Professor Isabelle Torrance is awarded the Victor Albeck Award for her excellent contribution to developing the field of ‘Classical Reception Studies’. Torrance was an AIAS Fellow from 2016-2019, after which she became a full professor of Classical Reception in English at Aarhus University.

A new sculpture by Danish artist Bjørn Nørgaard is donated to Aarhus University and AIAS by the New Carlsberg Foundation. On 10 May when the sculpture is officially unveiled, AIAS Fellows will meet with the artist for a dialogue on art, science and justice.

AIAS Former Fellow Georgina Born has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study Music and Artificial Intelligence – a project that took shape during Georgina Born’s fellowship at AIAS and at her workshop of the same name.

From this summer, AIAS director Søren Keiding will take over the presidency of the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study after Nadia Al-Bagdadi from Central European University IAS.

Miniature tags designed by AIAS Fellow Mark Johnson show seals feed continuously in long offshore trips a new study in Nature Scientific Reports reveals.

After more than two years in the position, Nikolaj Thomas Zinner is ending his appointment as deputy director at AIAS. He is returning to the Department of Physics and Astronomy to pursue his research full-time again.

With the launch of a new AIAS Associate Fellowship programme for Aarhus University researchers, AIAS can now welcome 23 Associates from 1 April 2021 for a 3-year period.

AIAS Fellow Lucia Angelino is awarded an MSCA Individual Fellowship by the EU for her project aiming to rethink anew the nature and foundations of a “we-perspective”, in the light of the pandemic crisis we are living through.

The interdisciplinary conference Art and the City: Urban Space, Art and Social Change organized by AIAS Fellow Tijen Tunali will bring together more than 30 speakers from across the social sciences and humanities for three days in April to discuss urban space, art, and social change.

AIAS Fellow Kei Hiruta is awarded an MSCA Individual Fellowship by the EU for his project on comparative political theory.