Fellows and friends of the Institute are warmly encouraged to join Dr Margie Orford (Community Fellow 2020-21) for a reading from her forthcoming memoir, Jumping Ship.
A new report from the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient in Bonn details the challenges experienced by artists in Yemen since the eruption of armed conflict in 2014. Our IIE-Artist Protection Fund Fellows for 2020-21, Shatha Altowai and Saber Bamatraf, have contributed their reflections.
Professor Ridwanul Hoque, the 2020-21 IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellow, has written a blog for Verfassungsblog (a constitutional law blog from Germany) on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Bangladesh. You can read the full blog at https://verfassungsblog.de/bangladeshs-covid-19-year-in-review/.
Event: Language in Context Seminar
Organisers: Language in Context
The African Dilemmas: Entangled Histories, Partnerships, and Issues of Development
A seminar from the Centre for South Asian Studies
Figures of Surplus: Waste, Informality, and Caste in Urban Pakistan
Speaker: Waqas Butt, University of Toronto Scarborough
Date: 25 March 2021
An IASH Work-in-Progress Seminar given by Dr Yimon Lo.
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The Leverhulme Research Project on Gurus, anti-gurus, and media in North India, and the Religious Studies Seminar series welcome you to a international panel on Global Gurus on Wednesday 24th March, 16:10-17:30 GMT.
We will be joined by three of the world's leading experts on Gurus:
An IASH Work-in-Progress Seminar given by Dr Elizabeth Darling.
Heroines of the Canongate: discoveries and questions
Join our conversation on the material culture of death and commemoration during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We’ve brought together a panel of researchers from Edinburgh and Glasgow to explore subjects from Mary Queen of Scots to Robert Adam, and mediums including sculpture, relics, and portrait miniatures. Together the panel will cover a range of themes on how deceased people were remembered in the past.