January 2026

Petrified Paintings

Dr Raewyn Martyn standing on a staircase in front of her artwork at the Grant Institute Cockburn Geological Museum stairwell site photographed in pale winter light. The calcium carbonate pigments from Portobello mussel shells refract light.

Dr Raewyn Martyn has shared the story of her latest artworks, Petrified Paintings, recently installed within the Grant Institute Cockburn Geological Museum as part of her IASH Fellowship. These public artworks will be accessible to view in person at the Museum, online, and in an associated publication as part of the IASH Occasional Papers series:

Call for Papers: "1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia"

7th (Queen's Own), Hussars, charging a body of the Mutineer's Cavalry

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026

1725 to 2025: Historical & Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia 

Symposium date: 14 April 2026 

Organisers: Dr Sheelalipi Sahana, Dr Fatima Z. Naveed  

Symposium venue: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

Dr Kaveri Qureshi

Dr Kaveri Qureshi is a Co-Director of GENDER.ED, the university’s gender and sexuality studies hub, and Senior Lecturer at the Global Health Policy Unit within Social Policy at the School of Social and Political Science. She works on intersectional inequalities in health, work and family life, and on the relationships between health and family. She also leads lines of inquiry around intersectional inequalities and coloniality within wider collaborative projects.

Dr Anna Oechslen

Dr Anna Oechslen

Visiting Research Fellow, January - April 2026

Home institution: Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space

Anna Oechslen is a cultural anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner, Germany. Her research focuses on how digitalisation shapes various forms of work and mobilities. 

Project title: Futures of Digital Work and Migration. An Examination of Overlapping Timespaces of Everyday Practice

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Film Screening: "More Than a Fish Kill"

Event date: 
Saturday 17 January 2026
Time: 
10:30-12:00
Location: 
National Museum of Scotland, Auditorium Level 1

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