Dr Martina Karels
Dr Martina Karels
Home institution: St Francis College, Brooklyn
IASH-SSPS Fellow, May - July, 2026
Dr Martina Karels
Home institution: St Francis College, Brooklyn
IASH-SSPS Fellow, May - July, 2026
The Salvesen Mindroom Research Centre (SMRC) is delighted to be holding a double book launch on Wednesday 6 May 2026, 3pm – 5pm, co-sponsored by the Disabled Staff Network.
• It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School – edited by Rachael Davis, Claire O’Neill, and Sue Fletcher-Watson, and published by Routledge.
• Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction – written by IASH alumnus Robert Chapman and Sue Fletcher-Watson, and published by Oxford University Press.
Dr Divya Kannan
IASH-CWIT Fellow, May - July, 2026
Home institution: Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR
Dr. Divya Kannan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology, Shiv Nadar-University Delhi-NCR India. Her research interests are 19th and 20th South Asian history, childhood and youth studies, gender, empires, and education. She is also the co-founder and co-convenor of the online Critical
This event aims to foster more respectful and thoughtful discussions around neurodegenerative conditions.
How does thinking in terms of ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ spheres shape our understanding of the political world?
Come and meet Shere Hite — the feminist hero whose notorious work revolutionized how we think about sex, marriage, and the female orgasm…
A panel featuring Geoffrey Gorham, Deborah Cohn and Maeve Callan, chaired by Frank Cogliano, to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. A number of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were Scottish emigrants or descended from Scots, but Scots also formed a large part of Britain’s army in the Revolutionary War.
Professor Steven Yearley, former IASH Director and current Fellow of IASH, will inaugurate a prestigious new international lecture series at Cornell University in the USA, delivering his talk on Earth Day, 22 April 2026.
Steve – who is Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in the School of Social and Political Science – will give the opening lecture in the Trevor Pinch Memorial Lecture Series for Innovative Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Pietro Stefanini (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26)
Making Colonisation Humanitarian: A Genealogy of Settler Humanitarianism in Palestine/Israel
The Institute is saddened to hear of the death of Michael Patrick, a former IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow with his writing partner Oisín Kearney.