May 2024

Featured Fellow: Dr Kanwal Hameed

May 31, 2024
Dr Kanwal Hameed

Dr Kanwal Hameed is a RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow, visiting from the University of Exeter.

She is an inter-disciplinary historian with a background in Middle East Studies, and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow on the Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East project. After receiving her PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Affairs (IAIS) at the University of Exeter in 2022, she was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Orient Institut Beirut. 

Dr Suzanne Black: "Alternative canons: Topic modelling fanfiction reviews on Goodreads.com"

Event date: 
Wednesday 12 June 2024
Time: 
13:00-14:00
Location: 
Seminar Room, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh EH8 9NW

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Suzanne Black (Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024)

Alternative canons: Topic modelling fanfiction reviews on Goodreads.com

This project uses computational analysis of reviews of fanfiction texts (non-commercial works using characters, settings and plots from existing media properties) on the site Goodreads.com to interrogate how contemporary readers construct and discuss literary value.

Dr Rituparna Chakraborty

Dr Rituparna Chakraborty

Nominated Fellow, July 2024

Home institution: Swami Vivekananda University

Dr. Rituparna Chakraborty is Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English, Swami Vivekananda University. She received her M.Phil. from Rabindra Bharati University and Ph.D. from Raiganj University. Dr. Chakraborty’s research interests include postcolonial studies and gender studies. Currently she is working on ‘Transnationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’.

New Discoveries in Medieval Religion

Event date: 
Thursday 13 June 2024
Time: 
11:00-17:30
Location: 
IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

This workshop will bring together new work on medieval religions, highlighting undiscovered materials, concepts and ideas.

Supported by the Susan Manning Workshop Fund from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh.

My English Persian Kitchen

Event date: 
Thursday 1 August 2024 to Sunday 25 August 2024
Location: 
Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED

IASH is pleased to be supporting the premiere of My English Persian Kitchen, by Hannah Khalil, at the Traverse Theatre in August.

What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start somewhere completely new? This is the true story of one woman who loses everything.

Remembering the tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen with live cooking on stage, she recreates the dishes of her childhood and homeland, building a new life and community around food.