Events 2025/2026

  • Interdisciplinary Leadership Course: Prof Christina Hughes, Women Space, ‘Holding Space as the Art of Leadership’, 7 November 2025 – 16 January 2026 (leads: Prof. Christina Hughes).
  • Civic Universities Partnership: Bridging the (health) Gap, 17 February 2026 (lead: Dr Caron Walpole).
  • Durham Walking Research Network Workshop, 18/19 February 2026 (leads: Prof. Clare Anderson, Prof. Alex Easton, Director of Durham IAS).
  • Literary Leicester, ‘10 people that changed the world’, 20 March 2026 (leads: Prof. Clare Anderson, Dr Kellie Moss).
  • Art as Method: Performance and Research in Conversation, What happens when art becomes a research method? Hosted by LIAS Flagship CRÍA, in partnership with the Attenborough Arts Centre, 13/14 April, 2026 (lead: Dr Alice Tilche).
  • LIAS Virtual Seminar Series: Professor John Goodwin ‘Adventures with Sociological Storytelling’, 13 May 2026 (lead: Dr Kellie Moss).
  • Interdisciplinary Writing Retreat: InkRise: Prof Christina Hughes, June 2026 (leads: Prof. Christina Hughes).
  • IAS Friends and Fellows Coffee Morning to welcome Leicester-Loughborough Fellow Professor Anongnat Somwangthanaroj, 3 June 2026 (leads: Prof. Clare Anderson, Prof. Kensia Chmutina, Director of Loughborough IAS).
  • CoNavigator Virtual Training Session, June 2026 (lead: Prof. Clare Anderson, Dr Kellie Moss).
  • Reinterpreting Kedleston’s Tibetan Religious Paintings: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue between Scientific Analysis, Decolonising Museology and Community Co-Curation, July 2026 (lead: Dr Rachel Armitage)
  • Female, Queer and Nonbinary Voices in African Literatures: Bodies, Ecologies, Herstories conference, 8 September 2026 (lead: Dr Sreya Datta).