An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Matthew D. Morrison (American Council of Learned Societies Fellow 2021; New York University):
Blacksound
Abstract:
Dr Sonia Wigh
Postdoctoral Fellow, December 2021 - January 2022
Home Institution: University of Exeter
The Institute is pleased to announce the publication of Emerging Canon, Contested Histories: Global Art Historians in Conversation (IASH Occasional Paper Series, number 23).
The Winter Tales Book Festival is a festival of literature, religion and the imagination, running 3-5 December 2021, at New College, University of Edinburgh. Amidst a packed programme featuring the likes of Robert Harris, Sally Magnusson, Miles Jupp, Val McDermid, James Robertson and Mona Siddiqui, IASH is delighted to support two events linked to our Institute Project on Decoloniality.
As part of the Winter Tales Book Festival, IASH is proud to sponsor In conversation with Mara Menzies on Saturday 4 December, 13.15 – 14.15 GMT.
Mara Menzies is a Kenyan/Scottish storyteller and writer whose novel Blood and Gold originated from the stage show of the same name. The novel explores the legacy of colonialism and slavery through myth, legend and fantasy. Join her as she speaks of what inspired the stories and performs some of them in her unique, inimitable style.
As part of the Winter Tales Book Festival, IASH-Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Nadeen Dakkak is taking part in the panel session Books for the Hostile Environment: Facts, Fictions and Futures of Migration.
Discussion with Laura Jeffery, Nadeen Dakkak, Victoria Williamson and Marjorie Lotfi Gill, chaired by Ulrich Schmiedel.
Dr Alycia Pirmohamed is the 2021-22 Junior Anniversary Fellow, working on her project Radical landscape poetry by racialised women and non-binary writers in the UK.
I have long grappled with the question of landscape and nature writing: who gets to call themselves a nature poet? Whose bodies have a perceived access to natural spaces?
Please note this event will take place on Tuesday 30 November, not Wednesday as is usual.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Elaine Kelly (Sabbatical Fellow 2021; University of Edinburgh):
Musical Diplomacy and Cultural Transfer: From the German Democratic Republic to Cambodia and Back
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IASH proudly presents a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Charles Wallace India Trust, recorded on 13 October 2021.
Roundtable Workshop – Call for Papers
The Arab-majority and Muslim-majority Worlds in/and Contemporary Decolonisation Debates
University of Edinburgh, 5-6 April 2022