June 2025

Insights on Sleep, Rest and Dream Experiences

June 19, 2025

A guest blog by Dr Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez:

The one-day workshop on 22 May 2025 titled Insights on Sleep, Rest, and Dream Experiences: Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities brought together scholars from different disciplines working sleep experiences and our relationship to sleep and rest. Additionally, it created a forum for discussion and reflection, combining more standard academic presentations with hands-on experience sessions.

Introducing our summer intern

June 16, 2025

Hi! I’m Lauren, and this summer I will be working with IASH as the GENDER.ED Communications and Events intern. I will be working with IASH to help promote the third book created from the Dangerous Women Project, titled Women Who Dared, as well as proofreading work discussing decoloniality.

Naga Munchetty

Naga Munchetty: It’s (Not) All In Your Head

Event date: 
Saturday 23 August 2025
Time: 
17:00 - 18:00
Location: 
Venue T, Edinburgh Futures Institute (Edinburgh International Book Festival)

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025

Women’s healthcare is in need of a revolution, and BBC broadcaster Naga Munchetty is ready to fight. In It’s Probably Nothing, she explores the difficulties women still face in getting diagnosed and treated, and provides actionable lessons to help women advocate for themselves in medical settings. She talks with Devi Sridhar about the fundamental flaws in our healthcare system and the provocative conversations that inspired her book.

Postcolonial Temporalities: Space, Time and Identity in the Maghreb

Event date: 
Thursday 19 June 2025 to Saturday 21 June 2025
Time: 
09:00-18:00
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

This three-day hybrid conference aims to interrogate the ongoing challenges involved in the decolonial process of the Maghreb from an interdisciplinary and multilingual perspective. As a socio-political space with its own extensive history of colonisation and civil unrest, the Maghreb is the locus of a shifting conception of national and cultural identity in the wake of prolonged conflict.