Dreams of Darien
November 19, 2024
Dr Simon Buck (IASH) and Bianca Packham (Heritage Collections) are pleased to share
Dr Simon Buck (IASH) and Bianca Packham (Heritage Collections) are pleased to share
Dr K.W Hassan
IASH-SSPS Fellow, November 2024 - February 2025
Home institution: Central University of Kashmir
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Thomas Tyson (Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow, 2024)
From Enlightened Persecution to Romantic Racism: Scottish Gypsies and Travellers in the Long Eighteenth Century
Dr Catherine Namono
African Fellow, December 2024 - January 2025
Home institution: University of the Witwatersrand
Enslavement, Brazil and the Gunning Lectures
Reserve a free ticket at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enslavement-brazil-and-the-gunning-lectures-tickets-1044925649747
Dr Raewyn Martyn
Heritage Collections Research Fellow, November 2024 - April 2025
Home institution: University of Canterbury
Hana Sleiman is a Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Edinburgh. She researches the history of historiography in the Levant, with a focus on archive building and record keeping in the twentieth century. She earned a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (2021) and an MA in Middle East Studies from Columbia University (2013). Before joining the University of Edinburgh, she was an Early Career Research Fellow in History at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge (2020-2022).
J.P. Ascher is Research Fellow for the history of global mathematics and its cross-historical influences in the history of science and the history of knowledge. Broadly he studies bibliographical methods along with early-modern to digital knowledge dissemination by examining paperwork history, the history of books in society, and the technology of printing and digital transmission.
Inma Sánchez García is Teaching Fellow in Intermediality Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she convenes and delivers courses on global Shakespeare, film adaptation, and intermediality. Prior to joining Edinburgh, she taught at Newcastle University and completed her PhD at Northumbria University.
Dr Anna Pilz is an independent researcher currently working as an academic developer at the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh. Her research specialism is in Irish and Scottish writing of the long nineteenth century, with a particular focus on narratives of environmental change in relation to woodlands (e.g. 'Narratives of Arboreal Landscapes' in A History of Irish Literature and the Environment, 2022) and coasts (e.g.