An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Sarah Sharp (Visiting Research Fellow, 2026)
The Contested Cottage: Scottish Literature, Irish Partition and the Cottage Nation.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr A. Sophie Lauwers (IASH-Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26)
Secularism, Hegemony and the Paradoxes of State Recognition
Professor Jolyon Mitchell is Principal of St John’s College, Durham and a Professor of Peacebuilding at Durham University who specialises in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding, with reference to the arts and media. Educated at the Universities of Cambridge, Durham and Edinburgh, Professor Mitchell worked as a producer and journalist with the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 before moving to the University of Edinburgh, where he served as Director of CTPI (the Centre for Theology and Public Issues) and Academic Director for IASH.
Professor Toby Kelly is Professor of Political and Legal Anthropology in the School of Social and Political Science. He was appointed Director of IASH in 2026.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Marta Gravela (Nominated Fellow, 2026).
Making an Alpine nation? The “Republique des Escartons” in the late medieval period.
Professor Jill Didur
Visiting Research Fellow, April-May 2026
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