Our friends at the Stuart Hall Foundation have announced their 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground - a year of critical conversations that invite us to consider Stuart Hall's thinking on difference, and how we can forge a collective politics to confront our present conjuncture.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Mahnaz Zahirinejad (Alwaleed Research Fellow, 2025)
The Decline of Religiosity in Iran: Secularism and Pluralism
Dr Chanté Mouton Kinyon
Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow, February - July, 2025
Home institution: University of Notre Dame
Dr Jo Thor
Postdoctoral Fellow, November 2024 - August 2025
Home institution: University of Edinburgh
Jowita A. Thor is a social historian with an expertise in the history of Christian charities targeted at marginalised women. Her monograph Magdalene Asylums in Scotland: Protestant Philanthropy, 1797–1914 will be published this autumn with EUP.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Alex Brostoff (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025)
The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
Online registration is still open for our 55th anniversary conference on 3 and 4 April 2025, although in-person tickets have now sold out. To register to attend online, please visit https://iash55.eventbrite.co.uk and select the Online (livestream) option. A Zoom Webinar link for both days will be circulated on 2 April.
Professor Genevieve Warwick
Sabbatical Fellow, July - December 2025
Genevieve Warwick is a specialist in Renaissance and Early Modern visual culture. She began her teaching career at the Courtauld Institute, then serving as Faculty and College Director of Research and Graduate Studies for Arts & Humanities. From 2012-17 she was Editor and Chair of Art History, the leading UK journal for the discipline. She was previously a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH in 2008.
Professor Jim Livesey
Nominated Fellow, March-April 2025
Home Institution: University of Galway
Jim Livesey is Established Professor of History and currently on sabbatical following his role as Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Galway. He is concurrently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrew and acts as the Irish Representative on the Research Strategy Group of the European University Association.
The Institute is proud to announce the third book from the Dangerous Women Project:
Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten
Edited by Ben Fletcher-Watson, Jo Shaw
Foreword by Sara Sheridan
Paperback (Forthcoming) £14.99
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-25).
Dreaming while awake? The case of maladaptive daydreaming