An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Nina Baratti (National Museums Scotland Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-25)
Restitution as Reactivation? Sound, Memory, and Diasporic Dialogues in the Jean Jenkins Collection
A guest blog by Dr Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez:
The one-day workshop on 22 May 2025 titled Insights on Sleep, Rest, and Dream Experiences: Perspectives from the Arts and Humanities brought together scholars from different disciplines working sleep experiences and our relationship to sleep and rest. Additionally, it created a forum for discussion and reflection, combining more standard academic presentations with hands-on experience sessions.
Hi! I’m Lauren, and this summer I will be working with IASH as the GENDER.ED Communications and Events intern. I will be working with IASH to help promote the third book created from the Dangerous Women Project, titled Women Who Dared, as well as proofreading work discussing decoloniality.
For new early-career staff members at the University of Edinburgh
The Institute proudly announces the opportunity for new UoE colleagues to become part of our community of research. IASH was established in 1969 to promote interdisciplinary research in the arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr [M] Dudeck (IASH-CTPI Duncan Forrester Fellow, 2025)
NEOLITHIC TRANSMITTERS: The Megalithic Imagination in Scotland
A guest blog by Dr Yarong Xie, Research Fellow 2022-24
Edinburgh International Book Festival 2025
Women’s healthcare is in need of a revolution, and BBC broadcaster Naga Munchetty is ready to fight. In It’s Probably Nothing, she explores the difficulties women still face in getting diagnosed and treated, and provides actionable lessons to help women advocate for themselves in medical settings. She talks with Devi Sridhar about the fundamental flaws in our healthcare system and the provocative conversations that inspired her book.
This three-day hybrid conference aims to interrogate the ongoing challenges involved in the decolonial process of the Maghreb from an interdisciplinary and multilingual perspective. As a socio-political space with its own extensive history of colonisation and civil unrest, the Maghreb is the locus of a shifting conception of national and cultural identity in the wake of prolonged conflict.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Seth Jacobowitz (American Philosophical Society Fellow, 2025)
The Forensic Turn in Modern Britain and Japan: Criminology, the Human Sciences, and Detective Fiction
We are thrilled to announce that many current and former Fellows and friends of IASH will grace the stages of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh Art Festival and International Book Festival in 2025. With a diverse array of offerings, including theatre, film, music, poetry, storytelling, readings and talks, there's an abundance of experiences awaiting festivalgoers. Don’t miss out!
Alright Sunshine by Isla Cowan at the Pleasance