Join us to celebrate IASH's 55th anniversary!
September 30, 2024
2025 marks 55 years since the first Fellows arrived at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
2025 marks 55 years since the first Fellows arrived at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
The Institute is pleased to announce our theme for academic year 2025-26: Making A Nation.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Leemon McHenry (Visiting Research Fellow, 2024)
C. H. Waddington’s Theoretical Biology
Dr Harini Amarasuriya has been appointed Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, the third woman to hold the role.
Dr Amarasuriya was a Nominated Fellow at IASH for three months in 2019, shortly before returning to Sri Lanka to become an MP.
Dr Thomas Tyson
Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow, October - December 2024
Home institution: University of Cambridge
Dr Simon Cooke
Sabbatical Fellow, September - December 2024
Home institution: University of Edinburgh
An IASH Work-in-Progress, delivered by Dr Sequoia Barnes (RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow, 2024)
Useable Several Times
This new book from LSU Press argues that literary works by Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara reimagine subjectivity in processual and relational terms through a rewriting of maternal praxis, a technique that unveils the historical continuities between antebellum and neoliberal America.
Join us for the launch of the essay collection, Gender in South Asia and Beyond, celebrating the scholarship of Professor Patricia Jeffery, Professor Emerita in Sociology, University of Edinburgh.
GENDER.ED is delighted to co-host a screening of La Compagnie Subversive Stage Production: Thérèse d’Ulrich’s La Folle Enchère (1690) at the L’Institut français d’Ecosse, with a presentation by artistic director and actress Aurore Evain, and Q&A led by Séverine Genieys-Kirk. This will be followed by a reception/buffet.