An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Toufic Haddad (IASH-SSPS Fellow, 2025)
The Gaza Genocide in Global Context
Editor Professor Jo Shaw leads a discussion with contributors Dr Chisomo Kalinga, Dr Ioulia Kolovou, and Margot McCuaig about IASH's new book, Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten.
Gathering 46 essays from writers around the globe, this collection explores the twin themes of women and daring through the lives of monarchs, prophets, suffragists, soldiers, scientists, activists and artists.
Join us to mark the publication of our latest essay collection, exploring women's stories throughout history.
Register on Eventbrite: https://womenwhodared.eventbrite.co.uk
Join us for a celebration of our latest book, "Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2", emerging from the Institute Project on Decoloniality.
Register on Eventbrite: https://essaysondecolonialityvol2.eventbrite.co.uk
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Shari Sabeti (Sabbatical Fellow, 2025)
‘Ending badly from the beginning’: facing finitude with Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Institute is delighted to announce that IASH Affiliate and Lecturer in Creative Writing Dr Patrick Errington has been awarded over £2 million by UKRI’s prestigious Future Leaders Fellowships for his project Rewriting Wor(l)ds.
Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
Community Fellow, October - November 2025
Zakiya Sankara-Jabar leads the movement for educational justice in the United States by advocating for students and empowering parents. Zakiya’s tenacious spirit, insatiable curiosity and organizing acumen have elevated her from Ohio’s leading voice eradicating educational inequities to a national leading voice equipping Black parents with tools to drive sustainable change on a local, state, and national level.
I am a Teaching Fellow in Childhood Studies and Practice at Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh. I hold a PhD in Education from the University of Edinburgh.
I joined the University of Edinburgh in 2025 as a Lecturer in German Studies. Previously I was a Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford (2019-2024) and a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala (2024-2025). I research modern literature, film, and culture, specialising in European modernism and its global reception and continuing relevance today. I work across several languages, including German, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Korean.
The Institute is saddened to hear of the death of one of our very first Fellows, Professor Christopher J. Rowe OBE. A renowned classicist and translator, Prof. Rowe died on 24 July 2025.