IAS News

The Institute of Advanced Study is delighted to announce that its Director, Professor Alison Cooley, will deliver a keynote lecture at the Winter Community Event of the University of Luxembourg Institute of Advanced Study: Breaking Boundaries, Bridging Disciplines.

The IAS Winter Community Event is where innovation knows no boundaries. This is where brilliant minds from diverse fields come together to break down silos and tackle the global challenges that demand cross-disciplinary solutions.

26 November 2025, 3pm
Halle des Poches à Fonte; 6, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux; 4362 Esch-Belval.

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The Institute of Advanced Study is proud to announce that its upcoming Visiting Fellow, Dr. Dmytro Chumachenko, has once again been recognised among the world’s leading researchers. For the fourth year in a row, Dr. Chumachenko has been included in Stanford University and Elsevier's prestigious list of the top 2% of scientists worldwide.

Essay Writing Skills in German and English as a Second or Further Language: A Practical Guide

This study guide, published in 2025 by the University of Warwick Press, is the result of a collaboration between Andrea Klaus (SMLC Warwick) and Yuliia Lysanets (Poltava State Medical University/ Institute of Advanced Study Warwick Visiting Fellow).

A former IAS Fernandes Fellow has recently published Ascensiunea autorului în epoca globalizării digitaleLink opens in a new window (The Rise of the Author in the Age of Digital Globalization), available through the Babeș-Bolyai University Bookshop in Cluj. They have also co-edited the latest issue of Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai PhilologiaLink opens in a new window (Vol. 70, No. 3, September 2025).

Living with Ghosts is Roxanne's first monograph. This book moves the field of study of Arab women’s writing on from the Anglophone preoccupation with the “bravery” that it takes to put pen to paper, and instead focuses on what the pen actually does. This book shows that Arab women writers innovate and utilise Gothic forms to “live with the ghosts” of foremothers, who represent lost knowledges about violence and feminised heritage. Examining contemporary Arab women’s writing from the 1970s to the present through the lens of world-literary systems and feminist theory, this book details aesthetic patterns between decades, nations, and authors. The works of canonical Arab feminist authors such as Nawal El Saadawi and Hanan Al-Shaykh are put in conversation with those of contemporary authors such as Adania Shibli, Joumana Haddad, and Mansoura Ez Eldin. These works are linked through their creative feminist theorisations of loss and living.

Early Career Fellow Hatice Gundeslioglu has published an article 'Mental Health Problems Among UK Undergraduates: A Comparison Study of Autistic and Non-autistic Students'Link opens in a new window

The aim of this study was to examine whether the relationship between a set of risk and protective factors (e.g., selfesteem, stress, intolerance of uncertainty, autistic symptoms) and mental health problems differed between autistic and non-autistic undergraduates enrolled in UK universities across genders.