James Walvin is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York, where he spent most of his career, alongside teaching positions and research fellowships in the USA, the Caribbean and Australia. His publications range widely over the field of modern social history, but most – and most recently – are concerned with the history of slavery.
Former Fellow Professor James Walvin OBE was one of the very first scholars to visit IASH after our foundation in 1969. Jim conducted research at the Institute in 1971, as you can see in our 50th anniversary timeline, and he writes here about the ways in which his time in Edinburgh impacted on his work and career.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Timothy Riding (Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-22):
Decolonising Schools: The Darien Scheme, Colonialism and the Scottish Curriculum
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Sam Challis (African Fellow 2022):
Images of insurgency: indigenous material culture in decolonising the colonial narrative
The Institute is delighted to announce the launch of a new podcast series, Decolonising Ideas, as part of the Institute Project on Decoloniality (IPD '24).
Informed by the work of a variety of IASH Fellows, Decolonising Ideas aims to introduce listeners to the theories and practice of Decoloniality, explore the breadth of decolonial inquiry occurring at the Institute, and examine how IASH scholarship relates to broader issues of coloniality across the Global South and Global North.
Today sees the long-awaited publication of the second book emerging from the Dangerous Women Project (2016-17). Dangerous Women: fifty reflections on women, power and identity is published by Unbound, and available to purchase from their website or all good bookshops. This fascinating and provocative essay collection is edited by Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Bharti Arora (Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow 2022):
Decolonial Praxis of Land Rights: Peasants’ Negotiation with the Nation-State