September 2024

Book Launch: Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937, Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace

Event date: 
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Time: 
17:00-19:00
Location: 
Chrystal Macmillan Building, The University of Edinburgh

Join us on Tuesday 15 October to celebrate the launch of Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937: Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace. 

Authors Helen Kay and Rose Pipes will join Professor Fiona Mackay and Dr Rosa Campbell to discuss this, the first published biography of Chrystal Macmillan - suffragist, barrister, and campaigner for peace and human rights. 

Announcing the Artist at Risk Fellowship 2025

September 6, 2024
Acrobatics practice in Rafah (March 2024) © Free Gaza Circus Center

The Institute is delighted to announce the launch of a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. Thanks to the generous support of a private donor, the Artist at Risk Fellowship 2025 will support an artist to spend a period of two months as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) between May and July 2025.

Dr Ayele Tariku Meshesha

Dr Ayele Tariku Meshesha 

IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellow, September - November 2024

Home Institution: Bahir Dar University 

Dr. Ayele Tariku Meshesha is an Assistant Professor of History at the Department of History and Heritage Management, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Since 2007, he has taught undergraduate courses in World, African, and Ethiopian History, and postgraduate courses in Ethiopian Legal History. His research has been published in various academic journals.