April 2021

New Fellowship Opportunity: Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance

April 22, 2021

In partnership with the newly-established Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh is offering a Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2021-22 of up to 10 months, accompanied by a bursary of £1,300 per month. Proposals should address the arts and humanities research dimensions of at least one of SAHA’s areas of strategic priority within a Scottish context:

Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance Postdoctoral Fellowship

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral bursary from candidates in any area of the Arts and Humanities. In partnership with the newly-established Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh is offering a Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2021-22 of up to 10 months, accompanied by a bursary of £1,300 per month.

Image credit: “Lyon in Mourning”. NLS, Adv.MS.32.6.18. Image courtesy of the National Library of Scotland.

Networking Jacobites: Media, Cultural Memory and the ‘Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript

Event date: 
Wednesday 12 May 2021 to Thursday 13 May 2021
Time: 
16:00
On Wednesday 12 May at 16:00 - 17:30 GMT, Professor Leith Davis of Simon Fraser University (IASH Digital Scholarship Visiting Research Fellow) will discuss 'The Lyon in Mourning' manuscript, currently held by the National Library of Scotland (Adv.MS.32.6.16-26), which consists of eye-witness interviews, letters, poems, songs and speeches concerning those who had been involved in the events of the 1745 Jacobite Risin