Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium

Please join us in LONDON for the 3rd Annual Symposium at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, followed by a drinks reception, 5-7pm on the 14th June at QMUL. 

Professor Helen Small (Oxford) will be discussing the place of the Humanities in discussion with Professor Simon Reid-Henry (QMUL and IHSS Director). 

This symposium will cover numerous themes of interest to people in literary studies and history, particularly relating to practices and politics of interdisciplinary. It will also provide a chance for coming together in person. 

“COVID-19 has seen the Humanities enrolled in the service of science and society. This lecture will consider efforts at articulating the public good of the Humanities in the context of the pandemic crisis and subsequent pressures on the economic and political contexts of university research. Particular attention will be paid to the terms of engagement on which some social scientists and scientists, encountering public resistance to their expertise, have sought assistance from the Humanities. Drawing on recent philosophical writing about styles of reasoning and the limits of disciplinary claims, the lecture will endeavour to explain why (even) high-level efforts at cross-disciplinary collaboration often falter—and identify ways of alleviating the difficulties.”

Attendance is free but registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ihss-annual-symposium-2022-the-humanities-in-and-after-the-pandemic-tickets-318775866197?ref=estw