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NCIS welcomes 19 new members from 7 countries

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Dr. John Botke (USA) holds a PhD in Particle Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Botke is developing a new model of cosmology that answers many of the outstanding questions resulting from the standard model of...

TIS Vol. 11 preprint of Breitzer's paper on Jews and feminism

The first article to pass peer review for Vol. 11 of The Independent Scholar is now online as a preprint. The final version (with page umbers) will be published in the forthcoming issue. Read it here!

Religion, Death and the Senses

Jasmine Hazel Shadrack's latest book (co-edited with Christine Welch) is Religion, Death and the Senses, to be published by Equinox on 1 August 2024. You are warmly invited to the online book launch on 12 September 2024.
If you are interested in reviewing...

Book Review - Defining the Age: Daniel Bell

We have a new book review for you! Shelby Shapiro reviews Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours by Paul Starr and Julian E. Zelizer (eds.).
https://www.ncis.org/book-reviewsthe-independent-scholar-...

ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH - NCIS GUIDE FOR INDEPENDENT SCHOLARS

We are delighted to let you know that we will be holding an online book launch for the NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars.
The book launch will be held on Saturday 11 May at 4.30pm EDT / 9.30 BST and 06.30am Australian Eastern Standard Time and it will last for an hour....

Review of "Music & Identity in 21C Monasticism"

Sociomusicologist Dr Jasmine Hazel Shadrack review of Music & Identity in Twenty-First-Century Monasticism describes this book as "an exceptional feat of research and ethnography". Author Amanda J. Haste tackles topics from gender identity through the commodification of monastic music to the...

Review of "The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information"

In The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information, Craig Robertson "demonstrates what can be done when something taken-for-granted is examined, and examined minutely, or to use Robertson’s phrase, with “granular certainty.” He places this piece of office furniture within the...

The NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars is here!

It's been two years in the making, but the NCIS Guide for Independent Scholars is finally here!
Edited by Amanda Haste & Linda Baines, and with contributions from authors in the USA, Great Britain, France and Australia, this 180-page volume was inspired by...

NCIS WELCOMES FOUR NEW MEMBERS

A big NCIS welcome to our newest members! Read about them and their fascinating research endeavors here...
Dr Aarnoud Rommens (CANADA) earned a PhD from the Center for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada....

Institute for Historical Study hybrid event - 18 February

The Institute for Historical Study, our affiliated Partner Group in San Francisco, warmly invites you to join their hybrid event on Sunday, February 18, 2024,
2pm PT/5pm ET/10pm GMT/11pm CET

In person at the San Francisco Public Library, or via Zoom:
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