April 2019 | IASH

David Talbot Rice Lecture 2019: Guest speaker Robert McDowell, Funder-Director of Summerhall, Edinburgh

Event date:

Thursday 23 May 2019 to Friday 24 May 2019

Location:

Tech Cube, Summerhall

David Talbot Rice Lecture 2019: Guest speaker Robert McDowell, Funder-Director of Summerhall, Edinburgh. Thursday 23 May, 7-8pm. Followed by a wine reception. Organised by the Friends of Edinburgh University Visual Arts. Contact Margaret Stewart to reserve a place - m.c.h.stewart@ed.ac.uk.

Dr Guy Stevenson -‘Disdaining the tribe: anti-humanism in the counterculture’

Event date:

Tuesday 7 May 2019

Time:

13:30

Location:

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Dr Guy Stevenson - ‘Disdaining the tribe: anti-humanism in the counterculture’

Dr Rositta Valiyamattam

IASH-SSPS Fellow, December 2019 - February 2020

Home Institution: Gitam Deemed University
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Project: Documenting and Critiquing Female Agency and its Representations during the 1992‐93 Communal Riots in Western India

Dr Giulia Taddeo

Visiting Research Fellow, November - December 2019

Home Institution: University of Bologna

Project: Dancing at the Edinburgh Festival. Dance, culture and national identities in the Europe of the Fifties

Dr Adéla Rádková

Hume Fellow, September - December 2019

Home Institution: Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes

Biography
Adéla Rádková earned her Ph.D. from the Palacký University in Olomouc, the Czech Republic in the field of David Hume’s political philosophy. Her research focused on Hume’s political and religious thought and its impact on the Founding Fathers. At IASH she will continue with her research into Hume’s thought.

Dr Stéphanie Prévost

IASH-SSPS Research Fellow, May - June 2021

Home Institution: Université de Paris / LARCA (CNRS UMR 8225)

Project: British Liberals and the Eastern Question (1896-1915): A Transnational Quest for Global Justice?

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Professor Darel Paul

IASH-SSPS Research Fellow, September - December 2019

Home Institution: Williams College

Project: Civic Nationalism and the Challenge of Secession in Scotland

Dr Julie Park

Visiting Research Fellow, July - August 2021

Home Institution: Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University

Dr Kristoffer Noheden

Northern Scholars Visiting Research Fellow, September - November 2019

Home Institution: Stockholm University

Project: Imagination Against Anthropocentrism: Surrealism and Ecology, 1919–2018

Dr Nazirudin Nasir

IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellow, October - December 2019

Home Institution: Singapore University of Social Sciences

Project: Muslim discourses on modern socio‐political systems in light of the radicalisation phenomenon