Linda McLean's play Every Five Minutes will receive its World Premiere at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco on 26 March. The play began its life at the Institute during Linda's IASH-Traverse Creative Fellowship in 2010-11.
We are delighted to learn that Dr Katie Stevenson - who is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH - has been awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh Thomas Reid Medal. The medal is an Early Career Prize and is awarded to Katie "for her outstanding scholarly work on the cultural and political history of late medieval Scotland which has established her as a leading international expert in the field and for her commitment to knowledge exchange". She is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the Univer
The Traverse Theatre and IASH are pleased to announce that this year’s IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow is the professional playwright and director, Clare Duffy.
As part of the Fellowship, Clare will be commissioned to write a new play for the Traverse Theatre on the topic of ‘Conflict and Reconciliation’.
The Institute is delighted to announce that Dr Clarisse Godard Desmarest has been awarded the 2014 Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th Century Scottish Studies. Dr Godard Desmarest is a lecturer in British Cultural Studies at the University of Amiens and will be working at IASH on her project on "Women and Architecture in 18th century Scotland". She will be at the Institute from August to November 2014.