WHERE IDEAS GROW

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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

Dr Paola Vargas Arana: "Life journeys of Africans in the Antioquia gold mines of New Granada during the British "asiento" (1713-1750)"
October 4, 2023, 1:00pm
Dr Paul Newton-Jackson: "Mahogany, Ivory, and Tortoiseshell: Towards a Political Ecology of Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Instruments"
October 5, 2023, 1:00pm
Dr Emma Hill: "Unpacking the Archives of Scottish-Somali Action"
October 12, 2023, 1:00pm

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Surfacing Diasporas
September 20, 2023
Reconsidering Interaction Between AI and Religion
September 14, 2023
Podcast: "The Art of Being Dangerous"
September 13, 2023

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