An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Jack Abernethy (National Museums Scotland Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26)
The Scottish Merchant Community in Amsterdam in its European Context, c.1603-1707
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:
Our friends at the Traverse Theatre have conducted an interview with 2026 IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow Jack MacGregor, which you can read in full on their website.
What compels you as a writer?
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 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
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
A panel featuring Caryn Abrahams, A. Sophie Lauwers and Jacob Boswell, with Beth Cloughton as chair. Exploring citizenship and multi-level governance, we ask: how do states make decisions about key policies affecting their populations, from energy to religious tolerance?
Please join us for the online launch of Dr Danita Catherine Burke's new book, Greenpeace in the Circumpolar North: Lessons Learned from the Anti-Sealing Era (Routledge 2025). Book a free place via Teams Webinars.
