Forthcoming Events
- IoI Forum
- Postgraduate Forum
- Venue: London
- Date: Ongoing
The Institute of Ideas Postgraduate Forum has now finished its 2007/08 series of seminars and will return in autumn 2008.
The forum provides an opportunity for students in the arts, humanities and social sciences to present their work in a context that encourages reflection on how the social and political trends shaping the contemporary world interact and cut across disciplinary boundaries.
The forum is committed to academic freedom, both the freedom to pursue specialised knowledge within distinct subject areas and the freedom to speak out on wider issues of public concern. It poses the question of what it means to be a postgraduate student at a time when academia faces the challenge of at once avoiding obscurantism whilst resisting demands for immediate policy relevance.
Meetings are held regularly throughout the academic year at the London School of Economics. Members of the forum present their work – including draft articles, thesis chapters and research designs – for comment and discussion. Past discussions have focussed on work in the fields of history, sociology, political theory, education, international relations, cultural studies and literary theory.
If you are a postgraduate student and would like to join the forum, or would like further information, please contact James Gledhill (LSE) and Maria Grasso (University of Oxford) at postgrad@instituteofideas.com.
The 2006/07 and 2007/08 series of the Postgrad Forum are archived here.
Forthcoming events
Autumn 2008 - Date & details TBA
The Forum usually takes place at 7pm at the London School of Economics. See http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/ for directions to the LSE and http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE for finding your way to the room.
