other Construction Workers' (BOCW) Welfare Funds in India.

Performance in a Pandemic (Routledge, 2021) edited by Laura Bissell and Lucy Weir attempted to capture the first flurry of creative activity and innovation from artists, performers, curators and creative practitioners in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic caused the world to pause and theatres and venues to close.