WHERE IDEAS GROW

Where ideas grow

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh is one of the world's premier Institutes for Advanced Study. We support innovative research and public engagement activities across the arts, humanities and social sciences through a range of interdisciplinary and international projects and programmes.

Upcoming events

Maiken Bjorkan (University of Nordland) and Steve Yearley (UoE): Science advising in a closed system: who knows salmon in a fisheries context?
May 27, 2020, 11:30am
Jonathan de Souza: Orchestral Bodies
May 27, 2020, 1:00pm
Dr John Mowbray and Dr Mark Tranmer, University of Glasgow; Using the relational events model to analyse appointment diaries: a case study based on Margaret Thatcher
May 28, 2020, 3:30pm

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