Professor Egdūnas Račius
Professor Egdūnas Račius
IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellow, March - May 2024
Home Institution: Vytautas Magnus University
Professor Egdūnas Račius
IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellow, March - May 2024
Home Institution: Vytautas Magnus University
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Dávid Bartha (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023-24)
The Role of Imagination in Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy
The Institute proudly announces the launch of a new Fellowship for 2024 in partnership with National Museums Scotland. The IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship offers postdoctoral scholars the opportunity to carry out research based on specific collections held at the National Museum of Scotland for up to 10 months.
The deadline for IASH Fellowships aimed at mid-career and senior scholars is on Friday 23 February at 17:00 GMT. For visits between August 2024 and July 2025, IASH must receive your application by that date for the following funded programmes:
African Fellowships for research in health informatics, rangeland management, inequality studies and digital innovation, along with environmental humanities and medical humanities; available only for researchers based at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Applications are invited for the IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship from postdoctoral scholars in any area of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, to carry out research based on collections held at the National Museum of Scotland.
Dr Deval Desai
Sabbatical Fellow, February - June 2024
Home Institution: University of Edinburgh
Deval is Reader in International Economic Law. He joined Edinburgh Law School in 2020. His work focuses on law and development, administrative law and regulation, theories of the state, and (de)colonial patterns of knowledge and authority. He has taught on these topics at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Harvard Law School, Manchester, Northeastern Law School, SOAS, and the Universidad de los Andes.
Professor Daniela Casale from the University of the Witwatersrand has been appointed as the 1500th Fellow at the Institute. Daniela is a development economist with over twenty years’ experience in the field of feminist economics specifically. Her IASH project as an African Fellow explores the gendered impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the labour market and the home in South Africa, and she is visiting Edinburgh from December 2023 to February 2024.
Book launch: Anticlerical Legacies: The Deistic Reception of Thomas Hobbes, c. 1670–1740 (Manchester University Press, 2024) by Elad Carmel
How did Hobbesian ideas develop into the eighteenth century? What was the role of anticlericalism in early modern political thought? And are these legacies long since forgotten?
Dr Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio
Postdoctoral Fellow, January - September 2024
Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio (Lima, 1989) holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Cambridge, a MA in Contemporary Literature, Culture and Theory from King’s College London and a BA in Hispanic Literature from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her research explores Latin American visual culture, including comics, photography and artists books through queer theory and decolonial feminisms.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Diran Soumonni (African Fellow, 2023-24)
‘Our Tradition is Very Modern’: Re-membering African-Scottish Scientific Exchanges (1850 – 1900) through Transepistemic Innovation.