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Next month we will be hosting our International Advisory Committee (IAC) meeting on Monday, February 10th, and Tuesday, February 11th, 2025. The IAC, chaired by Sir Vince Cable, is composed of esteemed scholars from the world's leading universities. They are dedicated to excellence and actively collaborate to advance knowledge and promote interdisciplinary cooperation.
The IAC meeting presents a fantastic opportunity to network with the IAC who are leading academics and experts in their fields.
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Read the first article for our fourth issue, Borders:
“This is the oppressor’s language yet I need it to talk to you”
by Kirandeep Kaur |
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Adrienne Rich in Burning paper instead of children once said ‘This is the oppressor’s language yet I need it to talk to you.’
As a person descended from Indian migrant parents, one of whom was born in the dying days of the British Raj, these words in Rich’s poem have a haunting quality. bell hooks in Teaching to Transgress vividly shows the complications of speaking English as both a means of continued colonial oppression and resistance. Reflecting on my own journey with academic writing and publishing, I have become increasingly convinced that academic language contains the same paradox.
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With the support of the Institute of Advanced Study at Warwick, Dr. Nataliya Pratsovyta (a research fellow at the University of Warwick) organized an interdisciplinary symposium "Between Mystical Thinking and Practical Experience" which took place on November 8th , 2024 at the University of Warwick . The symposium brought together the scholars from the UK and Ukraine. The keynote speakers included: Hilary Davies, a poet, critic, and translator and a former Chairman of the Poetry Society of Great Britain; and Emma Mason, a Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick whose publications include a new edition of William Barnes’ dialect poetry (Edinburgh University Press, 2025); and Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford University Press, 2018). |
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Dr Matteo Leta, one of our EUTOPIA-SIF fellows has been awarded a prize for
'Literary Creation' for his book Trompeur Trompé by the The Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation. The IAS would like to congratulate Matteo on this accomplishment.
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Our IAS Fellow Dmytro Chashyn obtained the Taylor and Francis (Scopus) Reviewer Certificate about the completion of peer reviews of scientific articles for the Intelligent Buildings International Journal in January 2025.
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With the turn of the year, once again the Exchanges journal has been delving into our statistics to discover what were our biggest hits of 2024. You can of course read the full report over on our blog. It has once again been fascinating to see which papers, podcasts and issues of the journal have proven the most popular with our readership in the past twelve months. Certainly, for the papers – and we’re looking at downloads across all our issues published to date – there’s a surprising blend of new and old appearing in our top 10. Although, one further surprise is that 2023’s #1 paper is also 2024’s as well: very much a first for our league tables!
One thing these sorts of statistics show though is our readership’s appetite for articles across the disciplinary spectrum as well as interest in all formats of material which we publish. From scholarly peer-reviewed articles through insightful critical reflections to revealing conversations, every kind of paper is represented in our top table. Interesting too was discovering which editions of Exchanges readers have been most interested in downloading the entire issues – perhaps unsurprisingly given its size and author diversity, our Research Culture ’24 issue made the biggest splash here.
While podcast streaming numbers were also of interest, what was quite exciting was for the first time we’ve been able to isolate some demographic information on our readership. With our Geographic Locations league, it was possible to see which countries around the world send readers our way. While the UK topped the list of 155 different countries, even in the top 10 we publicly shared there were some surprising appearances.
Open Manuscript Submissions Reminder
While we’re working away on multiple special issues, this is a reminder we are keen to consider articles from authors old and new on any topic, at any time. Exchanges operates an open-door policy for submissions from any discipline or topic, with the proviso that it is written with a broad, academic audience in mind. As an interdisciplinary journal we are particularly happy to consider papers including implicit or explicit interdisciplinary research, practice or thought – but this is not a prerequisite. We also like to champion early career authors, but similarly welcome and often publish submissions from experienced researchers too from around the world.
Find out more here: https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/about/submissions
Or contact the Editor-in-Chief (Dr Gareth J Johnson, gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk) to discuss any potential submissions.
Follow us on Bluesky Social too: @ExchangesJournal
About Exchanges
Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal is a non-fee charging, open-access, scholar-led, interdisciplinary journal, published twice-annually by Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study since 2013. Primarily run by and for early-career researchers (post-docs and some PGRs), it attracts articles from around the world which are read by an international and cross-disciplinary audience. Since 2020 it has increasingly published a series of highly regarded special issues, dedicated to particular themes in collaboration with scholars around the world.
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IAS Awards made to:
Roxanne Douglas Institute of Advanced Study
Will Scott Warwick Medical School/Department of Chemistry/IAS
Elena Vasiliou Sociology
Nishtha Chopra Physics
Gabrielle Lynch Politics and International Studies
Anne Gerritsen History
Dino Jakusic IAS
Henrique Carvalho School of Law
Giulia Lorenzi Institute of Advanced Study
Michael Saward Politics and International Studies
Visiting Fellowship Awards Made to:
David Roper School of Life Sciences
Matthew Clayton PAIS
Dieter Wolke Psychology
Prof S Carruthers History
Alison Cooley Classics & Ancient History
Dr Raza Saeed School of Law
Virinder Kalra Sociology
Gabrielle Lynch Politics and International Studies
Davide Piaggio School of Engineering
Patrick Unwin Chemistry
Anup Barai WMG
Andrew Bowman Warwick Medical School
Dr. Jane Webb Institute for Global Sustainable Development
Emma Davis Statistics
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If you would like to get involved, join the IAS community or apply for funding please refer to our website.
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