February 2024

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International Women's Day: Inspiring Inclusion

Event date: 
Friday 8 March 2024
Time: 
13:00-16:00
Location: 
Edinburgh Futures Institute, room 2.55, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF

Scottish PEN with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and GENDER.ED invite you to an inspiring afternoon event on International Women’s Day, Friday 8 March 2024, in central Edinburgh. First, join IASH Fellows and writers-in-residence Isla Cowan and Jaspreet Kaur for a conversation around creative writing and inclusion.

Book Launch: "The Global Politics of Census Taking", featuring Dr Walter Bartl

Event date: 
Monday 25 March 2024
Time: 
17:30-19:00
Location: 
IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

We invite you to join us in celebrating the publication of The Global Politics of Census Taking: Quantifying Populations, Institutional Autonomy, Innovation (Routledge 2024), a new book edited by Dr Walter Bartl (IASH Visiting Research Fellow 2024), Prof. Christian Suter and Prof. Alberto Veira-Ramos.

Amina Shah

The University of Edinburgh International Women’s Day Lecture 2024

Event date: 
Friday 8 March 2024
Time: 
18:00-19:15
Location: 
G.03, 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JY

This year's International Women's Day Lecture, titled 50 Ways, will be delivered by Amina Shah, National Librarian and Chief Executive of the National Library of Scotland.

Amina contemplates her fifty years on the planet through stories of women who have inspired her, and wonders what challenges women will meet and overcome in the next half century.

Dr Walter Bartl: "Responsibility-sharing within States. Mapping and Explaining Refugee Dispersal Policies in European Democracies"

Event date: 
Thursday 22 February 2024
Time: 
13:00-14:00
Location: 
IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Walter Bartl (Visiting Research Fellow, 2024) with Dr Philipp Lutz

Responsibility-sharing within States. Mapping and Explaining Refugee Dispersal Policies in European Democracies

Graffiti on a wall in Lebanon: "The state is the only terrorist" and "Are we free?" and "RESIST"

Cutting Edges of the Decolonial: Thinking Anthropocentrism and Queerphobia from/in the Arab-majority World(s)

Event date: 
Thursday 29 February 2024
Time: 
17:30-19:00
Location: 
IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

Cutting Edges of the Decolonial: Thinking Anthropocentrism and Queerphobia from/in the Arab-majority World(s) 

Dr Ali Kassem – Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore, and former IASH Fellow

Thursday 29 February 2024, 17:30-18:30, followed by a drinks reception - register free at https://cuttingedges.eventbrite.co.uk to attend in-person or online