What we want after “the break” will be different from what we think we want before the break and both are necessarily different from the desire that issues from being in the break.
Jack Halberstam, The Wild Beyond: with and for the Undercommons (2013)
This summer, IASH and its Fellows can be found across the sprawling range of festivals in Edinburgh, including the Book Festival and Festival Fringe. Tickets are available now for all events.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe:
Dr Orian Brook: Culture, Social reproduction and Inequality: Culture is Bad for You?
On 24 May 2019, Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Cheryl Lancaster organised Approaches to Genetics for Livestock Research, a workshop supported by Susan Manning Workshop Funding from IASH, that aimed to explore the history of genetics research for farming at the University of Edinburgh. The workshop aimed to bring together scholars from the humanities and sciences to discuss how heredity, genetics, and genomics has impacted livestock breeding through the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first.
On 17 May 2019 the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities hosted an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Heritage and Interreligious Coexistence in the City’, organised by Dr Daan Beekers. Created in the context of his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at IASH, this event brought together anthropologists, religious studies scholars, sociologists and historians to reflect on the role that time, history and heritage play in interreligious interactions in different parts of the world.
We are delighted to present the recorded video of David Miliband’s recent sold-out Fulbright Legacy Lecture, entitled The New "Arrogance of Power": Global Politics in the Age of Impunity. The lecture was presented in conjunction with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the Lois Roth Endowment, the International Rescue Committee, and the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday 19th June 2019. It was chaired by the Principal, Professor Peter Mathieson.
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation Occasional Seminar:
3D Laser Scanners and the “Datafication” of Expertise
Dr. Stacy Wood
School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
3:30 pm Tuesday 23 July 2019
Old Surgeons’ Hall first floor Seminar Room,
Dr Xiaona Wang
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Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellow, August 2019 to December 2020
project: Ideas in Practice: Newtonian Medicine in Eighteenth‐Century Scotland
Dr Zsuzsanna Végh
Postdoctoral Fellow, September to December 2019
project: The illicit trade in ancient Egyptian shabtis